[Mac] - Sims 3 won't start after i press play on the launcher

@DaniellePharr

The simple answer is that your Mac just can't handle all those EPs installed. The Sims 3 is a very intense, resource hungry game, especially on Macs due to EA having used Cider to make it 'compatible' in OS X. Pets and Seasons are especially demanding. Showtime isn't much better either.

MacBook Airs are not designed for gaming, they are not really powerful enough. And whilst you may be able to play the base game on all low settings, with memories turned off, when you start adding in EPs and/or up your graphics settings the game will just give up.

You should also update Yosemite to 10.10.5, the latest release.

I am having the same issue, but with the base game only. On a Mac that literally arrived in the mail yesterday.

@mmikrut

If you have a brand new Mac your problem is most likely incompatible graphics.

What Mac do you have? If you have a Mac with any of the following graphics the game is not compatible:

• Intel Iris (Late 2013 and onwards Retina 13" MacBook Pros, entry level iMacs and entry level 15" MacBook Pro)

• Intel HD 6000 (Early 2015 model MacBook Airs)

• AMD Radeon R9 M370X (Mid 2015 high spec. 15" MacBook Pro)

You can try the workaround here, using the relevant details for your graphics card.

I just bought an Macbook Air, but it does appear to have the Intel HD Graphics 6000. What would you suggest?

@mmikrut

Trying the workaround in the link I posted in my previous post. Your game will not play unless you can get the game to recognise your graphics card.

@Bluebellflora

Okay, so i uninstalled most of my expansions now i just have late night, ambitions and generations. It worked but crashed in cas. I'm not good with laptop and have no idea whats wrong. 

@DaniellePharr

So it's kind of working! Ok, you need to now regularly purge RAM during gameplay. I think you will probably always have problems because your MBA isn't powerful enough for the game but at least we can try and minimise the frequency 🙂

i read the article and i tried it it said 'command not found' so i installed what it said and it still dosent work. im very frustrated and on the verge of giving up... :/ 

is there an app i can get thatll purge ram for me?

@DaniellePharr

Yep - https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/memory-clean-monitor-free/id451444120?mt=12

I have an iMac and I'm having the same problem. Here's what I have:

MacOS Sierra Version 10.12.6

iMac 27-inch, Late 2012

Processor: 3.4 GHz Intel Core i7

Memory: 16GB 1600 MHz DDR3

Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX 2048 MB

Is it possible that there's not enough RAM (memory) to run everything?