The Sims 2 Super Collection on MacBook with M1 chip

@KetieSaner , I've not heard that the M1 chip would make any kind of difference. You may want to contact Aspyr directly as they will have more updated system information. Do a Google search to find out how to contact them. 

Google tells me that other users of the new Mac(Books) are having the same issue.

There was also a somewhat similar issue with The Sims 4 (game crashing soon after starting it up) that is easy to fix with changing one button in the settings.

@KetieSaner , have you tried this with Sims 2 and did it work?

So far I haven't been able to run The Sims 2 on my new MacBook.

I have opened a help request ticket with Aspyr, but so far it is still open and not resolved.

@KetieSaner , please keep me updated. 🙂

If you are experiencing the same issue it might be worth it to also open a support ticket with aspyr. My hope would be that they are more inclined to fix it if they see that there is more interested/more people experiencing the same problem.

what happens to me is that the game suddenly auto exits... it not even crashes, it just stops working altogether...

i've tried installing big sur 11.1 beta, since I've heard that fixes some issues with Rosseta 2, but it doesn't work, in fact now the game stops even quicker than before.

@veganjoan , Big Sur is still in beta testing, so somethings may work and others may not. As @KetieSaner said, the more people that report issues with details to Aspyr, the more quickly they will fix it or respond with a solution. While EA did originally release Sims 2, the Sims 2 Super Collection is ported and maintained by Aspyr. Aspyr is a company that ports games to other platforms like from PC to console or vice versa. 

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@KetieSaner wrote:

I have The Sims 2 Super Collection by aspyr for MacOS and have been playing it on my old MacBook fine for years.

I now have a new MacBook with the new M1 chip. I installed the game via the App Store and that worked fine.

I can start it create a neighbourhood, create Sims in CAS, just fine.

The problem starts when I try to go into gameplay. There the game just crashes. Any idea for setting I could tweak or other things I could look into?

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I’ve just bought a new MacBook with M1 chip, and managed to get mine working after a few attempts! 

While still in the neighbourhood I reduced as many game and camera settings as I could to either low or medium and I think it has done the trick.

After 5 mins of game play (and lots of saving!) on a small lot, I felt brave enough to try a larger plot to play. I definitely played for at least half an hour without a single crash, so I’m hoping it lasts! I may slowly increase the settings one by one, but for now I’m just delighted to be able to play again 🤓

I hope that helps! 

I have this issue too and I just updated to Big Sur 11.1. My game crashes as soon as a lot loads. Like I get a one-millisecond glance of the lot and then it crashes. I've submitted two tickets to Aspyr support and I haven't heard anything back.

I've tried changing all the camera/graphics settings, I've tried different lots, different neighborhoods, removing custom content -- nothing works. It's weird because my game definitely starts up faster, and I get to the neighborhood screen much faster, than it used to on my old MacBook. So it's not like the computer can't handle the game. It's something about loading lots (for me, anyway).

PLEASE HELP this is so devastating.