Recent Discussions
Blue boxes making map inaccessible
Hi! I just today downloaded the university and high school pack and these blue boxes have appeared in one of the new locations. All other locations are fine, but on this one I can't click anything. Also, I have no played sims in that area but as you can see it is indicating otherwise I've restarted my computer and repaired it in the EA app with no results. I have no mods installed, just the official sims add ons like mentioned Only started playing the Sims last week so apologies if this is an easy fix. Anyone know how to fix? I'm on a mac and use the EA app to launch the game (not sure if thats helpful, sorry). Really upsetting :( !ORIGIN NO LONGER SUPPORTED
So I haven’t logged on to play sims 4 in a WHILE and once I did I learned Origin is no longer supported and was prompted to download the EA app. However I have a MAC BOOK 2013 I think??? It was a gift idk. It can’t update ANYMORE. I’m stuck in MAC Sierra os 12.6 or something like that. I can’t download the EA app because it need MAC Catalina 🥺 but I can’t use origin… SO I CANT PLAY SIMS 4!!! HELP! What do I do?? Is there a way I can play or am I doomed to live the poor man’s life of longing?
Game is Crashing and Glitches randomly during game play
I updated my Sims game today and updated my Mods and I first started getting the error code ec:105 on my EA App and then when i was playing the game, it glitches where i can't click anything anymore or interact with my sims. I don't know what to do and it's really frustrating 😩. I attached screenshots of the issues as well.
Can anyone help?
It started a few days ago, I updated my sims game, and everything was fine, I then updated my mods, as usual. And it was fine. However all of a sudden my laptop after like 10 mins my mac would just shut off? I was confused and thought maybe it was overheating, so I put it on a flat surface, as before I was using my lap. This helped a little bit, but it wouldnt even really get hot before it would shut off again. I went through my mods, cleaning it out, tried it again and still the same problem, it would last a tiny bit longer but would then have the same problem again, eventually it would just freeze occasionally but now it just shuts off with no warning. I did eventually remove my mods folder for the ultimate test, and it is not my mods, it seems to be the sims game itself. I have been playing this game for years with this computer, and I've played for a few hours at a time in the past, with no problem. Im just wondering If anyone could explain this or is experiencing this too? And to add, my computer keeps telling me it needs to update, but then says its up to date? And when my laptop turns back on it seems to loose all it's charge. It's a Macbook Air, Retina 2020. Mac OS Sequoia 15.5. If that helps at all. Please let me know if you all have any solutions, thanks 😊Progress gone
I just went on my game after an update and all my game progress and game history is gone. Is there anyway to recover my game history. I didn’t delete anything or move any files or folders to the trash. I haven’t played in about a month and I wanted to play today and now all my progress is gone.sims 4 wont start with any mods
So my game works perfectly fine with out any mods, but as soon as I put literally 1 file, it doesn't work. I tried downloading a brand new cc and it still does not work. I recently had a problem with this, but somehow fixed it, didn't touch it, went to play and realised my mods just disappeared from my sims 4 folder? and now every time I try to add any, it does not work. See attachment for the message it gives me.Sims 4 old back folder doesn't work
PLEASE HELP!!! I cleaned out my mods folder just to make sure I didn't have duplicate mods in the game. Once I was done, I couldn't find the Electronic Arts folder but my saves and mods were still in game. I ended up searching for the EA folder and two came up. It asked if I wanted to replace, I said yes and my entire game was wiped. I tried to use my back up sims 4 folder to add it back to the game and it's not working. Electronic Arts folder doesn't have the sims 4 folder and when I add it in it still doesn't load. I even renamed the folder so a new one could generate but it does not. The Electronic Arts folder has an "EA app" folder and in that folder an "ARD" folder and "machine. ini". When I click on the ARD folder there is a GEADesktop folder that doesn't open when I click on it. I've tried repairing the game, logging out of the app and restarting so a new The sims 4 folder can appear and nothing. That's the only thing that pops up.
Pitch Black Sim
Can anyone help me? My game was working just fine last night when I exited the game. Nothing was wrong. This morning I go to log in and my sim is pitch black. Nothing happened other than me exiting the game last night. I have 0 mods in my game. I just installed everything yesterday on my new Mac. I repaired the game and also reset my sim as recommended. A lot of fixes are for CC but I have no CC in my game. Please help.Unable to launch the game
Hello everyone, For a week now, I haven't been able to launch my game. I cleared the caches, updated my Mac, reinstalled the application and nothing works. I spoke to support, they told me to wait for an update? If anyone has any idea about the problem, I'm interested. Thank you.Game not Launching
Hi, I'm having trouble launching The Sims 4 from the EA App on my Mac. The game appears to load but never actually launches. I’ve already tried repairing the game, uninstalling and reinstalling both The Sims 4 and the EA App, but that didn’t solve the issue. I’ve also cleared up storage on my laptop, restarted and shut it down multiple times, but nothing has worked so far. Here's the details of my Mac Model: MacBook Pro Model A2141 Year: 2019 Memory: 32GB macOS version: Sonoma 14.6.1 Storage: 685.13 GB of 1 TB
May 2025 Update
Since the new update my whole screen has been completely glitching, I play on Mac book and yes I turned off my mods/cc and the game was still glitchy, the glitches literally made the game unplayable. Also the glitch only appears once I load into gameplay, I’ve taken out cc/ mods and went through all my cc to make sure it wasn’t that, and I’m still dealing with this issue, I hope they fix this soon bc I would love to play my game again. Is anyone else having this issue? ( attached is a picture of before and during the glitch)Sims 4 is suddenly really laggy on my MacBook Air M2
I've been playing Sims 4 on my MacBook for a while now and have never had a problem. Game always ran smoothly. Around 2 weeks ago my game started lagging a lot and has been doing so ever since. Every time I try loading a save it takes years, and it does the same when I try saving and exiting the game. The actual gameplay is so laggy that I sometimes can't even move my camera. I play with mods and CCs and I've checked numerous times if some are outdated or colliding with each other, but it all checks out. I've tried lowering all of my graphics but it doesn't help at all. I saw someone say that enabling retina display could potentially fix the issue, but no luck. I don't really think storage is the problem either. It was completely fine up until 2 weeks ago and my storage capacity hasn't really changed. I'm not the most tech savvy person out there, so I'm really hoping someone else knows how to fix this. The game is barely playable.
Can't play after a few hours
Every time I open a new save, I can play in that save for a few hours, and then it stops working. My sims are unable to interact with objects, and just say they can't get to them. I've tried resetting them, deleting my mods, reloading the game, everything I can think of. What should I do?
Computer and External Drive
Any ideas????????????? I've been playing my game on an external drive. I recently had an issue with my iCloud was seen by Apple. We ended up turning it off. I go to play, plug in my drive, and nothing was loaded in the game however, all the information is still on the drive. I was able to see that I have another electronics arts folder. When I looked in there, everything was empty. I moved my mods and saves in that folder, then everything was working again. So now it only recognizes my saves and mods on the computer and not the drive how it was originally. I have repaired the game multiple times. I have took out the mods and placed them back I made sure the installer location on the EA app has my external listed I've run out of ideas. I hope this made sense. Basically, I have the game in two locations, but I only want it to recognize one.
