anyone else having issues running SIms under Win XP??? Was runnnning it under ME for over a year now that Ive upgraded there are problems with the game loading..I looke don thier wnbsite for patches, etc...no luck

well, for me, the loading seems unreasonably slow... but maybe that's normal? like a minute.

Did you reinstall it after the XP upgrade? If not, backup all your save files and reinstall.

actually I didnt do an upgrade..loaded XP on a fresh new hard drive..reinstalled SIms and all the expansion paks..the game loads but whem you go to load a house or whatever it errors out and goes back to the WIndows desktop. I have heard that there is some compatibilty issues with the SIms and XP?

Have you tried playing it in WinME compatibility mode? I don't have the game or I might have more suggestions.

yea..tried that as well

I've had a similar problem with XP. But I can run it just fine on my older computer that still runs Win98. Go figure. If you ever come up with a solution please post it or email me.

Thanks,
Chris

I have Sims Deluxe w/ no expansions and that installed and runs fine on XP. It has locked up before, but I have not experienced the problems you have. Sorry I can't be more help.

maybe it is an issue with your video card driver?

which sims by the way since they have about twenty versions

SIms
House Party
Living Large
Vacation
they all crap out

Anyone know how to "fix" a "missing cabinet file" error when loading at 99% for Sims Online?

Well, I've never encountered any problems running the game (and all it's expansions) on XP. As gcribbs suggested, maybe the issue is with your video driver?

Sorry I couldn't be of more service, but I've never had a problem with any of the Sims games on my computer.

the big problem that i had was that i installed hot date... and it made the game unplayable - kept saying, "insert correct cd-rom". only thing i found was that it could be a safedisc issue.

so i uninstalled everything and reinstalled deluxe only. i was told to install the expansions in order. but i'm keeping them off until i get house party.

vacation and unleashed worked fine.

I had the same problem after upgrading to XP. Sims would install, load, go to the neighborhood screen and then dump me back to desktop. It turned out to be a sound card driver issue. I diagnosed it by disabling the sound card in the Device Manager window (when disabled the game played fine but with no sound). I upgraded to a Santa Cruz sound card with the latest drivers and all is well. Hope this helps!