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Issue:
The graphics in game go crazy, and the game will sometimes crash. This was also a problem in El Capitan.
Cause:
(most probably) Built in driver for the NVIDIA GeForce GT graphics cards with 512 MB VRAM (possibly 1024 MB VRAM too)
Solution:
To update your graphics driver manually from NVIDIA's website. Full walk through here.
Issue:
Saved games not loading.
Cause:
iCloud Drive settings have moved your Documents folder from your Mac to iCloud. The game will look for saved games in your local Documents folder and if it cannot find any it will load a new game.
Solution:
Please read this stickied help thread at AHQ for more details.
There's another version?
Right!?
Yeah, I have no help or sympathy for people using pirated copies
So are you using the driver downloaded from NVIDIA's site? If so which version is it? I updated to 367.15.10.05f01 when prompted after upgrading to Sierra but my Mac kernel panicked a few times - not good! So I've reverted back to the OS driver which is version 355.10.05.05b16
Same, here.
Interesting. Which Mac do you have? I have the 2012 15" MBP (9,1)
I don't understand... The Sierra driver is 367.x the El Capitan is 346.x. Where have you got 307 from?
iMac (27-inch, Late 2013)
Intel Core i5 3.2 GHz
16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
NVIDIA GeForce GT 755M
Resolution: 2560 x 1440
VRAM (Total): 1024 MB
I've been using the OS driver. My game settings are all medium except lighting which is at the highest. It all seems to run fine in Sierra, but I feel like it does run a little hotter. I use a fan utility TG Pro to keep things cooler.
I'm about a 100 years old so I don't tend to play for long stretches - an hour at the most - and have not had any unusual problems (I.E. Mac specific problems) since reverting to the OS driver.
My Granddaughters often play for a couple of hours building and plotting. They are finding that the game is more prone to crashes and spinning beach balls since I updated to Sierra.
Waiting to see if the next NVIDIA update is an improvement.
I think you can go into Setting, iCloud, iCloud Drive Options and uncheck Desktop & Documents Folders. However, I would recommend that you have your documents and desktop backed up to an external drive - a simple thumb drive will work. This feature is new in Sierra and I'm not sure I'd trust it just yet. Once your documents are back locally you should be able to play normally.
i7-7700K @ 4.2GHz
Gigabyte G1 Gaming Edition: GTX 1080 8GB
16GB RAM
2 x 1TB HDD - Toshiba @ 7200 Rpm
@illustratedhappiness whether or not your Sims 4 data is in your Documents folder won't affect whether the game says Download or not in Origin as it's just user data, the game data is in your Applications folder. If something changed in the Applications folder then it would say Download. Great feedback though. I didn't enable iCloud Drive as I'm always very wary of any automatic cloud storage. I use Dropbox and MacDropAny to sync my game across multiple Macs but it doesn't store the data in the cloud, it just looks for updated files and then updates them across my machines.
Yes, it is 367, I missclicked