Everytime i play the sims2 and then come off it, my dial up options change from 'always dial a connection' to 'never dial aconnection'. any ideas how to stop this rom happening? i've tried it on my profile and my dad's so we know its definitely the game.

Asked at 19:40 on Tuesday 16 November 2004 by Charlotte Walmsley (Charlie_Warlie)

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This happens to me too, I'm on a 56k dial-up connection. Are you?

What I think happens is the autoupdate function built into the game automatically checks for updates as per its name. It's on by default.

But this is useless for dialup users as by the nature of this connection it ties up the phone line as opposed to ASDL/Broadband which is an always-on connection so it has a use for this function.

Therefore I can only assume that the game looks for a broadband modem and/or connection and if it doesn't find one or the other, turns the auto-dial off so the game won't go online to look for any updates but it won't turn it back on again afterwards.

Anyway, the setting is irrelevant in Windows XP in my experience because you'll be prompted anyway when the system wants to go online regardless of that setting which is intended for what the system should do when it wants something on the internet and isn't connected.

Answered at 00:06 on Wednesday 17 November 2004 by Neil Jones (NKTP) Answer Rating: Not Rated Yet.

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I've tried connecting to the internet before playing the game and leaving it on but it still doesn't work. It even changes it on Body Shop. I do have broadband though. any suggestions?

Answered at 08:00 on Thursday 24 February 2005 by Charlotte Walmsley (Charlie_Warlie) Answer Rating: Not Rated Yet.

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Install the Sims 2 patch, that sorts this problem out.

Answered at 00:34 on Friday 25 February 2005 by Neil Jones (NKTP) Answer Rating: Not Rated Yet.

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tnx. we installed tha patch n its al sorted. it also sorted out utha probs we had 2. tnx a lot!

Answered at 10:55 on Sunday 27 March 2005 by Charlotte Walmsley (Charlie_Warlie) Answer Rating: Not Rated Yet.

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