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|style="border:2px solid #a7cfbb;background-color:#d7f4e6;color:#000" colspan="1" | {{GameHelpIndexHeading || Heading=Installation || Description=Installing or uninstalling the Sims 2, expansions, stuff packs, or game patches, and stuff that happens right after you've installed something new.}}
 
|style="border:2px solid #a7cfbb;background-color:#d7f4e6;color:#000" colspan="1" | {{GameHelpIndexHeading || Heading=Installation || Description=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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|style="border:0px" | {{GameHelpIndexItem || Link=12-24 Hour Clock || Description=How to change the clock from 24 hour "military" time back to 12 hour time.}}
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|style="border:0px" | {{GameHelpIndexItem || Link=12-24 Hour Clock || LinkText=12-24 Hour Clock || Description=How to change the clock from 24 hour "military" time back to 12 hour time.}}
 
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|style="border:0px" | {{GameHelpIndexItem || Link=Change Game Language || Description=How to change the language of all the game's text.}}
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|style="border:0px" | {{GameHelpIndexItem || Link=Change Game Language || LinkText=Change Game Language || Description=How to change the language of all the game's text.}}
 
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|style="border:0px" | {{GameHelpIndexItem || Link=Install || Description=What to do if you're having trouble installing the game, expansions, or stuff packs.}}
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|style="border:0px" | {{GameHelpIndexItem || Link=Install || LinkText=Install || Description=What to do if you're having trouble installing the game, expansions, or stuff packs.}}
 
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|style="border:0px" | {{GameHelpIndexItem || Link=Poor Graphics Quality After New EP Install || Description=If you've just installed a stuff pack or expansion and your game suddenly looks terrible.}}
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|style="border:0px" | {{GameHelpIndexItem || Link=Poor Graphics Quality After New EP Install || LinkText=Poor Graphics Quality After New EP Install || Description=If you've just installed a stuff pack or expansion and your game suddenly looks terrible.}}
 
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|style="border:0px" | {{GameHelpIndexItem || Link=Preparing for the Next Expansion || Description=What to do before purchasing and installing a new expansion or stuff pack.}}
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|style="border:0px" | {{GameHelpIndexItem || Link=Preparing for the Next Expansion || LinkText=Preparing for the Next Expansion || Description=What to do before purchasing and installing a new expansion or stuff pack.}}
 
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|style="border:0px" | {{GameHelpIndexItem || Link=Red Flashing Walls || Description=If your walls and foundations are flashing red after installing a new expansion or stuff pack.}}
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|style="border:0px" | {{GameHelpIndexItem || Link=Red Flashing Walls || LinkText=Preparing for the Next Expansion|| Description=If your walls and foundations are flashing red after installing a new expansion or stuff pack.}}
 
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|style="border:0px" | {{GameHelpIndexItem || Link=Uninstall || Description=How to uninstall Sims 2, expansions, or stuff packs, what to do first, and if you're having problems uninstalling.}}
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|style="border:0px" | {{GameHelpIndexItem || Link=Uninstall || LinkText=Uninstall || Description=How to uninstall Sims 2, expansions, or stuff packs, what to do first, and if you're having problems uninstalling.}}
 
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|style="border:2px solid #a7cfbb;background-color:#d7f4e6;color:#000" colspan="1" | {{GameHelpIndexHeading || Heading=Custom Content || Description=Everything related to downloading, installing custom content, and problems with it.}}
 
|style="border:2px solid #a7cfbb;background-color:#d7f4e6;color:#000" colspan="1" | {{GameHelpIndexHeading || Heading=Custom Content || Description=Everything related to downloading, installing custom content, and problems with it.}}
 
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|style="border:0px" | {{GameHelpIndexItem || Link=Bad Lot || Description=If your game crashes when clicking on a custom lot in the lot bin.}}
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|style="border:0px" | {{GameHelpIndexItem || Link=Bad Lot || LinkText=Bad Lot || Description=If your game crashes when clicking on a custom lot in the lot bin.}}
 
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|style="border:0px" | {{GameHelpIndexItem || Link=Custom Content Shows up Incorrectly || Description=If your downloaded items don't look like they're supposed to.}}
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|style="border:0px" | {{GameHelpIndexItem || Link=Custom Content Shows up Incorrectly || LinkText=Custom Content Shows up Incorrectly || Description=If your downloaded items don't look like they're supposed to.}}
 
