I've been running the game flawlessly on my (Metal capable) Mac on Ultra settings for years. With and without mods.
Since the update, launching the game causes a complete lockup and crash of my Mac resulting in a hard reboot.
Game launches, I click on New game, and it starts loading - spinning beachball, then hard lockup without error and Mac restarts.
It appears that the game is crashing my GPU:
Console shows a bunch of crash reports:
com.ea.origin.ESHelper_2020-11-26-054610_Mac-Pro.crash (x5)
OriginClient_2020-11-26-181141_Mac-Pro.wakeups_resource.diag
Kernel_2020-11-26-181732_Mac-Pro.gpuRestart (x20)
System.log:
Nov 26 18:17:38 Mac-Pro kernel[0]: Trying to restart GPU (AMD Radeon HD 7950)...
Nov 26 18:17:38 Mac-Pro WindowServer[209]: GPU Driver appears to be hung (over 5 continuous seconds of unreadiness)
Nov 26 18:17:40 --- last message repeated 208 times ---
Total reinstall/repair, created new EA/Sims folder, no mods.
I even tried installing Legacy Edition... same result.
Computer Details
Computer: Mac Pro
Model: MacPro5,1 (Mid 2010)
OS Version: 10.11.6 (Metal)
Processors: 2x 6-Core Intel Xeon
Processor Speed: 2.66 GHz
Processor Core Number: 12
RAM: 32 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 ECC
GPU: AMD Radeon HD 7950
GPU VRAM: 3072 MB
