The Sims 2

The Sims 2 is a strategy/simulation computer game from Maxis and is the sequel to the popular game The Sims. It is a vast departure from the previous version and various updates. It is fully 3D, and, unlike in the first installment, characters age and have genetic traits that can be passed on to their children. The game was officially released on September 17 2004. Customers who pre-ordered The Sims 2 received their copy on September 14 2004. A port to Mac OS X was done by Aspyr and was released on June 12 2005. The DVD edition will not be available outside of the United States.

Bugs

The Sims 2 contains a number of bugs. Many of the bugs listed below have been corrected in a downloadable patch (Note: The installation of ' should correct the problems below).

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• "Liney" Sims: Graphical glitch with ATI Radeon 9000 GPUs. This problem has been fixed in the new version of ATI's drivers.
• "Jump Out" Bug: Time-out/scripting bug, causing characters to abort ( "jump out of" ) certain animations and interactions. Solved by the Maxis patch.
• Memory Leak: Memory leak, sometimes caused by hiring non-player characters, causing abnormal use of system resources.
• Invisible Colleagues: Graphics glitch involving colleagues visiting by helicopter, causing colleagues to be invisible. Solved by the Maxis patch.
• Unused objects designated as in use: Engine bug which makes unused objects appear as in-use, like doors that don't close. Caused by proximity to other usable objects.
• Floating Teddy: After a few uses, the object of the bear will float in the air and there will no longer be proper animation of use of the bear. Can be fixed by buying a new teddy bear.
• Carpool bug: All sims living on a lot refuse to enter cars, taxis, buses, etc, causing them to fail at their job or at school. Can be fixed by moving the family to another lot.
• Door-Clone Glitch: If you enter build mode with the moveobjects cheat enabled, go to the door creation tool. Act like you're about to place a door on the lot, but then, hit the delete key. Move your sim to some other tile than where they currently are. Next, change the pitch of your camera. When you let go of the camera, it will start making more sims, rather than more doors. Your lot can then be filled with mindless clones of your sim, since the game doesn't know whether to make more sims or more doors.
• Toddler Glitch: A dangerous bug that occurs when you don't save sims after they've switched from one age band to another, and then deleted them using the moveObjects on cheat. If you have moveObjects activated and delete a sim that has age-transitioned since your last save, exit to the neighborhood without saving. Otherwise, if you try to restore them by using the hidden Reset Age Duration option on the trash can, they will return to the lot in the age band they switched to...but accessing the behaviors and animations of the age group they left behind! In the case of most age group transitions, this makes the bug harmless. Children will act like toddlers, teens like children, adults like teens, and elders like adults. But if your sim was an infant that had transitioned to toddler and was deleted without being saved first, then the game has a skeleton conflict. It will use the skeleton for toddlers but the animations and behaviors for a baby. The toddler animations which the game tries to run on the baby skeleton will fail, causing the action that was being performed with the toddler to fail also. This makes it impossible for your sims to pick them up and tend to their needs.If the social worker shows up, she won't be able to take the toddler. However, the save and exit options, which are locked when the social worker arrives, are not re-enabled, because the social worker's routine failed without cleaning up after itself. This renders the lot unplayable. The only way to escape the game is through the Windows Task Manager.