First, this is the second thing i've ever posted here, i try to look for things to read instead of making my own topic, but nothing has helped me. I'm not sure if im posting this in the right section but this is the one i settled on.
So, it seems that many people have the "Exception raised: Unhandled page fault on read access to 0x00000021 at address 0x7b3eec63. Do you wish to debug it ?" pop-up problem. And many people have come up with a fix for it. But none of those fixes for it, work for me. Im desperate at this point. For 2 years, i havent been able to make it past a day in the sims before it crashes so much that my save file becomes corrupted. I do have minimal mods/downloads, but i still have a ton of space on my laptop.
I've tried everything i have found to help with it. I've bypasses the launcher, turned off interactive loading screen, and my sims dont live in a custom world. I'm 95% sure its not a bad cc item because it also happens with my desktop, with different cc. I really just want to play my game normally. It seems that everyone else has hundreds of mods. I can barely have 100.
My computer capacity is 498.89 GB and i have 343.43 GB still available. And i have a macbook pro fully updated. (not sure if thats important) :/ :'(
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It is possible, though more challenging than it should be, to make this game work on the Mac OS. The solutions for doing so are here, but most importantly you must purge RAM constantly throughout play to stay well under the 2 GB restriction especially with the heavier EPs in place if you have them (Pets, Seasons, IP, ITF).
http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/658546/mac-help-threads-guides-please-start-here-before-posting-a-problem-updated-05-06-15/p1
Personally, I lost patience with this version of the game when Pets and Seasons nearly ruined my gameplay, bootcamped Windows 7 onto my Mac, and have been playing on the Windows partition ever since. Worth considering if doing so is within your reach.
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It is possible, though more challenging than it should be, to make this game work on the Mac OS. The solutions for doing so are here, but most importantly you must purge RAM constantly throughout play to stay well under the 2 GB restriction especially with the heavier EPs in place if you have them (Pets, Seasons, IP, ITF).
Personally, I lost patience with this version of the game when Pets and Seasons nearly ruined my gameplay, bootcamped Windows 7 onto my Mac, and have been playing on the Windows partition ever since. Worth considering if doing so is within your reach.[/quote]
I'm going to sound really stupid but, its possible to put windows 7 onto a mac? I could probably figure it out by reading instructions or something. I will do anything to have my game work. I know theres ways to make sims use more than 2GB but its all for windows. So i was out of luck. I also have pets and seasons, theyre my two favorites, but i bought ITF but uninstalled it
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201468
You do get the joys of having to manage two operating systems that way and of course the Windows partition should be properly anti-virused.
When you startup, if you hold the Option key down you get to choose which operating system you are booting into, as you can only run one at a time this way. If you choose Windows, your computer becomes just about the same as any other PC and you can install TS3 for Windows on it. If you have registered your games, you get the download rights to all of them that you own through Origin on either operating system. The Windows version of the game has been Large Address Aware, that is, able to use almost 4 GB of RAM if you have enough to go around, ever since Patch 1.18 so there are actually no extra steps to take (unless you need to install more RAM; 8 GB is recommended so that the game and Windows have enough to work with).
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Yes, well I know several people that that particular fix worked for. Its also very easy for someone to "test out" rather than going to such extreme measures as partitioning their hard drive just to play a game that is supposed to work with the computer they purchased it for. That option is no better at solving the issue than mine is if you're trying to "solve for everyone". I personally purchased the digital copy of that game (specifically the mac compatible one), therefore I would not have the option of simply using it on another operating system. I'd also like to point out that those of us who are still running a pre-lion OS mac, don't have a simple way to partition it either. Mine for example requires a seperate software that i would have to purchase to do so, and at the time it was made, it was hit and miss as to whether it would actually work properly. Lastly, although i agree that it may not work for everyone, (and I dont appear to be able to edit my original post to say as much) its kind of ridiculous to discount my statement because of it. I was offering up a solution that worked for me and as I stated, several others. I posted it with the intent on helping anyone that it may be able to work for and if that means that only 2 people benefit then so be it.
You have found the cause for what is making the TS3 program crash in your case and I imagine this will help players who are facing exactly the same situation on their setups. I'm sorry if I too quickly dismissed your suggestion.
But I do have to point out, although I realize it's not entirely related, that there aren't going to be very many TS3 players still running Snow Leopard (I loved that OS back in the day, it was brilliant and rock solid as far as the cats went). I don't think TS3 can even run on any of the other pre-Lion cats. And many of us always did play with the game offline because we never cared about badges, online content, simporting, etc. The program frequently crashed on us as well. But yes, playing online does make the game less stable for both Mac and Windows players as it always has.
I don't actually enjoy using Bootcamp. The reason I recommend it generally for those who can tolerate it is that there really isn't any other alternative to work around the ridiculous 2 GB restriction on RAM usage that TS3 for Mac brings with it, which isn't nearly sufficient for those of us who have all of the EPs in play. Many players today have 8 GB or more. Of course the game can't use that much either because it's 32-bit, but things just shouldn't be as unstable as they are for any of us on Macs. It is that way because of the way EA arranged its port into OS X using a Cider wrapper, it's the only game in the Sims series that EA did this to. All of the others, TS1, 2, and 4, are actually known to run better on Macs. Also, if you own a registered copy of TS3 for Mac and any/all of its EPs, or ones that can be registered, then you are entitled to the Windows version free of charge by way of Origin for Windows. Whether that is of any use to the player at all might be another story, of course.
Nor are there many alternatives for those running 2013 and later Macs whose graphics card/processor combos refused to be recognized by the game to the extent that it just won't start for them on the Mac side. These players cannot play on OS X at all.
As for the rest, some of us here are IT professionals. We don't really mean to discount those who are trying to be helpful and we aren't trying to "start anything" either. We are only here to assist others and share our various levels of experience. This comes from the workplace but also from working with many thousands of players over the years. No one is forced to like or take us up on our suggestions. No emotions, no extra levels of frustration intended, the game does enough of that already for everyone.
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Just to expand on what @igazor has already stated, if you log into Origin on a Windows machine you will see the Windows version is already available to you in your Games Library at no extra cost. Games are tied to your Origin account, not the machine or operating system. If you aren't using Origin then you can simply download it, log in using your EA/Origin account (whichever one you have previously registered the game to if applicable) and register your product code so the game is added to your library, on a Mac or Windows PC.
That's not true. Boot Camp Assistant has been built into the OS since OS X 10.4 Tiger when Apple switched to Intel processors so your Mac already has the capability. Your Mac also has a great little utility called Disk Utility built into the OS which enables you to wipe, repair and partition any mountable drive whether it's your internal drive or any external ones plugged in.
What Mac do you have and which OS are you running?