Sims 2: Open For Business

I finally managed to get the sims 2 base and the first of my expansion packs (university) installed. I just installed Open for Business (a note, I have to use the method of force closing the installer when it asks to update or else it crashes. I think that’s Windows 10’s fault. So I don’t know if a lack of patches may be causing it) but now when I open it it spins up the disc and then says “please insert the disc” even though is already in. Before anyone says this, no the disc is spotless and has no scratches at all. My pc is reading the disc and the other expansion packs and base game work fine so it’s just Open for Business. Please help. Also any tips for getting patches to work as they never install properly on windows 10. Also the update thing after installing the expansions also doesn’t work on windows xp so... I don’t know what’s wrong.

EA_Arrenai
7 years ago
Thanks for the update, @TrainsofBritain.

During the era of The Sims 2, before internet-hosted patching for games, there was a strict installation order where the latest expansion would have the latest patch for The Sims 2 for that install. So if you have The Sims 2: Open for Business installed, you would have to uninstall it before installing The Sims 2: University as University launched first.

However, if you only have The Sims 2 and The Sims 2: Open for Business installed, and you are only trying to run those, then let's see if we can track down why it's not loading up.

Do you have the The Sims 2: Open for Business disc 1 in the drive? Also, are you running the game as Administrator and in Vista (Service Pack 2) compatibility mode?

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Tremayne4260
Hero
7 years ago
@TrainsofBritain , I did a Google search of the problem and it came back with several solutions.
Please keep us updated.
TrainsofBritain
7 years ago
I couldn't find anything when I looked it up. Going back to the update issue I googled that and found something saying Windows 10 was the issue but it does the same thing on XP so I really don't know what's happened.
EA_Arrenai
EA Staff (Retired)
7 years ago
Sul sul, @TrainsofBritain.

I'm sorry to hear you're having a rough time getting The Sims 2: Open for Business running. Let's see if we can troubleshoot this for you.

You mentioned having The Sims 2: University. Do you have any other expansions installed right now?

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TrainsofBritain
7 years ago
No other expansions. Also in order to install the university expansion I had to force close the install when it says "we will now check it your current installation is uptodate" this is due to if it tries to patch it says "the update process did not complete successfully the installation will now terminate" it then proceeds to uninstall the expansion. Manually patching also doesn't work.
EA_Arrenai
EA Staff (Retired)
7 years ago
Thanks for the update, @TrainsofBritain.

During the era of The Sims 2, before internet-hosted patching for games, there was a strict installation order where the latest expansion would have the latest patch for The Sims 2 for that install. So if you have The Sims 2: Open for Business installed, you would have to uninstall it before installing The Sims 2: University as University launched first.

However, if you only have The Sims 2 and The Sims 2: Open for Business installed, and you are only trying to run those, then let's see if we can track down why it's not loading up.

Do you have the The Sims 2: Open for Business disc 1 in the drive? Also, are you running the game as Administrator and in Vista (Service Pack 2) compatibility mode?

Arrenai 🐱

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TrainsofBritain
7 years ago
I can’t do it today but I’ve been running it in XP SP3 compatibility mode so I’ll try that and get back to you tomorrow.
TrainsofBritain
7 years ago
@EA_Arrenai Even with every .exe file set to vista compatibilty it still errors out.
EA_Arrenai
EA Staff (Retired)
7 years ago
Hey there, @TrainsofBritain.

It looks like those errors mention specifically The Sims 2: University. May I ask which order you installed the expansions in?

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TrainsofBritain
7 years ago
I finally managed to get all my expansions installed on my laptop. Thanks for your help,
XxLuckyNachoxX
7 years ago
how did you even get Univercity to download? I only have the base game downloaded and everytime i try and download Univercity, i get a "The update process did not complete successfully. Installation will now terminate.". I've turned off the anti-virus and haven't downloaded the sims 2 on this computer before??