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Sims 4 Mac help thread

Published on February 17, 2015 by BluebellFlora1 Comment

So the moment that so many Mac Simmers have been waiting for is finally here, the game is now available to download from Origin. I’ve downloaded it and installed it but haven’t fired it up yet. I’m going to play around first and see what I can find out about the Mac version.

The most exciting news for me is that we finally have a Mac forum over on the officials – YAY! You can find it here:

http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/categories/the-sims-4-on-mac-discussions

I’ve set up a help and troubleshooting thread too so if you’re experiencing any problems please post your specs. and problems here:

http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/816108/the-sims-4-help-troubleshooting-thread

Keeping it all in one place helps to work out what the problem is and makes it easier for EA to keep tabs on how the game’s performing too 🙂

Happy Simming!

The Sims 4 available for Mac, EA fall at the first hurdle

Published on February 17, 2015February 17, 2015 by BluebellFlora1 Comment

Correct me if I’m wrong but didn’t EA make a Sims 4 Technical Discussion forum available for Windows users BEFORE the game was actually released? So bugs, patches and all the important stuff relating to actually getting the game to work was available straight away? Yep, that’s what I thought, of course they did.

So why are they so useless and not bothered with the Mac equivalent? I started this thread 17 days ago and 2 days later, with much support from the fabulous blunote00, SimGuruBChick responded:

Two weeks later where are we? Absolutely nowhere. EA have failed YET AGAIN, with their “beloved” Mac folk. No sign of any dedicated TS4 forum. Now, before anyone reading this starts yelling at me about demanding a Mac forum, consider this – do you really want us clogging up the Tech. forum with a myriad of posts about Macs? No, didn’t think so. Currently EA are moving all Mac related posts to The Sims 3 Mac Forum anyway so the TS3 forum is getting clogged up with TS4 threads.

Not off to a great start are we EA?

Edit – an hour after the game goes live and we have a Mac forum:

http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/categories/the-sims-4-on-mac-discussions

Finally!

Sims 4 Modern Starter upload

Published on February 15, 2015 by BluebellFlora5 Comments

I spent last night playing in Sims 4 in Boot Camp. One of the reasons was to play around with the build tools a bit more because so many of my Sims friends who build swear that the build tools are great……….. and now I’ve been converted! The second reason was to actually play for a little while and build up some user data to see how well it will copy across to OS X when the game is released on Tuesday. I also made another observation, the Gallery feature to upload lots, Sims and rooms to is crap.

This is the house I made and have uploaded:

You can find it in the Gallery under my Origin ID.

When we get the Mac version of the game next week I really, really hope the graphics are going to look as good as they do in Windows:

I do love the night time look in this game, it’s a lot softer than The Sims 3. But I’m still very unimpressed at how clunky objects look, there’s no finesse to them.