mariemills, I have to disagree with you. I have a brother who is a developer for Rockstar and another that is one for Ken Levine and especially Rockstar is ALWAYS asking their fans for suggestions and problems with bugs. They constantly talk to fans and communicate with fans on Twitter and Facebook. So, no, it's not true that there is not much they can do or won't do. There are plenty of other game companies that do stay in contact with gamers and update them daily. Rockstar is great about this and is constantly striving to fix issues for their gamers as well as talking back and forth with gamers on Twitter and their forums. They even have a specific e-mail for you to send concerns and bugs to. This is def an EA problem and they need to appreciate their gamers/fans more. The developers make amazing games, but the people in charge of PR are not doing their job.
PLEASE GET IT TOGETHER EA, OTHER DEVS ARE THEIR FOR THERE FANS, SO WHERE ARE YOU? PLEASE DON'T TURN OFF LOYAL FANS TO YOUR PRODUCTS BECAUSE THAT IS WHAT YOU ARE DOING.
SO .... I just found out about the new Expansion Pack coming this March 2012 (SHOWTIME)... OMG... wow.
and WE are all here SUFFERING unable to play properly!
....................
It is so ridiculous how us Mac Users have not received any solution to our issues.
I really do hope that EA will fix this ASAP. There are a lot of ANGRY and UPSET MAC customers here,
please do us the justice by helping us with our needs. After all, we all love and buy your products, so wouldn't
it be fair to give back to us too? PLEASE! Update us with your latest work and solution to this MAC ISSUE., so we can be assured that SOMETHING is BEING DONE! Thank you!
P.S. I will be done with school and finals next week, and it would be such a pleasure to spend time with
my SIms again (normal and good looking) during this Winter Break! I miss the game so much, and I've been dying
to buy and play "PETS" but cannot guarantee I will because of this issue that's hindering it. I don't wanna buy something if it doesn't work properly. Who would?
I literally just booted up the game to attempt to play despite the graphics issues because my housemate (who's playing next door on a PC) gave me the urge. I got to CAS and stopped because the graphics issues irritated me.
I'm going home from University in 9 days. All I want to be able to do is go home and play the game when I don't have to worry about going to lectures all the time. I didn't know that it was too much to ask to be able to play a game that I've paid over £100 for.
Haha @goodgolly i love that your avatar is the problem many of us are having. i have a macbook pro i bought in august this year, and these forums comforted me that i wasn't the only one with problems. im having the same issue with super creepy eyes in create-a-sim and during gameplay the sims are one color (usually clothing color) with triangular shards. I noticed that the shards only appear where there should be colthes so if you choose a skimpy outfit like a bikini, then you can at least see their skin. also, when i zoom out a little they seem to go back to normal. While this sort of work-around makes the game tolerable, dont get me wrong the whole issue is still entirely unacceptable!!
specs:
Processor 2.3 GHz Intel Core i5
Memory 4 GB 1333 MHz DDR3
Graphics Intel HD Graphics 3000 384 MB
Software Mac OS X Lion 10.7.2 (11C74)
I don't know if it has been mentioned in here but I've tried installing and playing The Sims 3 with all of it's expansions and stuff packs installed on Windows 7 and it works without the graphics glitches on an Intel HD 3000 video card on my friend's MacBook Pro 13" early 2011...
Not yet apparently...it seems Windows is getting a lot more support than Mac OS even though most students own macs...
I'm not completely blaming EA for this, Apple have their share of blame too. I mean really it's the best sold game in the world and they don't offer support for Mac OS?...and Apple shouldn't have put such crappy graphics cards in their machines...I get it, they try not to make the whole product more expensive, but Intel integrated graphics always sucked! Apple computers are already worth an arm and a leg, so might as well put in a decent graphics card...and no, Intel graphics cards are far from decent... I remember I had a Toshiba laptop back in 2005 and it had Intel graphics too...couldn't do anything graphics intensive...absolute rubbish *frustrated*
That's why my old 2009 MacBook Pro runs The Sims 3 flawlessly...because it has an nVidia card on it...
I recently purchased a late 2011 model of the Mac Pro... installed Sims and it runs well, except for the pixellated/choppy sims just like other members have previously mentioned. I have tried to reinstall numerous times and even brought a new base game in the hopes the issues were due to a worn out disk to no avail....
Not yet apparently...it seems Windows is getting a lot more support than Mac OS even though most students own macs...
I'm not completely blaming EA for this, Apple have their share of blame too. I mean really it's the best sold game in the world and they don't offer support for Mac OS?...and Apple shouldn't have put such crappy graphics cards in their machines...I get it, they try not to make the whole product more expensive, but Intel integrated graphics always sucked! Apple computers are already worth an arm and a leg, so might as well put in a decent graphics card...and no, Intel graphics cards are far from decent... I remember I had a Toshiba laptop back in 2005 and it had Intel graphics too...couldn't do anything graphics intensive...absolute rubbish *frustrated*
That's why my old 2009 MacBook Pro runs The Sims 3 flawlessly...because it has an nVidia card on it...
