the music alone was a delight to hear again. If anyone's experienced similar problems, lmk! altho thank you for providing a copy of the sims to begin with. i didn't even get to really test the gameplay aspect! whew.

i might ctrl+alt+del and start up the game again, but i don't even want to think about looking for the missing portrait files or trying to mess with the buy-mode pop-ups. I went to save the game and exit, so i could restart the game and see if that hiccup was just a one-off, but now my game's frozen. Try to start up Sims 1 in the method stated in the original post. This is normal and means you have successfully started test mode. Errors when saving the household, video bugs, etc. UPDATED: Next issue (solved): Windows 10 is making playing this game a complete nightmare. 4.) Launch, run the game in compatibility mode if necessary. so i literally had to hover each item i could afford (which means no hope telling what those expensive items are) and guess what the comfort and decorative stats were. When Windows 10 starts up again, you should see some weird text about a build number in the lower right hand corner. 3.) Download the file and move the new Sims.exe to the same folder (:C > Program Files (x86) > Maxis > Sims). 'The Sims' game will work perfectly using 'VirtualBox'. my sims portraits were blank in create-a-sim, and then when i moved the family into the house and started furnishing, the pop up descriptions of the items would blink out AND the portraits of each item was blank. Using one of the virtual programs, you can install a working operating system as well as play older games that cant normally be played on Windows 10.

only hiccup was i had trouble drag+dropping the cracked sims.exe file into my program files, and i had to specifically use the 'move to' option at the top of the finder window.Īnyway, the game loaded in ok! but the hud is doing something funky. After downloading, program automatically will start installation for. This installation process worked just fine for me. This program (Game Downloader ) will be download game on disk your computer/laptop.

Install the sims 1 on windows 10