The Sims 3 Season keeps crashing on my MAC HELP!!!
I have the latest MAC Pro model and it doesn't make since it keeps crashing. I even tried on my Dell computer and it crashed. Can someone help me please!? How did you guys get it to work on MAC?
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This is a problem for me as well. I have pretty much the top of the line iMac (spec'd up everything when purchasing, chose Fusion Drive 3TB as my drive though) so it shouldn't be a problem specs wise.
What's going on?
There's nothing you can do; there's no solution to most Mac crashing. 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.pageWell it was fine until I installed the last two EP.
I don't know about anybody else but I feel I have had the raw end of the stick by EA.
If you advertise the game for Mac, it should run properly. If it doesn't work properly, then don't advertise it for Mac at all.
I'm OK (not happy, but OK) to install the game on my Bootcamp partition and play through Parallels, but not OK with EA's false advertising, which it pretty much is.
If there is an EA advisor reading this, please pass on to your superiors and programmers: shame!
@perrypwong wrote:Well it was fine until I installed the last two EP.
I don't know about anybody else but I feel I have had the raw end of the stick by EA.
If you advertise the game for Mac, it should run properly. If it doesn't work properly, then don't advertise it for Mac at all.
I'm OK (not happy, but OK) to install the game on my Bootcamp partition and play through Parallels, but not OK with EA's false advertising, which it pretty much is.
If there is an EA advisor reading this, please pass on to your superiors and programmers: shame!
EA advisors don't read these forums. If you want to complain, here's a link to contact them: https://help.ea.com/en/contact-us/ask
Also, here is a post explaining how to navigate the contact page since it can be confusing: http://sims3.crinrict.com/en/2012/10/how-to-contact-ea.html
Best of luck.
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