Today is my 21st birthday and I got the Sims 2 University as a present, and well everything installs fine except, when it gets to this E:/Bin/TS2UPD.exe.
I am assuming it's the Sims 2 DVD Updater, and well i have perviously downloaded it off the site for my original Sims 2, so it could work better, i installed the one i downloaded before adding university, and it won't go, it still get's stuck there at 67%. I tried uninstalling the sims 2 and adding it back many times, it still won't work and i tried once with not using the installer i downloaded but what they game game with. I haven't tried re-installing it again yet, because i decided i needed advice, please does anyone know how to fix this or had this same problem, thank you for reading.

Uninstall the entire game, reboot. Install Sims 2 and do NOT apply the patch you downloaded a while back from Maxis' site. Now install University and it will patch your previous version itself!

Well with the original patch in it should bypass the installer all together if it was a recent patch. You said that you tried uninstalling and reinstalling. Did you remember to go into your hard drive and delete the ea games folder from there as well as the folder in your my documents folder before trying to reinstall.

Last edited by Amish Nick : 31st Jul 2005 at 05:17 PM. Reason: spelling

..i had that happen to me. you might have to return it and get another copy

i returned it and got another copy, im going to try it tonight...thanks everyone ill keep you posted...i have another question...it says you should back your game files up. how do you do that, and do you have to?

If you want to save your game, back up saved sims, downloads, and neighborhoods. If you want to start fresh, there is no need to do this. Good luck!

Teresa

well i dont have any saved files or anything, so i pressed install, but now i deleted everything and starting new, and now it wont let me install the sims 2 original! ughhhhhhhhh, its that the sims 2 updater thing it always doesnt work...why? now i cant play either game at all! . Does anyone know why and what i should do? thank you.

does it freeze when its updating?

it used to thats why i got a new University, before i re-installed this new one, i took out the game again and re-installed it then put this one and it didnt freeze anymore i got to the second disk and then it said will check to see if installation is updated or something and it brought up the the sims 2 updater and crashed again...and then so itook it all out again and tried to put back the sims 2 original and now it wont let me, it says the installer crashed again too on that one...its sich a pain! i dont know how people get it to work or how to fix it, its driving nme mad, lol

I had this to, it will install you just have to wait a few hours mine took about 3 1/2 to install stuck at 60 something % and my computers new. Start instaling then go do something else, something that takes a looong time.