
The most common causes of this issue are: The good news is that there are still lots and lots of custom made Sims goodies (floors, walls, skins, objects) freely available online.Your IP address has been temporarily blocked due to a large number of HTTP requests. None of these are working for me and I’m not going to chase those up to see if they can be made work again. If you played the original game, you may have used programs such as Sims Art Studio and Sims Homecrafter. They didn’t show up in the menu of Sims to play with, but when I clicked on their house the game continued as normal. The most obvious one for me was the game apparently not saving the new family I created. Overall the game works pretty well, with the odd glitch. I chose Windows XP Service Pack 2 because it was the last operating system I played the original game on. I have no idea if other compatibility modes are better or worse than this one.

Download the new version of sims.exe at your own risk.I’m not a computer programmer so I haven’t got the foggiest idea how/why this new exe file works. I have played this game on computers running the 32 and 64 bit versions of Windows 10. I can’t remember how or why I came by this workaround but it still seems to be working.But not before I make a couple of points. And so, I shall cut to the chase and detail how I get around it. I presume you’re here because you would like to run your original version of The Sims on a Windows 10 computer and have run into problems. This is the most popular post here so I thought I would update it (March 2020).
