[katherine.noon]

So here's the deal, I bought Sims 2 when it first came out for my old pc years ago. Now that I have switched over to Mac I decided to give VMware fusion a try so I can play it again. Everything seemed to be going fine until I tried to delete a section of fence that I put in the wrong spot. I had already saved the lot so I couldn’t hit undo. So I did the control + left click and instead of deleting the arrow turned into a blue arrow and started to tilt my screen. I played around with the system preferences (in mac) to see if I could change the settings so it would work and the closest I got was turning the control key off and then it did nothing when I tried to delete the wall. Any help would be awesome.

Also, if I try to add water that isn’t the pool its red instead of blue.

[Janichsan]

The red water is definitely a VMWare problem. These virtualisations aren't the best solution for playing Windows games on a Mac – especially ones that have an actual Mac port.

However: control+mouse click to rotate the camera is a control option of the Sims. I'm wondering why you try to "right click" by using control click in the first place. Do you use a real mouse or a trackpad on a MacBook/MacBook Pro? In both cases: you can use any two-button mouse with your Mac – helps a lot. If you insist on using the trackpad, you can also "right click" by putting two fingers on the trackpad and then click. This also works in VMware.

[katherine.noon]

Yeah i've tried that too. I even stole a laptop mouse from a friend and tried to right click and left click with control it changes the icon but as soon as i move the mouse it as the four way arrow and tilts the screen.

[Janichsan]

Then probably VMware is the problem (that is – as I mentioned – not really good for games). I assume it interprets every press of ctrl+mouse as right click. You could check if VMware offers to remap the right click to another key. Or you could consider getting the native MacOS X version of the game – which works as it should.