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:Mac OS Big Sur 11.2.2 (20D80)MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2020)Processor - 1.4 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i5Memory - 8 GB 2133 MHz LPDDR3Graphics - Intel Iris Plus Graphics 645 1536 MBI don't use any CC/modsI have ambitions, pets, generations, seasons, late night and town life stuff installedI love the sims 3 but it makes it impossible to play when my game crashes just 2 minutes after loading a save ☹️Any help would be greatly appreciated!Showing the details and system configurations of the problem brings this (I can't post everything due to character limit unfortunately):Date/Time: 2021-03-06 22:37:29.229 +0000OS Version: macOS 11.2.2 (20D80)Report Version: 12Bridge OS Version: 5.2 (18P4347)Anonymous UUID: E27B0389-1975-2D1A-2DCE-EA3EF73726AE Sleep/Wake UUID: 6A5C090C-B839-4F17-B3DB-C01A51BAB409 Time Awake Since Boot: 41000 secondsTime Since Wake: 29000 seconds System Integrity Protection: enabled Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)Exception Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x0000000000000010Exception Note: EXC_CORPSE_NOTIFY Termination Signal: Segmentation fault: 11Termination Reason: Namespace SIGNAL, Code 0xbTerminating Process: exc handler [5857]

@jadasimsxox The issue here may unfortunately be the Pets expansion. Sometimes it's enough to play without any pets the active household, and sometimes the entire pack needs to be removed. But it's obvious from the many reports that the content doesn't work well on Macs with your category of hardware. If you'd like to try intermediate steps, e.g. removing pets from your save and using mods to prevent them from spawning, let me know. Otherwise, your only move may be to uninstall Pets, which you can do by simply deleting the EP05 folder from the Sims 3 Packs folder, which will be in either Applications or Users > your username > Applications.

@puzzlezaddict Thanks, i thought it might’ve been the pets but the game won’t let me get far enough to give the dog up for adoption before crashing. It almost worked once until the daughter adopted the dog back! -_-I’m going to try and delete that folder then.Thanks again!

@puzzlezaddict After deleting the EP05 folder, I tried loading the game up a couple of times and now it crashes before the second loading screen finishes.The dog that was initially in my household still shows up when selecting the save also.Not sure where to go from here?

@jadasimsxox Playing a save without all its expansions usually doesn't work, as in, the save will crash, fail to load, or maybe just run very poorly. So if you can't play with Pets installed, you'll need to start a new save. If you really want to try to recover this save, there are mod-related ways to move out the dog or even remove all animals from the world. But it kind of defeats the purpose of playing with the expansion at all. Let me know what you'd like to do.

@puzzlezaddict I'd probably just have to start a new save unfortunately. Just in case for the future, if I want to recover the save, could you direct me to the mod that would let me do this? Thanks

Sims 3 64-bit "quit unexpectedly' Mac

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Sarah_Ulmer
5 years ago
@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?🙂
puzzlezaddict
Hero+
5 years ago
@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.
Sarah_Ulmer
5 years ago
@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?
Sarah_Ulmer
5 years ago
Because I would like to install Island Paradise, but if I can't make my sims swim in the ocean, then it's probably not worth it🙂
puzzlezaddict
Hero+
5 years ago
@Sarah_Ulmer There is currently no fix for the missing open water options. I still hope EA will patch it, but I don't have any information on when or even if that will happen.

Sims can use dive spots, live on houseboats, and run resorts, and I believe the lifeguard career works, so the pack's features aren't completely useless. It is a demanding expansion though, not nearly as much as Pets but perhaps enough to question whether the trade-off is worth it.
Sarah_Ulmer
5 years ago
@puzzlezaddict Okay! thank you so much🙂

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