The Sims 2 opening splash screen
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JimL




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PostPosted: Tue, 14th Sep 2004 21:21    Post subject: The Sims 2 opening splash screen
Ok, current specs:

WinXP SP1 with all updates
DirectX 9.0c fetched from ms
P4 2,53GHz
Geforce ti4600
1GB RDRAM

What happends: I start the game and the nice lil "The Sims 2" splash screen come up.. Aaand, well.. Yea..

Why? Why oh why doesn't it just clear away the splash screen and start up the game? Far Cry, DoomIII and.. others.. work like a charm, why should I have trouble dealing with the Sims?

I have NEVER had CloneCD installed, I've manually looked trough my files and the registery, not a trace of it (pretty shocking, huh?), I have not oc'd this system, nor do I run any apps at all messing with the geforce card. I've tried with the newest drivers, some beta drivers, and some older drivers I found back in my own "mess" dir.. I've tried one install with mounting the CCD files, and one with the CUE files. I've tried to burn out CD1 according to the stuff said on this forum, I've tried to use alcohol120, deamon tools (all emu's on).. Ehm.. And I've tried with the DX install on the Sims2 cd..

Nothing, works.. Except from the splash screen.. No errors, no "working with something secret in the background", no noises or flickering. Nothing.


Any ideas?
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karishbhr




Posts: 4

PostPosted: Tue, 14th Sep 2004 22:47    Post subject:
I have the same problem, I have burned copy though... but no clone cd or anything, I disable nero image drive. It stays at the splash screen and then, after over a minute it gives me a windows error
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JimL




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PostPosted: Tue, 14th Sep 2004 22:48    Post subject:
I get no errors at all, funstuff.. It wont even tell me what's wrong. Rolling Eyes
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Hitman02
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Location: USA
PostPosted: Wed, 15th Sep 2004 02:20    Post subject: Re: The Sims 2 opening splash screen
JimL wrote:
Ok, current specs:

WinXP SP1 with all updates
DirectX 9.0c fetched from ms
P4 2,53GHz
Geforce ti4600
1GB RDRAM

What happends: I start the game and the nice lil "The Sims 2" splash screen come up.. Aaand, well.. Yea..

Why? Why oh why doesn't it just clear away the splash screen and start up the game? Far Cry, DoomIII and.. others.. work like a charm, why should I have trouble dealing with the Sims?

I have NEVER had CloneCD installed, I've manually looked trough my files and the registery, not a trace of it (pretty shocking, huh?), I have not oc'd this system, nor do I run any apps at all messing with the geforce card. I've tried with the newest drivers, some beta drivers, and some older drivers I found back in my own "mess" dir.. I've tried one install with mounting the CCD files, and one with the CUE files. I've tried to burn out CD1 according to the stuff said on this forum, I've tried to use alcohol120, deamon tools (all emu's on).. Ehm.. And I've tried with the DX install on the Sims2 cd..

Nothing, works.. Except from the splash screen.. No errors, no "working with something secret in the background", no noises or flickering. Nothing.


Any ideas?


because the games u mentions have cracks, this doesnt. so wait
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karishbhr




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PostPosted: Wed, 15th Sep 2004 07:20    Post subject:
I reformatted my HD and it still didnt work, I guesse Ill just wait for the crack
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JimL




Posts: 6

PostPosted: Wed, 15th Sep 2004 10:02    Post subject: Re: The Sims 2 opening splash screen
Hitman02 wrote:
because the games u mentions have cracks, this doesnt. so wait
How about all the people who are able to play the game.. They didn't need no crack Wink
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Uberlaus




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PostPosted: Wed, 15th Sep 2004 12:35    Post subject:
Damn, I have the same problem. I've downloaded the CloneCD Multilanguages WOR. It installed perfectly, but when I started it; it did the same as yours.
When when when does the crack come? I want it and I want it now!
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Spammy




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PostPosted: Wed, 15th Sep 2004 18:56    Post subject:
Same damn problem Crying or Very sad same error , hmmm hope crack will come out soon ... Confused
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scsa




Posts: 108

PostPosted: Wed, 15th Sep 2004 19:43    Post subject:
CRACK IS OUT!!! works perfect ! no cd needed , no " thesims2 " screen!!
don't know if i can say where to get it but it's on Efnet # ^ channel
get the hint Smile
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gutyreader




Posts: 365

PostPosted: Wed, 15th Sep 2004 19:54    Post subject:
When burning ClonceCD Images you have to be very careful to pick the right settings, and the right burning apps
not to mention that it isnt ALL bruners that support CloceCDs (mostly do now, though)

One thing you can (and SHOULD, specially for the sims ) is save yourself the trouble of burning and wasting CDs and just mount them with either Daemons tools (latest REQUIRED) or alcool 120%
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scsa




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PostPosted: Wed, 15th Sep 2004 20:02    Post subject:
some new nfo about the crack : you can't build, or save the game and some graphics errors
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SwedishMilk




Posts: 32

PostPosted: Wed, 15th Sep 2004 20:34    Post subject:
scsa wrote:
some new nfo about the crack : you can't build, or save the game and some graphics errors

And if you got it from SuprNova not only didn't it work, it also contained a trojan. Rolling Eyes I'll stick to my mounted CD 1 thank you very much. Very Happy
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scsa




Posts: 108

PostPosted: Wed, 15th Sep 2004 21:35    Post subject:
SwedishMilk wrote:
scsa wrote:
some new nfo about the crack : you can't build, or save the game and some graphics errors

And if you got it from SuprNova not only didn't it work, it also contained a trojan. Rolling Eyes I'll stick to my mounted CD 1 thank you very much. Very Happy


like i said before it works but you can't do some stuff
and yes it's from supernova! and no trojan shit!
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SwedishMilk




Posts: 32

PostPosted: Wed, 15th Sep 2004 21:59    Post subject:
scsa wrote:
like i said before it works but you can't do some stuff

Isn't that a contradiction? It works but you cant do some stuff?

scsa wrote:
and yes it's from supernova! and no trojan shit!

My bad. It was a keylogger. Rolling Eyes The one I downloaded had one, bpk.exe. It has also been confirmed by others at SuprNova's forum. Dunno if they removed the file though or if the the file you got is another upload.
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Uberlaus




Posts: 2

PostPosted: Fri, 17th Sep 2004 19:43    Post subject:
Wheeeere can I find that crack then?

Is bpk.exe the crack or am I reading wrong?
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SwedishMilk




Posts: 32

PostPosted: Fri, 17th Sep 2004 20:24    Post subject:
Uberlaus wrote:
Wheeeere can I find that crack then?

Is bpk.exe the crack or am I reading wrong?

Yes, you are reading it wrong. bpk.exe is the trojan, delete it!!! There is (as far as I know) no working crack out. Mount CD 1 in Alcohol or Deamon instead.
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Supino




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Location: Norway
PostPosted: Fri, 17th Sep 2004 21:32    Post subject:
Go to suprnova and problem solved!
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feyenoord4ever




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PostPosted: Fri, 17th Sep 2004 23:01    Post subject:
Supino wrote:
Go to suprnova and problem solved!


Can't you read?
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SwedishMilk




Posts: 32

PostPosted: Sat, 18th Sep 2004 02:42    Post subject:
feyenoord4ever wrote:
Supino wrote:
Go to suprnova and problem solved!

Can't you read?

There is a new no-cd crack at Suprnova, maybe thats what he ís saying, or at least trying to. However, if mounting the cd-image works, I see no reason to use a no-cd crack.
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