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_aiinsleyyy_123
6 years ago

Sims 3 Black Screen when launching

Hi everyone, I'm having an issue with launching the sims 3. When I launch it, it only opens correctly 1/3 of the time. The other times it just has a black screen and I can't change tabs or force quit it. This isn't terrible as I just have to press down on the power button to turn it off and cross my fingers it'll open the next time, but it's pretty annoying. I was wondering (I have a MacBook pro btw) if there was a way to at least minimise the tab before it launches so I can at least have access to the force quit function to force quit the sims 3 app and start again. Thanks!!!
  • igazor's avatar
    igazor
    6 years ago
    Do you get better or different results if you start up in windowed mode? But sad to say, depending on how many EPs you have in play and what else your computer may or may not be busy with at the time, TS3 for Mac is a mess. It can only address 2 GB of RAM unlike its Windows sibling that can call for almost twice that and if you have an overload of content and/or many of the EPs in play, the game could be calling for more RAM than it can really use (or it might not be available at the time) hence the startup failures.
  • _aiinsleyyy_123's avatar
    _aiinsleyyy_123
    6 years ago
    Yeah unfortunately you are correct, I love my Mac but Sims 3 hates it :( Ooo starting up in a windowed mode sounds great, how do you do that?
  • igazor's avatar
    igazor
    6 years ago
    Game Options or the keyboard shortcut (it's some modifier key, try Shift or Option + Enter) to toggle into windowed mode. But if you can't get as far as Game Options because the game isn't starting up at all enough for you to get there, then find the file called Options.ini in your TS3 user game folder in Documents. Open the file in a text editor such as TextEdit, look for the line that says fullscreen = 0, change the 0 to a 1, save and try starting up again.

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