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More info?)
If you have more than one drive for inserting discs, ie CD drive and
DVD drive, 2 cd drives, OR any virtual drives, whatever, try disabling
all but the one you're going to put the disk in through system device
manager (right-click, properties, look for dropdown and change to "do
not use this device (disable)"). Then try running the Sims. If its
successful, you can re-enable your other drives. If not, I don't know
what to tell you.
I've had this happen in one machine that had a DVD and a CD burner but
NO emulation software whatsoever having ever been installed, one
machine that had a virtual drive by way of Alcohol 120%. This trick
worked for both of those. I've also had an install go fine with no
complaints about emulation software even though Alcohol 120% was
installed and the virtual drive was enabled. Go figure.
On Sun, 17 Apr 2005 15:44:11 +1000, "alex_25" <alphag_25@tpg.com.au>
wrote:
>I have uninstalled all emulation software. I have either uninstalled or
>never had Alcohol 120, Daemon Tools, Clone CD, Clone DVD, Nero,etc
>
>Any other solutions ?
>
>"Bluegenie2" <me@fuil.com> wrote in message
>news:8oudnYW48rn40sLfRVn-ig@comcast.com...
>> Uninstall the emulation software you have as it is obviously messing with
>> sims2.
>>
>> "alex_25" <alphag_25@tpg.com.au> wrote in message
>> news:d3lknu$l2g$1@news-01.bur.connect.com.au...
>>> Can anyone please tell me how to make sims 2 work without the emulation
>>> software detected error ?
>>>
>>> I have tried:
>>>
>>> 1. Creating a new Windows XP User
>>> 2. Creating a Alcohol image and using daemon tools
>>>
>>> I still get the emulation software detected error.
>>>
>>> please help,
>>>
>>> alex
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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