Mac is getting an Update TS3 will run at 64 bit

While this announcement is indeed a positive surprise and many of us remain ever-hopeful, let's not get carried away here. We have no evidence that EA is making a retooled version of the game. What they are doing at the very least is rearranging things with the program file wrappers so that the Mac version of the game will run in a 64-bit only environment; without that, the game would not run at all on the next macOS due out within the next few weeks because Apple is dropping support for 32-bit applications entirely.

It remains to be seen if that will do anything at all for the 2 GB (Cider) or 4 GB (32-bit) RAM restrictions that have been holding the game back for so many years. We won't know for sure until early next year when this new Mac version is released.

"catloverplayer;c-17267397" wrote:
Thing is the Mac Version will play better and fix lag and freezing issues then the PC Version.

Not if the Cider wrapper is left in place still limiting its RAM usage to 2 GB in a 64-bit environment. There never was a proper port of this game done for the macOS like there were for TS1, 2, and 4.

But let's hope you are correct and those draconian RAM usage limits do disappear as that would indeed be amazingly helpful. :)

"Sk8rblaze;c-17267414" wrote:
This is great news.

I hope they do the same for TS2 and port the remainder of the packs Mac is missing from TS2.

Aspyr, the company that did up the port for TS2, already announced that they were working on a fix for the upcoming 64-bit only environment as they are for all of their games that fall into this kind of category (and that are not being retired). I don't think a release date has been set yet. But that's on Aspyr to complete, not EA, and I do not believe they have acquired the rights to work on the missing TS2 packs.

If this is true and ends up for PC then I would be happy. I have no problems running a EA TS3 world even after running other heave programs. FL Studio Music productions is known to use up a lot of ram and I was once cheeky enough to run both at the same time with no problems!

I will keep my eyes peeled for this over the next year!

Microsoft stop supporting 32bit so I can 64bit ts3!!

"Sunnyyesjams;c-17267546" wrote:
Microsoft stop supporting 32bit so I can 64bit ts3!!

After that, you better hope that some of the mod authors are still around and willing to port their mods to the 64-bit version. In Skyrim's case, it took three years for some of the base mods to get ported versions, and most stuff never got ported.

I think I'll keep my outdated 32bit TS3 program, at least I know it works. Plus, it's Origin free!

"mw1525;c-17267608" wrote:
I think I'll keep my outdated 32bit TS3 program, at least I know it works. Plus, it's Origin free!

Amen!

@Sk8rblaze https://support.aspyr.com/hc/en-us/articles/360000214186-MacOS-Catalina-64-bit-32-bit-and-related-Questions this list doeosn't mention the TS2 Super Collection so I'm guessing it'll be okay on Catalina.
It'd be nice if EA allowed Aspyr to complete the collection though.

"mw1525;c-17267608" wrote:
I think I'll keep my outdated 32bit TS3 program, at least I know it works. Plus, it's Origin free!

^I second Amen that!

I just got Origin free by doing only disk installation and I'm loving it!