Sims 2 for Mac help
somnambulist:
Quote from: AuKestrel on 2008 August 27, 21:38:52
Up through Pets, I would say the Aspyr ports were definitely more stable than EAxis. I haven't played Seasons on the Mac much since I have a Sims-dedicated Windoze PC now, but my husband plays it on his MacBook and has not complained about crashes or instability.
My concern was never stability -- Aspyr ports were always stable but lost a lot of speed and prettiness compared to their Windows counterpart. Same games, same system, TS2 looks and runs at least twice as fast on Windows as Mac. (I treat my Bootcamp partition like a console system. Nothing productive is done in Windows.)
AuKestrel:
Quote from: somnambulist on 2008 August 28, 03:46:38
My concern was never stability -- Aspyr ports were always stable but lost a lot of speed and prettiness compared to their Windows counterpart. Same games, same system, TS2 looks and runs at least twice as fast on Windows as Mac. (I treat my Bootcamp partition like a console system. Nothing productive is done in Windows.)
I was so glad it ran at all, initially, that I didn't even care about the pretty. I was amazed when I loaded it onto the Windows system (that has no great graphics card, mind you, just an X1300, but it does have 4G of RAM) and was able to see the wallpaper details and the shadows and reflections in the mirrors. It was like a whole new game. :)
So I agree - the game definitely runs faster on Windows than the Mac version does even on my MBPro, to the point that I uninstalled it from the MBPro except for the base game so I could build lots if stuck in an airport or something. I also like having SimPE available. But my Windows system is basically just a console system - Civ and Sims 2 and various entities that support those addictions, like Photoshop and SimPE.
I haven't yet had to install Windows on a Mac. For a while I thought I might have to but then they released SPSS 16 for the Intel Mac and I was good to go.
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