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|style="border:0px" | {{GameHelpIndexItem || Link=Custom Neighborhood Terrains || Description=Information on custom neighborhood maps/terrains.}}
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|style="border:0px" | {{GameHelpIndexItem || Link=Custom Neighborhood Terrains || LinkText=Custom Neighborhood Terrains || Description=Information on custom neighborhood maps/terrains.}}
 
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|style="border:0px" | {{GameHelpIndexItem || Link=Custom Objects on OfB Shelves || Description=How to place your custom items on shelves to sell in shops.}}
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|style="border:0px" | {{GameHelpIndexItem || Link=Custom Objects on OfB Shelves || LinkText=Custom Objects on OfB Shelves || Description=How to place your custom items on shelves to sell in shops.}}
 
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|style="border:0px" | {{GameHelpIndexItem || Link=Downloading for Fracking Geniuses || Description=A quick summary on how to download and install custom content, for computer-savvy users.}}
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|style="border:0px" | {{GameHelpIndexItem || Link=Downloading for Fracking Geniuses || LinkText=Downloading for Fracking Geniuses || Description=A quick summary on how to download and install custom content, for computer-savvy users.}}
 
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|style="border:0px" | <b>{{GameHelpIndexItem || Link=Downloading for Fracking Idiots || Description=How to download and install custom content, explained in the simplest way possible, with pics!}}</b>
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|style="border:0px" | <b>{{GameHelpIndexItem || Link=Downloading for Fracking Idiots || LinkText=Downloading for Fracking Idiots || Description=How to download and install custom content, explained in the simplest way possible, with pics!}}</b>
 
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|style="border:0px" | {{GameHelpIndexItem || Link=Finding Problem Custom Content || Description=How to find problem or unwanted custom content to remove it from your game.}}
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|style="border:0px" | {{GameHelpIndexItem || Link=Finding Problem Custom Content || LinkText=Finding Problem Custom Content || Description=How to find problem or unwanted custom content to remove it from your game.}}
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|style="border:0px" | {{GameHelpIndexItem || Link=This Content Requires Expansion Pack Data That is Not Installed Error || LinkText=Expansion Pack Data Not Installed || Description=If you're getting a "This content requires expansion pack data that is not installed," error when installing a lot, sim, or pet.}}
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|style="border:0px" | <b>{{GameHelpIndexItem || Link=GCCTSU || LinkText=Getting Custom Content to Show Up || Description=If some, all, or none of your downloads are showing up.}}</b>
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|style="border:0px" | {{GameHelpIndexItem || Link=GUID Conflicts || LinkText=GUID Conflicts || Description=About GUID conflicts, and how to find conflicting items.}}
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|style="border:0px" | {{GameHelpIndexItem || Link=Maxis Content Manager || LinkText=Maxis Content Manager || Description=Information on the Maxis content manager tool for custom content.}}
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|style="border:0px" | {{GameHelpIndexItem || Link=Meshes and Recolors || LinkText=Meshes and Recolors || Description=What is a mesh, what is a mesh recolour, and why you need to know what they are.}}
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|style="border:0px" | {{GameHelpIndexItem || Link=No Downloads Folder || LinkText=No Downloads Folder || Description=What to do if you're missing a Downloads folder.}}
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|style="border:0px" | {{GameHelpIndexItem || Link=No Longer Prompted to Save Files || LinkText=No Longer Prompted to Save Files || Description=If your computer has stopped asking you where you want files saved when you download.}}
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|style="border:0px" | {{GameHelpIndexItem || Link=Organizing Custom Content || LinkText=Organizing Custom Content || Description=How to clean out, organize, get rid of, and fix up your mess of downloads.}}
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|style="border:0px" | {{GameHelpIndexItem || Link=Poly Counts || LinkText=Poly Counts || Description=What poly counts are for meshes, what's a good and bad poly count, and why you need to know.}}
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|style="border:0px" | {{GameHelpIndexItem || Link=Q-Xpress || LinkText=Q-Xpress || Description=Information about Q-Xpress, a program to download and install content from MTS2.}}
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|style="border:0px" | {{GameHelpIndexItem || Link=RAR || LinkText=RAR || Description=What RAR archive files are, and how to use them.  Anyone can use RARs!}}
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|style="border:0px" | {{GameHelpIndexItem || Link=Removing Default Replacements || LinkText=Removing Default Replacements || Description=How to find default replacement skins, eyes, and other overriding content to remove it from your game.}}
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|style="border:0px" | {{GameHelpIndexItem || Link=Too Much Custom Content? || LinkText=Too Much Custom Content? || Description=How much is too much custom content, and is there a limit to the number of downloads you can have?}}
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|style="border:0px" | {{GameHelpIndexItem || Link=What are Hacks? || LinkText=What are Hacks? || Description=Information on what hacks/mods are, and why you need to know.}}
 
