Author: BluebellFlora

The Sims 3 and OS X Mountain Lion

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Just a quickie for Mac users. It seems that the game runs ok in Mountain Lion (at least it is for me). It took a little longer than normal to load up but that may have been because I was loading Lucky Palms. Overall the gameplay seemed as smooth as is technically possible with EA’s crappy Mac offering though. I’m running:

  • Late 2011 15″ MacBook Pro
  • OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion
  • 8Gb RAM
  • AMD Radeon HD 6770M 1Gb

Airplay Mirroring to Apple TV worked without any hitches too, although you may need to change the game resolution so you can see all the controls. I’m probably updating my late 2009 15″ MacBook Pro to Mountain Lion within the next few days so I’ll report back if there seem to be any graphics issues 🙂

Zinda comes to the Mac – get image changing!

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itsaprilXD posted the following AMAZING news in the Mac forum:

We’ve had Postal for a while so we can change lot images for uploading to the Exchange but the only way us Mac users could change our Sims images, apart from doing it on a PC, was using Mono which involved doing stuff in Terminal which is always a bit scary. But here it is, Zinda’s Image Changer for the Mac. Zinda, we LOVE you 😀 You’ve just made it all a little bit easier for those of us on Macs, something EA have never even attempted – THANK YOU!

Link to Zinda – http://www.zindasgoldensims.com/

Just scroll down to the bottom for the download link.

For the Mac users having problems, or not

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Please, please, please can you post on the following thread:

http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/543129.page

I want to try and narrow down the current bugs and glitches to common factors for each one. We’re only using 3 different operating systems at the most. All updates come from Apple for the OS and hardware – no 3rd party drivers from the manufacturers. The hardware across certain models is pretty much the same – same processors and graphics cards – I’m thinking the problem is maybe installed software and what is installed into peoples’ games.

EA are truly loathsome when it comes to their support for Macs but they do read the Mac forum, even if they only send out their pet moderator Nichaedemus to post stupid and irrelevant comments. We managed to narrow down the graphics issue for them with Lion, let’s try and sort out the other problems too 🙂

We need as many specs. as possible please, from those whose games work and those whose don’t.