Original Sims2 cd`s not playing

[Homer1000]

I have just bought the game, installed it perfectly. But when I try to play, XP comes up with an error-message. The game doesn´t even load and I´m talking about the original cd´s, (no mods, cracks or no-cd`s).

I defraged my harddrive and shut all unnessesary processes down as I was told on WWW.sims2.ea.com.

Any quick solutions to my problem ?

I was told by a friend that I proberbly need to format my harddrive, but, hey I mean, my computer runs perfectly and normal.

Do I really need to format to play a game?

I exeed specifications, so that´s not the problem.

Please help

Homer

[Luciel]

im sorry but this forum is only for questions related to cracks dude : /

*moved to general gaming*

[tbaher]

did you contact support?
try to get them on the phone (that always works great when it actually DOES work)

[Monty Burns]

Would be interesting to know what the error message exactly is ?

[Homer1000]

XP came up with "Sims2.exe found an error..closing app.", and something like ... "would you like to send error-message to microsoft".

I unistalled all my programs though, (Clonecd, Clonedvd, Nero..everything) , one by one to see if anything was causing problems. It kept coming up with the message. Backed up my photos and musicfiles and formatted the disc.

It plays ok now.. and it´s fun.

I´ll be installing my programs again, one by one, to see what causes problems.