How To Get Free Custom Content On Sims 4

[Michele Firmasyah]

I am attempting to install custom content for the Sims 2 on my MacBook. The game, newly installed, runs perfectly. 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. However, now that I have a new MAC, it never gives me that option. I created a "Downloads" folder in my EA Games/Sims 2 folder. When I download a file, typically a rar or sims2pack, I place it in that folder. However, when I click on the downloaded file, nothing happens. 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. It's as if my game doesn't recognize that the files are there at all. I have definitely checked to make sure that the "enable custom content" button is turned "on" in the game settings. HELP! What am I missing? I'm so confused.

@cincygal419 , you need to install the Package Installer before you can add CC to your Sims 2 game. When you launch Sims 2 Super Collection, you should see an option to download Body Shop and Package Installer. Click on the Download button and it should allow you to download and install the programs. Then, when you click on the Sims2pack file, it should automatically launch Package installer.

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@mattyedge696 , 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"). When you have the Aspyr Package Installer program loaded make sure it points directly to your Downloads folder in your Sims 2 folder. The Sims 2 files for the Mac are hidden in your Library folder instead of in the Documents 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. Scroll through the Library folders until you find one called "com.aspyr.sims2.appstore" and open the folder. You should see two files in there and open the Data File. 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). From there check to see if you have a folder named "Downloads" and if you do not, simply create one. This is where all your CC and Mods will be stored.

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. All CC in the game must have the ".package" extension to run.

Before when I would download CC on my Mac I would always do it through the downloads forder it always worked before that. Now I got a newer version laptop same Mac for some reason it doesn't work that way. And to locate the sims 2 folder was a missing cuz it wasn't in EA games.Even if I add a downloads folder and copy paste cc it doesn't wanna put it into the game. So please if you can help reach out to me ASAP.

@SzitaJulia , if you read my previous post I said that the folder was located in your Library folder not Documents folder which was previously the case. You need to make sure you download and install the Package Installer from Aspyr.

Yes I read all of ur post a millions of times, didn't work. I tried many times the way you explained it but it was not there. I figured in out on my own, Now I have a different issue, my game keeps crashing after 5 min of playing it, do you know a way that you could help?

I was about to upload a house to the gallery when it told me that I used custom content in this house, the thing is, I didn't. I looked to see what custom content was used on the sims tray importer, and it showed me that no custom content was used to create the house. I looked online and saw some people having the same problem and thought that maybe it was the sim I temporarily placed in the house. I then evicted him and to my surprise saw that the icon wasn't there anymore. My thoughts are that since my sims use custom content and I tried to upload the house with the sim in it ( it doesn't upload the sim with the house) and my sim did use plenty of custom content, it saw the custom content the sim was using and decided to show that the house was using custom content as well. Hopefully, this helps. Have a nice day!

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In fact, I had done just that. Turned off CC in the game options, loaded the house and was then able to save and upload it without the custom content attached to it. Plus, had there been any in there that I missed, it would automatically be removed.

So if anyone else has this problem. Disable custom content in your game before loading a house to avoid having custom content included.

Since the latest update to sims my game doesn't want to load up properly with my custom content. I had the same cc before the update and had no problem with them, but now when i try to open my game with all my cc i just get a white screen and i can't get any farther than that. I thought maybe it may just be a couple pieces of custom content that was causing the issue so I had loaded it up with a majority of my cc and it worked fine so i started sorting through the remaining 50 some items of cc and it wasn't starting up properly with some of them so i removed them but now that i have everything in that i thought was working fine, it doesn't want to start with everything all loaded up together. I don't know what else to do because I've tried repairing my game a handful of times now and I've tried clearing my localthumbcache thing. I've also tried taking my cc out, then starting up the game and disabling mods, then closing the game, then opening it back up again and reenabling mods, and then exiting and starting it up again. I originally had 382 pieces of cc when the issue started and after i thought i sorted my issue out i had 366 left, and all my custom content is also create a sim items. I hate to part with my cc because its stuff I've gathered over the years and I've literally never had an issue with my cc not wanting to work like this after an update.

@imahobbit4real It's possible that something else (not custom content) in your user data folder is corrupted. It's also possible, although it would be surprising, that a certain cc item is causing problems only some of the time your game loads. But in either case, it's probably best to start with a clean user data folder, test your cc there, and then move your saves and other content to that folder when you're done.

Move your entire Sims 4 folder out of Documents\Electronic Arts and onto your desktop, and when you launch the game, a clean folder will spawn with no content. Move the 366 cc items that worked before into the new folder, create some sims (no need to spend much time on them, since this is just for testing), assign some of that cc, save, quit, and reload a couple of times to see whether it all still works. If it does, you can add half the newer cc items and test them too; be sure to add those to sims, so you know whether those items work. If they do, add half the rest and test again.

When a batch of cc doesn't work, whether it's the original 366 items or the new 16, you'll need to split the batch and test until you find the problem file(s). Since it sounds like the game only goes to a white screen some of the time, be sure to test multiple times. Even with as many cc files as you have, it shouldn't take too long to sort through all of it if you split each nonworking group in half.

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