I have the 2009 Macbook Pro and it has an nVidia card on it. Until Sims 3: Pets my computer ran Sims 3 flawlessly as well. Now that I have Snow Leopard my computer can run Sims 3: Pets too..unfortunate that it took having to spend another 40 bucks to make a game I already bought work. Been so busy with finals I don't even play the game that much anymore, but yeah...sucks
At the start if this tread I think it was mentioned that the cause of the Sims that are very pixellated and choppy is having Generations installed. Does this mean that all other Eps (including Pets) will run smoothly if I uninstall generations?
At the start if this tread I think it was mentioned that the cause of the Sims that are very pixellated and choppy is having Generations installed. Does this mean that all other Eps (including Pets) will run smoothly if I uninstall generations?
I almost died laughing when I first saw your post, there were a lot of speculations about the problem at first, and a lot of 'fixes'.
The answer to your question is: NO. The problem is NOT Sims Generations, it appears to be incompatibility between The Sims 3 software and the mac hardware. Uninstalling Generations does NOTHING. Reinstalling Sims 3 does NOTHING. Reinstalling without Pets or Generations does NOTHING. Uninstalling and reinstalling DOES NOT WORK.
All the Sims games are having this problem, I have Sims 3 (waiting for update) and Sims Medieval (also waiting) installed on my mac, and both are experiencing the same problem where there wasn't one a few months ago.
The problems started happening around the time of Pets, but that probably has something to do with hardware updates for the Macs which went out at around the same time.
EA is supposedly working on an update (according to a Guru), but I really think they're justing ******* with us. They really couldn't give a **** about the consumer: they want our money, not our happiness. That's what I've learned from this ****** *** experience.
I almost died laughing when I first saw your post, there were a lot of speculations about the problem at first, and a lot of 'fixes'.
The answer to your question is: NO. The problem is NOT Sims Generations, it appears to be incompatibility between The Sims 3 software and the mac hardware. Uninstalling Generations does NOTHING. Reinstalling Sims 3 does NOTHING. Reinstalling without Pets or Generations does NOTHING. Uninstalling and reinstalling DOES NOT WORK.
All the Sims games are having this problem, I have Sims 3 (waiting for update) and Sims Medieval (also waiting) installed on my mac, and both are experiencing the same problem where there wasn't one a few months ago.
The problems started happening around the time of Pets, but that probably has something to do with hardware updates for the Macs which went out at around the same time.
EA is supposedly working on an update (according to a Guru), but I really think they're justing ******* with us. They really couldn't give a **** about the consumer: they want our money, not our happiness. That's what I've learned from this ****** *** experience.
I new this was probably going to be the answer, but still it breaks my heart.
I WANT A PATCH!!! AN UPDATE!!! NOW!!! I was thinking, they sure are going to make an update before we can play with the new stuff pack ( the one with the bedroom stuff and that) or before we can play Showtime... but it`s a long time!!! We can't keep playing like this even if the guru said that "they are working on it" it`s been a very long time!! :evil:
I don't know if it has been mentioned in here but I've tried installing and playing The Sims 3 with all of it's expansions and stuff packs installed on Windows 7 and it works without the graphics glitches on an Intel HD 3000 video card on my friend's MacBook Pro 13" early 2011...
This is interesting. I maybe wrong but I think this is the 1st time I saw someone report trying Sims 3 with the 13" MacBook Pro (with the Intel Graphics card). I hope you don't mind me asking, did you play for an hour (or longer) and did not see any issue? Is there any lag?
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Model Identifier: 5,5
CPU: 2.26 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
RAM: 2 GB 1067 MHz DDR3 RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 9400M 256
OS: Lion 10.7.1
mine freezes when im playing it and i cant make horses :S
MacBook Pro
13-inch, Early 2011
Processor: 2.3 GHz Intel Core i5
Memory: 4 GB 1333 MHz DDR3
Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 3000 384 MB
Software: Mac OS X Lion 10.7.2 (11C74)
I have the base game, Late Night, and World Adventures, but I'm an idiot and just tried to reinstall everything. Still dead.
PLEASE GET IT TOGETHER EA, OTHER DEVS ARE THEIR FOR THERE FANS, SO WHERE ARE YOU? PLEASE DON'T TURN OFF LOYAL FANS TO YOUR PRODUCTS BECAUSE THAT IS WHAT YOU ARE DOING.
and WE are all here SUFFERING unable to play properly!
