lots won't load
I've been having this issue for the past few days. Whenever I go to any household, in any neighborhood, in any lot, in any of my saved games the lot won't load. One of these three things happens instead:
1. The screen turns black
2. Sims 4 stops responding
3. The game crashes
This happens even when my mods are disabled. I have a macbook pro that I recently updated to El Capitan (10.11.6, yes I know I am super behind on updating my laptop). What can I do to fix this?
For the greyed out play button, bouncing game in Dock, and other issues, you can try this:
- In your Applications folder right click on the Sims 4 app and select Show Package Contents.
- Navigate to Contents > Mac OS.
- Right click on The Sims 4 and select Move to Trash. Don't drag the file as it will only move an alias and leave the original in place. If there is another file in the folder, The Sims 4.par, leave it alone.
- Now open Origin, click on The Sims 4 in your Games Library and click on Download.
You should also disable Origin in-game which can fix the bouncing icon issue.
There is also a Sims 4 Mac help thread stickied on this forum which has all these tips in it 🙂 https://answers.ea.com/t5/The-Sims-Mac/READ-FIRST-Sims-4-Mac-Help-Guides-and-Troubleshooting/m-p/4612394
Clearing the cache for Origin on Macs doesn't really do much which is why EA made the great little Origin reset tool for us - https://help.ea.com/en-gb/help/origin/origin/how-to-reset-origin-on-mac/
