Help. It's been a while.

by M on Mon Jun 03, 2002 6:42 am

Anyway, I just downloaded The Sims: Hot Date Stand-alone for my girl off of KaZaA and it isn't working properly. After I unpack everything like I'm supposed to I get this error message: "Sims.exe is not a valid Win32 application."

I went to groups in google and saw that many people had the same problem. They were getting some pretty reasonable answers so I tried them. Of course it was pointless because I have the pirated version and they probably purchased the real deal.

I need to know what I could do to get this to work. I know many others have had to download this same file and are running XP Home Edition, I saw when I was downloading from them.

Does anyone know anything about it or know anyone I can contact to fix it. She really wants to play and I have to make her happy so she can make me happy, if you know what I mean. Peace guys.

by **were** on Mon Jun 03, 2002 8:31 am

running turecolor32bit..get rid of it.Try downngrading a bit..like truecoloe16bit or something from your winodwsdisplay..may/may not work
stanadlone..??..u know u do need the original game SIMS right?

great.a girl gettin satisfaction from a sim hot date game.NOW i fell lonely...:-(

[ 03 June 2002: Message edited by: were ]

by **Blue Hawk** on Mon Jun 03, 2002 8:35 am

also, keep in mind that i have personally been seeing a lot of something called 'copy protection'. programmers have been using a really strong form of it. i know of 4 games that wont run on pirated copies. they are - might and magic 9, duke nukem- the manhatten project, diablo 2 and wizardry 8. [img]images/smiles/icon_eek.gif[/img]

by M on Mon Jun 03, 2002 12:38 pm

Nm, I figured it out. All I did was download and install a no-cd patch. Good stuff. Peace.

by **were** on Tue Jun 04, 2002 12:46 am

a protected patch..i c

by **Zep** on Wed Jun 05, 2002 5:22 am

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programmers have been using a really strong form of it. i know of 4 games that wont run on pirated copies. they are - might and magic 9, duke nukem- the manhatten project, diablo 2 and wizardry 8.

i have a pirate version of diablo ii and the expansion pack [img]images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif[/img]

doesn't work on battle.net without an origianl serial number though :\

i don't really care for piracy, games are waaaay to expensive i think.

i went to buy tony hawk 3 for my xbox and it was about Â£50.

i'll wait till i find it on kazaa or something.

[ 04 June 2002: Message edited by: Zep ]

by **were** on Wed Jun 05, 2002 8:46 am

me too about diablo2..but on battlent all tehy have ar epk'rs anyway..too bad its not easy to get good items form the mods..:-(