Strange Error Occurring

Ashpeef wrote:
First a general warning: never publish the address data of your ports, as a meanie might be able to misuse that info to break into your system. So, edit out the IP address etc. at the end of your post in the line starting with 'Airport' (the numbers 0x... and 5.106...)

Now for your problem:
It's probably the Launcher that crashes at the time it hands over control to the game itself. You could try starting the game directly, bypassing the Launcher. Here's how (also a rather long story, I'm afraid...) :lol:

- Within your Applications folder, locate and open the folder The Sims 3
- Find the application The Sims 3.app, then right click (or hold the Control key and click if you can't right click) to get the context menu.
- In that menu, select Show Package Contents. A new window opens with only one item: the folder Contents
- Within that folder there is a file info.plist (usually the second item)
- Right or Control click that file for the context menu and there select Open With
- You'll probably have to scroll down almost to the bottom of the list to find TextEdit.app. Use that program to open the file.
- Now the real thing: locate the line CedegaGameName about ⅔ down. Note: not the one just above it with CedegaGameDir!
- The next line should end ...Bin/S3Launcher.exe
- Change S3Launcher.exe to TS3W.exe and save the file.
The next time you start the game, it should begin straight away with the EA and Maxis logos.

If you later on want to start with the Launcher again, just do the same thing, this time changing TS3W.exe back into S3Launcher.exe

Hope this works for you.

PS: you have to have the proper rights to make this edit. If the system complains about that, make sure you do have those, or find someone who has.

Edit (because I just saw the post that was send while I was writing mine): this problem has nothing to do with 1.63. It is much older.

Edit again to add:
For those who want to make the switch repeatedly, here's a simple way to minimise the hassle:
- next time you want to switch, find the file info.plist as described
- at the point where you select TextEdit to open the file, look at the bottom of the window: there's an option 'Always Open With'. Select it and it will get its box checked. From now on, double clicking the file opens it in TextEdit without further ado
- to make things easier yet: make an alias from/for the file and drag that to a convenient place -- mine went into the folder Documents/Electronic Arts/ as that would be open anyway anytime I play The Sims.

From hereon after, all you have to do is: simply double click the alias, make the change, save and quit TextEdit.