The Sims 3 and OS Catalina

[karoliiinas]

I haven't gotten The Sims 3 to work on my MacBook Pro (early 2015) since the new OS updates. I first deleted the old game since I hadn't played since maybe 2016 and the game wouldn't open. After reloading and after long fighting I managed to get the launcher to open, but the game itself didn't start and just gave an error code. But after updating to the OS Catalina last night the game can't even be clicked and it can't be updated in Origin. Is there anything I can do?

[puzzlezaddict · Accepted solution]

@karoliiinas  The current version of Sims 3 is a 32-bit app, and Catalina is 64-bit only, which is why you haven't been able to install it.  There's no way around this problem.  But EA has announced a 64-bit-compatible version of Sims 3 for macOS, due to be released some time in early 2020.  Here's the full announcement:

https://answers.ea.com/t5/Technical-Issues-Mac/An-announcement-for-The-Sims-3-players-on-Mac/td-p/82...

In the meantime, unless you have access to another computer or are willing to install another operating system on your Mac, you unfortunately won't be able to play.

[puzzlezaddict · Accepted solution]

@karoliiinas  The current version of Sims 3 is a 32-bit app, and Catalina is 64-bit only, which is why you haven't been able to install it.  There's no way around this problem.  But EA has announced a 64-bit-compatible version of Sims 3 for macOS, due to be released some time in early 2020.  Here's the full announcement:

https://answers.ea.com/t5/Technical-Issues-Mac/An-announcement-for-The-Sims-3-players-on-Mac/td-p/82...

In the meantime, unless you have access to another computer or are willing to install another operating system on your Mac, you unfortunately won't be able to play.

[karoliiinas]

@puzzlezaddict Thanks for quick reply! I'll have to play TS4 while waiting for the update in 2020

[karlie09]

Do we know if we can play Sims on Catalina now?

[MMOgamer500]

No unfortunately 

[jalynnvang]

I just downgraded my version of OS Catalina to OS Mojave and was able to download Sims 3 on Origin and play!! I followed this youtube video that i'll link below. You will need a flash drive thats at least 8 GB tho. 

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XyBpIM6rhA

The second video im going to link you to will fix the last step if it won't let you install mojave on ur disks.

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lP6KKazdRoI

Everything worked for me 

Enjoy  

[OliverBones]

@jalynnvang Wow...how can I be so stupid to not get this idea lol....THANK YOU! I'm currently on it :-)

[StephJ82]

@OliverBones did it work okay can you play Sims 3 now and aren't you worried about not having the up the date security

[yareli0828]

@karoliiinas Yes, EA had started a forum saying they were going to create a 64-bit game for mac by early this year. Since that still hasnt come out what I did was through bootstrap I installed windows 10 on my mac and downloaded the sims 3, it works!!