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I don't remember whether or not I had to copy the Neighborhoods and SavedSims back after the reinstall (I don't want to give any misleading advice!). It's been a while now, but I don't think the uninstall routine actually deletes the EA Game folder in My Documents. Now, when I did my reinstall, I copied these folders rather than moving them before uninstalling the game. In the same The Sims 2 folder in My Documents, the Sims you create in CAS are in the SavedSims folder, so you want to back those up also. The neighborhoods you actually play (copies of the defaults) and custom neighborhoods (004, 005, etc.) are in the Neighborhoods folder in the My Documents location. There are four Neighborhood folders in the game installation location: 001, 002, 003, and Tutorial. There is also a Neighborhoods subfolder in the The Sims 2 folder where you installed the game itself, typically Program Files>EA Games>The Sims 2 (assuming you're running Windows)-these are the default neighborhoods, and are not the ones that need to be backed up. As you may already know, your saved games are made up of the collection of files in the various neighborhood subfolders in the Neighborhoods folder in the same The Sims 2 folder as your Downloads folder (in My Documents). Similarly, I wasn't real clear about which Neighborhood folders to back up. I just sort of assumed that you'd already done that, but when writing on the Internet it's always a good idea to be really clear about what you're saying. I didn't really make it clear in my previous post that what I was suggesting was a reinstall after you had located and removed all the Uni and/or NL hacks-otherwise you would just recreate the problem. It may be that your problem is caused by one of the other Uni hacks you installed (there seems to have been several?). In truth, this is just an inference based on my experience, but if you have a corrupted game file, simply removing the hack that caused the problem will not fix it.

I was thinking that in more general terms it seems that some hacks for Uni can damage one or more files in the original game, such that removing the hack doesn't fix the problem. Although, I too had a fairly new version of the phonehack and it was the wrong one for the original game. I wasn't thinking it was necessarily the phonehack itself, as your symptoms aren't quite the same as mine-in my case, the sims couldn't interact with the phones at all, on any lot. I didn't know I could reinstall without destroying all of my custom neighborhoods.

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I'm very relieved I don't have to undergo the tedious task of sifting through all those files! Will update on reinstallation. Hegelian: I have a pretty new version of the phone hack, but your story seems so similar to mine I think it's worth a shot to reinsatll the game. As it happens, NL arrived today, so we shall see how it goes from here. And when I did the reinstall, the only file I had removed was that Uni phonehack, and the game has worked fine ever since-with the correct phonehack. I run the Clean Installer fairly regularly, and I've never seen any mystery hacks. I have all of about three downloaded houses, all of which I got the first week I had the game installed (I like to build my own), which was well before I installed the incorrect phonehack. It is the sort of thing I would typically try. Um, I actually don't remember if I tried to delete/sell the phones, but I have a vague memory that perhaps I did. It's been known to happen and the file name gets scrambled up, so you'll have to use Sims2pack Clean Installer and look for any red highlighted entries that say 'Phone Line Controller'. Did you try selling and rebuying all the phones? Also did you check and make sure no rogue copies of the phone hack snuck in with a house download.

The sims 2 clean pack installer download