@BluebellFlora No problem, it's just really weird because even thus far I still haven't had any crashes with my graphics card and i'm setting some things to their max potential and i'm not even getting a bit of lag, in fact less lag than my bootcamp portion.
But just curious, anyone else with an HD 4000 able to get their game to work?
@BluebellFlora No problem, it's just really weird because even thus far I still haven't had any crashes with my graphics card and i'm setting some things to their max potential and i'm not even getting a bit of lag, in fact less lag than my bootcamp portion.
But just curious, anyone else with an HD 4000 able to get their game to work?
This is why it's really useful to know what other stuff people are running on their Macs, in case there's a task or app running that's contributing to the error. Which Mac do you have?
I have lag issues and low FPS compared to TS4 on Bootcamp. I can play on Windows with High settings and 60 FPS but in Mac with Medium setting I get 9 or 12 FPS. Terribly slow and lagged, so sad
iMac (21.5 inch, Late 2012)
2.7 GHz Intel Core i5
16GB RAM
NVIDIA GeForge GT640M 512 MB
OS X Yosemite (10.10.2)
Official EA DLC: Outdoor Retreat, Holiday Celebration Pack, Up All Night, Animal Hats
Background apps running: Origin, MegaSync and SteelSeries Engine
Anti-virus: None
Few Mods up to date (No script mods) and few CC, only some lamps.
The changes came slowly at first. Most didn't realize, or didn't care, and accepted them. They chose a comfortable life.
This is the latest configuration I tried but, again, awful experience, even setting a lower resolution
It's in spanish lol. Translation key: Pantalla completa=Fullscreen
Baja/Bajo=low
Media/Medio=Medium
Alto/Alta=High
The changes came slowly at first. Most didn't realize, or didn't care, and accepted them. They chose a comfortable life.
Ok. According to the GraphicsCard.sgr you should be able to play on high with medium resolution. Drop the Resolution down to the next option and see what happens.
>@BluebellFlora said: >This is why it's really useful to know what other stuff people are running on their Macs, in case there's a task or app running that's contributing to the error. Which Mac do you have?
I'm running: Mac model (mid-2012 13" non-Retina MacBook Pro) Processor (2.5 GHz Intel Core i5 Turbo Boost to 3.1 GHz) Memory (4Gb RAM) Graphics (Intel HD 4000 1024MB-approx 1GB) Operating System (OS X Yosemite 10.10.2)
I should also note that I have no externals running in the background and I also don't have any third party apps that could be interfering. I'm also not running any mods and I do not have outdoor retreat.
@Fonxi121994 Oh no You don't have anything else running do you? I think some graphics cards are really struggling in OS X. I'll start a thread so we can see if people with the same cards are experiencing the same issues.
>@BluebellFlora said:
>This is why it's really useful to know what other stuff people are running on their Macs, in case there's a task or app running that's contributing to the error. Which Mac do you have?
I'm running:
Mac model (mid-2012 13" non-Retina MacBook Pro)
Processor (2.5 GHz Intel Core i5 Turbo Boost to 3.1 GHz)
Memory (4Gb RAM)
Graphics (Intel HD 4000 1024MB-approx 1GB)
Operating System (OS X Yosemite 10.10.2)
I should also note that I have no externals running in the background and I also don't have any third party apps that could be interfering. I'm also not running any mods and I do not have outdoor retreat.
Fabulous. @crinrict has mentioned that some are reporting that the issue with the Intel HD 4000 disappears if they upgrade to Yosemite. That may be why yours is working fine
I have lag issues and low FPS compared to TS4 on Bootcamp. I can play on Windows with High settings and 60 FPS but in Mac with Medium setting I get 9 or 12 FPS. Terribly slow and lagged, so sad
iMac (21.5 inch, Late 2012)
2.7 GHz Intel Core i5
16GB RAM
NVIDIA GeForge GT640M 512 MB
OS X Yosemite (10.10.2)
Official EA DLC: Outdoor Retreat, Holiday Celebration Pack, Up All Night, Animal Hats
Background apps running: Origin, MegaSync and SteelSeries Engine
Anti-virus: None
Few Mods up to date (No script mods) and few CC, only some lamps.
This same thing is happening to me. My game will play well for about an hour, and then out of nowhere lag just starts happening. I normally don't have any background apps running besides Orgin. I have a late 2011 iMac with 16gb of ram and my card is a Ati Radeon 6770M, i7 2.4 Intel processor. I played on my Windows side for hours last night and it runs perfect. I don't mind using boot camp, but if I don't have to I would prefer it.
I have lag issues and low FPS compared to TS4 on Bootcamp. I can play on Windows with High settings and 60 FPS but in Mac with Medium setting I get 9 or 12 FPS. Terribly slow and lagged, so sad
iMac (21.5 inch, Late 2012)
2.7 GHz Intel Core i5
16GB RAM
NVIDIA GeForge GT640M 512 MB
OS X Yosemite (10.10.2)
Official EA DLC: Outdoor Retreat, Holiday Celebration Pack, Up All Night, Animal Hats
Background apps running: Origin, MegaSync and SteelSeries Engine
Anti-virus: None
Few Mods up to date (No script mods) and few CC, only some lamps.
