User blog comment:SodaCat/hey guys/@comment-26358727-20150910004805/@comment-5385060-20150911175420

Maybe it is something with stream programming. I play all my Sims games from the disk. (Sometimes I have uninstall and re-install. My gamer laptop can only handle base game and two expansion packs at most.) My cousin borrowed them and installed them into a new computer. The game loads fine. I'm jealous as hell, because there are none of the graphics problems mine sometimes gets.