Ahhh I See, I Dont Have The Purple Flashing (yet, Anyway) [nervous Laughter]but I Did Save These Posts

Ahhh I see, I don’t have the purple flashing (yet, anyway) [nervous laughter] but I did save these posts about possible “fixes” for future use, if you’re interested: here and here. 

It’s really weird how the game runs just fine for some but unplayable for others. And no problem! Sorry I couldn’t be of more help :-(

About Windows 7 support ending and The Sims 2

As you might know, in January 14 2020 Windows 7 support ends. Which, as far as I understand, means that antivirus software will stop being updated for it, leaving Windows 7 computers vulnerable.

I have one PC that I use for everything: entertainment, games, work, and school.

I’ve tried running The Sims 2 in Windows 10, and it’s pretty much unusable. Most important, despite having a great PC, it has some issues with Windows 10. The most annoying one is slowness, especially when it comes to loading images and thumbnails. You can imagine that as an art student who wishes to do digital art eventually, I find this a bit problematic.

I have three options: one, to just install Windows 10 in my only computer when Windows 7 support ends, and buy a SSD to try and solve the slowness issue. Still no Sims 2 with this option.

Two, switch to Linux and hope the drivers are compatible. No games with this option (I think). And probably a lot of research on app alternatives.

Three, buy a second PC, and leave my current one just for games and without Internet connection. The problem is, it has to be good enough to run digital art apps smoothly, and that’s very expensive.

Option three is the one to go if I really want to keep playing The Sims 2. But I don’t think I’m that desperate. And I don’t have any money for a new PC right now. I could always wait until I get a better paid job. I think I’ll try option two first, I don’t like Windows 10.

I haven’t seen anyone talk about this. What do other TS2 simmers who want to keep playing the game plan on doing when Windows 7 support ends? Am I the only one with just one computer?

I’ve been creating default replacements of various things (going to share them soon!) for three days now, so it was pretty nice actually going in game. I haven’t played for years, and I miss it so much. I long for the time when I’ll be done with my neighborhood so I can finally start playing :’( which will be in like 10 years

Anyways, hope you’re having a nice day/evening :-)

Hi! Could u make one day homework replacements ?

Hi!

Homework defaults are actually something I’m currently working on, they’re not completely done yet though but I will share them soon!

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@jennamaxon replied to your post “Replies”

I'm thinking 'namelocal' might - only *might* mind you - be a name in the food file itself. You might try it and see if it does have the effect you think of (after all that's how we find out how much of this stuff works).

Thank you for the reply! I gave it a try and it did change every name under “group meal” unfortunately. I completely forgot to mention this, but I didn’t use the object workshop to create my default replacements because it didn’t extract all necessary files so I decided to extract them all myself instead. The text list I posted a screenshot of here was a text list I found when searching around in SimPE after anything containing “group meal” :p thank you very much for trying to help!

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@pxlbob​ replied to your post “Help?”

Not very helping but: it's just boiling blood. Gotta keep that cold corpse of a body warm 😁

Hahah yeah! @jellymeduza​ helped me (thank you very much again!) make the steam stop after a while though, so that’s an improvement :-D

@quasahi reblogged your photo and added:

Ah man I should have thought of this too LOL. Thank you for crediting me!

Hahah :-D thank you for making it, it’s beautiful!

@emmyjulia replied to your photo “simhaus shared these loading screens 9 months ago, but the download...”

Love this!

Happy you like it!

@lilsisterg reblogged your photoset and added:

Time for a change … Thank You!

You’re very welcome!

@tailormade70 reblogged your photoset and added:

Love this!!!

Happy to hear that!

@2fingerswhiskey reblogged your photoset and added:

Uneven texture sizes are fine, both just have to be in the 2048 scale table (so anything from 32x32 to 2048x2048) and the game can read it!

Ohh I see, thank you very much for claryfying! This will come in handy... >:-)

@krabbysims replied to your photo “Remember EA’s horrible newspaper-delivery clothing with those awful...”

It looks great!

Thank you! :-D

 @episims replied to your photo “Remember EA’s horrible newspaper-delivery clothing with those awful...”

Oh nice, there wasn't really a good DR for this when I was looking for one!

Ikr? I’ve been using psychosims’ DR here but the shoes were.. a questionable choice :pp (still better than EA’s though) and I would like the colors to pop a little more so I decided to make my own default. I’m happy you like it as well! Shouldn’t take too long before I share it.

Simhaus shared these loading screens 9 months ago, but the download link is unfortunately dead. Quasahi​ recently remade it here though (thank you @dreadpirate for linking me!). TanyaK over at MTS were looking for simhaus’ version and didn’t want the UC logo (which quasahi used), so I downloaded greatcheesecakepersona​‘s PSD template and swapped logo.

You will still need to download “ethys-menu-screen.package” (if you want the menu screen that is) from quasahi here, but replace his “ethys-loading-screen.package” with one of my files. Don’t know how to install? See greatcheesecakepersona’s post here.

DOWNLOAD: SFS

Edit 2021-03-07: now there’s a second version without the white background. Choose one of my files!

Credits: @simhaus, @quasahi & @greatcheesecakepersona