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Q: Sims 3 for windows on 27" iMac. Boot Camp vs. Parallels

We have a 27" iMac (3.2 GHz Intel Core I5) with 8GB Ram and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX with 2048MB on board. My daughter is tired of the Mac Version of Sims 3 crashing whenever she loads custom content and wants to run the Windows version.

 

1) Should we try Boot Camp or Parallels?

 

2) If using Boot Camp, my wife is very nervous about our iPhoto, iTunes and iMovie libraries being somehow infected or corrupted. I have thought about moving them to an external drive and unplugging it while booted under Windows. Should I keep a separate external hard drive to boot OSX off of so I don't have to worry about corruption?

 

Thanks

iMac (27-inch, Late 2012), OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.5)

Posted on Aug 11, 2014 6:28 PM

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Q: Sims 3 for windows on 27" iMac. Boot Camp vs. Parallels

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  • by Amilixkan,

    Amilixkan Amilixkan Aug 11, 2014 7:22 PM in response to tkilfoyl
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    Aug 11, 2014 7:22 PM in response to tkilfoyl

    Hi! I would recommend you using Bootcamp, it's use its pretty straightforward, you only need a complete copy of Windows, one or two USB (above 8GB), the last BootCamp update and like 1 hour of your time. Here you go, you can check this: https://www.apple.com/support/bootcamp/ It contains everything your would like to know about bootCamp (I strongly recommend yo reading the manual). As for your libraries getting corrupted here is the thing, before installing Windows you should back up ALL your data, it's incredibly rare something goes wrong, but if something happens you have you data backed up. Once you are running Windows there is ABSOLUTELY no need of having separated your libraries, I mean, you could, but there is no need. Rmemeber this is once you have already installed and ran perfectly Windows. Don't worry, there will two partitions and nothing will be corrupted. Hope it solved your question

  • by Jkzacat,

    Jkzacat Jkzacat Feb 27, 2016 8:22 PM in response to tkilfoyl
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    Feb 27, 2016 8:22 PM in response to tkilfoyl

    Hi, exactly what  Amilixkan said.

    I also have  the 27" iMac 5K, and was really scared to do this, but yesterday I had it with that game, so I installed Windows 10, purchased the Windows 10 Home 64 bit (Download) from Microsoft Store, and follow this http://youtu.be/wF2zy07LXuo  I also read this before I start, and keep it open on my iPad just in case https://help.apple.com/bootcamp/assistant/6.0/#/bcmp09f5f773

    I should have done it a long time ago, also Windows 10 looks amazing, even though is at 4K, but I don't mind if it means I would be able to play The Sims 3, that's all I'm going to be doing at the Windows side, I really love OS X.  Apple and Windows can really work together smoothly. Bootcamp is the easiest thing I had done of all the "solutions" I tried attempting to play The Sims 3. I would really recommend to not follow the "guides" that are posted at game forums. If people at Origin or EA doesn't know how to fix the problems, I hardly doubth a bunch of girls pretending to be Mac experts would find a solution. Better to stick with the reall experts, you know, the ones that build our Macs to begin with. They really made it simple for us, and Apple and Windows its all you need. My Mac is perfectly fine, I think is even better now that I removed the game.