[PARTIAL FIX] Sims 4 CAS cursor glitch
Some users are reporting one or all of the following issues in CAS which suddenly seem to appear between playing sessions (thanks to @13Vaderfor the video)
When editing a body part the cursor wi...
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@Jobazzle and anyone else in this thread still experiencing this issue.....
Could you reset the NVRAM/PRAM on your Mac and see if that helps? https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT204063
If it doesn't help reset the SMC too https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT201295
Make sure you have a backup of your Mac and no external drives/keyboards etc. are plugged into your Mac. Resetting is usually safe but always back up to be on the safe side 🙂
Please report back with how you get on.
@Bluebellflora Have done the PRAM/NVRAM and SMC resets many times (for other issue not sims related) many times since this issue started, none have any effect on the sims cursor issue.
- @twmuse
It was a long shot but thanks for confirming. Having to reset so much is odd though as you shouldn't have to do it a lot. Do you think any of the other reasons you've had to do it could be related?@BluebellfloraCompletely unrelated things, The "Reset" is the standard Apple response to almost any issue. And I have gotten into the habit (since my first Macintosh 512Ke) of doing the resets after any OS upgrade, just to make sure all is cleared out for the new OS.
There is no doubt this started with High Sierra on mainly Intel GPU macs, it also happened with Photoshop (Apple almost immediately put out a patch to fix it for that), many other games and programs also had an issue with cursor behavior show up at the same time.
I have had a bug report open since October 14, 2017, with Apple, related to X-Plane 10, that this issue made unusable, Apple never has fixed it, some user eventually figured out that increasing the cursor size by a little fixed the issue in X-Plane 10, and when X-Plane 11 came out, Laminar somehow fixed it in their code, of course they would not tell any average user what they did to fix it. And sadly the cursor size increase does not work on the Sims 4.
But obviously all these cursor issues are related to something Apple changed about the Cursor behavior between Sierra and High Sierra. Sadly since it only seems to effect those that cannot afford the "Top of the line, newest, best..." macs, Apple seems to not really care.
- @twmuse
And it works so well 🙂
Intel chips really aren't designed for gaming and high performance rendering. 99% of the graphics issues I've come across over the years with the Sims have been down to underpowered Intel chips so the fact that this issue only affects Macs with Intel is no real surprise. It's a shame but hopefully the Metal upgrade is going to help a bit in the future.
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