Okay I need help. ;u;
I usually research for hours and till now have been able to figure out all my problems, I'm very familiar with Bluebellflora's site (you're a lifesaver.) I've dealt with everything from 'Bad CC' to 'Blackscreen' issues and the last time I had issues - it was solved by corey_0414's solution (Unknown Error/copying EPs folders into the most recent EP so it can access them).
Recently I've expanded my EPs (already having WA, High End Loft, Ambitions, LN, Generations, Pets, Supernatural, Seasons, UL)
and added: Showtime & Island Paradise.
I've ran through every solution before from checking my folders (corey_0414's solution) I didn't add any new cc, moved my 'The Sims 3' folder to the desktop so it made a fresh folder and just hit 'Play' and when that blackscreened too, I finally came to reason that maybe not installing them in order had finally caught up to me. (I originally started with just Supernatural, bounced to Pets, Seasons, Gen and etc.)
So I decided to do Bluebellflora's
#1 'Clean uninstall and reinstall on a Mac': I ran the game after each EP to make sure it wasn't crashing from too much EPS or something and got it to work and began installing store content first and only. After a good 20 or so - I tried picking out one or two items to uninstall and after hitting 'uninstall' my launcher decided to blackscreen and did nothing after 20 mins so i Force Quit it and decided I just wasn't going to be uninstalling anything. However since then, I tried resuming installing and kept getting a black screen. I let it play out and after an hour (I was only doing 4 or 5 dress/decor/hairs at a time) it finally went through and got success on everything. So then closing the pop-up box it proceeds to go blackscreen again and never closed itself. I learned to force quit it and the launcher updated itself, moving them to installed section so tried living with it and finally hitting 'Play' after a while only for the game to blackscreen and never start. I'm familiar with waiting, prior I had a bunch of CC and it did take a minute to load and finally play the intro but this was without CC, just store content and I mean I started with the the free Halloween/Harvest/etc set. This wasn't venues, or worlds.
I was convinced the broken launcher required a full uninstall/reinstaller including origin.
2nd 'Clean uninstall and reinstall': Long story short: launcher still broken right out of the gate, it somehow survived even a origin reinstall.
I just spent another day on my 4th 'Clean uninstall and reinstall'. Tried installing 1 sim3pack and gave up after 20 mins. Hit 'Play and after 45mins I gave up and force quit that too.
I don't know what's wrong anymore, is it too much EPs? mac specs btw:
macOS Mojave version 10.14.3
MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2012)
Processor 2.9 GHz Intel Core i7
Memory 8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
Graphics Intel HD Graphics 4000 1536 MB
(And I have 473 GB of Storage still available)
I got it to work at first, with all EPs so I don't know why trying to uninstalling ruined my launcher and why uninstall/reinstall did nothing after the first. Maybe I gotta remove all of origin again? I kept getting the 'install origin helper tool' pop up which is why I reinstalled the first time. My mac is old but gold, and never struggled before or had a problem, and knowing Cider has a 2GB RAM limit tempts me into buying a laptop exclusively for sims 3 but I'm hoping someone can still tell some possible solutions before I give up completely. I'm also more seriously considering BootCamp but I need a guide that can ELI5 because while I think I'm tech s̶a̶v̶v̶y̶ tech decent, I'm terrified of ruining my mac because I'm a poor college student. (mac was a graduation gift)
