
Aspyr released a port of the game for Mac OS X on September 4, 2006. The Sims 2: Open for Business is the third expansion pack for The Sims 2, released on March 3, 2006, which allows Sims to run a home or community lot based business.
Video: 32 MB ATI Radeon 9000/nVidia GeForce FX 5200. Video: 32MB DirectX 9.0 and T&L compatible. Please let me know if this works for you. All CC in the game must have the ".package" extension to run. If your CC has the ".sims2pack" extension, you will have to use the Package Installer to "uncompress" the file to now show the ".Package" extension. My advice is to organize your CC into categories within this folder once you get it up and running. This is where all your CC and Mods will be stored. From there check to see if you have a folder named "Downloads" and if you do not, simply create one. From there, locate another file named "Library" and then in that file you should should find another Aspyr folder which when opened will reveal the Sims 2 folder (exactly like the original game and on the Windows side). You should see two files in there and open the Data File. Scroll through the Library folders until you find one called "" and open the folder. To find your Library folder, click on your Desktop, find the "Go" command at the top in the Finder, hold your cursor button over Go and press the Option key on your keyboard and Library will show when you do that. The Sims 2 files for the Mac are hidden in your Library folder instead of in the Documents folder. When you have the Aspyr Package Installer program loaded make sure it points directly to your Downloads folder in your Sims 2 folder. HELP! What am I missing? I'm so when you download CC for Sims 2, the CC (unless otherwise noted by the creator) should show as the following formats ("CC name.sims2pack" or "CC name.package").
I have definitely checked to make sure that the "enable custom content" button is turned "on" in the game settings. It's as if my game doesn't recognize that the files are there at all. I even downloaded an app to "extract" the rar or sims2pack files and when I double click on them it STILL doesn't do anything. However, when I click on the downloaded file, nothing happens. When I download a file, typically a rar or sims2pack, I place it in that folder. I created a "Downloads" folder in my EA Games/Sims 2 folder. However, now that I have a new MAC, it never gives me that option. I used to play the Sims 2 on my PC, and when I downloaded custom content all I had to do was double click on the file I downloaded and a blue window would pop up where I'd select "install content", and if successful, it would automatically show up in my game. The game, newly installed, runs perfectly.
I am attempting to install custom content for the Sims 2 on my MacBook.