Sims 3 Crashing on Mac
Hi all, I'm not sure what the issue is with my game. I play on a Mac that I've had for only about 2 years, using origin. My Sims 3 game has a few expansions - late night, generations, supernatural a...
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@rif3j0qhpi1h Deleting a sim is a great way to corrupt a save. The cheat only deletes the sim's body, not the rest of their data, which remains and can wreak havoc as time goes on. So if you have a backup save from before you deleted the sim, please revert to it.
For the rest, how did you move your sims to the new town? Do you use any mods or custom content? If so, let me know what; you can post screenshots of the files if listing them would take too long. Please use cmd-shift-4 to take the screenshots.
Hi @puzzlezaddict , thank you for the response!
I moved the sims to the new town using the in game options - I don't have any mods or custom content downloaded at all.
I think you're right about the deleting sim thing! I deleted my sim's imaginary friend a while back, so that's probably why it started crashing in the first place.
I don't think I have a back-up save, but thank you helping me with this anyway.
If I delete the game and reinstall it, will that fix the issue? I know my sims will be gone but I don't mind restarting.
@rif3j0qhpi1h This issue has nothing to do with the install; only the save data is affected. If you want to abandon the save, that's easy enough. Start a new save and it should be fine. Just make sure you're loading only that save, that you're not switching between saves at the Main Menu. That should never be done for any reason—it's an excellent way to corrupt the second save you load.
If you'd like to try to rescue some sims from this save, you can save the household to the library and place it in a new save. If you want to keep the house, save it separately. So you'd evict the sims in Edit Town, not with their house, then save them from there, and possibly save the house too if you want.
An imaginary friend that has never animated can be safely object-deleted. One that has animated, as in, you get the "wants to look around" notification, has become an actual sim and can only be deleted with mods, just like other sims.
Thank you @puzzlezaddict - I've saved the sims the way you said, the house too.
Do you think it would be okay to delete the old game/save? And then start a new game/save without any corruption.
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