[HR] Horse/Foals refuse to play with Ball
As per ttitle the horse ball needs to be rebought after a while of owning as the horses refuse to use it. It come up with the horse refusing animation, rather than the cant path animation. The horse immediately uses the new ball with no problems. Edit by crinrict: Adjusted title Original report Place a horse ball down and have a horse play with it or leave them to autonomously play with it. After a while (possibly a few sims days) the horse will stop autonomously playing with it on its own and if you ask them to play with it they get a thought bubble of the ball and then shake their head and won't play with it.
[MAC] Endless loading after using Manage Household (Fullscreen Mode)
Device: Macbook Air, Apple M4 | 24 GB of Memory. Old Saves: Had mods, yes... this started with those saves. I tested mods, removed them, tried to create sims and play... got stuck. I created one household with 7 sims successfully in that one (with the mods active)! I created a new household after, where I could not get the singular sim to even move in without it getting stuck on load. Mods: Have been sorted with 50/50 method, cleaned, removed entirely (although, not the source of the issue). There are NO script mods, only CC. I have taken out that mod folder and allowed the game to produce new, empty ones with no better luck. Reset Game: Yes. This was done twice (currently on my second attempt) and mods have NOT been added back into the game. I have also uninstalled + reinstalled the game once... and repaired the game VARIOUS times. Also attempted to use dx9, didn't help either. Memory Leak: No. Nothing on activity monitor, no warning popups. There is also ample space in my system storage. The Repeat Issue: When going into manage world, I can edit, move, and create households as normal, even upload them to gallery. But, when trying to go into or return to live mode, the game gets stuck on an infinite loading screen. I reset the game, tested a fresh save, got into live mode with one sim. Could successfully add a few more sims in manage world. Game proceeded to get stuck on loading loop when trying to play with household. Force quit, get single sim in the first household moved into a lot. Go into manage world, create a new household. 50/50 chance I would either get stuck after making the first sim OR have a repeat of no. 1 occur. This issue also happened when trying to add more sims to the first household, so no it was not exclusive to one lot or save. TLDR: .... I can't use the manage worlds at all. My whole point of using sims is to have a few households of characters. I keep getting stuck in the loading screen when trying to play from the MW menu after I make a new sim (or household, after the first one has been made). This is not because of any mods, issues with the laptop, or because I have not reset/repaired the game. I would really appreciate help with fixing the game to be any sort of playable. I had even tested my old saves in the first reset and it didn't change anything.
Houses/Lots Disappear
Issue The save game starts to disintegrate itself. Lots start to get deleted, causing endless loading, loading into empty lots. This issue has been around since the very beginning so it’s not tied to any packs. This issue possibly has a lot of different causes and hence is hard to pinpoint. There more info you have, the better. Information to provide Your platform Mod usage (Never, Removed, Yes) This is important info, not mod blaming. Are you using Memory Boost (it's only active if it's set to Enabled) Are you using OneDrive/iCloud ? Before and after save games. Please DM the link to EA. For PC: Your Computer's DxDiag? Press Windows-Key + R Type: DxDiag Click on Save all Information Attach the Text File to your post Similar Issues Please check out this thread for more specialized cases of this issue. Only use this thread if you don't get an Error Code 800/801 and don't use a lot of R-Rentals. : [PLEASE READ] Save Game Corruption Symptoms When you load into the house, the house disappears and when you try to leave ,you get endless loading You get endless loading in all houses in one neighborhood When the houses start to disappear, the whole world is covered in orange/green exclamation marks Some lots are replaced by llama pictures of the map (possibly also incomplete installation - repair your game first)
Social interactions decrease friendship and romance/Always fail
Whenever my Sims interact with Sims outside my household, all social interactions cause a drop in both friendship and romance levels, instead of increasing or staying the same. This issue occurs consistently in every save and I have no mods or custom content enabled. I have tried restarting the game and clearing the cache, but the problem persists and negatively affects normal relationship gameplay. Edit By Crinrict: Adjusted Title
Sims 3 Expansions say "Available on Windows"
Hi! I am playing on a Mac and I just registered a few of my Sims 3 expansion packs to my EA account. Unfortunately, the EA App shows them as "Available on Windows" and won't let me download the 64-bit & Metal Mac version. I have already contacted EA Support chat twice, but the advisors did not understand the issue and refused to help. Could a moderator please look into my account and manually grant the 64-bit & Metal Mac entitlements for my expansions?