Please Help! My daughter loves to play the Maxis/Electronic Arts game The Sims. However, all of the sudden, the program suddenly started to shut itself down after it was booted up. The Sims is running on an IBM PC with Windows 2000 Professional. It has the Livin' Large and Unleashed Expansion Packs installed. It was running fine for a week or two and then all of the sudden, once she started the program running, it would get to the Neighborhood screen and then it would shut down (turn itself off) and stop, returning to the Windows desktop. I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling the Sims program. I even went so far as to delete Windows, reformat C: drive and reinstall Windows again. It hasn't solved the problem. Has anyone run into this problem or has any idea what is causing it or how to fix it? Thank you for any help you can be.

Hi, sounds like you may need a patch.

check out: http://thesims.ea.com/us/index.html

Click on help and there should be some useful links, tips and downloads.

Remember each version of the Sims will probably need a separate patch, so install the original game, then download and install the latest patch, then play the game and see if the problem persists. If the game works fine then install the next expansion pack and download / install the relevant patch and so on until you can ascertain what's causing it.

Hope this is of some help.

G