....................
It is so ridiculous how us Mac Users have not received any solution to our issues.
I really do hope that EA will fix this ASAP. There are a lot of ANGRY and UPSET MAC customers here,
please do us the justice by helping us with our needs. After all, we all love and buy your products, so wouldn't
it be fair to give back to us too? PLEASE! Update us with your latest work and solution to this MAC ISSUE., so we can be assured that SOMETHING is BEING DONE! Thank you!
P.S. I will be done with school and finals next week, and it would be such a pleasure to spend time with
my SIms again (normal and good looking) during this Winter Break! I miss the game so much, and I've been dying
to buy and play "PETS" but cannot guarantee I will because of this issue that's hindering it. I don't wanna buy something if it doesn't work properly. Who would?
I'm going home from University in 9 days. All I want to be able to do is go home and play the game when I don't have to worry about going to lectures all the time. I didn't know that it was too much to ask to be able to play a game that I've paid over £100 for.
specs:
Processor 2.3 GHz Intel Core i5
Memory 4 GB 1333 MHz DDR3
Graphics Intel HD Graphics 3000 384 MB
Software Mac OS X Lion 10.7.2 (11C74)
Processor 2.3 GHz Intel Core i5
Memory 4 GB 1333 MHz DDR3
Graphics Intel HD Graphics 3000 384 MB
Software Mac OS X Lion 10.7.2 (11C74)
Only Got Base Sims And Late Night Installed.
:x
in the CAS striped skin and weird colored eyes
2.7 GHz Intel Core i7
4GB 1333MHz DDR3
Intel HD Graphics 3000 384 MB
Mac OS X Lion 10.7.2
please is there a solution to this?
I'm not completely blaming EA for this, Apple have their share of blame too. I mean really it's the best sold game in the world and they don't offer support for Mac OS?...and Apple shouldn't have put such crappy graphics cards in their machines...I get it, they try not to make the whole product more expensive, but Intel integrated graphics always sucked! Apple computers are already worth an arm and a leg, so might as well put in a decent graphics card...and no, Intel graphics cards are far from decent... I remember I had a Toshiba laptop back in 2005 and it had Intel graphics too...couldn't do anything graphics intensive...absolute rubbish *frustrated*
That's why my old 2009 MacBook Pro runs The Sims 3 flawlessly...because it has an nVidia card on it...
I'm getting the weird eyes on sims.
Is this right?
Processor 2.4 GHz Intel Core i5
Memory 4 GB 1333 MHz DDR3
Graphics Intel HD Graphics 3000 384 MB
Software Mac OS X Lion 10.7.2 (11C74)
I only have the Base game and Late Night installed.
Here are my specs:
MBP 13'' 2011
Processor: 2.3 GHz Intel Core i5
RAM: 8 GB 1333 MHz DDR3
Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 3000 512 MB
OS: Lion 10.7.2
Base Game
Patch: 1.27.5.013001
Ambitions
Patch: 4.9.5.010031
Generations
Patch: 8.0.152.011001
Base Game: Yes
Patch: 1.22.9.011002
Model: 13" MBP Late 2011
CPU: 2.4 GHz Intel Core i5
RAM: 4 GB 1333 MHz DDR3
Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 3000 384 MB
OS: Lion 10.7.2
I WANT A FIX PATCH !
I have the 2009 Macbook Pro and it has an nVidia card on it. Until Sims 3: Pets my computer ran Sims 3 flawlessly as well. Now that I have Snow Leopard my computer can run Sims 3: Pets too..unfortunate that it took having to spend another 40 bucks to make a game I already bought work. Been so busy with finals I don't even play the game that much anymore, but yeah...sucks
The answer to your question is: NO. The problem is NOT Sims Generations, it appears to be incompatibility between The Sims 3 software and the mac hardware. Uninstalling Generations does NOTHING. Reinstalling Sims 3 does NOTHING. Reinstalling without Pets or Generations does NOTHING. Uninstalling and reinstalling DOES NOT WORK.
All the Sims games are having this problem, I have Sims 3 (waiting for update) and Sims Medieval (also waiting) installed on my mac, and both are experiencing the same problem where there wasn't one a few months ago.
The problems started happening around the time of Pets, but that probably has something to do with hardware updates for the Macs which went out at around the same time.
EA is supposedly working on an update (according to a Guru), but I really think they're justing ******* with us. They really couldn't give a **** about the consumer: they want our money, not our happiness. That's what I've learned from this ****** *** experience.
About your post:
This is interesting. I maybe wrong but I think this is the 1st time I saw someone report trying Sims 3 with the 13" MacBook Pro (with the Intel Graphics card). I hope you don't mind me asking, did you play for an hour (or longer) and did not see any issue? Is there any lag?