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'''Note from HP:''' This page will be cleaned up into a better basic listing of all our FAQs once we get a little further on this section.  I'm trying to use it now as an organizational area so we know what we have covered, what's been converted, what we still need to write, etc.
 
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==Installation==
 
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If you're having problems with installing, or if things have gone weird just after you've installed the game or an expansion pack, this is the category for you.
 
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* '''[[Game Help:12-24 Hour Clock]]'''
 
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==Body Shop and Homecrafter==
 
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==Performance==
 
==Performance==

Revision as of 12:03, 9 July 2007

Sims 2 Game Help Categories:

Custom Content  | Expansion Packs  | Installation  | Gameplay Guides  | Technical & Graphics Issues  | Body Shop & Homecrafter  | Miscellaneous Issues  | FAQ Index

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    Installation

    ... Installing or uninstalling the Sims 2, expansions, stuff packs, or game patches, and stuff that happens right after you've installed something new.
12-24 Hour Clock How to change the clock from 24 hour "military" time back to 12 hour time.
Change Game Language How to change the language of all the game's text.
Install What to do if you're having trouble installing the game, expansions, or stuff packs.
Poor Graphics Quality After New EP Install If you've just installed a stuff pack or expansion and your game suddenly looks terrible.
Preparing for the Next Expansion What to do before purchasing and installing a new expansion or stuff pack.
Preparing for the Next Expansion If your walls and foundations are flashing red after installing a new expansion or stuff pack.
Uninstall How to uninstall Sims 2, expansions, or stuff packs, what to do first, and if you're having problems uninstalling.

    Custom Content

    ... Everything related to downloading, installing custom content, and problems with it.
Bad Lot If your game crashes when clicking on a custom lot in the lot bin.
Custom Content Shows up Incorrectly If your downloaded items don't look like they're supposed to.
Custom Neighborhood Terrains Information on custom neighborhood maps/terrains.
Custom Objects on OfB Shelves How to place your custom items on shelves to sell in shops.
Downloading for Fracking Geniuses A quick summary on how to download and install custom content, for computer-savvy users.
Downloading for Fracking Idiots How to download and install custom content, explained in the simplest way possible, with pics!
Finding Problem Custom Content How to find problem or unwanted custom content to remove it from your game.
Expansion Pack Data Not Installed If you're getting a "This content requires expansion pack data that is not installed," error when installing a lot, sim, or pet.
Getting Custom Content to Show Up If some, all, or none of your downloads are showing up.
GUID Conflicts About GUID conflicts, and how to find conflicting items.
Maxis Content Manager Information on the Maxis content manager tool for custom content.
Meshes and Recolors What is a mesh, what is a mesh recolour, and why you need to know what they are.
No Downloads Folder What to do if you're missing a Downloads folder.
No Longer Prompted to Save Files If your computer has stopped asking you where you want files saved when you download.
Organizing Custom Content How to clean out, organize, get rid of, and fix up your mess of downloads.
Poly Counts What poly counts are for meshes, what's a good and bad poly count, and why you need to know.
Q-Xpress Information about Q-Xpress, a program to download and install content from MTS2.
RAR What RAR archive files are, and how to use them. Anyone can use RARs!
Removing Default Replacements How to find default replacement skins, eyes, and other overriding content to remove it from your game.
Too Much Custom Content? How much is too much custom content, and is there a limit to the number of downloads you can have?
What are Hacks? Information on what hacks/mods are, and why you need to know.









Body Shop and Homecrafter

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Performance

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Stuff directly related to specific expansion packs.

University

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Other stuff. Mostly problems.

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