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The Sims 3 and The Sims 4 on OS X El Capitan

Published on October 1, 2015 by BluebellFlora4 Comments

I love El Capitan. My Macs are lovely and fast thanks to Apple’s little tweaks to speed everything up and of course Metal, which my MacBook Pro can take advantage of. Amazing.

But do The Sims 3 and The Sims 4 love El Capitan? Yes and no.

As soon as I clicked on Into The Future to launch Sims 3 the debug error popped up:

Tried it a few more times, no joy. So I tried bypassing the Launcher, same thing happened. Purged RAM, re-patched 1.67 and restarted. Nothing. Then I decided to follow my own advice and move out the Sims 3 folder and let the game regenerate a new one – it worked! The lovely Tremayne4260 pointed out that the same thing happened to her when she upgraded to Yosemite last year and she had to reinstall all her Store content. So I copied over my Store content from the old Downloads folder into the newly created one, opened the Launcher, selected everything then hit install. It worked, everything installed, all 3.5 Gb of it. I then moved over my Saves and everything is hunky dory again. Sadly there doesn’t seem to be any improvement in gameplay though but at least I can play.

I clicked on the Sims 4 icon to open it, Origin opened and immediately my Mac asked me if I was sure I wanted to open it as it hadn’t been opened before. Yeah, whatever. I clicked yes then had to enter my password for the Origin Helper Tool (why does that always pop up??) then Origin crashed. So I opened Origin on it’s own. After several attempts at logging in and more crashing later I finally managed to open it. I then quit it and launched Sims 4 from the icon in my Dock. Everything opened happily, super quickly in fact. I then started to play my Sim and wow, everything is smoother, quicker and lag free. The game has really ramped up a level on my trusty 2012 15″ MacBook Pro.

We have a thread for each game on the official forums for feedback and any possible issues that may arise. It already looks like there may be an issue with late 2012 21″ iMacs with the NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M 512 MB graphics. Please post if you are experiencing difficulties, EA are aware of them –

The Sims 3: http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/856422/el-capitan-and-the-sims-3

The Sims 4: http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/856370/os-x-10-11-el-capitan-official-release-thread

Poll Time!

Published on September 20, 2015 by BluebellFloraLeave a comment

Let’s get a bit of perspective shall we?

Published on September 18, 2015 by BluebellFlora8 Comments

Rachel Franklin’s comments about The Sims 4 and the decision not to include toddlers isn’t going away anytime soon. In fact if anything the backlash is gathering more and more momentum over on the official forums. Numerous threads are being started then either locked or deleted, EA’s damage control must be working overdrive on this one.

Personally I couldn’t care less about toddlers, as I’ve stated numerous times now. But I do think they should have been included in the base game from the beginning. But then I think CASt should have been too, and open worlds (having a loading screen just because my Sim crosses the road is a bit extreme), and cars, and diving boards etc, etc. I think that, sadly, the game is now very far removed from what it once was.

But I still play it because I love the building tools, I’m still a builder first and foremost. If I didn’t like it I would have given up by now and moved onto something else. When I want to play and have pets and seasons in my game then I play Sims 3. So I alternate happily between the two.

What I don’t understand are the people who are still moaning about the lack of toddlers a year on from launch. They’re not in the game, you desperately want them and you say your gameplay is severely lacking without them, so why on earth are you still playing it? Why are most of you apparently still buying Expansion, Stuff and Game Packs if you’re so unhappy that there are no toddlers? If I missed something that I believed was so fundamentally important to my gameplay style then I wouldn’t play it as I wouldn’t get any enjoyment out of the game. So you must still be enjoying certain aspects of the game to carry on playing it?

This rather fantastic comment pretty much sums up my feelings exactly. It was posted on one of the numerous pledge threads that have sprung up in the General Discussion forum. Sadly it’s been deleted now but I managed to grab a screenshot of it:

I do love that some Simmers are trying to make themselves heard but let’s get realistic here, this is EA. You should have learnt by now that they never listen to what their fans actually want.