The Sims 2 tells me that it's installed incorrectly.

[Kineticboy2001]

I know it's not, because I installed it and played it just fine today. The problem I'm probably having has to do with the fact that I installed it onto an External Hard drive while on my friend's computer.

I wanted to be able to play Sims 2 anywhere at any time, but oh it could not be that simple, could it?

Any other computer I take my hard drive to it tells me that Bon Voyage/Pets/University/the original Sims 2/ whatever is not installed or installed incorrectly. I can't install it onto my computer as it has no space for it and I don't really feel like reinstalling 42 expansion packs again. So is there any way to tell my "installed content" that it IS IN FACT installed?



I've tried everything from moving entire folders around to giving my hard drive a new letter. One thing that makes me think it might work is that "filelist" in the folders that always start with:

0,0,cache.dat
0,0,C_TMP00_.DAT
1,1,TSData\Res\Sound\Misc.package
1,1,TSData\Res\Objects\objects.package
1,1,TSData\Res\Sound\Voice2.package

etc...
etc...

What's that?

Anyway, any help is appreciated and if all I can do is uninstall and reinstall then I'm not going to bother. Thanks.

[callistra]

Your computers are missing registry entries. The simple answer is, you have to actually install the games on whatever computer you're using. You can't just install it onto an external and plug it in and play it on any computer you want. Doesn't work that way.

You CAN run the game on an external hard drive though. There are already tons of threads on this. http://www.google.com/custom?hl=en&safe=active&cof=&domains=modthesims2.com&q=%22external+hard+drive%22+2008&btnG=Search&sitesearch=modthesims2.com

[whiterider]

Just to expand on what Calli said:
Whenever you install a program onto an external hard drive, it also installs a small amount of data onto the main hard drive - the registry entries Calli mentioned. It can't play on a computer which doesn't have those registry entries on the main hard drive - without them, the computer doesn't know that the program is installed, which is why you get that error message.