Sims 2 for Mac help
monieeka:
I'm pretty sure this is what I downloaded. It's base game through seasons. I found a crack for BV for Intel Macs, but I honestly have no idea what I have or what I'm doing, so I haven't downloaded that yet [link is here] There's also a PowerPC one, but I know I don't have that.
I own the base game and three EPs [plus two arr'd EPs] for PC, but I don't have a Windows license to use with Bootcamp. I don't really mind waiting for EPs, because I didn't even get my first EP until 2007, about a year and a half after I first started playing. I don't use stuff packs either; I have enough CC haha :P
I'm not sure I really understand Pseudo. Root is the same as system administrator, right? Which I already am [I think]. Are the risks big enough to potentially make my computer a big fiery ball visible from space? Or just create annoying little glitches?
somnambulist:
Quote from: raattgift on 2008 August 26, 15:43:25
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.
You actually don't need to move the folder. Just setup ~/Documents/EA Games/The Sims 2/ and wherever Sims 2 is installed on the Mac as shared folders and point SimsPE to the correct path. You'll have to set all the paths up manually in SimsPE, but you only need to do it once.
somnambulist:
Quote from: monieeka on 2008 August 26, 19:58:47
I'm pretty sure this is what I downloaded. It's base game through seasons. I found a crack for BV for Intel Macs, but I honestly have no idea what I have or what I'm doing, so I haven't downloaded that yet [link is here] There's also a PowerPC one, but I know I don't have that.
Try downloading BV and using that instead of the Seasons .app. It's probably going to be the least painless.
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I'm not sure I really understand Pseudo. Root is the same as system administrator, right? Which I already am [I think]. Are the risks big enough to potentially make my computer a big fiery ball visible from space? Or just create annoying little glitches?
This is gross oversimplification but, on OS X, an administrator account is not root but can temporarily become root. Pseudo lets any user with an administrator password run a GUI app as root -- essentially it's 'su' for anything with a GUI. BFBVS potential: you're giving an app completely unfettered control of your computer. This would be bad if the crack does something malicious like 'rm -rf /'
AuKestrel:
Quote from: raattgift on 2008 August 26, 15:43:25
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".
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.
At any rate, if you're running Leopard you need a Leopard crack. If you're running Tiger you need a Tiger crack. There's no two ways around it: Leopard cracks don't work on Tiger and vice versa. (And nothing from 10.3.x works on 10.4 or 10.5.) It sounds to me like the problem is a wrong-OS-version crack with the abrupt quitting.
monieeka:
yey, it worked when I installed BV + crack. thanks for your help! ;D
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