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Mister_Prozac69
12 years ago

[MAC] High Pitched and Fast Music & SIms

So for some reason the sims start up song and all music and just all noises on the sims are really high pitched and they seem to be going alot faster than usual its like ts somehow stuck on fast forward mode! can anyone please help its getting really anooying and i hate playing without sound! 

Ps: it all started happening when i tried to save my game and it saved perfectly and it was stcuk on a black screen after saving with a little loading hourglass thing and it was stcuk on that for 24 hours so i just turned my computer off i also have a Macbook Pro and have all but a couple of expansion packs installed

Thankyou!

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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    12 years ago
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    Hi,

    It is normal for there to be a black screen after you quit the game but it will usually close after a few minutes. Usually it gets stuck if you use the combined "save and quit" option - it is better to use "save" or "save as" and then separately "quit". Also save fairly frequently to avoid long saving times.

    Play in windowed mode or, if like me you hate playing in windowed mode, at least change from full screen to windowed just before you save. That way, if the game freezes or gets stuck, you can use force quit to close the game window rather than just turning off your computer, which won't do your hardware much good in the long run. 

    It sounds as though something has gone wrong with that save.

    Look in the Saves folder - do you see any files that end .bad? If so these are corrupted and should be deleted. If not, do you have any older saves of this game that you can open, or start a new game, just to see if it's just this one save that is affected. 

    Try the tips under "primary things to try first" in the first post of the main Mac help thread: http://answers.ea.com/t5/The-Sims-3/Links-to-Mac-help-threads-and-guides/td-p/749664

    Caspin

    Caspin

  • missingsim's avatar
    missingsim
    Seasoned Ace
    12 years ago

    Hi,

    Do you have this problem in every saved game or only the one you got a the balck screen ?

    Do you have an old backup of your saved game you could try ?

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