How i force it to start windowed?
to make it start windowed
find your EP9 exe (in The Sims 2 Ultimate Collection/Fun With Pets/SP9/TSBin, wherever you have your origin games saved)
make a shortcut on desktop
right click the shortcut->properties
find where it says target and add to the end of the link a space, followed by '-w' (no quotation marks)
it should look like this: "[Wherever It Is On Your Computer]\The Sims 2 Ultimate Collection\Fun with Pets\SP9\TSBin\Sims2EP9.exe" -w
then use the shortcut and it should start windowed.
It worked for me so I hope it would work for everyone else having this problem
Ooooooooooooh thanks dude 😕mileyvery-happy:
Theres a way to start it in origin?
I tried and it still gives me the same message.
I have an NVidia 745 GTX graphics card which is apparently not supported by The Sims 2. Lo and behold, I took the advice from Thundersplat to run the game in windowed mode, and it worked. Of course, I want to run the game in full screen mode.
So then I used the link from Dako64 in this thread here, and I decided to get the Graphics Rules.sgr file for NVidia cards. I then tried to update that file for my native screen resolution (1920x1080). I opened the game in the My Games part of Origin, and somehow it loaded full screen and is working great now.
I want to thank you folks for your communications and your willingness to help others.
I have the same problem. You means, you edit Graphics Rules.sgr in Folder: Fun with Pets\SP9\TSData\Res\Config and change all screen resolution setting to 1920*1080 right?
