gets stuck at blue screen with plumbob

[allisonmoss]

I have a macbook air and i am trying to play the sims 3. I have Late Night, Seasons, Supernatural, Showtime, and Island Paradise installed as well. When i open the sims 3 it automatically shows Island Paradise. When I click play the game gets stuck at the blue screen with the plumbob and doesn't change, so I end up force quitting. How do i do i fix it so i can play?

[roberta591]

@allisonmoss do you have el capitan?

[allisonmoss]

@roberta591umm what is el caption??

[roberta591]

@allisonmoss el capitan is the name of the latest version of Apple's OSX.

[allisonmoss]

@roberta591 I do not have it would it help if I upgrade to it?

[roberta591]

@allisonmoss it may not help but it would answer some questions that now don't apply now.Do you have cc/mods?

add: did the game ever work? Do you have the disc ip in the dvd drive?

[allisonmoss]

I have no cc/mods. the last time i played this game was on a pc and now im trying to play it through origin on my macbook air which does not have a disc drive, i downloaded the game. but yes the game worked on my pc. 

Plus I have the sims 4 on my mac and it works perfectly fine

[roberta591]

@allisonmoss The DRM used in TS3 is different then the DRM used in TS4. What is the version of the game. I'm going the move this post to the sims mac forum.