Sims 2 Ultimate Collection suddenly crashing?

"LilGooba5292;15646876" wrote:
Hi everyone,

I’m currently trying to launch The Sims 2 Ultimate Collection for the very first time which I received today from EA. It will attempt to launch, but it doesn’t get past the light blue screen before the loading page, where it then crashes and my computer says, “This application has crashed. The application will now terminate.” Also to note, it’s the Mansion & Garden Stuff portion that Windows says has crashed.
I tried to go to My Documents/EA Games/The Sims 2 Ultimate Collection and find the two cache files and the bad CC, but the only two folders I see are, “Teleport” and “Logs”, respectively.

I don’t think the cache files or the bad CC are even loading because the game won’t even go to the loading page before it crashes.
Furthermore, @Rflong7, or anyone else who can help me with this matter, how do you set your game to be ‘Run as adminstrator’? I would be enlightened to know what DEP is and how to do it as well?
My operating system is Windows 7 Professional.

*Note: I used to play The Sims 2 Deluxe and The Sims 2 Seasons on my computer no problem. But I believe there’s a big issue getting past The Mansion and Garden Stuff because I recently bought The Sims 2 Fun With Pets (before I uninstalled this and The Sims 2 Deluxe and The Sims 2 Seasons to get the Ultimate Collection) and had the same exact issue with The Mansion and Garden Stuff causing my game to crash and terminate.

Thank you and I would greatly appreciate any help as I’m a very passionate Simmer.

Try generating a brand new Sims 2 folder. Just rename the current one to anything.

Then see if it loads. If it loads, it's something in your game files that's causing the issue. If it doesn't load, it's at least caused in part by game files.

Remove the easiest variables first, even if you don't think it's the cause.