Sims 3 64-bit whole screen flickering after Mac OS update
I downloaded the sims 3 about 3 weeks after the 64 bit update and, as everyone else has already found, had some issues with it. I started new games every once in a while to try and see if it would fix itself and ended up starting one of my sims off in the town that comes with the Pets expansion pack (I have pets, ambitions, night life, generations, seasons and university.). My Mac has always been able to cope with these packs before without many issues (I'd been playing with bootcamp on the windows side too a few month ago) but this specific game in the pets world was really bad, it would crash and exit the game around 10 minutes into playing everytime. I uninstalled and reinstalled the game without Pets incase it was that messing it up, then installed the new Mac update (Big Sur) incase that had anything to do with it, I've gone back on the Sims 3 now without pets and the game is just flickering at me anytime something moves, I can't even get past create a sim so it's completely unplayable. Passed my mind that it could be a graphic card issue but its worked completely fine on this computer before I installed the new Mac update and got rid of Pets. The weird thing is I try to screen record it with Quicktime Player and the flickering just stops altogether, minus a few glitches when trying to change clothes or hairstyle. Any help on why it could be doing this? I really don't want to switch to the Sims 4 lmao.
Mac sepcifications:
MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2017, Two Thunderbolt 3 ports)
Graphics: Intel Iris Plus Graphics 640 1536 MB
@soph4332 As an experiment, try turning down the lighting and trees settings to the minimum. (Do so at the Main Menu, then quit to desktop before loading a save.) If that doesn't help, test in fullscreen or windowed mode, whichever one you haven't been using.
If neither of these makes a difference, please attach your deviceconfig.log to a post; it's in Documents > Electronic Arts > The Sims 3. You'll need to manually open the folders; the file won't show up in a search. You can delete your user and computer names, about 25 lines down, but there's nothing else in that file that can identify you.
