In two separate buildings I've had to have outlets replaced because the idiot painter painted over the sockets. The current apartment is better with it's original woodwork all intact.

No Core 2 problems here either, but AL is slower to load than FT (no pants are currently involved -- I figured last EP was a good time to nuke it all from space.)

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.)

Are you sure that's a glitch? It looks like Eaxis hair to me.

Try downloading BV and using that instead of the Seasons .app. It's probably going to be the least painless.


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 /'

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.

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.

Pets sleeping on the murphy bed will either refuse to shoo when you want to close the bed (realistic) or will instead become permanently stuck in the bed.

The encryption protocols can also help alleviate traffic shaping imposed by some ISPs (here's looking at you, Comcast...). Depending on your ISP and setup, Encryption == More Quicker.