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pdxboo's avatar
6 years ago
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Hello, I'm having trouble installing Sims 3. First I went to play my game, since it was already installed, but the app alerted me that it needed to have an update installed. So I went to origin to i...
  • puzzlezaddict's avatar
    6 years ago

    @pdxboo  Do you have a Mac, and does it run Catalina?  If so, that's the issue: Sims 3 is a 32-bit app, and Catalina is 64-bit only.  There's no way around this.  However, EA has announced a 64-bit-compatible version of Sims 3 for macOS, to be released (hopefully) some time this year.

    https://answers.ea.com/t5/Technical-Issues-Mac/An-announcement-for-The-Sims-3-players-on-Mac/td-p/8271641

    In the interim, your only options are to play in a different computer, to install Windows on your Mac (via Bootcamp or Parallels), or to install an earlier version of macOS on an external drive and boot into that when you want to play.  If you'd like more information on the last two options, let me know.

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