Sims 3 64-bit "quit unexpectedly' Mac
Hi, I have a few expansion packs installed with my sims 3 and after loading my save, the game just disappears and I get an error saying that the sims 3 quit unexpectedly. My specs are as follows:...
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Hi! im having this issue too☹️ I also have the Pets expansion pack, but is there any way, I can play the game without the need to uninstall the Pets expansion pack. I really love that pack and it's basically the center of my gameplay. I don't know if it would be possible, but I just have to ask🙂
@Sarah_Ulmer I honestly don't know whether it's possible for people getting this kind of crashing to play with the Pets EP. So far, I haven't been able to come up with any suggestions that helped, and it's pretty clear in a lot of cases that the presence of one or more pets is the problem, in that removing them is an immediate fix. A few people have reported that they can't move in a household that already includes a pet but can adopt one later without issues. It seems to be hit or miss.
If you're willing to use mods and to experiment a bit, you could install NRaas Register, along with MasterController (for its useful commands), and ErrorTrap and Overwatch (for maintenance and error cleanup). Start a new save, use Register to set all the stray pet pools to zero, use Overwatch to shut down the neighborhood pet adoption scenario, and use MasterController to remove ("Total Annihilation") the existing animals in town. Unfortunately, the only way to stop inactives from adopting pets entirely is with StoryProgression, which is a heavy mod, both in terms of impact on performance and in terms of its effect on the game. But you could set it to the slowest pace and shut down most forms of progression for inactives to limit the extra resources it needs.
I don't know for sure that this will help, and it does take a little work to set up, so I'd understand if you don't want to try. But if you do, and you need more specific guidance, let me know.
It's also still possible that EA will identify the issue and patch it at some point, although I have no idea how likely that is. And of course if you get a different computer in the future, the pack will still be available to download from your Origin game library.
- @puzzlezaddict Thanks for the response🙂 I don't mind using mods, but I'm a little confused, if I do what you mentioned, with the mods, will I then maybe have a small change to be able to play with pets? Or will that just maybe prevent the crashes, but then I would still not be able to play with pets?🙂
- @puzzlezaddict A some way unrelated question, but are there other expansion packs, that can lead to the same kind of issues? In relation to whether there is any I should avoid installing, so my game won't crash?🙂
@Sarah_Ulmer There are no other expansion packs that cause quite the same issues, at least not as far as anyone has reported in the four months the 64-bit version has been available. The world of Isla Paradiso runs quite poorly, as it does in the 32-bit version, but the features of the Island Paradise pack work fine in any world with deep enough water, and the world of IP can be edited as well. Other than that, the current issues are either fixable or not typically severe enough to cause frequent crashing.
I was a bit vague on the effects of the mods because I don't know how far you'd need to go in removing animals in order to get the game stable again. Some people really don't want to lose their current sims, so even playing without any pets is preferable to starting a new save without the Pets EP installed. Since that's not the case for you, I can only say that it's possible that inactive animals, whether strays or wild horses or pets owned by unplayed households, are the major issue here. If that's the case, then you could conceivably eliminate the inactive animals and play with a few pets in your own household.
But I don't know whether that's the case. I don't have an affected Mac to test with myself, and most players with this problem just uninstall Pets and move on, disappointed as they might be. If the issue is having a pet in the active household, then there's no real way around that, although you might get lucky and find that short-haired pets work better than long-haired ones, or that only horses are a problem. If you're willing to put in the time to experiment, there are a lot of things to test.
- @puzzlezaddict thanks! I ended up uninstalling Pets, and now my game works the way it should. To circle back to the thing about the other expansion packs. Is there still no fix for swimming in open water? or is it still a problem among everyone, because EA has not yet with a patch for it?
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