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izlvroze
12 years ago

The Sims 3 Crashing!

I have The Sims 3 installed on my MacBook pro, OS X 10.8.3 with 167.92GB/250.14GB free, with The Sims 3; World Adventures, High-End Loft Stuff, Ambitions, Fast Lane Stuff, Late Night, Generations, Town Life Stuff, Pets, Master Suite Stuff, Showtime, Sweet Treats, Diesel Stuff, Supernatural, Seasons, 70's 80's & 90's Stuff and University Life installed, running on version 18.0.126.021001 with no mods or custom content installed.

 

When I play The Sims 3, I can load my game without any problems, but when I enter CAS the game freezes, I can not Command+Tab to exit the window, the only thing I can do is restart the computer manually. I have reset my caches and it has done nothing. I have reinstalled my Sims games from the base game, multiple times, I have downloaded all the patches I need but nothing has helped. Along with CAS causing the game to freeze, the game will shut at random without any notification. I'm lost with what to do, as I have put money in to these games and they do not work long enough for me to actually be able to use them.

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  • gaa17's avatar
    gaa17
    12 years ago

    There's nothing you can do; there's no solution to most Mac crashing.  Crashing in CAS (without having any CC or mods) is most likely to due to the fact that CAS requires a lot more resources/memory than playing the game.  Memory with the game is handled terribly with Mac Simmers because the game uses Cider.  Cider tells the game our systems are running a 32-bit WinXP system with only 2gb of RAM (even though are Mac specs are better than that!) so that it's "compatible" for our system.  This means our games freeze and crash a lot more often than Windows players because it's easy to use up all the memory it thinks we have available.    

    I'm not sure how much troubleshooting you've already tried, 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. 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


    Also, it's better to play in Windowed mode so that if it crashes, you don't have to restart your whole computer.  When it freezes press Command - Option - Escape simultaneously to pull up the menu of applications you have running and force close the Sims.  

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