The Sims - playing expansions

[Xanthippe]

My daughter likes to play the Sims.  We have almost all of the Sims expansions.  She likes to play them all.

The problem is that they overwrite each other upon installation.  Is there a way to keep this from happening?

In other words, she'll want to play Sims with pets one day, and Sims Superstar the next, and then Sims Vacation, then Makin' Magic.  Is there some way these can be installed so that any one of them can be played without having to reinstall them?

TIA.

[Bunk]

I'd recommend checking out the help forums here: http://forums.thesimsresource.com/

It doesn't sound right to me that they would overwrite each other.

[Yegolev]

That is not my experience.  My wife played The Sims with every expansion enabled, as well as an obscene amount of mod content.  I do mean OBSCENE, too.  Her content directories were probably one or two gigabytes full of stuff.  It literally took The Sims more than thirty minutes to load.  Gay men with puppies, singing careers and perpetually hard dicks were all over the place.

[HaemishM]

Yeg, that's... I...

I'm fucking speechless. All I can do is shudder.

[Yegolev]

You don't even know, Haem.  I no longer fear Hell, because I've seen The Sims.  Tip o' the fucking iceberg.  People who trap sim-neighbors behind sim-couches know nothing of true evil.

In other news, my wife and I are going to be at Yaoi Con in SF this Halloween.  I'm the best husband ever.

[schild]

YAOI CON? There's a con for homosexuanime? Wow.

Things you wish you never knew. Also - places you won't visit at Halloween.

Disclaimer: I have nothing against gays or Yaoi. In fact, I like them. Wait. I don't like Yaoi because it makes no sense and is the afghanistanimation of the anime world. But I am shocked that there's a convention for it. I am not shocked that it's in San Francisco. You are certainly the best husband in the world. Either that or you messed up and have been making it up since.

[tazelbain]

TMI.  Somethings you can't unlearn. 

[Calantus]

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EDIT: I've often thought, in the moments where you wish you had more control over your thoughts, that there must be a Yiff Con out there somewhere, making Yaoi Con rather mild. I don't know why I get surprised anymore but I guess it's just human nature.

[HaemishM]

::: curled into a fetal position ::::

[Paelos]

That was a phenomenal derail. Bravo.

[Yegolev]

You are certainly the best husband in the world. Either that or you messed up and have been making it up since.

Haven't messed up that bad yet, somehow.  I don't read the books.  Hell, I don't read anything other than technical manuals... the 4th edition of Learning Perl is out and I'm going through that one now.  Anyway, I am doing it because I'm a good husband.  I have also never been to SF, so it's a good excuse to go and see things.  Also, our seventh anniversary is this Halloween, so I get extra points.

If I did hate teh gaeys, which I don't, I could still go to Yaoi Con in relative safety because the customer base is made up of mostly women.  The creative talent is, too, from what I am told.  More women than I thought are down with the men's love of lesbians, in the reverse sense of course.

That was a phenomenal derail. Bravo.

Thanks!  The greatest moments are often not recognized until after their passing.

Stop derailing from The Sims?  Sure.  Do you want to hear about the "Glass Menagerie" that I installed?

[Calantus]

Is there a lesbian version of anime with a weird japanese name? If not it is blatant discrimination.

[schild]

Is there a lesbian version of anime with a weird japanese name? If not it is blatant discrimination.

Yes, it's called anime.

[Merusk]

Is there a lesbian version of anime with a weird japanese name? If not it is blatant discrimination.

Yuri.

[schild]

You took my joke from mediocrity to crap. Growl.

[tazelbain]

Hmm... wikipedia points to R.O.D. as Yuri.
I knew it! There was something between Paper and Deep.

[Murgos]

I don't understand this thread.  I read the words but none of it makes any sense.

[Yegolev]

I don't understand this thread.  I read the words but none of it makes any sense.

I feel like I'm taking crazy pills!

I am sure that you don't want to know.

