Another Windows 8 Post

[simvalkyrie]

Since it's been about a month since my last post, it's starting to get buried and I've started noticing new posts from desperate Simmers trying to install the game under the new OS, so I figured I'd post an update and lend a helping hand

Comments

[raemia]

Huh?? I'm not sure why you're saying here and in the other post that TS2 cannot run on 64-bit systems, because that's not true. I use 64-bit Vista and I can run TS2 as-is, no compatibility mode needed, probably due to the base game CD/DVD patch. Windows 7 and 8 64-bit is another story with all the hoops you have to jump through to get the game to work, but TS2 is almost ten years old now; you have to do tons of annoying work to get any old game to run on a newer OS. It's a pain in the ass to get TS2 to run on 64-bit Windows 7 and 8, but it's possible.

As for MTS, the only official statement I've ever seen them give about playing TS2 on Windows 8 is this: either don't bother, or run it on a virtual machine. Compatibility mode (both on x64 and x32 systems) has had spotty success for a lot of people so that could be why they weren't giving you the benefit of the doubt, but I don't think they were saying that TS2 on Windows 8 is impossible.

[simvalkyrie]

I heard that 64-bit didn't work with TS2, but I stand corrected. Please let us know how you got it to work

Mod Note

[quinctia]

I would like to emphasize that this is not the place to harp on a vendetta against MTS. Different site, different moderation, different rules, etc. You're free to your own opinion and all, but please don't let it distract from the information and discussion here! :)

[simvalkyrie]

I would not have mentioned them on this site except that they began to copy things off this site without my permission; in fact, strictly against my wishes, and there is no way on here for me to report it. I'll gladly delete my comments about MTS if there is a way for me to report the copyright infringement of the other website.

I'm stating on the record I did not want anything I posted on LiveJournal reposted on modthesims.info. I was very clear in my post on that website. The person on that site expressly copied and pasted parts of my blogs onto that site without my permission.

[sushigal007]

Hiiiiiiiiiii!

~snotty ilk.

[quinctia]

Heck, your mileage may vary with Windows 7. I never had an issue due to my OS--but the default UAC and lockdown the OS is under could be persnickety and cause its own issues.

[raemia]

I've been looking into TS2 players with 64-bit systems and there are actually a lot of them on 7 and 8 who had no problems installing like you! Maybe the UAC would factor into it since it's definitely annoying, but I'm not sure. I had UAC running on Vista when I installed TS2 and for maybe the first year or two of playing before I turned it off, and I don't remember it interfering with either installing or playing, but 7/8 UAC might be completely different from Vista UAC.

I'm kinda wondering if a lot of the compatibility issues are actually due to hardware issues (like unsupported integrated video cards or something) or maybe DirectX issues... but that wouldn't prevent you from installing TS2 in the first place, right? This is so confusing. D: