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

[sullivansims.blogspot.com (from livejournal.com)]

Yes, I'm using Windows 7. To me, it does look like you've got the NoCD in the wrong place. I have mine in EA Games/The Sims 2/The Sims 2 Mansion and Garden Stuff/TSBin. The NoCD needs to replace the game exe and there is no game exe in the M&G folder (or the BV folder)/ The exes are all in the TSBin folders.

Make sure you've got the NoCD in the TSBin folder for your latest expansion too. I notice you told me you had it in the BV folder but mentioned in your post that you had also installed FT, AL and M&G. Not sure if that's still the case, but that would be screwing you up too, if so.

[sullivansims.blogspot.com (from livejournal.com)]

Duh, just noticed you tried this and it worked! I'm so glad you have your game running again. :D

I'm relieved to hear I'm not the only one who has ever made this mistake!

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

Thanks for your help! :) I really appreciate it.