Sims Life Stories?

Hi @fatbat21

Interesting question however according to to the info from Origin on the link below it appears to suggest that you can play but through a disc drive only so the only thing I could suggest is you buy yourself a external disc drive you can attach to your laptop.

Some of our classic games cannot be redeemed on Origin and can only be played if you still have the game disc. Those games include but are not limited to:

The Sims (1)
The Sims 2
Battlefield 1942
Battlefield Vietnam
Command & Conquer
Medal of Honor
Crysis

https://help.ea.com/en-gb/help/origin/origin/origin-code-redemption-faq/

Maybe someone a lot more techie than might pop along and know some sort of solution.

I hope you will be able to find a way to play :)

All three Stories games work on modern hardware, I have them all installed on a modern rig, with no issues at all past having to tinker with the graphicsrules inis

Yes, they are disc only, so thats the only way they will be playable, but they DO still work. I had trouble getting them running on Windows 8, but on Windows 10 they have worked flawlessly after editing the graphicsrules to force high-end mode.

Thank you @Devalaous

That is really interesting info..

@Devalaous

Do you mean you are using the discs? as when I was purchased a full set of S2 series discs to put away in case I needed them in future the 3 stories discs arrived in the same box and I had no clue what they were at first or that they were standalone so I was wondering myself if the discs would work on a win 10 OS or are you using another OS?

I think it could be more difficult for @fatbat21 as I believe there is only a code but not a disc that can be used and EA appear to suggest in their articles that playing that way is no longer an option it has to be disc.