TS3 64-bit & Metal keeps crashing while loading a saved game

[nka1308]

I have TS3 64-bit & Metal on Mac OS Catalina. Everytime I tried to load a saved game file, the game crashed while loading for that saved file. 

I've tried to clean up cache by deleting the options.ini file and to "repair" the game on Origin. None of if seems to help.

Can anyone help me with this problem please?

[puzzlezaddict · Accepted solution]

@nka1308  Deleting options.ini just resets all your in-game settings to default, and repairing only helps if the game files themselves are corrupt, which is possible but not likely.  What can help is deleting the five cache files in Documents > Electronic Arts > The Sims 3:

• CASPartCache.package
• compositorCache.package
• scriptCache.package
• simcompositorCache.package
• socialCache.package

If that doesn't make a difference, please try loading a new save, just to make sure it works.  Let me know either way.

[puzzlezaddict · Accepted solution]

@nka1308  Deleting options.ini just resets all your in-game settings to default, and repairing only helps if the game files themselves are corrupt, which is possible but not likely.  What can help is deleting the five cache files in Documents > Electronic Arts > The Sims 3:

• CASPartCache.package
• compositorCache.package
• scriptCache.package
• simcompositorCache.package
• socialCache.package

If that doesn't make a difference, please try loading a new save, just to make sure it works.  Let me know either way.

[nka1308]

It works! Thank you so much for your help!!!