Sims 2 Holiday Edition Help Request
November 22, 2005 by Ingrid Diaz
Filed under Gaming
Hey game geniuses out there, some of our readers are experiencing technical difficulties installing the Sims 2 Holiday Edition. The installation process keeps asking for disk 1, even after they’ve inserted it. Ideas? Suggestions?
Update: Someone at The Sims Zone, posted a similar question: “Ive already put disc no.1 before I open the program then when i try to play it i get this message “please instert the correct dvd-rom,select ok and restart application”. No one has posted any solutions, yet, but you can keep watching it and this, to see if anyone comes up with anything. If someone does, I’ll update here.
Update #2: Suggestion, by Tor (thanks!): What you could try is making an iso/mirror of the CD, then use Daemon Tools to mount it.. Somehow the computer has an easier task to figure out the CD if it has all the files in a nice little iso.
Update #3: This might actually be your problem: Which version did you all buy?
The Sims 2 Holiday Edition
or
The Sims 2 Holiday Party Pack
Holiday edition is the full game of Sims 2 Plus the expansion.
The Party Pack is just the add-on content. Note the $40/$15 dollar prices (Respectively)
that may be causing an issue to those of you who already have the Sims 2 installed, because it wants to install the Sims 2, but you already have it installed, so it’s asking for the first disk.
[Thanks, Matt!!]
Okay…just got the Sims2 Holiday Edition. I don’t have previous Sims2 games but do have all previous Sims games. Any reason why I it keeps locking up while I’m installing? It always gets hung up at the .dat files between disks. I get from 1 to 2 then it freezes. I restart and then i get to 3 and it freezes. This is so frustrating. I’m gonna kill somebody. Please tell me this is a XP issue or its a user issue. Either one will do at this point.
Does the easter bunny come at all? and can you go trick or treating on halloween..help please
Nope the holiday is specifiaclly for christmas bo added feature from the gaem oh yea u have to un-install all the other games of sims before installiing the current one
Nope the holiday is specifiaclly for christmas bo added feature from the gaem oh yea u have to un-install all the other games of sims before installiing the current one
hi i need hel do the santa come or not becose i dont know how do unwrap the presents…
i hav a problem i have the party pack gladly i have installed it and it isnt workin it jus keeps sayin tht the party pack has been installed and the items arent being added to any of my sim 2 games sum1 help :( it just wont work
Why doesnt the easter bunny cum and santa only leaves me 1 present! how do u hav a feast? why cant the sim children celebrate holloween? y did i hav 2 uninstall all of my expansion packs b/c i hav all of them except sims 2 bac in business dat really makes me angry?!@$%^
oh yeah if the tree cums wit presents under it how cum i cant open em? and u can buy these presents under decorate in buy mode help im sooooooooooo [lol] confused!!!!!!
NIK i had the same problem but now mine wrks!
u have 2 install the sims 2 den the christmas pack den u can install the rest of the expansion packs!!!!!
u need 2 uninstall every thing and install in this formation:
(1)the sims 2
(2)the sims 2 christmas party pack
(3)the sims university
(4)the sims nightlife
rite ok dont any of u listen 2 wat any1 says
once u have instaled the sims2 christmas party pack u cant instal any more omg how think r u
luv em x
I found, that if you install the sims 2 christmas party pack, and then insert the ORIGIONAL sims 2 disc, it plays fine, but it really pissed me off how it came with no manual so i dnt have the slighteset idea how to play!
to missy:
thanks for your help! but i dont know how i can have too many downloads if all of the lots w/the families got erased when i had to take off the regular sims2 and all its expansion packs?
anyone feel free to help!!!
kelli
….and when i press ctrl-alt-delete to get out of the program, it says that its still running?!
Hey do you guys know how long it takes for a baby to be born on the Sims 2 Holiday Edition! Becauese my sim is pregnatet!
Oh yeah and kelli press Q insted!
i have the Sims 2 but can not find the 4th disc anywhere.. and when i tried to install Nightlife it asks for the 4th disc, is there anyway around this?!
Yeah, you download an .iso (image of the cd) from a site on the net, it’s legal as long as you have the original game, bought and all :) Or borrow the 4th disc from a friend… (don’t know If I’m allowed to post any kind of pages like this, so I guess you’ll have to slad this or something, you can get the .iso at http://www.torrentspy.com remember the magical sentence, legal only as long as you originaly own what you download)
How do you get the sims to have a baby?
