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game crashes? idk why?
iridescent
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I have a macbook air and recently (before the last patch, too) my game has been crashing constantly. it's very frustrating and i don't think that the 50/50 method would work because sometimes i can play for a few hours until it crashes. i dont really want to give up mods though! help?
also i have repaired my game twice and i did the "reinstall" folder thing, but it hasnt helped
also i have repaired my game twice and i did the "reinstall" folder thing, but it hasnt helped
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@igazor @BluebellFlora might be able to help.
Mods and custom content (CC) are two different things. CC is stuff like hair, clothes, etc... Mods are things like garden faster, lower bills, etc... Both can break with patches. Mods tend to be the cause of bigger issues like the game refusing to launch or certain interactions not working. So eventually you will need to update broken mods. Broken CC is just annoying and will appear invisible. However game crashing randomly is most likely hardware but I know nothing about Macs so I tagged others here.
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How big is your Saves folder? Highlight it, hold down CMD and press i. In the window that pops up you should see the size in Mb (this may also show up in Finder, depending on your Finder settings). MBA's aren't very powerful so depending on how big your saves folder is, how big your Mods folder is (repeat the process above to find out), if you have any out of date Mods/CC, and how much RAM you have installed on your Mac, your machine is probably starting to struggle to play the game properly.
But yes, as @igazor has asked, please provide more information about your Mac.
macbook air, 13-inch, early 2014
processor: 1.4 GHz Intel Core i5
graphics: Intel HD Graphics 5000 1536 MB
Alienware R4 17: i7 6700HQ, 16GB RAM, 8GB NVidia GTX 1070
I would start my own topic but I'm a new member, so I'm sorry if I'm infringing on anyone >.<
I just recently brought Sims 4 on my Mac, day before yesterday, and when I downloaded it it worked fine, made a guy played him for a few hours.
However since I reopened the game after that the game keeps closing/crashing. It could be when I'm loading, saving, building a lot, just regularly playing. I've looked through what could do it, I uninstalled and reinstalled Origin (deleting all the ones in The Library too), I've repaired, tried updating. I've tried near enough everything that's been suggested other than uninstall and reinstall the game.
I have an iMac OS C El Capitan
Processor: 2.9 GHz Intel Core i5
Memory: 8 GB 1600MHz DDR3
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M 512MB
Could someone please help me as it's getting to the point that I can't really do much incase it crashes the game
It's your NVIDIA GPU and El Capitan, it's a known issue with the game on your setup. Either update your driver manually from NVIDIA's site (not normal practice but does fix the issue) or upgrade to Sierra 10.12
Thank you for coming back to me
I updated to Sierra 10.12, and just tried to play it, and it just quit again in the middle of game play, not during any load screens or anything
You have to choose exactly as is stated in my article as it will be beta for your OS. BUT.... the current driver seems to be buggy, it's working for some but causing kernel panics for others (myself included). This should be what's selected in the dropdowns:
Weird that upgrading hasn't worked for you though, it has for some. I'll start collecting info again and hope EA look into it.
Macbook Pro, 15-inch Mid-2012
Processor: 2.3 GHz Intel Core i7
Memory: 8 GB 1600MHz DDR3
Graphics:
NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M 512 MB
Intel HD Graphics 4000 1536 MB
I hope someone here can help me?
I have a late 2013 imac with plenty of RAM, storage and good graphics card. My Sims 3 was working perfectly fine till now.
I got some Sims 3 stuff packs and installed them, however they did not work. I realised I had to update my game through my sims launcher, so I unistalled my stuff packs and updated my game. I reinstalled a stuff pack and tried to start my game and it just wouldn't no matter what I tried.
So I unistalled EVERYTHING, base game and all expansions etc. I did a thorough clean out (including all those pesky hanging around little folders that dont get unistalled).
I reinstalled my Sims 3 base game only and updated so in my launcher the version states;1.67.................
This still didnt work, the launcher loaded up fine, but when I press the play button, my imac sounds and looks like its booting up the game,but it either crashes on a black screen (mouse is on the screen and able to move it) or just closes the loading screen.
I have downloaded and installed the latest 'super-patch' for imac - this didnt work
I have downloaded the Origin Application to see if that helped - nope
I am using the Discs, not the Origin downloadable Sims 3
Please could any suggest anything? I love my sims game!
Thankyou for replying!
First of all there is a Sims 3 Mac section under Sims 3 Help. If you check there you will see that you have to download your latest Sims 3 "disk" through Origin to be able to play. 1.67 is the current Mac version of the game as no further updates were released for the Mac.