Program installation instructions and PC requirements for Sims Seasons Multi-Langual CD version

If your computer "auto starts" the installation when the CD disk is inserted, cancel the process before continuing by closing the installation program.

If "????" appear on the buttons, you'll select the right button to cancel as shown below. Then, select "Yes" or left button to cancel the install.

Next, If you do not have the floppy disk English configuration utility, or if your computer does not have a floppy disk drive, follow the manual installation instructions (below) for floppyless installation instructions.

English Configuration from Floppy Disk

The following screen shots are the step by step instructions for English configuration by floppy disk

Assuming the CD disk is in your CD drive, insert the floppy disk into your disk drive. Go to "My Computer" or "Windows Explorer" and select Drive "A:" Double click on "Run.bat" file located on the floppy disk to start the installation.

Next, you will see a screen prompting you to continue, press any key to start the installation.

Copying the setup files for installation will take a 3-5 minutes depending on the speed of your CD drive and requires 800MB of free space on your C drive.

When completed, the program will automatically start the Sims Seasons installation in English.

Enter the cd key which is located inside the cd jewel case, follow the rest of Sims Seasons installation instructions. That's it. For technical assistance, please send your questions to sales@alphaleap.com . For Sims Seasons game play support, please go to http://www.ea.com.

Manual or Floppyless Installation Instructions

Assuming you've already placed your Sims Seasons CD Disk into your CD player, select your CD drive from "My Computer" or "Windows Explorer". You'll see a list of files contained on the disk as shown above. Next, select "Edit", "Select All" from the menu.

Now, select "Edit", "Copy".

Next, select the hard drive "C:", "D:", etc. that has at least 3GB of free space. My hard drive "C:" is named IOMEGA_HDD "Grey highlight" but yours will be named something different. Then, select "File", "New", "Folder" from the menu.

Name your "New Folder" SEASONS as shown above.

With the "SEASONS" directory, selected on the left side of the window, as shown above, Go to the menu and select "Edit", "Paste". Windows will start copying the CD Disk into the SEASONS directory as shown below.

When the process is completed, Download this file "Autorun.cfg", Right click here, and select "Save Target As" and place it in your SEASONS sub directory called "AutoRun" as shown below: Full path c:\SEASONS\AutoRun.

Change "Save as type" from "Text Document" to "All Files" as shown below. Then, select the "Save" button.

When prompted to overwrite the existing file. Select "Yes" to overwrite as shown below.

Almost finished!

To complete the English setup, select the SEASONS directory on the left side, as shown above, Highlighted in grey. Scroll down on the right side, and find the file called AutoRun.exe (may only read AutoRun without the extension depending on your computer's configuration). Double click on the file to start the Sims Seasons installation.

Enter the cd key which is located inside the cd jewel case, follow the rest of Sims Seasons installation instructions. That's it. For help during the initial floppy installation , please send your questions to sales@alphaleap.com . For Sims Seasons game play support, please go to http://www.ea.com

Alphaleap Support Staff