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.
