Kernel Panic TS4 Crashing on MacOS Catalina
Hello everyone, I have read most of the topics on the forum and read tons of articles regarding to this crash. The main problem is that when it comes to load neighborhood it crashes and I see nothin...
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@death-flower246
Thanks for the more detailed info (I've merged your other post into this one).
It's highly likely that your Mac is crashing and restarting because it is overheating. Sims 4 is a resource heavy game that needs a good processor and decent graphics card. Your MacBook is incredibly underpowered to play the game and doesn't have a fan to cool it down. When it gets too hot the operating system throttles power to the game to stop it overheating, but this will have a limit. When you push it too hard it will crash and turn itself off to protect the hardware from damage. Computers get hot, very hot, when playing games on them. MacBooks are great computers for what they were designed for but gaming was not one of them. If you carry on putting your Mac through this you could cause irreparable damage to the components.
Thanks for the more detailed info (I've merged your other post into this one).
It's highly likely that your Mac is crashing and restarting because it is overheating. Sims 4 is a resource heavy game that needs a good processor and decent graphics card. Your MacBook is incredibly underpowered to play the game and doesn't have a fan to cool it down. When it gets too hot the operating system throttles power to the game to stop it overheating, but this will have a limit. When you push it too hard it will crash and turn itself off to protect the hardware from damage. Computers get hot, very hot, when playing games on them. MacBooks are great computers for what they were designed for but gaming was not one of them. If you carry on putting your Mac through this you could cause irreparable damage to the components.
@Bluebellflora Hello, thank you for your replies and merging this topic. The most upsetting and weird thing is that I have never had this crash before. In comparison to TS3, TS4 provided me much more lightweight gaming experience which I liked it most for. It slightly feels like the softwares are overlapping as it crashes just like in the same second as if it crashes when reading the same command line (not sure what overlaps while loading the household) Yesterday I played it for hours but now I am not able to load neighborhood. ☹️ Hope every simmer in this forum may have a solution for that. ☹️
- @death-flower246
Yes, it may be something happening in the game which is more resource heavy and therefore demanding more from your Mac. Have you installed CC which could be causing it?
I would be more concerned about the potential damage being done to my Mac through overheating and restarting though.- @Bluebellflora Hello, I have never used CC in my game since I left TS3. Do you think that reinstalling Mac OS may bring a solution? I am researching on Mac Os Catalina overheating issues which I have heard affecting even the latest MacBook pro models. Or should I downgrade my OS?
You can’t compare your MacBook to a MacBook Pro. The current models and previous 15” have powerful 6-core and 8-core processors and dedicated AMD 4GB or 8GB GPUs, your MacBook has a low spec dual core Intel mobile processor with an integrated graphics chip and no internal fan to cool it down. 15” and 16” MacBook Pros have two fans and multiple vents. Your issue isn’t the OS, it is the limitations of your Mac hardware.
If I had your MacBook I wouldn’t have the game anywhere near it and especially now that it’s displaying overheating symptoms. But that’s me, it’s your Mac 🙂
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