This same thing is happening to me. My game will play well for about an hour, and then. Out of nowhere lag just starts happening. I normally don't have any background apps running besides Orgin. I have a late 2011 iMac with 16gb of ram and my card is a Ati Radeon 6770M, i7 2.4 Intel processor. I played on my Windows side for hours last night and it runs perfect. I don't mind using boot camp, but if I don't have to I would prefer it.
Can you try purging the RAM? Did you ever do this for TS3? It may be a memory leak that's causing this. Make sure you pause your game first then purge. Please report back if it's made a difference.
Yep, nothing running in background, just Origin. I think Apple's drivers for this graphic card sucks.
Are you running Yosemite?
Yeah, latest version 10.10.2
Oh I don't know what else to suggest. Keep it in Windowed mode and try different configurations. Hopefully the next driver update may help or EA might update the game with more support.
Which settings would you recommend for me? I've included my specs down below. I tried both ultra and high yesterday, and the game was lagging and crashing every now and then, without any error message. I've also had problems with the music, multiple tracks are playing at the same time.
I've been playing on "medium" settings today and it seemed to work better until I turned "online" back on, and the game crashed. It seems a bit odd that I shouldn't be able to play on "medium" at least... :/ What do you think?
iMac (21.5, mid 2011) 2,8 GHz Intel Core i7 16 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 AMD Radeon HD 6770M 512 MB Mac OS X Yosemite, 10.10.2
I have Sophis anti-virus. But I've closed all other programs and even turned off my external hard drives, time machine ect. No CC at all. Only the base game.
Edit: After the last crash, I restarted the game and tried playing on "high" and it was working OK until I zoomed out to view the neighbourhood. Then it started to lag. I went in to settings to change something and the game crashed... again. :(
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But just curious, anyone else with an HD 4000 able to get their game to work?
This is why it's really useful to know what other stuff people are running on their Macs, in case there's a task or app running that's contributing to the error. Which Mac do you have?
iMac (21.5 inch, Late 2012)
2.7 GHz Intel Core i5
16GB RAM
NVIDIA GeForge GT640M 512 MB
OS X Yosemite (10.10.2)
Official EA DLC: Outdoor Retreat, Holiday Celebration Pack, Up All Night, Animal Hats
Background apps running: Origin, MegaSync and SteelSeries Engine
Anti-virus: None
Few Mods up to date (No script mods) and few CC, only some lamps.
This is the latest configuration I tried but, again, awful experience, even setting a lower resolution
It's in spanish lol. Translation key:
Pantalla completa=Fullscreen
Baja/Bajo=low
Media/Medio=Medium
Alto/Alta=High
>This is why it's really useful to know what other stuff people are running on their Macs, in case there's a task or app running that's contributing to the error. Which Mac do you have?
I'm running:
Mac model (mid-2012 13" non-Retina MacBook Pro)
Processor (2.5 GHz Intel Core i5 Turbo Boost to 3.1 GHz)
Memory (4Gb RAM)
Graphics (Intel HD 4000 1024MB-approx 1GB)
Operating System (OS X Yosemite 10.10.2)
I should also note that I have no externals running in the background and I also don't have any third party apps that could be interfering. I'm also not running any mods and I do not have outdoor retreat.
Are you running Yosemite?
Fabulous. @crinrict has mentioned that some are reporting that the issue with the Intel HD 4000 disappears if they upgrade to Yosemite. That may be why yours is working fine
This same thing is happening to me. My game will play well for about an hour, and then out of nowhere lag just starts happening. I normally don't have any background apps running besides Orgin. I have a late 2011 iMac with 16gb of ram and my card is a Ati Radeon 6770M, i7 2.4 Intel processor. I played on my Windows side for hours last night and it runs perfect. I don't mind using boot camp, but if I don't have to I would prefer it.
Can you try purging the RAM? Did you ever do this for TS3? It may be a memory leak that's causing this. Make sure you pause your game first then purge. Please report back if it's made a difference.
http://bluebellflora.com/resetting-ram-during-gameplay/
http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/816319/graphics-performance-in-os-x
Yeah, latest version 10.10.2
http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/comment/13325809/#Comment_13325809
It would really help because yours is working
Oh
I didn't help though. Hopefully it will be fixed at some point
1) How do I rotate items in buy and build mode?
2) I can't get my cheat code menu to come up. I've tried cmd+shift+c many times and nothing. Please help! Thanks
I've been playing on "medium" settings today and it seemed to work better until I turned "online" back on, and the game crashed. It seems a bit odd that I shouldn't be able to play on "medium" at least... :/ What do you think?
iMac (21.5, mid 2011)
2,8 GHz Intel Core i7
16 GB 1333 MHz DDR3
AMD Radeon HD 6770M 512 MB
Mac OS X Yosemite, 10.10.2
I have Sophis anti-virus. But I've closed all other programs and even turned off my external hard drives, time machine ect. No CC at all. Only the base game.
Edit: After the last crash, I restarted the game and tried playing on "high" and it was working OK until I zoomed out to view the neighbourhood. Then it started to lag. I went in to settings to change something and the game crashed... again. :(
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1) The < and > keys. Arrows appear on some things like roof sections.
2) CTRL, Shift and C not CMD