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Moved your post to the Mac tech forum.
Please can you provide more information about your Mac. Instructions on how to do so and what to provide here - http://answers.ea.com/t5/The-Sims-Mac/READ-FIRST-Sims-4-Mac-Help-Guides-and-Troubleshooting/m-p/4612396/highlight/true#M162
The amount of RAM you have will not have a bearing on the fan speed. That is controlled by the OS to mitigate overheating caused by the workload to the CPU, and dedicated GPU if you have one. If you can provide the specs it will help.
Model Name: iMac
Model Identifier: iMac19,1
Processor Name: 6-Core Intel Core i5
Processor Speed: 3 GHz
Number of Processors: 1
Total Number of Cores: 6
L2 Cache (per Core): 256 KB
L3 Cache: 9 MB
Memory: 8 GB
System Firmware Version: 1554.80.3.0.0
SMC Version (system): 2.46f12
Hardware UUID: 0F8E6095-E35E-5BC7-9B87-191D9253B8F2
Provisioning UDID: 0F8E6095-E35E-5BC7-9B87-191D9253B8F2
Thanks so much! At least I know what processor I have now, must have missed this las time I looked in the About this Mac box! Interesting what you said about the issue with the fan. Hope this help throw more light on things and thanks again! 🙂
- Bluebellflora5 years agoHero+@Gednaa
Thanks but I just need the info in About This Mac, hardware overview doesn’t provide a full picture.- Gednaa5 years agoSeasoned Ace
@BluebellfloraDoh! Silly me. I see...
Mac OS Big Sur
Version 11.2.1
iMac (Retina 5k 27-inch, 2019
Processor 3GHz 6-Core Intel Core i5
Memory 8GB 2667 MHz DDR4
Graphics Radeon Pro 57OX 4GBI have No antivirus as my BT McAfee stopped working with Big Sur, but I'll be getting on asap! I have tried without mods, but the problem persists. Cleaned cache. Turned off as many background apps as I can, but still a very hot computer. Moved all my photos and videos to iCloud.
Thanks again.
- Bluebellflora5 years agoHero+@Gednaa
Thanks 🙂
I have a 2019 iMac too:
27” 2019 5k
macOS 11.2
3.6 GHz 8-core i9
8GB AMD Radeon Pro 580X
32 GB RAM
and the fans are noisy for me too because of the way I play. I play in windowed mode at a very high resolution. The game runs great though and I can have it playing for hours.
You would need to lower the graphics settings in-game so less power is required from the GPU, hence less heat produced and therefore less work for the fans to do.
If you wanted to upgrade the RAM it is very easy to do yourself. I bought mine with 8GB and immediately upgraded to 32GB.
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