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?

EA’s pet toy stick is one hell of a blurry stick. Idk why it bothered me so much, I just had to try and “fix” it. The original texture is 128x32px, my new texture is 256x32px. In other words, not that much of a difference in size. I think I’ve read that you shouldn’t use ”uneven” texture sizes like that in ts2 [...} (thank you @2fingerswhiskey for clarifying!) 

Remember you can only have one default replacement for “accessorypettoystick_txtr” in you downloads folder at a time :-) If you encounter any issues, let me know!

DOWNLOAD: SFS | MTS

Remember EA’s horrible newspaper-delivery clothing with those awful shoes? Well I’ve been working on a newspaper default replacement for some months now and while I was at it I thought I could try retexturing the NPC clothing too + shoeswap it and well idk about you but I’m kind of digging my edit ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I personally don’t like EA’s toys and the only DR I liked was this pony by bienchen83. I then decided to do my own, and well, this was much easier than I thought so here they are! Remember you can only have one default replacement per toy. In other words, one for the pony, one for the car and so on.

Pony: I used the DR from bienchen83 but retextured it, edited the mesh a little bit, fixed the shadow and also deleted unnecessary files inside the package so now it’s smaller and cleaner.

Car: replaced with a car by @veranka-downloads (which you can find here). I edited the shadow a little bit.

Rocketship: replaced with a train by @veranka-downloads (which you can find here). I edited the shadow a little bit.

Boat: replaced with a llama by @veranka-downloads (which you can find here).

I changed the car and llama’s “hand-position” to the pony one, that way they fit the hands better when used. You can download them individually or all in one merged package file. All files have been compressed to reduce file size. I think that’s all? If you run into any issues, please let me know!

DOWNLOAD: SFS | MTS

Credits: All the credit goes to Veranka and bienchen83. All I did was some minor editing and turning them into default replacements.

Edit: the layout of this post looks weird when I view it on my phone but normal on my pc, why tumblr? >:(

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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!