Thanks for the information. Did any of those solutions work, or seem to make the game any better for you? I've tried some, and they either had no effect or made it freeze earlier. I assume the problem is the Sims 2 Ultimate Collection itself, as Sims 2 (and 3) works fine on my laptop.
These are solutions that I have tried myself earlier today and made no changes to the issue at hand, I do believe that this is a fault in the game itself rather than the fault of the computers that we are using to try and play the game, I will keep trying to solve this issue until I get a better result.
I agree. I hope you do find a better result - please tell us if you do!
It was never designed to run on systems such as WIn Vista upward it had horrid issues with vista in the OS' early days if memory serves me correctly eventually I got it running on my laptop but pretty much haven't touched the Sims 2 since Sims 3 came out but it will not boot on my wifes laptop which is windows 8.
It is a flaw in the system somewhere that they need to correct like they had to do with Command & Conquer for the decades edition getting ti to run on Windows XP from as early as Windows 95 and such so they can do it they just need to do it soon.
They will of course be solving the dodgy key issue first then we'd be next i suspect.
