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Bluebellflora
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5 years ago
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[CURRENT ISSUE] Freezing, possible system lockup on Macs with AMD Vega GPUs

Since the September patch, 1.66.139.1220, Mac users with AMD Vega graphics cards have reported game crashing/freezing, eternal beach balling and complete system lockup when playing the Sims 4. This i...
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    Bluebellflora
    5 years ago

    This issue now seems to be fixed in the 1.68.154.1220 November 2020 patch.

    Thanks all for confirming it now seems to be fixed. If you start experiencing issues again please post 🙂

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RJBlain
5 years ago

Also, I never play in Windowed mode, so anything dealing with windowed mode can be eliminated, and my game is mostly set up to default settings, and I have no mods installed at current. The only options I've changed is making sims live long lives.

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RJBlain
5 years ago

Well, I got an hour of play testing in before it crashed again this time. So updating significantly helped but didn’t fully fix. Buuuttt, I can live with that. Here’s hoping EA fixes their game more than adds new bugs with the next patch. Oy. 

and no I couldn’t get any screenshots. System completely froze and became non-responsive. 

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