You can purchase Sims 2 for consoles through second-hand sellers (eBay/CEX if in UK). If you're looking for PC, the answer would be the same. If you have a Mac, the App Store has Sims 2 Ultimate Collection which you can purchase for £28.99 and it includes a lot of the expansion packs in this price. Hope this helps :) After installing the sims 2 ultimate collection, I'm struggling to play it. I keep running into crashes when loading into different parts of the game (going in and out of CAS and moving families into a lot). I've been able to play a bit if I play with one of the premade families, it seems fine. Open the device manager, go to the display adapters and select your graphics card. Then go to the details tab, select the drop down menu and select device information (i don't remember the name in the top of my head). It should show a string of letters and numbers, including something that says "//DEVICE:0x (numbers)". Basically With EA's code finicky pets would refuse to eat from all bowls, Until they were near starving. EA intend to have finicky pets only do that if the bowl was the dirty or was the cheapest. SimPE fix for the Sims 2 Ultimate Collection Fixes an issue doing with SimPE which prevented it from detecting if any of the expansion or stuff By having ultimate collection you have a few advantages: you can start at uni and have your sim learn useful skills, make friends, have more wants and overall advantages. to make skill learning while at uni easier, you can edit seasons to be always autumn. you can adopt pets, who can also work. For the Sims 3 there are a couple solutions, you could buy them again via steam or origin (but that sucks because it costs a lot of money) or sometimes you can find serial codes on the internet for free. I'm not sure how legal that is though. Origin and ea tend to not give a crap about their customers once they've gotten the money unfortunately. Exception code: 0xC0000005 (-1073741819) ACCESS_VIOLATION. Current thread ID: 24072 (0x00005e08). Version information: Application/module path: C:\Program Files\EA Games\The Sims 2 Ultimate Collection\Fun with Pets\SP9\TSBin\Sims2EP9.exe Application/module version name: The Sims 2 EP9 Application/module version: 1.17.0.66 Change the Display Name, Deleting the ™ out. For 64- Bit CPUs: Open Wow6432Node. Find the EA GAMES folder and open The Sims 2. Change the Display Name, Deleting the ™ out. Before the entry should look like this : The Sims 2™ Ultimate Collection After it should say: The Sims 2 Ultimate Collection The safest version would be to download it from games4theworld. Also check r/sims2help for anti corruption mods. Don't buy disks as it installs SECUROM on your computer and is not as stable as the updated downloads. The version from games4theworld is the latest Ultimate Collection released by EA. saichiiart. SOLUTION FOUND! If you're using the Mr DJ version of the Sims 2 you've probably come across this problem where Graphic Rules Maker isn't applying. To fix this issue do this: Find your TSData config folder (C:\Program Files (x86)\Mr DJ\The Sims 2 Ultimate Collection\The Sims 2 Mansion and Garden Stuff\TSData\Res\Config) Delete or backup the qT6L.