Sims 3 keep crashing on mac

6vbonplh58b6  When you say you're playing on the lowest graphics settings, have you also disabled Advanced Rendering?  It's a check box with the other settings.  If it's enabled, disable it at the Main Menu, then quit to desktop before loading a save.  It would be good to enable object hiding as well.

Additionally, were you playing this save when you had more expansions installed?  Removing an EP from an existing save can and will corrupt that save.  (Stuff packs are fine to remove, although you'll get missing objects warnings.)  The only way to play without an EP you were previously using is to start a new save.

Aside from that, would you be willing to add a few mods?  Whether they'd help depends in large part on the cause of the crashing—an in-game issue could be fixed with the right mod, while a graphics issue would not be.  If you don't want to use mods, that's fine, but it's worth asking.

puzzlezaddict 

firstly, thank you for the fast reply!

i did have enabled Advanced Rendering, i disabled it as you said. and i had enabled object hiding.

when i had all EP and Stuff pack installed i was playing on different lot, but the same save, i was uninstalling it one by one as i read somewhere they might be too „heavy” for my mac. i got missing object warning as i was using some stuff from buy mode, but not really playing the EP (i didnt own any pets, no one goes to university) but if this will help, i can start new save :) 

i dont mind using mods if they will help with the game, honestly i wasnt using anything because i was worried game will keep crashing even more. can you recommend any mods that could help me?

6vbonplh58b6  Please test a new save with this set of expansions.  As said, an existing save will be corrupted if you try to play it forward after removing an EP.

If you want suggestions for mods, please start here:

Sims 3 - Common Game Fixing Mods - Hero Approved | EA Forums - 8291748

The mods in this post are all extensively tested and all work with the 64-bit Mac version of Sims 3.  I personally would never play without them.  The mods in the next two posts, I'd list as recommended rather than almost essential.  Feel free to ask more questions about any or all of them.

I will try everything and let know if its worked for me 🙂 thank you!

puzzlezaddicti got mods you recommended and it made huge difference with how game is running, im amazed.. but after 40min on new save game crashed ☹️ 

6vbonplh58b6  Do you see a scripterror in Documents > Electronic Arts > The Sims 3 with a time stamp that matches the crash?  If so, it might give you an idea of what triggered the crash.  Feel free to post it here, or better yet, you can take it to the NRaas site and ask for help.  I have some ability to read these files, but not at the level of the current NRaas developer or a couple other helpers there.

This only applies to a scripterror that was generated at the time of the crash or immediately before.  A file from when you initially loaded the game wouldn't be helpful here, as it's almost certainly unrelated and would likely be a simple correction log, a report of ErrorTrap doing its job.

If you're not sure when the game crashed, look for an xcpt file, which would have been created at the time of the crash.  So any scripterror roughly matching that time would be relevant.

There are plenty of reasons the game would crash that wouldn't generate a scripterror though.  In that case, were you playing with the laptop plugged in, or running from battery?  Is iCloud Drive running on your computer, and if so, is it syncing the contents of Documents?  You can check in System Settings > Apple ID > iCloud Drive Options; any folder checked off is being synced.  Please do NOT start syncing Documents & Desktop if you're not already doing so; this is simply a question of whether iCloud is in play already.

puzzlezaddict 
this is the scripterror that generated minutes before the crash

-- Correction Logs -- Destroyed Object Found: Sims3.Gameplay.Objects.Door.DoorSingleStenciledGlassMission Destroyed Object Found: Sims3.Gameplay.Objects.Door.DoorFrenchTwoTile Destroyed Object Found: Sims3.Gameplay.Objects.Door.DoorSlidingPatio SimDescription Removed: Lucas Flores SimDescription Removed: Elena Flores SimDescription Removed: Antonio Flores SimDescription Removed: Enola Curious SimDescription Removed: Kepler Curious SimDescription Removed: Margarita Flores SimDescription Removed: Eliza Cranky Loaded Assemblies: NRaasErrorTrap: Version 100 NRaasMasterController: Version 135 NRaasOverwatch: Version 123 NRaasRegister: Version 81 NRaasTraffic: Version 21 NRaasTraveler: Version 88 ScriptCore SimIFace Sims3GameplayObjects Sims3GameplaySystems Sims3Metadata Sims3StoreObjects StoreObjectsTreeOfProsperity System System.Xml UI mscorlib
i will also post on Nraas, thank you for suggestion 

about other things you were asking, yes I was playing on laptop pugged in, and iCloud is synced to Documents & Desktop

6vbonplh58b6  This is a correction log, nothing to worry about and just ErrorTrap letting you know it's doing its job.

For the game itself, try playing with your computer offline.  You can sign into the EA App and put it in offline mode, then disable wifi before pressing Play.