The Sims 3 64-Bit Keeps Crashing on Mac

Hi! Hope you're doing well, thanks for helping everyone out! Like everyone else, I'm having trouble with the Sims 3 crashing on mac randomly. I actually gave up on the game for a few years, but I recently moved Sims 4 onto a 1tb hardrive which helped that game so I figured I would try Sims 3 too. It worked amazing and I played the game yesterday (new save, deleted the old ones from main menu in game since it had been years since I'd play since anyway) for like 6 hours. Then randomly it just crashed. I wasn't loading a world, in build mode, or CAS (all of those worked fine when I was in it though).

I have no cc's, mods, etc. I have seen your suggestion about starting from a completely new EA folder, and I'll try it if you really want me too, but being that the game can be played for so long without crashing it would be a big time investment. I'm going to play it again today to see how long it lasts now that I would be loading a save.

Computer specs:

13 inch 2017 macbook pro

Processor: 2.3 GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i5

Graphics: Intel Iris Plus Graphics 640 1536 MB

Memory: 8 GB 2133 MHz LPDDR3

macOS: 13.4.1 (c) (22F770820d)

Startup disk = mac HD

The laptop itself has 250b but the game is now pulling from a 1tb samsung SSD. Is it just the case that I might just have to save frequently to play the game, or do you think there is an actual fixable problem? I think I'm going to try playing offline, not sure if this just means Origin the app being offline or like turning off my wifi completely? I will do both. 

Please let me know if you need more information, thank you!