Hello! I have a Macbook 2017 and play the Sims on that via Origin. I had made a post about this on the Technical Issues - PC server but after publishing it I cannot find it. My game has no cc, no mods. I have an issue of the game crashing after gameplay or freezing so I'd have to force quit it. After reading this thread: https://answers.ea.com/t5/Technical-Issues-PC/FAQ-Sims-4-Crashes/td-p/3586547 I read about Startup crashes ("These crashes either occur right away on loading or within the first 5 minutes"). Under it a few possible causes were listed, and one of them was "Server Hiccups --> Put Origin/Game in offline mode". I realized the freezing and game crashes during gameplay were occuring after I'd gone online in CAS for gallery reasons. I couldn't figure out the issue, and played offline. For about 20 minutes the game didn't crash, which had been happening within a minute of gameplay every time I re-entered the game, but then it froze and I had to force quit. I'm not sure how to resolve this, I think it's a server issue for sure because I saw a few ppl were having this issue as well. I've put two of my crash reports below, one from being online and the most recent one that happened after I went offline. Any help is greatly appreciated!The crash report from my last play today before I went offline (aka was online):<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><report><version>2</version><sessionid>15a6ee6e091ab32363856a21</sessionid><type>crash</type><sku>ea.maxis.sims4.15.mac</sku><createtime>2022-11-29 02:18:42</createtime><buildsignature>Local.Unknown.Unknown.1.93.146.1220-1.300.000.149.Release</buildsignature><systemconfig></systemconfig><categoryid> 0xfe1f40</categoryid><stack> 0xfe1f40 0x3dfd</stack><threads></threads><screenshot></screenshot><memdump></memdump><contextdata>Client Session Time: 481.32 Num Save Errors: 0 Num Load Errors: 0 Current Game State: 0xbe7da869 Game Sub-state: 0x1020b807 LoadingScreenActiveFlag: 0 Origin Version: 10,5,116,52122 Modded: False SystemInfo: Mac OS X Version 10.16 (Build 21F79) GPU: Intel HD Graphics 615 macOS Metal driver 0.0.0.0 (baseaddr) 0x10da49000,'The Sims 4' 0x7ff81496e000,'libsystem_platform.dylib'(/baseaddr)</contextdata></report>The crash report from my last play today AFTER I went offline:<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><report><version>2</version><sessionid>6fba1bf1aa5a73fc638566b4</sessionid><type>crash</type><sku>ea.maxis.sims4.15.mac</sku><createtime>2022-11-29 01:59:27</createtime><buildsignature>Local.Unknown.Unknown.1.93.146.1220-1.300.000.149.Release</buildsignature><systemconfig></systemconfig><categoryid> 0xfe1f40</categoryid><stack> 0xfe1f40 0x3dfd</stack><threads></threads><screenshot></screenshot><memdump></memdump><contextdata>Client Session Time: 203.20 Num Save Errors: 0 Num Load Errors: 0 Current Game State: 0xbe7da869 Game Sub-state: 0x1020b807 LoadingScreenActiveFlag: 0 Origin Version: 10,5,116,52122 Modded: False SystemInfo: Mac OS X Version 10.16 (Build 21F79) GPU: Intel HD Graphics 615 macOS Metal driver 0.0.0.0 (baseaddr) 0x10c7cc000,'The Sims 4' 0x7ff81496e000,'libsystem_platform.dylib'(/baseaddr)</contextdata></report>

@Bluebellflora I've updated to Monterey 12.6.1 Here are my Mac specifics (attached). I just had my laptop sent to AppleCare about a lil over a month ago for aesthetic clean-up (keyboard, screen) and it came back beginning of November working just fine. I can tell they replaced the entire keyboard, audio, screen, back cover of the screen, but not the bottom of my computer that's screwed in because that's the only part that still has dents.I already play the game on the lowest available graphic settings. I haven't added any new content since August of this year. Haven't bought any packs, kits, nothing since August. This problem just started. I've tried playing on a clean sims 4 folder but it won't really load well past the tutorial stage, and I'm not sure if it's my saves that are the issue. They haven't had any mods or CC in them for over 6 months and I cleared my cache folder. I don't know how any of my save files could get corrupted. I really hope they aren't because I love the saves I have and my last 5 saves of my most recent game file were all when the crashing was occurring.

ahhh noooooothank you for trying those methods! I'll try doing a few edits but if all else fails, I'll save all the played households for that save file to my library and drop them in a new save file. thank you again for the info <3

This has been happening to me but on Mac, the CAS part too! I read on a diff thread (https://answers.ea.com/t5/Technical-Issues-PC/FAQ-Sims-4-Crashes/td-p/3586547) that an issue could be related to origin being online. I had realized I switched back to being online during play recently and that's kind of when the issues began. I've repaired the game several times, and I don't know why going online would be such an issue.

