Category: The Sims 3 on a Mac

The Sims 3 and OS X Mountain Lion

Published on by BluebellFlora29 Comments

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 🙂

For the Mac users having problems, or not

Published on by BluebellFlora3 Comments

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.

Start helping each other Mac users!

Published on by BluebellFlora2 Comments

For all of you encountering the ‘Exception Raised’ error message it’s time you started helping each other rather than wailing on the forums and starting endless threads on the same subject matter.

Cutie9676 has started a thread asking for details from peoples’ games. I suggest you give them to her and all start pulling together. The threads we started over the graphics issues last summer gave EA the information they needed, do the same with this one. Her thread can be found here:

http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/534900.page

And there’s also this excellent thread which has been around for nearly a year:

http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/379332.page

I’ve never really encountered this issue so I’m afraid I’m no help at all.