Re: Launcher crashes when I open the downloads tab in Sims 3

Hello everyone,

The Sims 3 Launcher has been giving me major trouble on my MacBook Air M1 (2020) with macOS Sequoia 15.5.

The launcher always crashes and the Downloads tab won't even open when I place a.sims3pack file in the Downloads folder, whether it's official Store purchases or custom material. I've tried windowed mode, restarted the game, updated macOS, and cleaned my cache files, but to no avail.

Sims 3's 32-bit launcher appears to be incompatible with contemporary Mac configurations, particularly those with M1 CPUs, yet EA support keeps providing me unhelpful basic steps.

Has anyone else had this problem and resolved it? Any guidance or assistance would be greatly appreciated. If converting files to.package format is the only option, I'm willing to do it.

Thank you ahead of time!


Specifications: Using the Origin/EA App; macOS Sequoia 15.5; MacBook Air M1 (2020), 8GB RAM