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[pearwaldorf]

All right. I know some of you run The Sims on XP, and it works fine. What the hell did you do to make it work? I try to click on the play button from the CD and it gives me a loading screen and then just does nothing. I've tried running it under Windows 98 and 95 compatibility mode, and nothing fricking works. Help?

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[strebor.livejournal.com]

I don't have XP, but I'm planning on getting it and I will want to play the Sims on it. I found this from the newsgroup, it might be helpful:

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=lang_en&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&threadm=e1nx8.22443%24tt4.2153361%40e3500-atl2.usenetserver.com&rnum=13&prev=/groups%3Fq%3Dxp%2Bgroup:alt.games.the-sims%26hl%3Den%26lr%3Dlang_en%26ie%3DUTF-8%26group%3Dalt.games.the-sims%26safe%3Doff%26selm%3De1nx8.22443%2524tt4.2153361%2540e3500-atl2.usenetserver.com%26rnum%3D13

I know it's an insanely long link...I just picked it off Google groups. If I find anything more I'll comment back.

[pelicanzed.livejournal.com]

If that didn't help (I hadn 't time to read it) . . . I don't use XP, but I had a similar problem with '98 when I was using the 1024x768 mode. What I did was get the loading screen, press Ctrl-Shift-Esc. That would take me back to desktop. Then I'd click on the Sims "minimisation" (you can tell I've only had a PC since 1999) at the bottom of the screen, and ta-da! The game loads properly! Choosing 800x600 mode just made the game load normally, though. Hope this helps.