Can anyone help with the Sims2 game?

Question

Hi!
I'm having problems with installing the sims 2 game. I have a regular edition so I have 4 installation CDs. After I insert the 4th CD, a message appears saying: A problem occured when trying to transfer the file 'TSDATA/Res/Sound/Techno.package.'
Does anyone know what this mean or what I can do? I don't know if it has anything to do with the sound but I just got a new sound card today.
I checked if the CDs were scratched or dirty but everything was fine. I also did a disk cleanup and a defrag but that didn't help.
I would greatly appreciate any help.
Thanks!

Answer 1

I had this problem when I was installing an expansion pack after doing a complete uninstall/reinstall. My problem was that I had an old folder in the EA games programs file folder that the installer was trying to write to.

Check your Program Files/EA games folder and make sure you don't already have the 'TSDATA/Res/Sound/Techno.package' already there. That file is just the Techno music station in the game.

I've added a link from Mod the Sims2 which addresses this issue also.

Answer 2

This same thing happened with me. What worked was a manual install. It sounds complicated, and it takes a little while (took me about 15 minutes and then the install took another 15), but it worked like a charm!

1 - Go into My Computer.
2 - Open drive C.
3 - Right-click inside the window and select New, and then Folder.
4 - Name the folder as Disk Images (it is important that the name has a space in it).
5 - Open the disk images folder.
6 - Right-click inside the window and select New, and then Folder.
7 - Name this folder Disk1.
8 - Repeat steps 6 and 7 while substituting Disk1 for Disk2 and so on until there are 4 'Disk' folders followed by a number 1 through 4. it is important to note there must not be a space between "Disk" and the number.
9 - Insert Disk 1 of The Sims 2 into your CD-Rom drive and if the autoplay starts, cancel it.
10 - Go into My Computer.
11 - Right-click on your CD-ROM drive and choose Open.
12 - When you see the contents of the disk in the Window, click on Edit at the top of the window and choose Select All.
13 - All the contents of the disk should now be highlighted, click on Edit at the top of the window again and choose Copy.
14 - Open the Disk1 folder you created under C:\Disk Images; click on Edit at the top of the window and choose Paste. This will copy the contents of the CD into the Disk1 folder.
15 - Repeat steps 9 through 14 for the remaining disks until you have copied each disk into its appropriate folder.
16 - Once all the disks have been copied, remove ALL CDs from any drives.
17 - Open the Disk1 folder under Disk Images and double-click on autorun.exe to start the installation.
18 - To save disk space, you can delete the Disk Images folders after the installation is complete.

I hope this works for you! The Sims 2 is a really fun game.

Answer 3

I had the same problem, unfortunately I have no idea if it could be your sound card, but it might. (But I didn't have a new sound card)

What I did was go to add/remove programs, made sure that "TheSims2" was completely removed, did one more disk clean up, re-bouted and then tried to install it from scratch. For whatever reason it worked that time.

I hope this works for you! I know it's frustrating but I've had the game for a year or more and I can never get enough of it!! I love the Aliens and the law enforcement job (once you reach the highest level your Sim becomes Captain Hero... I won't ruin it but it's kinda neat) Also I'm working on trying to get my Sims abducted by Aliens (works only in Strangetown I think...) The men that get abducted come back somewhat...different LOL!

Good luck with the install and I hope you have hours and hours of fun with it!!