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The Sims is a series of life simulation video games. The Sims were developed by Maxis and published by Electronic Arts. The first version was released in 2000. The player walks their Sim through different stages of life. They go to school, get married, have children, go to parties, pay bills, and many other things. While doing this, the player must make sure that each Sim has their needs and aspirations fulfilled.
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What is the serial number for The Sims?
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The serial number for The Sims 2 and its expansion packs is located on the back of the booklet that came in the box with each game. The serial number for The Sims 1 and its expansion packs is located on the back of the CD case for each game. You will know it is your serial code because it is a long mix of numbers and letters separated by dashes that seem to make no sense at all, usually 16 characters. Each and every game has its own serial number.
You will not find "free" serial codes for a pirated copy of The Sims (or expansion packs) on WikiAnswers. This is just as illegal as pirating, even if you already own the game legally but need a new serial (read below on how to obtain one if so). Anyone found posting serial numbers on WikiAnswers may be blocked from this site and reported to the proper officials and/or EA company.
You cannot install these games and their expansion packs without the serial number. When installing the game, follow the on screen instructions. There will come a box that asks you for your serial number - this is where you will enter the number and installation will continue. You can't play the game at all if you don't install it with a serial number. You must also use this same serial number in order to register to The Sims website where you can interact with their forum and download free community objects. You can't register there without that serial number.
If you lost your original serial number for your game or expansion packs, contact EA Games at the website below and they will help you to obtain one. You may need a copy of your original sales receipt, but they will give you more instruction on what they will require before allowing you a new serial number. If you registered your game during a previous installation, you can also recover your serial number from the EA web site.
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Where can you download Pixel Shader 1.1?
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Pixel shader 1.1 (and later variants) are hard-coded into the video card and its drivers. If you have a fast processor and a good amount of ram, you may be able to get around the pixel shader requirement by downloading "3DAnalyze" and "Swiftshader 2.0" to emulate pixel shader.
More likely, the best option is for you to simply replace your video card with one which has native support for pixel shader. The above answer is dead on target! Let me add to this fire....... Although there are work-arounds to the pixel shader, it is ill-advised to download a patch or third party software to achieve what comes nativley in the newer vidio cards. The compitition is so tough in the industry, what would have been a top of the line video card last month, is now the cheapest card on the shelf! Remember that even if you do get a third party software to achieve what it is that you want in a display, the OS and computer will have to work harder to maintain the demands of not only the third party software, but any additional workload that the software generates. Memory allocation is reduced because the demand of the third party software is memory intensive. Thus, reduced performance. Emulatores do not work with every game, applications or systems. Not to mention, calling on the drivers to perform out of their scope, can also lead to corrupt system files and fragmentation of the system partition. Emulators temporarily "change" critical system and driver files per demand, to allow the system to adapt to the new drivers and dll files offered by the emulator. After the emulator is no longer needed, some times, the files don't get "put back" or restored to the defaults, and you have a mess on your hands! Listen to the answerer above, and get a new card! You need to get a better graphics card. However there is a way around it.
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has a tutorial for getting over the problem Pixel Shader is a hardware capability. Therefore, it is not possible to download it - it must be supported by the graphics card. To answer your question directly, you will need to install a graphics card that supports Pixel Shaders to be able to run games which need it. Most modern games utilize Pixel Shader 2.0 or greater, so it would not be advisable to purchase older ones. The following cards support Shader Model 1.x: - ATI Radeon 85xx Series (1.4) - ATI Radeon 9000 Series (1.4) - ATI Radeon 9100 Series (1.4) - ATI Radeon 92xx Series (1.4) - NVIDIA GeForce3 Ti (1.1) - NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti (1.3) The following cards support Shader Model 2.0: - ATI Radeon 95xx Series - ATI Radeon 96xx Series - ATI Radeon 9700 Series - ATI Radeon 9800 Series - ATI Radeon X7xx Series (2.0b) - ATI Radeon X8xx Series (2.0b) - NVIDIA GeForceFX Series (2.0a) The following cards support Shader Model 3.0: - ATI Radeon X1x00 Series - NVIDIA GeForce 6 Series - NVIDIA GeForce 7 Series The Vertex Shader and Pixel Shader are hardware capabilities, and therefore cannot be downloaded. A new graphics card, with the Vertex Shader and Pixel Shader technology, is the way to solve the problem. However, an Emulator can be downloaded in order to use games that require it. These programs are hard to find, and are mostly slow.
How do you send a sim to work on The Sims free play?
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First, you need to get a job. If you haven't yet, buy a workplace and apply a sim to the job. Now, you can go to your house and click on the sim tracker button. Then on a sim, click on the suitcase button. It will. Send that sim to work. You will get told when that sim has to go to work. Good Luck!
Can lesbians have children?
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Yes, lesbians can have children in many ways:
1. Artificial Insemination, in which sperm is injected into the uterus of the lesbian
2. In the case of a couple, the two women can decide to take the egg/s from one of them, fertilize it with a donor sperm in a test tube (in-vitro), and then implant the fertilized egg (embryo), into the other woman's uterus. This way, the baby has both a birth mother and a genetic/biological mother.
3. Many lesbians choose to adopt children.
4. Many lesbians who want to skip the whole medical thing can have utilitarian sexual intercourse with a male friend (often gay, too).
5. Many lesbians end up in relationships with lesbians who already have kids from previous (failed heterosexual) relationships and can choose to adopt them and co-parent.
And, though currently illegal in the U.S., research is currently being conducted on mammals in which they use no sperm at all and can successfully merge two eggs from two females. In the next few years this type of research will become less controversial and hopefully lesbian couples will have the opportunity to birth their own biological child with the half their genetics from one mother and half from the other.
