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RoyEvan22's avatar
6 years ago

Catalina on Mac

Is anyone having problems starting their sims on the new Catalina on Mac? Mine won't start
  • I hear you @Lizz1013. I wish EA would post an official bulletin to the forums on this issue. Some people have mentioned things they’ve heard on what to do. I think I have over 20 generations at this point, so I haven’t even wanted to launch it just to risk losing everything. Haven’t even played since I’ve upgraded to Catalina.

    I mean, I’m not too upset I can’t watch Sims ignore my beautiful oceanview dining area in order to eat dinner in the bathroom.

    Can’t say I miss them taking an hour to come back in the house after returning from another failed GTW detective career. One where the only “perp” that ever fit the description was that Baby Ariel. Finally arrested that denim jacket wearing, high ponytailed game-crashing-gal and the career bugged out from there. Couldn’t interrogate her, couldn’t restart the case.

    Probably don’t miss having to mash the “Go Home” button 47x for them to leave The Shrieking Llama.

    But would be nice to have it work. To ya Mac naysayers, Catalina is quite the beautiful paradise of an OS, otherwise.

    Also, for any naysayers, I’ve been playing since Sims 1 and PC has been nothing but a crash mess of trouble. Sims 3 and 4 have run beautifully, and pleasantly without issue on any Mac I’ve ever owned.
  • "Dianesims;c-17287215" wrote:
    And now that I read that I won’t upgrade to Catalina.


    I mean, Catalina is pretty dope tho.
  • Catalina is pretty cool. We're just still in the adjustment period *glares at security apps having issues with Catalina's security programming* I mean... :/

    For anyone who does still have issues starting or running the game, the troubleshooting thread helps: https://answers.ea.com/t5/Technical-Issues-Mac/Info-The-Sims-4-macOS-Catalina-Troubleshooting/m-p/8291917#M20883
    (in my case, repeatedly, because something else is going wonky besides the main issue)