Recently started playing TS3 again..

"dancingindior;c-16301520" wrote:
Ahh, I see.. I'm not very knowledgeable when it comes to the finer details of computers, but I'm wondering if I got external memory for my mac would that help? This is the one reason I always regret getting a mac. Sure, it's lasted me 5 years but that's because I legit only play the sims and watch netflix haha.
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I'm partially tempted to buy a fairly cheap regular windows laptop purely for playing sims. I must look into costs etc.

Hi there.

The 2 GB RAM restriction is built into the way in which TS3 for Mac was arranged. It's not a proper port into the Mac OS like all of the other sims games were and unfortunately, for reasons known only to EA, it was never redone properly. Windows users had the 2 GB restriction in the beginning as well, but got relief when Patch 1.17 came out just over a year after release. The Mac version cannot be improved upon that way, unfortunately. If your Mac has 4 GB or less now, adding more RAM to it may very well help performance in some ways but it still cannot lift the game usage restriction. If you already have 8 GB or more, then adding more certainly isn't going to hurt but it's probably not going to do a thing for the game either.

There really isn't any such thing as a "fairly cheap" Windows laptop to run TS3 with all EPs (plus CC and other forms of added content). Cheap is of course relative, but we're usually talking about $900 and up (US dollars), desktops will run cheaper and require slightly less component strength. Corners can be cut to bring the price down a bit, but not really into the bargain basement or web surfing/email machine levels if one expects the entire game to perform properly.

May I ask what you have for a Mac? Which model (year, processor, RAM, graphics card, drive space used vs. free) -- most of this can be found on About This Mac under the Apple Menu.