So I was playing Sims 3 LITERALLY two days ago and it was working perfectly fine. YAY. But I tried it both yesterday and today, several times, and every time I open the game it says there is no game disc inserted. Now, I've installed all the updates for the game, all of them for my Macbook, all of them for my virus software, the disc isn't scratched, I cleaned it and it's about as clean as an almost-2-year-old game disc ever is, and have restarted my computer several times. When I put it in the drive, the picture of the disc pops up, but as soon as I click to enter the game it disappears, and so all I get is the opening intro and then when I get to where you pick a family it says "No Game Disc Found".
I really don't know what's up. The last time this happened (with Nightlife on my PC) I had to buy an entirely new game disc, which I just don't have the money for right now. Any other ideas?
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1. Repair your permissions: "Go" --> "Utilities" --> "Disk Utility" and then verify/repair disk permissions.
2. Invest in a cleaning disc; you can buy them at Staples for about $10 dollars. A CD lens cleaner works fine (there are ones for CD and DVD players, either one will do the job, which is to clean the lens.) These are special discs with "brushes" built into them that will remove dust/dirt/oil/other gunk from your lens. Follow the instructions the disc gives you once you load it into your Superdrive. Try playing the game after that, if it works, your lens was dirty.
3. This is where things get ugly; insert some other discs and see if they work correctly; if they don't, your laser may be burning out/burned out, and you may need to replace your Superdrive. Contact an Apple Authorized Service Provider and have them look at your machine. This isn't exactly cheap, but new Superdrives never are. If you have Applecare, and are still covered by it, this will be a free repair.
Hope this helps; sorry I can't be of more assistance.
To do that, go to the "apple" menu in the upper left corner, choose "force quit," then highlight "finder" and click on the "relaunch" button. That will probably help the game recognize the game DVD in the drive.
Early 2009 MacBook
Mac OS X Mountain Lion.
One time it worked after I reset the SMC/PRAM as I saw suggested on EA's help page, but since then that hasn't worked.
I'm not sure what to do..please help! :?: :shock:
However i found somewhat of a solution. If it pops up after the game loads, as in you choose to play the family and then it says error no disk found or whatever. Restart your computer, like turn it off then back on. Try again. Also make sure if you have downloaded anything from the sim store or exchange, or opened the sims at all restart your computer and then open it up.
Oh and you absolutely have to sit through the entire into thing.
Mine works perfectly fine as long as i do all that.
Hope it helps for the mean time.