PPL READ THE TOP ANSWERS B4 U START ASKING OTHER PPL 4 HELP!!!
AND ITS THE SIMS 2 CHRISTMAS PARTY PACK I REPEAT CHRISTMAS NOT EASTER OR HALLOWEEN, THERE IS NO FLIPIN EASTER BUNNY! COZ ITS A CHRISTMAS PACK.
and some of these questions r ridiculous i mean come on JP “How do you get the sims to have a baby?” THATS SO DUM HOW DID U MUM AND DAD CREATE U THEY WENT ON THE BED AND DID THERE STUFF! GO ON THE FAQs ON THE OFFICIAL SIMS2 SITE! NOT HERE 4 STUPID QUESTIONS LIKE THAT!
well OK #70-
why dont you stop and help other ppl with their questions? have YOU read the other comments yet? and if YOU have, look up my problem and help me!
kelli does ur computer requirments meet up to the sims 2
if so, ur computer may have to many stuff install on it, and some softwares may conflict with ur game, also downloads is a main problem. i suggest u restore ur system, then install ur game in this order
the sims 2 holiday edition
the sims uni
the sims nightlife
(dont install the sims 2 as it is exactly like hoilday thingy)
or
the sims 2
the sims 2 christmas party pack
the sims uni
the sims nitelife
if u r still having troubles plz tell me!
OMG! the sims 2 holiday edition is a pain in the a**! Did this game get horrible reveiws cause it should have!
Dear Mandi:
I got a stupid teddy bear for Christmas on the sims2! My sims are adults and teens!!
OMG! I got a stupid xlophone and i aint even got a toddler!!!
dont the have a program to suit stuff into caterogies!!!
*eyes all the angry ladies with increasing panic*
Hi there, I’m from NZ and I bought the Sims 2 Holiday Party Pack (you have to have Sims 2 already on computer for it to run) and have noticed that it doesn’t have a manual or a registration code anywhere. Has anyone else experienced that? Will I need to have it to install it (it is not an expansion pack)?
how do i make a christmas feast, ive tried evryfin!! HELP!!!
um hi i am caitlin and i installed the sims holiday edition and it totaly works if you have problems with the game i can help you with the problem
X mas 2 – sooooo painfull……………
caitlin-
hi! i tried all the things that the other people have suggested but they still didn’t work…. could you look up my problem and try to help?
thaks!
~kelli
uh ppl are wrong. Youcan celebrate easter and halloween. i dont know how but reveiws say you can its called the sims2 HOLIDAY edition. easter and halloween fall under holidays. its says it on the back of the box. quote “decorate teh house with misletow, snowmen, stockings, and EASTER and HALLOWEEN objects.”
Oh please help me. I cannot get my sims to take directions from me. I recently added a multitude of downloads to my game. I put them into the :/programfiles/eagames/thesims2/tsdata/res/catalog/canhobjects file. I already know that you should put them in the downloads folder, but none of the items would show up when I placed them there. I have enabled custom content (I have all eps, including Nightlife). I have tried disabling custom content. Everything but uninstalling. Please help me.
Thanks in advance,
Maria
isn’t halloween a festival? and there isnt no easter bunny.
I don’t have the Sims 2 so I bought the Holiday Edition. When Installing it Always froze at 23 percent. How do I get it to work?
Please it is urgent.
To: Joe
I ahd the same problem with one of my other games, and I went through a lot of this stuff and it said i had no more space on my computer, so when i got another computer i could play my game,
but the game really sucked and I took it back so I wasted $500 on a computer, but it got my Sims games runnin faster.
I have a ?. Can females get ubducted by Aliens?
Hey everyone! My friend has all the Sims 2 exp. packs and the Sims 2 game. She is going to let me borrow everything instead of me buying my own but I need to know which exp. pack you use to start the game. I know for the Sims 1 it was Makin’ Magic even if you installed others (like Hot Date or Unleashed) after the Makin’ Magic one. Please help me so I know which exp. pack to purchase, this way my friend and I can both play and I don’t have to spend a hundred dollars on Sims 2 stuff. Thank you!
dear Desiree,
the expansion packs should be installed in this order:
the sims 2 holiday edition
the sims 2 univeristy
the sims 2 nightlife
the sims 2 :open for business
(dont install the sims 2 as it is exactly like hoilday thingy)
or
the sims 2
the sims 2 christmas party pack
the sims 2 university
the sims 2 nitelife
the sims 2 open for business
I am very mad cuz i uninstaled the sims 2 holliday adition and i cant find the code to install it again , please tell me the code im going crazzy trying to find it . If you have the sims 2 holliday adition please tell me the code!
