What are 'patches' you download from eagames.com for Sims 2 to run on Vista?

Question

What do people mean when they say 'you need to download the patches from eagames.com'? Meaning to do with making the Sims 2 game run on Vista?

Answer 1

You don't need any patches or anything for the Sims 2 to run on vista. I running it right now just fine.

There are some patches on the Sims 2 website (http://thesims2.ea.com/update) that you should download anyway, but not to make it run on vista.