Bypassing the launcher on the mac
pet_peeve:
I was envious of this "why do you use the launcher?" stuff as a mac user, so I stumbled around in the directories until I found what controls how cedega/crossover starts up. It turns out to be really easy to change!
find the executable itself - probably in /(your hard drive)/Applications/The Sims 3.
Right click on it, and select "show package contents".
Open the "contents" directory if it isn't already.
You will see a file named info.plist. Open that by dragging it onto textedit. Don't move it out of that directory! You might want to take a backup first.
Scroll down to the line after this one:
<key>CedegaGameName</key>
Change the last part to read TS3.exe instead of S3Launcher.exe. Be careful not to disturb any of the rest of the file or mess with line endings. It's XML and an extra return shouldn't matter ... but you never know.
Save and quit textedit.
That's it - you will now launch directly into the game instead of going through the launcher. Note that this means you will not see the launcher again AT ALL unless you change the file back. But this is not a loss.
Marhis:
I did the same, but I found out that launching the game in this way will lead to horrible graphic glitches at load. It doesn't make much sense and I have no idea why; it started after the 1.3 patch, though.
Did you notice anything similar, or it was only my game for some odd reason?
Sigmund:
Unfortunately, I couldn't even get far enough to check out the graphics when I tried this out. The loading screen keeps freezing on me. I wandered away from the computer for awhile to give it some time, but it sat with the green loading bar frozen and none of the words flashing across the bottom for probably 3-4 minutes. I finally switched out the old .plist for the edited one to see if it was something with my game, but that one loaded up in no time. This was with the most recent patch, 1.4.
I'd love to find a way to get around the damn launcher, though. Ugh.
Louisb:
I edited the plist and the game skips the launcher and loads and plays without issue. (1.4.6.2)
I wonder if problems might be related to using a crack? The only NoCD I have is AwesomeMod.
Sigmund:
Can't be an issue with the no-cd crack since I only use AM.
Strangely enough, I finally got the game to bypass the launcher without issue. Since random voodoo sometimes seems to prove effective on this game, I cleared all the caches, deleted the thumbnails, and even tried removing and replacing the Packages folder. The mysterious freeze disappeared entirely, and I didn't notice any unusual graphics glitches during the few minutes of test gameplay. Prior to this, I tried it about three different times and couldn't get it to work so I have no idea why any of this would have helped, but apparently something did.
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