The Sims 4 on Mac – Page 12

The Sims 4 – Running in Boot Camp

Published on September 6, 2014 by BluebellFlora11 Comments

The difference is astonishing. Here’s the picture I uploaded yesterday with the game running in Parallels:

And here’s the same picture running in Boot Camp (I copied over the save file so everything, including the time of day, is exactly the same):

In my opinion if you really want to play The Sims 4, and you’re on a Mac, then Boot Camp provides a much better experience. As for the game itself, I’ll be back with my personal opinion on it over the next couple of days. Suffice to say I’m still working on Huckleberry Bay in TS3 and am still building and playing TS3.

These pictures were taken in game in Boot Camp. I’m running Windows 7. My Mac is a 15″ MacBook Pro, 2.6Ghz Intel Core i7, 16Gb RAM, NVIDIA GeForce 650M 1Gb.

The Sims 4 – running in Parallels

Published on September 5, 2014 by BluebellFlora9 Comments

I’ve bought The Sims 4. I’ve played around for a few hours now, and I’m not convinced. I’m putting together a post on here with comparisons on running it in Boot Camp and Parallels. In the meantime, here’s a screenshot from the game running in Parallels:

Nothing exciting, just playing around in build mode so far.

The Sims 4 on a Mac

Published on September 3, 2014 by BluebellFlora8 Comments

As we all know The Sims 4 isn’t yet available for OS X. Maybe it never will be? So instead of crying and stamping feet, how about being a little bit proactive or give up and move on? The only way you will be able to run TS4 on your Mac at the moment is to either Boot Camp your Mac or install a virtual machine with Windows.

There is NOTHING wrong with installing Windows on your Mac. Any Mac with an Intel processor (basically any made in the last 7 years or so) can run Windows happily. I’m afraid I have no time for petulant Mac users who refuse to “pollute” their darling Macs with Windows. Instead look at it this way – how amazing and cool is it that your “darling” Mac CAN run Windows? And, in my experience, more smoothly and trouble free than most PCs. How cool is it that virtually no software is out of your reach? That you can run virtually anything on your Mac? Pretty damn cool I think.

So if you’d like to Boot Camp your Mac but are a bit scared, rest assured it is ridiculously easy:

How to install Windows using Boot Camp (with screenshots)

Or if you’d like to install Windows in a virtual machine so you can run it at the same time as OS X I’d recommend Parallels. I’ve used both VMware and Parallels in the past, specifically for CAW, and I found Parallels to be a lot easier, more user friendly, and more frequently updated than VMware. But that’s just my experience.

In the meantime, if you are playing, or attempting to play The Sims 4 on your Mac in Windows, please head over to this thread I’ve started on the officials so everyone can share their experiences and help each other. It seems like so far people are able to play relatively problem free 🙂