Anybody else hyped for the possible upcoming The Sims 3 64bit Version on Windows?

@igazor

Thank you so much for replying. I was confused, but now understand. As for Mac, maybe I just got a bad one, though I admit my isn't the current one, so maybe it's on the older side. It's just, I haven't used it much as I wait till my older one broke and it did so around this summer. It still runs smooth but I notice small things, but maybe that's just what happens during certain times. Anyway, thanks again for clearing things up for me and explaining with detail. I understand things better. With this update for Mac, maybe I can try to plays Sims 3 again on my mainly used computer. Am excited for it.

@elleskyheart, Microsoft currently has no plans to discontinue 32 bit application support as of October 2020. And as the customer service guy said, there will be plenty of heads up if they go down that road.

Eventually they may go that route, but that may be five, ten, twenty years down the road. Who knows? :shrug:

At least, I'm glad that the Mac users can play their game again finally. Now let's see plenty of pics. :mrgreen:

@Nikkei_Simmer Thank you. That is nice to know honestly. And yeah, it is exciting honestly. I hope Mac users will play again.

When is the 64bit version supposed to drop? And would the update break any TS3 mods? I play on my laptop a lot more nowadays and have been considering returning to Sims 3.

@DeafSimmer - The 64-bit version of TS3 for Mac is currently scheduled to become available for download tomorrow, Oct. 28 (I don't think we've been given a time of day yet). It may take a short while for all of the EP/SPs to catch up with everyone who should have them.

We do not expect any serious issues with mods, but it's likely that Core Mods in particular will trigger the core version mismatch warning on startup, which can usually be clicked through anyway. There are only five TS3 Core Mods in popular usage. NRaas ErrorTrap happens to be one of them and of course we will produce a new variant of the current version if that is required to silence the warning. But no one can really say for sure as none of us have had our hands on this thing yet. :)

Sorry for the False Hype. I was mistaken :(. I do wish that they would release a 64-bit for Windows.

If they don't, somebody probably will develop a Windows compatibility layer for Mac game, like Wine on Linux, that translate MacOS API calls to Windows equivalent to run Mac apps natively on Windows.

macdrive ?