@puzzlezaddict I see. I won’t combine them then. I’ll leave everything where it is. I’m in the game now and it’s running fine aside from a few minor short freezes (rainbow wheel) when I go from build mode to live mode. Nothing I’m not used to after all these years haha.
I’m hoping the issue is then coming from the pets expansion pack since it seemed to be what caused my game to quit and it has caused other people issues as well. Do you know if there’s a thread on the specific pets issue/a fix for it/if anyone has been able to successfully play with a pet ?
I’m not sure if that has anything to do with it but, when I first downloaded the new 64 bit version, I was in a main thread where people couldn’t play it (before the CD key) and I moved my EA folder to my desktop. Perhaps that confused my computer later on and that’s why I now have two EA folders ?
Could it be that EA has double installed the game ? In which case, wouldn’t that cause a problem while playing?
If the second set of files doesn’t have any effect on my game, I will just wait for EA to fix the pets expansion pack (again, assuming that’s the issue). Fingers crossed it all gets fixed.
Thank you so much for your help and guidance so far
@XprincessdidiY It depends on what you moved to your desktop: the Sims 3 game files or the folder in Documents > Electronic Arts. Origin is only going to read one set of game files, so deleting the duplicate shouldn't in theory be an issue, but in practice you might have to reinstall your game.
There are a lot of reports of people not being able to move in a household that contains a pet. I tried it, and it worked fine for me, but I have stronger hardware, so it's not really a useful comparison. I'll keep an eye out for any possible fixes or workarounds.
One thing you could try is having your sim(s) adopt a pet once you're playing them. It would be interesting to see whether it worked, and if so, whether you could still load that save after you quit and reloaded the game. If you do this, use "save as" to rename the save first, so you create a new save file. That way, the old save will be intact as a backup if something happens with the new one.
I've tried moving in a household without pets and then adopting one - it crashes randomly through out so I needed to save every 2 minutes or so but worked until it was the puppy's birthday - it could not handle aging up and can't get back into the file since. I'm sure it will likely be the same with Sims aging up, but haven't been able to get far enough in a game to find out.... Really need a fix or update from EA I think. All of this worked fine on a much weaker Mac than my current one in the 32bit version
@warmteainmyhand Thanks for testing. I'm not sure what's going on here, but it does seem like there's an obvious pattern with integrated chips not being able to handle pets. Does it help if you play in windowed mode? I've seen mixed reports.
For the sim birthdays, you can trigger a sim's age transition with a cheat. Bring up the cheats console (crtl-shift-C) and enter "testingcheatsenabled true" without quotes. Then shift-click on a sim and select "Trigger age transition." Or you could buy a birthday cake (in sort by function > Hobbies and Skills > Parties) and have a sim blow out the candles, but that takes a little while longer. Since this is just for testing, you can quit without saving when you're done.
Tested it via cheat - I was able to age up a Sim without a crash. Still can't play a household with a pet though. There was some kind of update today but it didn't help.
@warmteainmyhand The update only addressed a few issues, nothing like the performance problems on integrated chips, sorry.
@VSheriff I don't know when, or if, any issues are going to be fixed, sorry. Playing with pets does work fine on computers with dedicated graphics cards, as far as I can tell (and I've tested myself), so I'm not sure what's going on with integrated chps and whether it can or will be addressed.
