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Anonymous
12 years ago

Frozen Sims 3-late night game mac

( I HAVE A MAC) I recently bought the downloadable version of sims 3 + Late night (the expansion pack) ever since I started playing it about five minutes into the game it would start lagging and completely freeze. It got worse today, it would freeze at the very beginning. So I searched what to do and I updated my mac and the game (it got worse) then I just deleted my saved game and restarted right after i created the sims and wanted to "move in" my sims game comepletely froze again. You can still here the music but you cant click anything even though your mouse moves. I waited ten minutes and it still didn't unfreeze so I had to turn off my computer with the power button and restarted it and the same thing happens every time. Somebody please help me! It's very frustrating ☹️ 

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    Anonymous
    12 years ago

    Hi,

    First of all, make sure you are patched up to date (to 1.63).

    Next, play in windowed mode so if the game freezes completely, you can use "force quit" to close it. It's better to crash out of the game than your whole computer.

    Try manually resetting your RAM during playing. It can make a big difference in reducing freezing and crashing:

    http://bluebellflora.com/the-sims-3-on-a-mac/resetting-ram-during-gameplay/

    The game might have frozen because there is an unroutable or stuck sim somewhere. This happens quite a lot in Bridgeport so if that's the town you are currently playing, that might be an issue.  Try this cheat. Type cntrl-shift-C and a blue strip will appear at the top of the screen. Now type testingcheatsenabled true and hit return. Open the box again with cntrl-shift-C then type resetsim * and hit return again. All sims in town will reset. See if the lagging is now gone.

    If you are happy to use mods, NRaas Overwatch can help, as can ErrorTrap.

    Caspin.

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