According to Game Advisor, my computer should be able to run Sims 2, but yet it installs and gets to about the part where it says "Blurring Reality Lines," and then the whole screen turns multi-neon colors, the game closes, and the screen is big and ugly, like safemode:
Your PC has:
[yes] Processor: Intel Pentium 4 2793MHz
[yes] Graphics Card: IntelĀ® 82865G
[yes] Memory: 510MB
[yes] Free Disk Space: 62.01GB
[yes] Operating System: Microsoft Windows XP
Then it shows the Minimum PC at the yellowish lines and mine's all the way to the top green.
I almost give up.bold text