Hello! I have a Macbook 2017 with macOS Monterey 12.4 and play the Sims on that via Origin. I had made a post about this on the Technical Issues - PC server but after publishing it I cannot find it, I think the post got marked as spam. My game has no cc, no mods. I have not upgraded to macOS Ventura 13.Long Explanation of Issue: A few days ago I was playing with Nova Curious from the computer scenario (which btw all my tasks have checkmarks but the scenario won't update or resolve and I don't want to delete it bc I've made so much progress and want to see the end result but I digress) for quite a few hours and then decided to make a new family on the sims. I spent maybe an hour and a half in CAS and had switched to online during the making of the family to upload a sim to use for genetics and then deleted them. Shortly after exiting case and beginning gameplay, my game froze and wouldn't get rid of the little spinning rainbow circle. I had to force quit the game. I was so upset about having lost the family I just spent so long making I didn't re-enter the game. Two days later, I reopened the game to play during a road trip, so my game was offline. I played with Nova Curious for a good three hours. No crashes. Then today, I decided to make a new family in sims, so I spent about 2 hours making them. During CAS, I went back online to upload the family to the gallery. Again, shortly after beginning gameplay my game froze with the spinning rainbow circle as my mouse again, and I was forced to force quit the game. More upset now that I had potentially lost another family I spent a lot of time on (I didn't thankfully but besides the point), I repaired the game and reopened it. After a longer than usual loading screen, I was doing the gameplay again for less than a minute and the game crashed. I restarted my computer and repaired the game again. Once again, after a long loading screen, game crashed after less than a minute of gameplay. I tried opening the game one more time, but the same thing happened. I went looking for answers, and didn't really find any. I read this thread: https://answers.ea.com/t5/Technical-Issues-PC/FAQ-Sims-4-Crashes/td-p/3586547 where I read about Startup crashes, defined as "These crashes either occur right away on loading or within the first 5 minutes." Under that area, a few possible causes were listed, and one of them was "Server Hiccups --> Put Origin/Game in offline mode."I decided to play again offline. This time, the loading screen was about as long as it usually is, and I made it through the first minute of gameplay without the game crashing. Then, after about twenty minutes, the spinning rainbow circle was back and I was once again forced to force quit. I'm glad I got further without having an issue, but it's still making the game unplayable. I think this might be an issue with the servers, maybe related to the fact that windows are moving to the EA app instead of origin and that somehow impacting origin servers for mac players, or it could be unrelated to the move but I still think it's an issue with the servers. I will put two of my crash reports below (to prevent being marked as spam), one from being online and the most recent one that happened after I went offline. Any help is greatly appreciated!TLDR: I have an issue of the game crashing after gameplay or freezing so I'd have to force quit it. After reading this thread: https://answers.ea.com/t5/Technical-Issues-PC/FAQ-Sims-4-Crashes/td-p/3586547 I read about Startup crashes ("These crashes either occur right away on loading or within the first 5 minutes"). Under it a few possible causes were listed, and one of them was "Server Hiccups --> Put Origin/Game in offline mode". I realized the freezing and game crashes during gameplay were occuring after I'd gone online in CAS for gallery reasons. I couldn't figure out the issue, and played offline. For about 20 minutes the game didn't crash, which had been happening within a minute of gameplay every time I re-entered the game, but then it froze and I had to force quit. I'm not sure how to resolve this, I think it's a server issue for sure because I saw a few ppl were having this issue as well.

The crash report from my last play today before I went offline (aka was online):<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><report><version>2</version><sessionid>15a6ee6e091ab32363856a21</sessionid><type>crash</type><sku>ea.maxis.sims4.15.mac</sku><createtime>2022-11-29 02:18:42</createtime><buildsignature>Local.Unknown.Unknown.1.93.146.1220-1.300.000.149.Release</buildsignature><systemconfig></systemconfig><categoryid> 0xfe1f40</categoryid><stack> 0xfe1f40 0x3dfd</stack><threads></threads><screenshot></screenshot><memdump></memdump><contextdata>Client Session Time: 481.32 Num Save Errors: 0 Num Load Errors: 0 Current Game State: 0xbe7da869 Game Sub-state: 0x1020b807 LoadingScreenActiveFlag: 0 Origin Version: 10,5,116,52122 Modded: False SystemInfo: Mac OS X Version 10.16 (Build 21F79) GPU: Intel HD Graphics 615 macOS Metal driver 0.0.0.0 (baseaddr) 0x10da49000,'The Sims 4' 0x7ff81496e000,'libsystem_platform.dylib'(/baseaddr)</contextdata></report>

smolxbeanx

3 years ago

Sims 4 crashing and freezing on Mac (no cc, mods, etc.)

Hello! I have a Macbook 2017 and play the Sims on that via Origin. I had made a post about this on the Technical Issues - PC server but after publishing it I cannot find it. My game has no cc, no mods.

