As for the expansion packs, It's such a lengthy time consuming process, that I gave up. I did manage to install the base game, but I also found it deleted my SIMS and my houses when I spent ages building them. you'll need a program like alcohol or magiciso to mount the cd image on a virtual drive. It's a lot less hassle.Īs far as downloading the torrent, you download it like any other. exe back (because the installer will look for it because it needs to replace the file typically to install the update).

This is better because next time you want to update it with a patch or a new expansion pack oyu don't need to put the old. With the sims I recommend installing the torrented files normally but not installing the cracked. exe with a cracked version, often it's just a programming change that disables the normal drm like requiring you to have a cd in it. After that typically you have to replace the main program file. It'll promt you for a key, you use the key gen included in the torrent to activate a key. Well typically what you are downloading is just an image file of the original disk, you install it normally.