Sims 3 64-bit Crashing on MacBook
HELP! Sims 3 crashes every time I play, I have tired everything. Sims 3 crashes on my MacBook Air 2020 no matter what I do. I turned off iCloud, play only with wifi off, deleted Cashes that could ca...
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@leahorr Did you send your sim traveling, or have you stayed in the sim's homeworld this entire time? If the crash happened after traveling, did you save/quit/reload at any point between the travel transition and the crash?
Please list the full specs of your Mac: everything under About This Mac including the OS and except for the serial number.
Please also list the expansions you currently have installed, the world(s) you're playing in, and any mods you're using. It's fine to use mods; I just need to know about them.
Thank you for answering! The crashes happened while sim was traveling, and also when I sent her home. I believe the crashes began once world expansions was downloaded and I traveled. I saved every hour because within an hour and 30ish it would crash regardless of where I was traveling or if I had just gotten back almost like a loop. My computer will just quit it with no error or warning message. After that I would delete the files in the "current save" folder since I read it could corrupt the game.
I have late night, generations, into the future, world adventures, ambitions, and supernatural. I have NRAAS overwatch and MC because I was told it could help crashes but hasn't. I play in sunset valley. I will note that in the majority of the EPs certain things don't work (ghost hunting, sculpting, swimming in oceans, glitching sounds, pink lines, etc.) but i'm assuming this is just normal sims 3 struggles with Mac computers and isn't related to the crashes.
Full Specs:
MacOS Monterey version 12.5.1
MacBook Air (M1, 2020)
Chip Apple M1
Memory 8GB
Macintosh 86.53 GB available or 245.11 GB (sims 4 is currently on my computer until i can reinstall sims 3 when its not broken)
@leahorr Please add NRaas ErrorTrap and Traveler. ET cleans up problem data in the background before it can cause corruption; Traveler replaces the broken EA travel transition with a more stable version, among other things. I'd never play without either one. Overwatch is great, but it's meant to work in conjunction with ET. MasterController doesn't do anything unless you use it to issue a command. I would also add Register because I've seen a lot of errors related to role assignments in the 64-bit Mac version, and Register clears those up by default.
The issues with sculpting and interacting with ocean water are in fact part of this version of Sims 3. The glitching sounds aren't universal but are somewhat common, and the pink lines are, as far as I know, always present on Macs with ARM chips. The ghost hunting issues are Sims 3 in general.
None of this should cause crashing, with the possible exception of glitchy sounds if they're coming from a sound driver that doesn't get along with the game. The test for that is to play using only the computer's built-in speakers—if this driver were causing crashing, we'd see a lot more reports tied to it. That doesn't mean you can't use headphones or external speakers, only that it's helpful to test without them.
For the crashing itself, aside from the extra mods, I'd suggest not running anything else alongside the game. Your computer's 8 GB RAM is shared between the processor and the graphics chip, and the OS will use up to half that, leaving relatively little for the game. Sims 3 can use over 2 GB just on startup, not including what the graphics chip borrows, with memory use increasing after a travel transition or in an extended Build/Buy session. So it's best not to have any other apps eating RAM while you play.
I would say that having 20-25 GB free on your internal drive is sufficient to prevent this from being a source of crashes or general system issues.
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