Sims 3 freezing on Mac
I've recently bought a new Imac (released late last year) and I've been looking forward to playing my Sims 3 games on it (I've historically only ever played the Sims on a PC). I've loaded the game qu...
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There is no solution, but here's some advice:
If you actually want to "play" the game as it's supposed to work, then get a PC or Bootcamp & Windows for your Mac. The game is not natively written for our systems (I have a mid-2009 Macbook Pro). As long as EA uses Cider, a "wrapper" for the game that enables Macs to play Windows games, it's going to crash with memory issues.
Do not follow EA game advisors' advice without taking into account that many times their advice is wrong for Mac users and can harm our systems. If EA's customer support tells you to open Activity Monitor and quit processes - DO NOT DO IT. Your Mac will freeze resulting in you needing to power it off using the Power button which can be harmful. This is the first "solution" they tell all Mac users to do. Just use common sense when it comes to their "advice."
Here are two good posts from the Sims 3 Mac forum that have a couple of useful "band-aids" to get the game to work temporarily:
-- http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/658546.page
-- http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/611723.page
Best of luck in your battle to play the Sims 3.
Thanks gaa17 that's really helpful - I just can't believe EA sell a product for MAC users when it isn't made to work on our system!
On my new iMac doesn't work too, try all the possibilities and advices, spent money on all the games and will probably suit them for misleading everybody that is suitable for Macs. The game is doing all possible problem without working correctly.
On my new iMac doesn't work too, try all the possibilities and advices, spent money on all the games and will probably suit them for misleading everybody that is suitable for Macs. The game is doing all possible problem without working correctly.
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