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All the FAQs, all in one place. For easier browsability you can choose one of the links in the "Game Help Categories" listing above.
Installation... Installing or uninstalling the Sims 2, expansions, stuff packs, or game patches, and stuff that happens right after you've installed something new.
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12-24 Hour Clock
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How to change the clock from 24 hour "military" time back to 12 hour time.
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Install
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What to do if you're having trouble installing the game, expansions, or stuff packs.
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Patching Your Game
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A guide to the patches, which ones you need to install, and why you need patches.
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Red Flashing Walls
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If your walls and foundations are flashing red after installing a new expansion or stuff pack.
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Uninstall
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How to uninstall Sims 2, expansions, or stuff packs, what to do first, and if you're having problems uninstalling.
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Custom Content... Everything related to downloading, installing custom content, and problems with it.
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Bad Lot
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If your game crashes when clicking on a custom lot in the lot bin.
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Download Accelerator FAQ
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How do I download from MTS2 without worrying about files being cut off, or taking a long time to download? Why can't I use my download accelerator to download from MTS2?
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GUID Conflicts
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About GUID conflicts, and how to find conflicting items.
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Meshes and Recolors
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What is a mesh, what is a mesh recolour, and why you need to know what they are.
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Poly Counts
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What poly counts are for meshes, what's a good and bad poly count, and why you need to know.
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Q-Xpress
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Information about Q-Xpress, a program to download and install content from MTS2.
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RAR
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What RAR archive files are, and how to use them. Anyone can use RARs!
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Too Much Custom Content?
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How much is too much custom content, and is there a limit to the number of downloads you can have?
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What are Hacks?
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Information on what hacks/mods are, and why you need to know.
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Gameplay... Information that will be helpful in the various aspects of playing Sims 2.
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Cheats
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A list of the game's cheats, with instructions and descriptions on how to use them.
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Testing Cheats
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Information on the game's testing cheats (aka boolProp).
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Userstartup.cheat
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How to automatically enable cheats so you don't have to type them each time you play, and shorten them so you don't have to type so much.
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Adoption
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Adopting children has never been so easy!
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Aliens
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Everything you ever wanted to know about little green men from outer space.
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Babies
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Well, the bun's out of the oven... what do you do now?
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Careers and Jobs
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A guide to excelling in the workplace, and all the job levels and stuff.
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Change Lot Zoning
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How to change a lot to/from residential, community, dorm, or secret society.
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Changing Sims' Appearance
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How to change everything about how your sims look - face, hair, eyes, makeup, clothes, skintones, etc.
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Children
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Making the most of a fun time in a young sim's life.
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Choose Gender of Babies
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Want a boy, or a girl, and getting the wrong gender? Here's how to get a baby of the desired sex.
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Creating Sims
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How to make interesting, unique sims, and how to create sims to produce beautiful children.
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Death
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All the ways to die, ghost colours depending on method of death, etc.
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Community Skilling
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Not gaining skill points when doing skill stuff on a community lot? Here's why.
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Disable Censor Blur
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How to get rid of the blurred pixellation when sims are nude or using the toilet.
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Extract In-Game Sim
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How to export a sim born in-game or made in Create a Sim so you can remake them or share them with others.
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Moving Sims
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How to move sims from one neighborhood to another the right way, so you don't break your game.
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The Nanny
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How to deal with the old lady who comes to eat your food and ignore your children.
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Parties
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Throw a tremendous bash that has everyone in the neighborhood talking for weeks!
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Pregnancy
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What to expect when you're expecting a sim baby.
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The Social Worker
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What to do if your sim children have been taken away by the social worker!
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Teens
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All about rearing rebellious teenage sims.
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Toddlers
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Potty training, learning to walk, playing in the toilet, and more.
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Windowed Mode
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Run the game in a window, so you can do other things while you play.
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Expansion Packs... Gameplay and technical issues related to specific expansion packs.
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Scope Room
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The 'scope room' interaction, what it does, and why it might not be working for you.
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Carpool Still Comes
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Bought a car, but still have the carpool showing up? Here's how to drive your own car to work.
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Casual Groups
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Setting up and using casual groups, so sims can go out together, dine together, or go out without dragging the whole family along.
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Compatability
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Who should date who? Whom? Which sim should date your sim? Find out!
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Downtown Skilling
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Not gaining skill points when doing skill stuff on a downtown lot? Here's why.
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Inventories
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Find out how to access and use your sim's inventory.
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Lot View Options
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What all those lot view options mean... and how to see your neighbors' houses and other buildings.
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Vampires
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Become a blue-skinned creature of the night.
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Disappearing Food
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How to stop a bug which causes sims' plates to disappear out of their hands.
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Selling Cars
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How to set up the perfect swanky automobile showroom or skanky used car dealership.
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Servos
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Bleep blop blort whiirrrrrrRrrrRRrr.
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Servo Graphics Bug
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Why is there a random ray of light/white or yellow line on my screen when I use servos?
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Werewolves
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Howling at the moon, hair growth, and glowing golden eyes.
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Fishing
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Baits, badges, and bass with squash.
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Gardening
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Compost, planting, the garden club, the wishing well, greenhouses, and more.
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The Seasons
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Information on seasonal changes in the Seasons EP, as well as info on the seasonal perks that your sims get.
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Bon Voyage Bugs
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A list of known issues in Bon Voyage which will hopefully be fixed in the patch.
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Bypassing the Bon Voyage Launcher
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Has Bon Voyage apparently uninstalled a previous EP? Or do you just think that launcher is annoying and cheap? This article explains how to bypass it, and any issues resulting from it.
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Miscellaneous Issues... How to fix a multitude of miscellaneous malfunctions.
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Baby Face Problem
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What to do if your baby is born absolutely hideous, or with an eye in the middle of their forehead.
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Delete Cache Files
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Some bugs, like the game not starting, can be fixed by deleting cache files made by the game.
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HUD Disappeared
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If the heads up display (game's blue control panel along the bottom) disappeared and can't get it back, here's what you do.
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Nude Thumbnails
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Why do some of my custom clothes etc show up as thumbnails of nude sims?
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Overpriced Lot Bug
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Do you have a downloaded lot that costs a billion simoleons or more? That's a bug, and there's an easy fix.
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Wall Limit
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What to do if you can't build walls after a certain point.
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Bodyshop & Homecrafter... Having trouble using Maxis-made modding tools?
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Bodyshop
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Everything you need to know about fixing Bodyshop.
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Homecrafter
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Everything you need to know about fixing Homecrafter.
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Technical & Graphics Issues... Information on various technical and graphics related issues.
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Can't Raise Game Resolution
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How to raise the game resolution if the option is greyed out, or if you've just installed a new EP and can't go above 800x600.
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Flashing Red Walls
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What do you if walls and foundations in your game start flashing red after you install a new Expansion/Stuff Pack.
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Graphics Cards
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Everything you'll ever need to know about graphics cards, and associated problems.
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Packaging a Lot
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Is it taking a really long time to package up a lot you've created?
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Backing Up
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How and what to back up before doing anything mildly risky to your game files, or if you're switching computers.
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Patching Your Game
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Patching your game is something you should do whenever a new patch comes out - find out why and how here.
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System Checkup
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Some bugs, like crashing and freezing, can be caused by your computer, not the game. So here's how to take your computer to the GP, DIY style.
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System Specifications
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How to find out about all the bits and pieces inside your computer, no screwdrivers required.
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System Requirements
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What your computer needs to have in order to run The Sims 2 and its expansions.
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