Hi everyone! Aspyr just released a patch today for Sim 2 Super Collection. Not sure if it addresses the M1 chip issue, but I did want to let you all know.
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.
@amitchell326 wrote:I have this issue too and I just updated to Big Sur 11.1...
FYI the current version of BigSur is 11.0.1 on M1 / Darwin ARM64 (non-beta - the latest beta is 11.2).
If you are on the beta branch for MacOS, I can tell you from experience that you can run into some minor to even major issues with apps and general OS functions (OS bugs - it's on beta for a reason!), so if you want to make sure stuff runs, highly advise to stay on non-beta (you can opt-out of beta but you will stay on beta until a new non-beta AKA release version is available).
Although you could, given you have enough disk space available, or get / use an external flash-drive / stick or disk, resize / create a partition and install MacOS again, then switch that one (might need to create and use another icloud account, to separate your two installs - that's what I'd do, to be on the safe side) to the beta branch - that way, if things don't work out there, you can always boot back into your non-beta version of MacOS.
I hope my input helps!
I am not on beta. I updated to Big Sur 11.1 through the regular Software Update option. 11.1 was released earlier this week.
Ok, first of all the Mac Version of Sims 2 Super Collection is maintained and updated by Aspyr. While EA/Maxis originally published the game, the game was ported to the Mac OS by Aspyr who has kindly updated the game to 64 bit to allow the game to run on Sierra and going forward.
If you are having issues with the game running and are running Big Sur (which to my knowledge is still in a beta phase), you may want to roll back to Sierra. If you have a newer Mac with the M1 chip and running Sierra and are still having issues, please contact Aspyr to report exactly what your game is doing.
Big Sur is not in beta. Big Sur was released over a month ago, and the update to 11.1 was released earlier this week. OS Sierra was released in 2016. I've reached out to Aspyr but haven't heard anything back, so I thought I would check with the community here to see if there was a solution.
