[CURRENT ISSUE] Freezing, possible system lockup on Macs with AMD Vega GPUs

I am starting a new thread by request of the EA support agent I spoke with this morning. I realize there are multiple threads discussing this issue already.

Despite the 10/2020 update the game continues to freeze sporadically, often triggered with camera angle changes (this originally began after the 9/2020 update). 

My original post is below:

“It seems that the game will have short periods of freezing/unresponsiveness, sometimes bouncing back to working and other times outright freezing and becoming unresponsive. Sometimes the screen becomes scattered with black dots and has even turned red. I am forced to shut down my computer. I don't get any error messages/last exceptions.

There is no rhyme or reason to it either - I could be putting a sim on a treadmill, sending a sim to the restroom or doing something in build mode. Sometimes it doesn't happen for 30 minutes, sometimes it happens in 10 minutes. 

I initially thought it was my save game but this happens across different save games and persisted despite removing all mods, repairing the game and finally doing a reinstall. 

In my several months of playing on this computer this has never happened. No game settings have been changed either. I have had the same graphic settings for months (ultra).

My Mac specs are as follows:

Mac (Retina 4K, 21.5-inch, 2019)

3 GHz 6-Core Intel Core i5

16 GB 2667 MHz DDR4

Radeon Pro Vega 20 4 GB

Also to note: I typically have Origin in offline mode, and basically have everything turned off (e.g., in game Origin, notifications etc).”

Hope we can get more attention on this as this is extremely frustrating for us Mac users, especially when everything was working fine prior to the 9/2020 update.