The troubles continue...

[strangetomato]

So things continued to work just fine with adding the EPs and SPs back in, until I arrived at Bon Voyage. This would be where SecuROM first made an appearance, so wanting to avoid that whole mess, I have switched to running the game with a no-cd crack. And here seems to be where my problems lie. It won't run. I get the same message as seen in this post. I tried running it with FT, AL, and M&G Stuff as the most recent EP, all with the same result. This seems to somehow be the issue, but what exactly is going wrong?

I have updated my graphics card drivers, made sure I have the latest full DirectX9.0c Redistributable installed, as directed by several tech support forums for this exact issue (DirectX9 incompatibility), but none of those things seemed to help. I am also running Sims 3 with a no-cd crack with no issues. I'm even using the same cracks I had on my old computer, which worked just fine then. *sigh*

If anyone has any ideas on what's going wrong here, I'd love to hear them. Any help at all would be greatly appreciated.

Comments

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

I've considered that it might be in the wrong location, but this is where I used to place the no-cd .exe file. Is there something about Windows 7 that makes it different?

Where did you end up placing it? I currently have it in C:\Program Files (x86)\EA GAMES\The Sims 2 Bon Voyage. The (x86) part is different from my previous computer. I also have a folder called simply Program Files, but EA GAMES isn't in there.

[samethana.livejournal.com]

You have to place it in TS Bin. I've had this happen too when I reinstalled a while ago. Kept getting DirectX errors while I just placed the no CD thingie in the wrong spot.

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

Yes! That's it. It worked. :D

As soon as I read that about the TS Bin, I knew it sounded familiar. I even checked back to my written instructions for placing the no-cd crck and those exact directions were there. How did I miss that? Duh doy!

I'm glad I'm not the only one who made this mistake. XD

[samethana.livejournal.com]

It's easy to overlook it I think. Once you see the .exe thingie in the game folder you think it must be that one and replace it :)
Anyway, I'm glad I could help you with it.

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that makes sense. I saw it and was like, "Oh there it is," and instantly forget the rest of the instructions.

Thank you so much for your help. :)

(Editd because my smiley didn't have eyes. XD)