Apartment Life hates me

[strangetomato]

So I was presented with the Apartment Life EP to cheer me up in my gloomy sickly state, and I decided to just jump in and install it (a sure sign of how much I just don't give a fuck right now), but it's not working for me. The game crashes during the loading screen, right around where it says "preparing pops and locks" or some such thing. I tried two different no-cd cracks, and I tried uninstalling and reinstalling it again, and nothing changes. Why must I fail so badly?

If you have any idea what I'm doing wrong, please point out my stupidity. Maybe my brain is just too cloudy for this right now. I did remove the hacks, though. I got that much right.

*sigh*

Comments

[zepheera.livejournal.com]

I had a problem like that when I installed Freetime the first time. It turned out one of my neighborhood folders got corrupted during the install

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

So what did you do? Replace the Sims 2 folder with your backup?

[inkspottedtea.livejournal.com]

I would look on MATY for clean templates - you backed up your neighbourhoods, yes? :<

[zepheera.livejournal.com]

Just remove your entire neighborhoods folder and start the game, it will generate new folders for you