Forum:Please help me with Sims 1 (vista and W7)

I recently re-installed my Sims games on my and my kids computers... I have all of them from the first to Makin Magic. the problem is that on my and my sons computer, they run in a tiny box in the middle of the screen surrounded by black borders. That's not something I've seen before, I need a way to fix it... a google search only came up with one similar event, but the " -f" suggestion didn't work... neither does running it in any compatibility mode nor changing my resolution... in fact changing my resolution makes the game smaller and the black borders bigger... I'm out of ideas... I know it's possible to patch this to run normally, as I've seem people do such things with games off Steam (like X-COM)

I would REALLY appreciate some help with this. Sims are very hard to deal with on such tiny screens, anyone that could help me make the game run at fullscreen... or at least a larger screen would have my undying gratitude.

as for problem 2, my daughter's PC is a Windows 7 (I know, horrible) but it won't let her evict, save, or demolish. the "couldn't evict" message... anyway, I tried activating the "run as administrator" but it just stops working all together when I do that... so any help wit that would be great too.

lastly, please do not say anything like "go buy sims 2/3" or "why are you playing 1 when 2 and 3 are better" I have my reasons, please respect them. and please, PLEASE help me and my real family deal with our Sim families.

99.46.236.14 06:50, June 5, 2011 (UTC) John