[HaemishM]

I know, and in knowing, can now never go back to the innocnence of my youth.

/thomaswolfe

[cevik]

I don't understand this thread.  I read the words but none of it makes any sense.

I go away for like.. a year.. I come back.. and Murgos is the only person talking any sense around here.. the world has changed, and I don't like it..

[Bunk]

You don't even know, Haem.  I no longer fear Hell, because I've seen The Sims.  Tip o' the fucking iceberg.  People who trap sim-neighbors behind sim-couches know nothing of true evil.

In other news, my wife and I are going to be at Yaoi Con in SF this Halloween.  I'm the best husband ever.

Great... I'm going to be at the National Association of Realtors convention in San Fran during the last week of October. Please don't let these be in the same convention center.

note - I don't fear gays or gay anime. I fear anime convention goers though.

edit: I am not a Realtor (shudder), I only sell software to them.

[Merusk]

I don't understand this thread.  I read the words but none of it makes any sense.

I go away for like.. a year.. I come back.. and Murgos is the only person talking any sense around here.. the world has changed, and I don't like it..

Think of it like message board Call of Cthulu.  The less you know, the saner you are.

[Soukyan]

Eternal Darkness: F13

[Yegolev]

In case Xanthippe is still reading this, I asked my wife and she thinks it could be a lack of horsepower to run The Sims plus expansions.  She also said that The Sims 2 is far superior to The Sims in every way possible, but if your machine won't properly run the first one then you won't have much luck with the sequel.

[Xanthippe]

Thanks. I think the kids' computer has enough oomph to play.  It's a 1.80 GHz P4 with 1G RAM.

I'm going to uninstall and reinstall, and read the Sims website to try to figure this out.

We have the Sims2, and it's way better imo, but my daughter still likes to play Sims1 also.  Especially the pets one.

[Xanthippe]

Well, it worked.  I uninstalled and reinstalled, and now it works right.

In the meantime, Windows Service Pack 2 was installed.  Maybe that had something to do with it.

Or maybe my daughter accidently tried installing instead of playing the games.

(And maybe I should pay a little more attention to the kids' computer.  The thing is a semi-mess.)

Thanks to all who replied.

[Samwise]

(And maybe I should pay a little more attention to the kids' computer.  The thing is a semi-mess.)

I recommend installing Ad-Aware and running it every day.  My siblings install an astonishing amount of crap on their computers; if not for Ad-Aware they probably wouldn't even be able to boot up under the accumulated load of every adware/spyware/trojan known to man.   

[Yegolev]

Also Spybot.  And AVG antivirus.  FireFox wouldn't hurt either.  Glad you got it working.

[Xanthippe]

Already use Firefox.  Run AdAware regularly (it rarely finds anything).  Run anti-virus scans frequently.  All anti-virus software that I've tried (other than the free webscans a la Panda, etc.) pisses me off way too much to buy that crap anymore.

My kids are pretty good about not clicking on stuff they shouldn't.  They've heard me go off about how much I hate intrusive software too many times, I think I've scared 'em good by now.

Biggest reason the kids' computer is a mess is because I haven't uninstalled all the stuff nobody uses yet.  I have two old computers sitting on the floor next to it waiting for me to copy what I need to off of them so we can get rid of them.  Actually, the biggest reason the kids' computer is a mess is because I'm a procrastinator.  With any luck, by the time I do sit down and try to copy whatever I need off them, I will have completely forgotten how to use Windows 3.1 or Win95 or whatever old operating system they have.  See, I don't even know nor do I care.  I have forgotten what's even on them that I wanted to keep.  Format C: might just be my best bet and then ship them off to some third world country where small children can scavage the poisonous components out.

[Bunk]

Xanth - AVG = luv. Completely free anti-virus for home use. Easy to setup and it auto-updates its def files on every boot up. I've been running it for over a year without a hitch. I install it by default any time I setup up a computer newb with a system just because it runs itself and they can't really screw it up.