Hello.
It turns out there was indeed a fix for this issue in todays' patch (Mac version 1.95.207.1230), but we accidentally failed to mention it in the patch notes.
Happy Simming!
@mrstank30 wrote:
It is not safe to play the game and repeatedly force quit.
Why?
@mrstank30 wrote:
@Bluebellflora Call apple and ask them, they can explain in depth like they did to me. Force quit is not something that should be used on a regular basis. It is not a work around and can damage your machine. If there is a repeated problem, I was told the problem should be fixed once you are aware of it. Now if you have a cheap machine and don't care if it's damaged, then okay, but I don't and I seriously doubt EA is going to pay to replace it if something happens. I feel it's best to listen to apple. EA needs to correct the errors they have in this game making it unplayable and it should NOT repeatedly crash like this. Let me know if you need the number for apple support. 🙂
Nope. You seem to be confusing Force Quitting an app with forcing a shutdown of the machine.
Force Quit may corrupt the app but only the app, not the hardware. In this case a repair of the game in Origin would likely fix any corruption of the game, as I have previously mentioned in this thread. Worst case, the user would need to re-download the game if a repair didn’t fix it.
Forcing the machine to shutdown regularly and repeatedly is not good and can potentially damage the hardware but that is not relevant for this specific Intel Mac/Ventura/Sims 4 problem.
This problem is super annoying and it’s very frustrating that a fix hasn’t been patched in yet but there’s no need to over dramatise it and worry other users unnecessarily about their Macs.
Is there a solution yet? I know the force quit doesn't put stress on the machine like that however I have hard drive that's definitely unhappy. I'm kinda losing faith on the sims at this point.
@mrstank30
Again, Force Quitting an app DOES NOT risk damaging or corrupting the machine. Please stop posting this misinformation.
Force Quit and forcing a hard restart of the machine are not the same thing.
Whatever problems you personally have had with your machine would not be down to force quitting an app. It’s possible that you have had damaged hardware which can cause apps to hang due to OS instability (this is not the case with Sims 4 running on Intel Macs running Ventura) but again, using Force Quit to close an app does not damage the hardware.
