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Someone told me not to play the sims....
Lucid_bleh
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So here is my story ...
First of all ; Has anyone experienced sierra problems so far ? Because just yesterday my MacBook Pro has shut down upon updating to sierra , and my screen was pitch black and unresponsive even tho it was turned on and was woking (the startup noise is heard and you can hear that it was working and regenerating heat) . I had to restore my mac by reseting the NVRAM ( restart my mac command + Option + P + R for those who are wondering how to restart your mac when this happens ) it was quite annoying and scary , but it worked . I called the operators to update them on what happened exactly and to insure myself that everything is a 100% okay, and so one of the operators told me that macs memory is not designed for the sims or any kind of gaming experiences and that I was supposed to use MacBook Pros for business in a quite demanding voice as if I were an idiot for playing the sims and like I only used my laptop for gaming ... am I doing anything wrong tho ? I am seriously mad since he didn't give me a solution and blamed the sims for this update crash
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First of all ; Has anyone experienced sierra problems so far ? Because just yesterday my MacBook Pro has shut down upon updating to sierra , and my screen was pitch black and unresponsive even tho it was turned on and was woking (the startup noise is heard and you can hear that it was working and regenerating heat) . I had to restore my mac by reseting the NVRAM ( restart my mac command + Option + P + R for those who are wondering how to restart your mac when this happens ) it was quite annoying and scary , but it worked . I called the operators to update them on what happened exactly and to insure myself that everything is a 100% okay, and so one of the operators told me that macs memory is not designed for the sims or any kind of gaming experiences and that I was supposed to use MacBook Pros for business in a quite demanding voice as if I were an idiot for playing the sims and like I only used my laptop for gaming ... am I doing anything wrong tho ? I am seriously mad since he didn't give me a solution and blamed the sims for this update crash
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I personally won't suggest someone to play on a Mac. First of all, it's very expensive. Second of all, you could probably get a real gaming laptop that is meant for gaming cuz they have a better cooling system and with the correct specs, etc, at the same price or even less.
The Sims 4 is a pretty heavy game on CPU and graphics. It could be that your graphics card in your laptop is weak for the game. So the operator isn't wrong, actually.
Of course, it could be the update that caused to black screen but you also need to take care of your laptop and maybe play The Sims 4 on lower settings or not at all, if you want to save your MacBook.
@DeKay
Oh yeah for sure the graphics card of a mac is not really designed to play the sims I do understand that completely so I do understand that but this did not really happen while I was playing the game and it never did for 3 years now this happened while updating to Sierra , but I do take god care of it and have always been checking and cleaning it from junk and unnecessary applications , files and so on ,as well as trying to fix any problem that my memory card might have and I have never experienced something like this with no other update of the mac itself since i bought this mac back in 2012 considering its an apple product that is quite old for their laptop . I am looking for gaming laptops online but unfortunately gaming laptops here in Croatia are not a cheap thing and I do have to order them from overseas since most of them are not being sold here , so for now this will have to do .
@BMSO honestly I was considering this
How do you play comfortably on a bed? The thought of laying back or hunching over to use it sounds uncomfortable to me.
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S4 simblr: http://simlogic.tumblr.com/
I sit crosslegged. Yeah, it could be a bit uncomfortable but I stack some books underneath my laptop and I also have a laptop cooler under it too. So it elevates the laptop a bit. Sometimes, I would just lean against the wall and just use my right hand to control the mouse. My laptop is closer to the wall on right side. I don't play other games so I don't have to have my left hand on WASD. :P
Yeah it's in the update itself , sadly I can not do anything about it . It did make my gaming experiance worse and my memory card seems to be sufforing , so UPDATE (for all you mac gamers) : do not ipgrade to sierra ! Its more of a dowgrade . It will make your already hard gaming even harder ...
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I third this. If money is an issue but portability isn't (and a lot of gaming laptops aren't extra-ordinarily portable either xD), go with a desktop. You will get a lot more power for a lot less money, you'll have it for much longer, and you can far more easily upgrade individual specs if need be over time. I have both now, but for a long time I couldn't and so I know, if I can only have one I will take a desktop over a laptop any day.