My sims3 game runs slow on my mac
OK so I have a macbook pro that runs all my adobe suite without any trouble but for SOME REASON sims3 is so slow its unbearable to play, its like watching grass grow. the sim will pause for like 3 minutes before completing a task and it is so obnoxious. I am really frustrated because I spent a lot of money on this and I would love to play it because I love the game.
Memory with the game is handled terribly for Mac Simmers because the game uses Cider. Cider tells the game our systems are running a 32-bit WinXP system with only 2gb of RAM (even though are Mac specs are better than that!) so that it's "compatible" for our system. If you haven't already, turn down all the visual effects and turn off both advanced rendering and disable the smoothing option. that should help with the lag.
I'm not sure how much troubleshooting you've already tried, but here's some advice:
If you actually want to "play" the game as it's supposed to work, then get a PC or Bootcamp & Windows for your Mac. The game is not natively written for our systems (I have a mid-2009 Macbook Pro). As long as EA uses Cider, a "wrapper" for the game that enables Macs to play Windows games, it's going to crash with memory issues.
Do not follow EA game advisors' advice without taking into account that many times their advice is wrong for Mac users and can harm our systems. Just use common sense when it comes to their "advice."
Here are two good posts from the Sims 3 Mac forum that have a couple of useful "band-aids" to get the game to play longer before it crashes/ reduce lag:
-- http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/658546.page
-- http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/611723.page