There are many options available. Most of them are controversial to varying degrees. Adoption is probably the most common option. The adoption can be anywhere on the scale from a legally sanctioned private adoption to a completely informal adoption (not a very good idea). In some cases, one of the women may simply have a non-committed sexual relationship with a man in order to get pregnant.
With modern technology, lesbians have many more options than they used to. They may have a child with another man through IVF (Invitro Fertilization) (ie. a test-tube baby) in order to avoid the sexual non-monogamy which some couples may regard as a form of betrayal. There are some very early experimental methods that can allow two women to both be biological parents of the child. They involve taking eggs from both of the women, using chemicals to transform one of the eggs into a sperm, and then fertilizing the egg with the sperm under a microscope. Then the embryo is implanted back into the uterus of one of the women.
Whatever option they choose, there are many legal problems for homosexual parents. It is important to ensure that BOTH parents have legal custody of the child. There have been some very sad situations where one parent has died or lost custody of the child for some reason, and the other parent has had no rights to the child. In this situation, the child's custody will go to the legal parent's next of kin, who can legally make the decision to separate the child permanently from its loving parents, even against the child's will. This type of situation will continue to happen until America (and other countries) allows EVERYONE the right to legally marry the person the love, regardless of their orientation.
How do you use the collection helper on Sims 3?
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Go into your sims inventory and click on the butterfly (collection helper), select the item your looking for, then go to map view. You will see icons in the map view showing the locations of your selected items.
How can you put sharks in the pools in the sims 3?
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eggs
Sims 2 double deluxe cheats for influence meter?
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Open the cheat box ( Ctrl+Shift+C ), write boolProp testingcheatsenabled true, and shift-click the Sim. In the the following menu, click *Set Aspiration, and choose the one you want. If you want it at max press more and then Max. You can also change their aspirations (Wealth, Family, Romance, etc...) in the same menu.
How do you fulfill Johnny on My Sims Kingdom?
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When you're finished completing Dean and have unlocked head-to-head snowball hard, Talk to Johnny and you'll face off in a snowball fight. Win and he's fulfilled!
How do get tourist on sim societies destinations?
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To get tourists, you must build a building that creates tourists. These buildings are in the road and transportation options
Some examples are
- Taxi Stand
- Helipad
- Airport
What are placeholder sims for?
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Well, when i use a placeholder sim it's usually for a story or a sims challenge. in most cases the "Placeholder" is just there because you can't have a sim without being related to an adult sim. so for instance,
you make a female teen and her mom, and then you make a male teen but you don't want them to be siblings. you can make a placeholder sim be the male teen's parent so he is not related in anyway to the female teen.
Is the Sims resource legal?
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No, in fact, it is not.
Concerning the Sims 3, at the very least, it is stated in their End User Licence Agreement, in section 2, subsection B, paragraph 4, that:
"In exchange for the right to use content contributed by other users through the Software, when you contribute content through the Software, you expressly grant to otherusers of the Software the nonâ€exclusive, perpetual, transferable, worldwide, irrevocable right to access and use, copy, modify, display, perform, and create and distribute derivative works from, your contributed content in connection with the Software, and to distribute and otherwise communicate your contributed content as a component of works that they create using the Software, for example, The Sims lots or The Sims videos, without further notice, attribution or compensation to you. You hereby waive any moral rights of paternity, publication, reputation, or attribution under applicable law with respect to EA's and other players' use and enjoyment of such content contributions in connection with the Software." [Emphasis mine.]
As The Sims Resource charges a subscription (as of this writing) to access some of their content, they are in violation of the EULA and thus infringing on EA's intellectual property rights.
Why wont my Sims 3 game let me delete foundation. I deleted my entire house but there are 5 remaining foundation pieces that it won't delete. any suggestions?
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If your sim peed there then you have to make the foundation again with some stairs and make a sim of yours mop the puddle up and then its ready to delete!
Can you throw your baby in the pool?
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...no
that is not good living
Is the smart bot a real person?
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maybe. It would be hard for a person (or several) to keep it going. But its loaded with every word there is. From offensive words, to swears, to kind words and more
What game should people buy if they like The Sims or SPORE?
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Wow, Spore and sims 2 are the only things I've been playing for the past week.
Super Mario galaxy (on wii)
OR basically any other Mario game :).
I also like those online chat sites like
.whyville . imvu etc etc
Do you need to pay to be able to play sims online games?
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Unfourtunatley there is no such thing as Sims Online because The Sims requires a download and in order to download it you'd have to purchase it from a store because it also requires a CD & a bar code.
Do your kids grow up on the sims bustin out?
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Yes but very slowly unless you lower there life thing hope this helped.
Where in the world do people speak Simlish?
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Probably in Geeksland.
Simlish is a fictional language spoken in the Sims videogames.
Why does your computer brake when you put Sims 3 in?
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Maybe you have a virus or something. It shouldn't break.
Can you become a vampire in Sims medieval?
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No. You can only be a vampire if you get the sims 3 Late Night.
How do you have babies on sims castaway stories?
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To make babies,you need to have bed or a hot tub.Make the your sim(male) and the other sim(female) relax on the bed,when the 2 sims is now relaxing,select your sim(male) then click on the other sim and select "Cuddle" and then select now "Try for baby",if this is'nt shown up.Your Sims relationship is'nt high enough.
Hope this helps :D
Why do you change people on sims 3?
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you can change them by hitting down on the direcitonal button and choosing the person
Where can you download the original Sims from?
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Where is bayou boo?
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How do you unlock recipes on Sims life stories PC?
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