Re: [WORKAROUND] game/Mac freezes on Apple silicon Macs

@kiki8138

Please see the solution on page 1.

Hi everyone,

My new Mac finally arrived today so I could test the game on it. This is the Mac, it's the bog-standard 13" MacBook Air with no upgrades, 8-core CPU and 7-core GPU:

Origin and the game happily installed and I had no freezing whilst in CAS or leaving CAS and loading into a Lot. My in-game default options:

For those of you having to enable Vsync in order to get the game to work I have a couple of questions, just out of curiosity:

• Did you use a Time Machine backup or Migration Assistant to copy stuff over from your old Mac including the game installation?
• Did you start the game with a brand new Sims 4 folder or did you use an existing one?
• Did you change any of the default graphics options before loading into CAS?
• Could you please post here a copy/paste of this section of the Config.log file in Documents > Electronic Arts > The Sims 4 

  === Graphics device info ===
  Number:          0
  Name (driver):   Unknown Unknown
  Name (database): AMD Radeon R9 370 and 8800 Series [Found: 1, Supported: 1]
  Vendor:          ATI
  Chipset:         Vendor: 1002, Device: 6810, Board: 00000000, Chipset: 0000
  Driver:          macOS Metal driver, Version: 0.0.0.0
  Driver version:  0
  Monitor:         FD626D62
  Texture memory:  5461MB
  Vertex program:  3.0
  Pixel program:   3.0
  Hardware TnL:    0
  Opt. features:   -d24s8