GGGRRRRRR!!! Can you believe I actually have to RE-INSTALL all my Sims games JUST to play the holiday party pack!!!??? Imagine – THATS LIKE 10 DISCS OF INSTALLATION TO GO THROUGH!!!!
After reading through this I’m sure most of you have still havent answered the main question!
Today I bought my wife ‘The Sims 2 Holiday Edition’ after making damn sure it included the first ‘Sims 2′ game, as she hadn’t played any since the original ‘Sims’.
We installed it, discs 1,2,3 & 4, only to be prompted to put in disc 1 to play. Once we did this it only came up with the same error many other people in here have mentioned, inser corrtect disc and restart game. This was infuriating for both of us.
After not finding the asnwer here I found EA’s techsupport site, noted in the back of the manual, http://support.ea.com/cgi-bin/ea.cfg/php/enduser/home.php?p_sid=D5gyXQai
http://support.ea.com/cgi-bin/ea.cfg/php/enduser/cci/ea/cd_troubleshooting.php?p_sid=%3C?%20echo%20$p_sid%20?%20%20%20%20%20%3E
and systematicly worked through the possible solutions.
I found the following finally worked for us (note be careful with this, if you change your hard drive by accident, I have no idea what could possibly go wrong):
Change DMA transfer mode to PIO mode .(This applies only to Windows XP users).
1. Click Start.
2. Click Control Panel.
3. Double-click on System.
4. Click on the Hardware tab.
5. Click on the Device Manager button.
6. Click Switch to Classic View in the left pane.
7. Double-click IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers.
8. Double-click Secondary IDE Channel.
9. Click on the Advanced Settings tab.
* Note : If you do not see the Advanced Settings tab, your computer probably has a SCSI (small computer system interface) drive. DMA transfer mode options are not available for SCSI drives.
1. Under Device 0, select PIO only in the Transfer Mode box.
2. If you have more than one CD or DVD drive, also select PIO only in the Transfer Mode box under Device 1.
* WARNING : If Current Transfer Mode under Device 0 or under Device 1 states Not Applicable, that device is not in use. Change only the Devices that do not state Not Applicable. If both devices state Not Applicable, your CD or DVD drive is on the Primary IDE Channel.
* Double-click Primary IDE Channel.
* Click on the Advanced Settings tab.
* Under Device 1, select DMA if available in the Transfer Mode box.
* WARNING : Device 0 is most likely your hard drive and should not be changed.
* Click OK.
* Restart your computer, and then restart the game.
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I hope this is of some help to some of the people who are stuck still with this.
Cam
can sumone help me how do you open the presents under the tree
i have sims2 holiday edition and i install it.it is easy. and best game ever see ya
OMG how do you get Santa to come? Everyone says bake santa cookies but i dont know how i even got an oven/stove! Will some1 please be more specific and tell me how to get santa to come. O btw…SIMS 2 HOLIDAY EDITION SUX!
I have the same problem as Alex does. Where is the registration key? Does The Sims 2 Holiday Party Pack (the version without the original game included) not come with its own registration key and manual?
how do u open the presents? and y isnt there a easter bunny and the kids cant dress up and go trick or treating i mean if u cant do all that fun stuff then the whole thing was a waste of money
How do you get toddler new year and father time to appear? i know they are in the game, but i dont know how to get them proppperly. Help!
YEAH WATS THE POINT OF THE GAME IF U CANT DO ANYTHING. I MEAN U CANT TAKE THE KIDS TO GO TRICK OR TREATING.THERE ISNT ANYTHING TO DO FOR FUN.I ALSO THINK I WASTED MY MONEY.THIS GAME SUCKS!!!!
i have sims 2 but ive lost the first disk is there any where i could buy it
Okay this might have been answerd already, but i dont have time to read all of the board, sorry. I would apreciate it if someone could tell me how to save all of my data from my Sims 2 game. (I to have the same issue about buying the wrong thing.) I wouldn’t like losing all of my iteams and my families.
Someone mention downloading it to there desktop. How?
Thank you :D
hey ppl i need help = i need to know how to make santa come to a house pliz help?