I have an issue of the game crashing after gameplay or freezing so I'd have to force quit it. After reading this thread: https://answers.ea.com/t5/Technical-Issues-PC/FAQ-Sims-4-Crashes/td-p/3586547 I read about Startup crashes ("These crashes either occur right away on loading or within the first 5 minutes"). Under it a few possible causes were listed, and one of them was "Server Hiccups --> Put Origin/Game in offline mode". I realized the freezing and game crashes during gameplay were occuring after I'd gone online in CAS for gallery reasons. I couldn't figure out the issue, and played offline. For about 20 minutes the game didn't crash, which had been happening within a minute of gameplay every time I re-entered the game, but then it froze and I had to force quit. I'm not sure how to resolve this, I think it's a server issue for sure because I saw a few ppl were having this issue as well. I've put two of my crash reports below, one from being online and the most recent one that happened after I went offline. Any help is greatly appreciated!

The crash report from my last play today before I went offline (aka was online):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><report><version>2</version><sessionid>15a6ee6e091ab32363856a21</sessionid><type>crash</type><sku>ea.maxis.sims4.15.mac</sku><createtime>2022-11-29 02:18:42</createtime><buildsignature>Local.Unknown.Unknown.1.93.146.1220-1.300.000.149.Release</buildsignature><systemconfig></systemconfig><categoryid> 0xfe1f40</categoryid><stack> 0xfe1f40 0x3dfd</stack><threads></threads><screenshot></screenshot><memdump></memdump><contextdata>Client Session Time: 481.32 Num Save Errors: 0 Num Load Errors: 0 Current Game State: 0xbe7da869 Game Sub-state: 0x1020b807 LoadingScreenActiveFlag: 0 Origin Version: 10,5,116,52122 Modded: False SystemInfo: Mac OS X Version 10.16 (Build 21F79) GPU: Intel HD Graphics 615 macOS Metal driver 0.0.0.0 (baseaddr) 0x10da49000,'The Sims 4' 0x7ff81496e000,'libsystem_platform.dylib'(/baseaddr)</contextdata></report>

The crash report from my last play today AFTER I went offline:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><report><version>2</version><sessionid>6fba1bf1aa5a73fc638566b4</sessionid><type>crash</type><sku>ea.maxis.sims4.15.mac</sku><createtime>2022-11-29 01:59:27</createtime><buildsignature>Local.Unknown.Unknown.1.93.146.1220-1.300.000.149.Release</buildsignature><systemconfig></systemconfig><categoryid> 0xfe1f40</categoryid><stack> 0xfe1f40 0x3dfd</stack><threads></threads><screenshot></screenshot><memdump></memdump><contextdata>Client Session Time: 203.20 Num Save Errors: 0 Num Load Errors: 0 Current Game State: 0xbe7da869 Game Sub-state: 0x1020b807 LoadingScreenActiveFlag: 0 Origin Version: 10,5,116,52122 Modded: False SystemInfo: Mac OS X Version 10.16 (Build 21F79) GPU: Intel HD Graphics 615 macOS Metal driver 0.0.0.0 (baseaddr) 0x10c7cc000,'The Sims 4' 0x7ff81496e000,'libsystem_platform.dylib'(/baseaddr)</contextdata></report>

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smolxbeanx
3 years ago
@Bluebellflora
I can't find the report but I'm starting to think it's not an issue with the computer, because when I played the game in a different save file the freezing wasn't happening. I was able to play the gameplay of the other save files, but when I returned to the one I'd been playing I was able to access CAS and manage the worlds, but once gameplay began I made it through maybe 15 seconds before my game froze again. My last few saves of that particular save file were all in the last 24 hours, after the problem occurred. I'm afraid that save file is corrupted. Is there any way to save it?
Bluebellflora
Hero+
3 years ago
@smolxbeanx

Can you upload your save file to a file sharing site and DM me the link? I can download and test it 🙂
smolxbeanx
3 years ago
@Bluebellflora so sorry about the late reply! I just DM'd you and asked a question, and will probably be able to send it tomorrow night! Thank you <3
Bluebellflora
Hero+
3 years ago
@smolxbeanx

Finally managed to test the save - sorry for the delay!

It crashed for me too. I wondered if it might be related to the Alien Stole My Parents scenario so I tested the following:

Moved the family to a different lot, an empty one, it crashed

Switched to a different sim, it crashed

Edited the household so only the young child and Mum were in it. This forced the scenario to end, it crashed

You could try other edits to the family and see if you can fix it but I think the save may be borked ☹️
smolxbeanx
3 years ago
ahhh noooooo
thank you for trying those methods! I'll try doing a few edits but if all else fails, I'll save all the played households for that save file to my library and drop them in a new save file. thank you again for the info <3

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