Re: [The Sims 2] SIMS 2 compaitability with windows 8

I appreciate that this is an old post, but I will put in my two penneth in anyway. I played TS1 when it first came out and was intrigued & entertained by real time game play. When the game developed to TS2, I loved it right from the start: I bought all the expansion and stuff packs, and regularly downloaded custom stuff. It was always a diversion for me, as I'm disabled with rheumatoid arthritis, but can still work a PC. Two weeks ago, my old desktop, (although a gaming machine that I had to sell my own granny for 7 years ago), finally decided to die, although I'd backed up all my files on an external hard drive. I bought a new PC, naively thinking that an all-thinking & all-dancing one with shed loads of graphics & memory could only enhance my game. My new PC came with Windows 8 installed. How wrong I was! I already had the Sims 3, but could never take to it. There's no denying that the graphics & mannerisms are better, but I find them a little bit ugly & too much the same, as if they're inbred. Alas! I found that the Sims 2 was incompatible with Windows 8, and I've wasted hundreds of pounds over these last 10 years. I don't want to sound like some sort of social degenerate, but I actually have a little sense of bereavement for them. I think it's very telling that, within a lot of forum sites, there are more people looking for Sims 2 finds, rather than Sims 3. I'll probably end up taking my week old desktop to an engineer & asking him to install Windows 7 or Vista on it. I feel that EA are bang out of order in not issuing a patch: it would take no effort at all for your techies to do