Any news on Sims 3 eventually getting the 64bit update?

The only news is that an update is coming for the Mac version of the game. Here's the announcement from back in October:

https://answers.ea.com/t5/Technical-Issues-Mac/An-announcement-for-The-Sims-3-players-on-Mac/td-p/8271641

The official EA position has always been that it's coming some time in early 2020. I've always taken that to mean some time between May 2020 and never. I guess we'll see.

"puzzlezaddict;c-17382302" wrote:
The only news is that an update is coming for the Mac version of the game. Here's the announcement from back in October:

https://answers.ea.com/t5/Technical-Issues-Mac/An-announcement-for-The-Sims-3-players-on-Mac/td-p/8271641

The official EA position has always been that it's coming some time in early 2020. I've always taken that to mean some time between May 2020 and never. I guess we'll see.

Thank you, I hope it will happen but you never know...

It should be noted here that we have no idea whether the upcoming Mac version update will really give us a game that can address more RAM than the current Mac version already does on Mojave and prior. We hope that it does, but such has never been mentioned. All we do know is that the new version has been promised to somehow, in some form, run on Catalina whereas the current version cannot.

And, as this also tends to cause some confusion among players, there have been no plans whatsoever announced for a 64-bit version of the game to run on Windows.

"igazor;c-17382346" wrote:
It should be noted here that we have no idea whether the upcoming Mac version update will really give us a game that can address more RAM than the current Mac version already does on Mojave and prior. We hope that it does, but such has never been mentioned. All we do know is that the new version has been promised to somehow, in some form, run on Catalina whereas the current version cannot.

And, as this also tends to cause some confusion among players, there have been no plans whatsoever announced for a 64-bit version of the game to run on Windows.

Thanks, @igazor - I was wondering how I could possibly have missed THAT announcement!

This is news to me! So wait, does that mean the game is only limited to 4GB of RAM? Even if you have more? @igazor

"JUSTIN12566532;c-17402622" wrote:
This is news to me! So wait, does that mean the game is only limited to 4GB of RAM? Even if you have more? @igazor

TS3 for Mac is currently 32-bit only, is further crippled by the way in which its implementation on the macOS was done, and can only address 2 GB of RAM no matter how much the player has installed. We do not yet know how/if this will change when the new Mac version or patch is released later this year.

TS3 for Windows is 32-bit only but is also as of Patch 1.17 long ago Large Address Aware, so it can only address 4 GB of RAM (the real upper limit is ~3.7 GB due to some overhead) no matter how much the player has installed. There has never been an announcement about that changing.

Part of the game, so to speak, becomes keeping RAM usage below either of the above limits at all times throughout gameplay. One spike above the danger zone, which will be a bit different for different players but on Windows that's usually somewhere above 3.5 GB, and the game will crash or Error 12 upon trying to save which is just as bad -- no one would want to play a game that they cannot save. This is also why there is such a strict limit, that again will vary by player as there are so many variables, as to how large, complicated, and populated our individual worlds can be.

@igazor Wow, well thank you for explaining this. Honestly this is something i never was aware of. :open_mouth:

I saw the announcement back in October about a update being released as a patch for 64-bit early 2020 but still no news. Shame really as I want to update my Mac but I do not want to lose sims 3

@igazor Is there anyway to 'un'update my mac so that I can play? And is it true that we can play TS3 from Origin?

@igazor : just tagging you in case you haven´t seen the question above.