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| |style="border:0px" | {{GameHelpIndexItem || Link=Choose Gender of Babies || LinkText=Choose Gender of Babies || Description=Want a boy, or a girl, and getting the wrong gender? Here's how to get a baby of the desired sex.}} | | |style="border:0px" | {{GameHelpIndexItem || Link=Choose Gender of Babies || LinkText=Choose Gender of Babies || Description=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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| + | |style="border:0px" | {{GameHelpIndexItem || Link=Downtown and Community Skilling || LinkText=Community Skilling || Description=Not gaining skill points when doing skill stuff on a community lot? Here's why.}} |
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| |style="border:0px" | {{GameHelpIndexItem || Link=Deleting Neighborhoods || LinkText=Deleting Neighborhoods || Description=How to remove a neighborhood from your game.}} | | |style="border:0px" | {{GameHelpIndexItem || Link=Deleting Neighborhoods || LinkText=Deleting Neighborhoods || Description=How to remove a neighborhood from your game.}} |
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| + | |style="border:0px" | {{GameHelpIndexItem || Link=Can't Scope Room || LinkText=Scope Room || Description=The 'scope room' interaction, what it does, and why it might not be working for you.}} |
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| + | |style="border:0px" | {{GameHelpIndexItem || Link=Carpool Still Comes || LinkText=Carpool Still Comes || Description=Bought a car, but still have the carpool showing up? Here's how to drive your own car to work.}} |
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| + | |style="border:0px" | {{GameHelpIndexItem || Link=Cars, Driveways, and Garages || LinkText=Cars, Driveways, and Garages || Description=How to buy a car and set up a driveway and even a garage for your sim, using driveable Nightlife cars.}} |
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| + | |style="border:0px" | {{GameHelpIndexItem || Link=Casual Groups || LinkText=Casual Groups || Description=Setting up and using casual groups, so sims can go out together, and dine together.}} |
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| |style="border:0px" | {{GameHelpIndexItem || Link=Compatability || LinkText=Compatability || Description=Who should date who? Whom? Which sim should date your sim? Find out!}} | | |style="border:0px" | {{GameHelpIndexItem || Link=Compatability || LinkText=Compatability || Description=Who should date who? Whom? Which sim should date your sim? Find out!}} |
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| + | |style="border:0px" | {{GameHelpIndexItem || Link=Downtown and Community Skilling || LinkText=Downtown Skilling || Description=Not gaining skill points when doing skill stuff on a downtown lot? Here's why.}} |
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| + | |style="border:0px" | {{GameHelpIndexItem || Link=Sim Inventories || LinkText=Inventories || Description=Find out how to access and use your sim's inventory.}} |
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| + | |style="border:0px" | {{GameHelpIndexItem || Link=Lot View Options || LinkText=Lot View Options || Description=What all those lot view options mean... and how to see your neighbors' houses and other buildings.}} |
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| |style="border:0px" | {{GameHelpIndexItem || Link=Vampires || LinkText=Vampires || Description=Become a blue-skinned creature of the night.}} | | |style="border:0px" | {{GameHelpIndexItem || Link=Vampires || LinkText=Vampires || Description=Become a blue-skinned creature of the night.}} |
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− | Having problem with the Maxis-made modding tools?
