Catalina on Mac

"CIASimtridge;c-17275367" wrote:
I am having issues as well and getting very frustrated. My game initially would not start and the error message came up when I would try so I deleted the sims off of my laptop and re-downloaded them all. After that the game worked to load but freezes after a few minutes of play with the spinning rainbow circle and when I go to force quit it says that the program is not responding.

Have you tried to disable Origin In-Game? There's an issue with that which causes freezing (it's mentioned in the troubleshooting post I linked earlier).