Origin Error 327682:0
Hi, I uninstalled The Sims 3 a few months ago and wanted to install it today from Origin so I could play it. When I went to download it, I noticed that it said it was already downloaded (which was odd...
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I just felt a tingling in my spine, no idea why.
@blueamber I take it your Mac runs Catalina? That's the usual error you get when trying to install Sims 3 in Catalina: something unhelpful about firewalls and running Origin as an admin. The issue is that Sims 3 is a 32-bit app, and Catalina is 64-bit only. There's no way to make the game install, let alone run.
However, EA has announced a 64-bit version of Sims 3 for macOS, to be released (hopefully) some time this year. We get non-update updates sometimes, just to let us know they're still working on it.
https://answers.ea.com/t5/Technical-Issues-Mac/An-announcement-for-The-Sims-3-players-on-Mac/td-p/8271641
In the interim, your options are to play Sims 3 on a different computer, to Bootcamp your Mac (partition the hard drive, install Windows on one side), or to install Mojave on an external hard drive or USB and boot into that when you want to play Sims 3. For the second option, you'd need enough free space on your hard drive to accommodate Windows and Sims 3; for the third, you'd need at least temporary access to a Mac running Mojave or earlier. Let me know if you want more information about either of these options.
@blueamber I take it your Mac runs Catalina? That's the usual error you get when trying to install Sims 3 in Catalina: something unhelpful about firewalls and running Origin as an admin. The issue is that Sims 3 is a 32-bit app, and Catalina is 64-bit only. There's no way to make the game install, let alone run.
However, EA has announced a 64-bit version of Sims 3 for macOS, to be released (hopefully) some time this year. We get non-update updates sometimes, just to let us know they're still working on it.
https://answers.ea.com/t5/Technical-Issues-Mac/An-announcement-for-The-Sims-3-players-on-Mac/td-p/8271641
In the interim, your options are to play Sims 3 on a different computer, to Bootcamp your Mac (partition the hard drive, install Windows on one side), or to install Mojave on an external hard drive or USB and boot into that when you want to play Sims 3. For the second option, you'd need enough free space on your hard drive to accommodate Windows and Sims 3; for the third, you'd need at least temporary access to a Mac running Mojave or earlier. Let me know if you want more information about either of these options.
