Sims 3 64 bit on Mac keeps freezing
I started having this problem a few years ago and because I didn't discover what was causing this I ended up uninstalling the game. Today, I decided to see if I can finally play The Sims 3 on my comp...
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@Ariellove23 What world are you playing in? Please also list the full specs of your Mac: everything under About This Mac including the OS and except for the serial number.
Mac Book Pro 13-inch, 2018, Four Thunderbolt 3 Ports
2.3 GHz quad core Intel Core i5
Intel Iris Plus Graphics 655 1536 MB
8 GB 2133 MHz LPDDR3
Mac OS Sonoma 14.3
I was playing on the world that comes with the Supernatural Moonlight Falls. I also tried to play in Sunset Valley, but the same thing happened.
@Ariellove23 Try disabling Advanced Rendering, in the graphics options. Do so at the Main Menu and restart the game before loading a save. You'll notice things don't look great, but this is just an experiment to see whether it makes a difference.
If that doesn't help, lower Lighting and Tree Detail to the minimums as well, also changing the settings at the Main Menu and quitting before loading a save.
If you get more crashes, try removing the Pets expansion. Wherever you installed the game, you'll see a Sims 3.app and a "The Sims 3 Packs" folder, which holds one subfolder for each pack. Move the EP05 folder to the desktop, and Pets won't be present. You'll need to start another new save, since any save already exposed to Pets may be corrupted once it's run without the expansion present.
The point here is to try to get the game to a point where it's stable, then start adding back features or increasing settings until you run into trouble again. I'm not saying you necessarily need to keep all of these changes going forward, only that it's worth testing each of them. Let me know how it goes.
Thank you for your help. I did what you suggested. I moved The Sims 3 Pets folder to the desktop and I also disabled the Advanced Rendering. I decided to try to play in Sunset Valey in the Goth family. I played for almost an hour. However, the game just went down by itself. But that is something that always happened to me, even with my previous PC. You were also right, without the Advanced Rendering, the graphics of the game aren't great, but at least the game works. I would like to know if I can be able to play with Pets as I love that pack. Do you think is possible?
@Ariellove23 Does the game work with Pets installed but on lower graphics settings? Does it matter what kind of pet your main household has? Horses and long-haired dogs have traditionally been more problematic to render than cats and short-haired dogs. There are mods that can prevent the spawning of strays and wild horses, and prevent inactive households from adopting pets (unless you instruct them to do so), although the latter one, NRaas StoryProgression, can be heavy on the wrong settings. Let me know if you're interested and if you can play with any pets at all.
It's worth noting that without the right mods, inactive households will adopt pets even when their houses are unsuitable for the animals, and the resulting routing failures can drag performance down and even crash the game. Aside from that, if for example you find that your computer can't handle horses, an inactive household adopting a horse would be a problem too, and you might not even know that was triggering crashes. But all of this is dependent on which pets your computer can reliably handle.
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