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Speed Issues Make Game UNPLAYABLE - DO NOT BUY!!!
majordude
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I bought and downloaded the Mac version of Sims 3 today and it is UNPLAYABLE.
Do yourself a favor and DO NOT BUY this game until you hear that the bug is fixed.
What happens is that on things like sleep, eating, etc... you have to live it "real time" because speed 2, 3 and 4 don't change a thing (it acts like normal speed).
This means a typical Sims day is like 30 minutes long if not longer. You cannot fast-forward through the slow parts.
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Do yourself a favor and DO NOT BUY this game until you hear that the bug is fixed.
What happens is that on things like sleep, eating, etc... you have to live it "real time" because speed 2, 3 and 4 don't change a thing (it acts like normal speed).
This means a typical Sims day is like 30 minutes long if not longer. You cannot fast-forward through the slow parts.
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If your high speeds are slow, it's probably because your Mac isn't very fast.
Some people are having problems with speed 4, because the game has too much to render to go really quickly, but speeds 2 and 3 work just fine.
It's certainly not a bug.
With all due respect, you are speaking out of ignorance.
I have a 2.33GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 3GB RAM and a 7200 320GB HD. Search Google and there are about 715K pages about the "sims 3 speed control" issue. (http://boards.ign.com/the_sims/b5219/180933279/p1/?11 for example).
I truly feel that EA went BACKWARDS on Sims 3. The game play is worse than the original Sims and this time/speed thing is the icing on the cake.
I really think that this will be fixed though, because it doesn't do that when I play the game on my pc, so I'm thinking maybe it's just a problem with the mac version and they will hopefully have a patch out soon. It really is a fun game, I hope you get a chance to enjoy it.
- I haven't had a reason to try running the game above regular speed
- I must be old because I don't like rushing
- I hit 'Pause' a lot to make sure I don't miss things
- I must be old because I'm used to getting up and walking away and just letting things run (... Back in my day the games got faster to make them harder ...)
- I know my MacBook doesn't have super amazing specs so I just cope
Besides the disc is windows or mac so it's not a complete waste. One I buy / fix my pc I'm looking forward to turning all the graphics on full. ^^
On my Macbook I have no issue with the speed control whatsoever and am running it with high detail on textures and Sims. My spec is fairly modest: 2.4Ghz Core 2 Duo and 2GB RAM.
What is your graphics card though? That is the one (and one of the most important part) you conveniently left out. Speed 3 is blazing fast for me on my systems. Careful throwing around that word.
Wow dude... again you start with this?
That's right folks, hope you have a copy of XP or Vista lying around . . .
Absolutely. Because YOU and ME, and every other Mac user got ripped off by EA. Had I known that the game would be released in this condition (had EA TOLD us there would be no anti-aliasing, shadows, etc., pretty essential stuff) I would have waited until it was fixed or not bought it at all. These aren't bugs. These are basic pieces that are missing. But they conveniently left out the fact that they (allegedly) chose to disable basic graphical options because they were too lazy to either get Transgaming's act together for them, or wait until it's done right. It's just plain laziness. But they just had to grab those first-day sales, right?
But a lot of the sheep around here are so taken with the whole notion of The Sims franchise that they're willing to happily accept getting the shaft by EA. With that kind of attitude, no wonder developers don't take the Mac platform seriously.
But the graphics are awful, they're all fuzzy and pixelated
.. the game runs so slow.. the "Ultra speed" 4 doesn't work at all and the fasted option is like normal time.. meaning i have to sit staring at the screen whilst my sim works/eats/sleeps.. for a good 10 minutes... even without the time problem the game is still slow for the fact it takes about a minute for an action to even register then it takes ages for it to happen.. it's as if it keeps freezing up.. and it's really difficult to move the camera.. i merely touch the edge of the screen with my mouse and i'm on the other side of town, but there's no other option.. there's less and uglier clothing/furniture etc. available in the game.. presumably to force you to buy from the store but even those clothes are awful too... all the controls and everything are so confusing and slow...
The game is terrible compared to the sims 2.. i'm disappointed considering the hype that was made about its launch...
TS3 isn't exactly optimized code to begin with. But what did you expect from another Transgaming/Cider Mac port? All of our games are ports from Windows platforms. There really isn't anything exclusive to the Mac anymore. The old Bungie/Marathon days are over. It was actually better in 1995 and thereabouts.
No shadows, no antialiasing, in 2009. You can be running a Mac Pro and the game will look like garbage. And that's the kind of rig you need for it to run at decent speeds with graphics that that would have looked dated 4 years ago. TS3 has a lousy rendering engine.
You take it seriously enough for everyone, I can pretty much assure you that your diatribes aren't expediting something they are already working on or absolutely anything for that matter. It is not a matter of being a "sheep" it is matter of being realistic and not flipping out over something that is already being addressed. I have already told you that I am aggravated that the game isn't up to the same spec as the PC on day one but moaning about it on the forum (let alone in multiple threads) is not going to do absolutely anything when a fix is already being looked into and is well known by them, it is entirely counterproductive.
So if you want a smooth gameplay experience like The Sims 2, back to windows you go! (Even on powerful machines).
x Konny
So with that same logic it should be about the same at least on my 1 year old macbook pro with around the same specs. 2.4ghz core 2, 2 gb of ram... etc.
However you would be wrong. Well if you like to play the game less than 5 minutes you'd be fine. FYI turning down all the graphics and turning off all the sounds and forcing the resolution lower has no effect either.
Where is the thread or press release that states we know the Sims 3 is crap for many Mac users and they are sorry. Even with the delay of launch by 5+ months we were still not ready for the Mac users but we pushed it out anyway because we wanted to release on all platforms at once. Where is this so called acknowledgment that there is a problem?