Sims 3 freezing on Mac

I have a problem similar to this. My game loads quick, and the gameplay is very smooth and quick. When I go into CAS to begin creating a household, it continues to be quick with no lag, and then all of the sudden my game freezes. I attempt to move my mouse and the mouse turns into the regular mouse for mac instead of the cartoon sims 3 mouse. After it turns into the mac mouse, I can't move my mouse at all. My game is completely frozen. I can't even open force quit with cmd + opt + esc. I do notice that when my game freezes, my mac has become very hot, maybe overheating.  By this point I have to shut down my computer with the power button on my keyboard, which I understand could be very harmful to my mac. Im wondering what if the freezing problem has anything to do with heat/overheating, and if so, what can I

do about it?

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@dangermouses19 wrote:

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 quite a few times now and each time it freezes a few minutes into the game - CAS seems to be a big problem, especially when the mouse goes over store content. The most recent time I tried to play the game the game stopped completely and I received this error message "Unhandled page fault on write access to 0x00000000 at address 0x7c471701. Do you wish to debug it?"

 

After looking in the forums it looks as if Sims 3 games are hardly compatible with Mac at all and there are all sorts of issues, I couldnt find any solutions! Can anyone help? I don't think I'll need to reinstall as this was a fresh installation today!

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