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− | * '''[[Game Help:Body Shop]]'''
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− | * '''[[Game Help:Blurry Body Shop Projects]]'''
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− | * '''[[Game Help:Homecrafter]]'''
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− | ==Performance==
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− | * '''[[Game Help:CAS#4]]'''
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− | * [[Game Help:Slowness and Lag]]
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− | * '''[[Game Help:Packaging a Lot]]'''
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− | ==Graphics==
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− | * '''[[Game Help:No Fish in Fishtank or Pond]]'''
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− | * '''[[Game Help:Bump Maps and Shaders]]'''
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− | * '''[[Game Help:Graphics Cards]]'''
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− | * '''[[Game Help:nVidia Blue Screen Issue]]'''
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− | * '''[[Game Help:Red Flashing Walls]]'''
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− | * [[Game Help:Cannot Raise Resolution]] - [http://support.ea.com/cgi-bin/ea.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=14494&p_created=1173120890&p_sid=wZ*FovAi&p_lva=&p_sp=cF9zcmNoPTEmcF9zb3J0X2J5PSZwX2dyaWRzb3J0PSZwX3Jvd19jbnQ9MiZwX3Byb2RzPTcsNzAwLDMwNDgmcF9jYXRzPTAmcF9wdj0zLjMwNDgmcF9jdj0mcF9wYWdlPTEmcF9zZWFyY2hfdGV4dD1yZXNvbHV0aW9u&p_li=&p_topview=1 EA article...]
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− | * '''[[Game Help:Vampires]]'''
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− | * '''[[Game Help:Sim Inventories]]'''
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− | * '''[[Game Help:Compatability]]'''
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− | * '''[[Game Help:Can't Scope Room]]'''
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− | * '''[[Game Help:Casual Groups]]'''
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− | * '''[[Game Help:Carpool Still Comes]]'''
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− | * '''[[Game Help:Lot View Options]]'''
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− | * '''[[Game Help:Cars, Driveways, and Garages]]'''
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| * '''[[Game Help:Downtown and Community Skilling]]''' | | * '''[[Game Help:Downtown and Community Skilling]]''' |
| * '''[[Game Help:Sims Won't Eat Together]]''' | | * '''[[Game Help:Sims Won't Eat Together]]''' |
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| * [[Game Help:Flashing Blue Custom Content]] - should be changed/link to the accessories/objects faqs | | * [[Game Help:Flashing Blue Custom Content]] - should be changed/link to the accessories/objects faqs |
| * [[Game Help:Flashing Blue Custom Objects]] | | * [[Game Help:Flashing Blue Custom Objects]] |
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| + | ==Body Shop and Homecrafter== |
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| + | Having problem with the Maxis-made modding tools? |
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| + | * '''[[Game Help:Body Shop]]''' |
| + | * '''[[Game Help:Blurry Body Shop Projects]]''' |
| + | * '''[[Game Help:Homecrafter]]''' |
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| + | ==Performance== |
| + | * '''[[Game Help:CAS#4]]''' |
| + | * [[Game Help:Slowness and Lag]] |
| + | * '''[[Game Help:Packaging a Lot]]''' |
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| + | ==Graphics== |
| + | * '''[[Game Help:No Fish in Fishtank or Pond]]''' |
| + | * '''[[Game Help:Bump Maps and Shaders]]''' |
| + | * '''[[Game Help:Graphics Cards]]''' |
| + | * '''[[Game Help:nVidia Blue Screen Issue]]''' |
| + | * '''[[Game Help:Red Flashing Walls]]''' |
| + | * [[Game Help:Cannot Raise Resolution]] - [http://support.ea.com/cgi-bin/ea.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=14494&p_created=1173120890&p_sid=wZ*FovAi&p_lva=&p_sp=cF9zcmNoPTEmcF9zb3J0X2J5PSZwX2dyaWRzb3J0PSZwX3Jvd19jbnQ9MiZwX3Byb2RzPTcsNzAwLDMwNDgmcF9jYXRzPTAmcF9wdj0zLjMwNDgmcF9jdj0mcF9wYWdlPTEmcF9zZWFyY2hfdGV4dD1yZXNvbHV0aW9u&p_li=&p_topview=1 EA article...] |
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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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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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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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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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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Keyboard Shortcuts
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How to install that perfect house sitting in your lot bin more than once.
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Moving Sims
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How to move sims the right way, so you don't break your game.
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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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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, and dine together.
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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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Servos
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Bleep blop blort whiirrrrrrRrrrRRrr.
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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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Stuff directly related to specific expansion packs.
General facts, figures, zeroes, and ones.
Other stuff. Mostly problems.