Sims 2 for Mac help
monieeka:
So, I just finished ARRing the Sims 2 and five EPs on my new macbook. Body Shop works fine, but I can't get the game to open even though it has a no-cd crack. Or I guess I can't figure out how to use the crack. When I try to open the game, it says to insert the disk. When I mount the crack and double-click the icon in the crack window, it quits unexpectedly. I'm pretty sure I installed everything right, but I can't figure out how to make the actual game work. I'm sorry that I'm such a total computer n00b, so feel free to ridicule and macro to your heart's content, but some help [in terms that I can understand] would be appreciated as well :]
seelindarun:
These days it is no longer assumed that playing on a macbook = playing under Mac OS. You'll have to specify whether you're running the mac version of TS2 or the Windows version with bootcamp.
If the latter, your issues with the crack are the same as any other Windows user, i.e. refer to the FAQ.
monieeka:
I'm running Leopard OS-X, and I have the mac version of TS2.
somnambulist:
Frankly, if you have the hard drive space, you're much better off to use Bootcamp and play under Windows. Aspyr's ineptitude and quality control makes even Eaxis look like a gift unto gamers and at least then you can play Freetime, Apartment Life and the additional stuff packs now instead of sometime in 2010.
That said: I remember some weirdness with existing cracks not running properly under Leopard. You may want to hunt out Leopard specific cracks and instructions. You may also want to try running your existing cracks as root using Pseudo. Basically it lets you easily run any gui app as root -- this does have some risks but, hey, so goes life.
Edit: It may be helpful to tell us exactly what you've downloaded. FIve packs would proably mean up through Seasons, no? If so, you may want to arr up a copy of BV. BV was released post Leopard so any cracks would likely be Leopard compatible.
raattgift:
Strangely, I have the totally opposite experience: Aspyr's ports are more stable than EAXis in Windows on the same (Mac) platform, and certainly stable enough that since I don't need to run into all the early annoyances in the latest expansions, and I do other things in OS X anyway rather than having a single dedicated gaming system, so switching back and forth is just not worthwhile for me. I can move the ~/Documents/EA Games/The Sims 2/ directory back and forth in order to do SimPE stuff as necessary, and I can do that in VMware or Parallels.
Otherwise, "what you said".
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