Do you write about this just for the pleasure to admire your own words ? I suppose.

I play ( sometimes ) with the Sims from ..... gosh, many years and rarely had problems with it. As far I know, the numbers of tards on both platforms are incredibly high. Not my point anyway. Exception Raised errors are Windows errors belonging to a bad ciderization by EA on Mac.

Do you feel better to say stupid things about Mac because you prefer another platform ? Or because EA doesn't do the job ?

Do you need to call me an apple fanboy to explain your point ? Interesting ... make me laugh. Good ! I laugh too when I see a PC fanboy doing some graphic design on PC. Or any tard who's still doing his texts on Microsoft Office ...

But yes, as I already wrote, a Mac is not a typical gaming platform. And you are right : EA doesn't care about mac players and never did. Nothing new.

The point here is not the platform but the numbers of errors and problems inside ONE patch. And the lack of solutions. For now.

Anyway, I don't really care since playing the Sims 3 is not the center of my universe.

Beyond the prejudices of the PC tards around, the problems related to Exception Raised errors encountered by Mac users around and more since the 1.42 patch and Seasons are in fact a typical Windows error.

You are wrong about your 2 so-called possible errors ... CC is not to blame. Neither Mac. The real thing is the ciderization of the game by EA.

So, to play, you have 2 options : Install a Windows partition via Bootcamp and play the Sims 3 on it or wait the next super patcher and avoid the 1.42 one which is obviously too buggy on Mac. That's it, that's all. And remember : a Mac is not a typical gaming platform.

I won't enter a stupid war of platforms. This is only for tards who will always prefer to play with their settings than enjoying their computer and even life itself.

I have a quad core and 16 gigs of ram so I am surprised at how hard it is hitting my system :/

The Seasons Festivals in the park are not interesting at all :/

I never crashed my computer as much since I installed Seasons :/

I love the fact to get seasons in the gameplay : noise of the rain is very realistic

The weather stone is fun but a bit limited in actions

Same here  I had to uninstall/re-install at least 4 times before ending this bug and I still don't know what occurred this bug ( except a patch problem itself )

Of course, I patched upon an original TS3W.exe and TSLHost.dll ... and without any .packages and any NRaas mods I usually use.

Now, I have a new problem : the game crashes A LOT and always the same error : "Unhanded page fault on write access to 0xcdd281b0 (example) at address 0x00e09503 (example). Do you wish to debug it ?"

Still searching and trying some experiments 

http://developer.apple.com/internet/opensource/opensourcescripting.html

http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/OpenSource/Conceptual/ShellScripting/Introduction/Introduction.html

http://www.intuitive.com/wicked/wicked-cool-shell-script-library.shtml

http://aplawrence.com/MacOSX/macosxshell.html

http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/pub/a/mac/2003/11/07/scripting_osx.html

 

I successed to install Custom Content on 3 different Mac with EA launcher on 1.8/2.3. I explained how there :

http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,17743.0.html

Maybe it will help you.

Maybe because some stuff won't install until you have not your Sims 3 base game updated to the last 2.3 ... I confess I'm a bit puzzled but The Sims has ALWAYS been a tricky game, including The Sims 2 and all its expansions.  
3 computers here at home and 2 different Sims 3 installs : one which is only updates based on and the other one which is a full re-install ( until 1.8/2.3 ). The trick worked for both. And for both : I started to install first Riverview ...

One more detail related to Riverview ( and any other CAW new world ) : installed the same way than explained but I had to use the trick explained here and on MTS : put Riverview.world and AnyWorld.world in :

Contents/Resources/transgaming/c_drive/Program Files/Electronic Arts/The Sims 3/GameData/Shared/NonPackaged/Worlds/

( with Sunset Valley.world ) to show up them in game ...


You are right to remember to all Mac users how permissions repair is important on Mac OS X. It's a basic use. After each install ( any install ! ) always repair permissions  !

Did you finally success with .dbc files or in any other way ? I tried again and again but no way to install successfully any .pack file since I installed WA and updated to 1.8/2.3 ( as many people around ) and put .package files in Mods/Packages slows down so much the game that it becomes impossible to play ... Damned. This game is less and less playable on Mac.


EDIT :

Hope it will help some Mac users who have installed World Adventure and updated to the last 1.8/2.3 via the laucher ...

Following the idea of downgrading since it's a fact that major CC install problems come from the last EA update patch ( 1.8/2.3 ), here the file I use and let me install every .pack file I wish to install ( Old Town Starter set, Gothique Full Set, Asian Fusion, Bayside Fullset, etc ... )

http://rapidshare.com/files/335163356/s3keepitsafe.zip

It's only a TS3EP01.exe replacement which can be found by right-clicking the "The Sims 3.app" and selecting "Show Package Contents" and then navigating as follows :

Contents/Resources/transgaming/c_drive/Program Files/Electronic Arts/The Sims 3 World Adventures/Game/Bin/

Keep safe anywhere ( on your desktop for example ) your patched TS3EP01.exe and put this one instead. Just the time needed to install all CC you want. Then, once all your CC installed via the launcher, as said here and there, copy your dcdb0.dbc file in :

Contents/Resources/transgaming/c_drive/Program Files/Electronic Arts/The Sims 3 World Adventures/Mods/DCCache/

Don't forget to update your Resource.cfg by adding :

PackedFile Mods/DCCache/*.dbc
PackedFile Mods/Packages/*.dbc
PackedFile Mods/Packages/*/*.dbc

The TS3EP01.exe I posted is a cracked WA game. But I suppose you can do the same with any WA TS3EP01.exe as far it's not the one updated to 2.3 by EA ... Once all done, put back the one you usually play with, lauch the game, you'll find all CC you just installed.

Bad side : each time you want to add some custom content, you have to switch to an "older" TS3EP01.exe   But after all, this is the only working way I found to play with CC and it's quite easy and simple to do. And no need to have a virtual PC installed.

Hope it will help

I miss so much the SimsCutie Espresso ... Gosh, these Sims 3 take SO MUCH time eating and everything related to  !!! 

Same configuration than yours : late 08 MBP, 2.8 GHz Intel/4GB RAM, running TS3 in OSX

I found the Sims 3 faster since the last 1.3.24 update. I want first read everything related to the last 1.4 update before updating the game now. I'm not in the hurry since the 1.3.24 stabilzed the gameplay ...

Never tested on XP via Parallels : I prefer a lot playing on the Mac 

Since the 1.3 update is out, I can't find the 1.2.7 patch for Mac ....... and I badly need it !  so ... Could someone upload it somewhere ? thanks ... 

I second this b'cause I use too some folders to group some apps ... But anyway, THANK YOU SO MUCH Marhis to support and create Mac tools