Graphical Glitches on Sims 3 64-bit Mac
I've been experiencing graphical glitches after about 30 mins of playing the game after it's been first opened. Everything around my sim turns white and my sim will glitch in and out of the whiteness...
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@puzzlezaddict all of these made no difference, however, it made me realise that the glitch does randomly occur, and when i had timed it was a coincidence.
i appreciate your help, however, do you know of any other solutions?
i can assure you having my graphics on high works fine on my system, as on sims 4 and other more modern games i can usually run my graphics at mid to high with no problems, and on sims 3 it runs with no dips in fps whatsoever and reducing graphics settings makes no difference.
@BongoMan1235 It's not a common problem, and I'm not really sure why this is happening. When you reduced the in-game settings, did you also play in windowed mode on a low resolution? Even if the game feels unplayable that way, it's worth testing for a few reasons. One of them is that a lower resolution decreases the amount of video memory the game needs, and as I mentioned, your graphics chip has to borrow from the limited main memory rather than having its own VRAM.
One other thing you could try though is reinstalling macOS. This doesn't mean wiping your data; you'd be reinstalling the current OS, and only that, while keeping personal files.
https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/reinstall-macos-mchlp1599/mac
This would address any issues with the graphics driver or other related software. The fact that other games run fine isn't conclusive here—Sims 3 might different resources, or the same resources in a different way, than any other game you have installed. After all, it's a game released in 2009 that never had a proper Mac version (just the Windows version with a kind of VM wrapped around it) until someone put together a compatibility update in 2019. It's kind of its own special snowflake, to borrow the name of one of the game's books.
@puzzlezaddict yes i did try that and unfortunately it made no difference. it happens on every world and every sim i play at random intervals and its often very frustrating.
while it may not make much difference - i did find someone on here with the same problem as me, weirdly in 2017 before the 64-bit version was ever even released... 🤔
i tried the solution proposed in that post, however, the glitch still occurred and now my settings were all reset. its strange that the glitch occurs on such different machines - the op having a 2011 macbook, and i have one from 2017.
ill try reinstalling macos, but i dont think it will make much difference. ill come back and let you know how it goes later today.
