the best way to play them is on older pc from windws xp/vista 2006-2011 era. I love the original sims, but it's unstable on modern PC's. i was forced to uninstall the game and redo everything. I tried the HxD program method for the full screen 1920x1080 resolution it didn't work for me it actually made the game very unstable, started having a glitches and texture pop-in like crazy.

also the original uninstaller for the sims is broken (never been patched officially) there's an alternative uninsaller called SimsEraser.exe you can find online, download it and put it in the main directory as well (in case you want to uninstall it). i managed to play it in windowed mode in high resolution, right click on the shortcut for sims.exe (win10) and in the shortcut destination type after Sims.exe' -w -r1920x1080 and the game will run in windowed mode in higher resolution but it kinda sucks since it's windowed mode but its playable. after you install the game+expansions, don't run it yet, go to the main directory and change the original the Sims.exe to The Sims.old (no need to delete it or replace it), now download the alternative The Sims.exe thats works with Win 10, put it in the main directory, make a shortcut to that exe and put it where ever is necessary for you, then right click on the shortcut The Sims.exe go to settings, to compatibility, enabled compatibility mode for Windows XP Service Pack 2 or 3 and select 'run as administrator', now the game should work fine, however the resolution is fixed in 800圆00, that's the highest it can go without any tinkering, it's fine on older 32-bit computers, but on modern computers it looks blurry. i tried few links and had the same issues with those downloads as well, so i bought the actual collection physically.

About the getting this game to work on windows 10/11 is a bit tricky, due to the copy protection of the original ISO, getting cracked ISO online is difficult because some data is corrupted, missing files (music included).

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