November 2020
I read a post about the sims 3 64 bit game freezing and crashing so i listened to the reply and changed my settings to low, and it seemed to run fine for a couple of minutes and then it just crashed.
MacBook Air (Retina, 13-inch, 2020)
Processor 1.1 GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i3
Memory 8 GB 3733 MHz LPDDR4X
Version Catalina 10.15.7
Graphics Intel Iris Plus Graphics 1536 MB
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November 2020
@Kiera_Jade9743 Did you try at the Main Menu and in-game? A couple people have reported that cmd-enter doesn't work for them, but it's not clear why.
At any rate, you can edit options.ini to set fullscreen to 0 rather than 1. The file is in Documents > Electronic Arts > The Sims 3; you can open it with TextEdit and cmd-F to search for "fullscreen," which will take you right to the value you need to change.
November 2020 - last edited November 2020
@Kiera_Jade9743 Does it help to play in windowed mode? You can switch between fullscreen and windowed by clicking cmd-enter at the Main Menu or once you've loaded a save. To be specific, windowed mode means you can see the desktop behind the game window. If you see black bars to either side of the game window, you're in fullscreen mode but using a resolution that your screen doesn't support, so the black bars fill the part of the screen that the game itself isn't using.
November 2020
November 2020
@Kiera_Jade9743 Did you try at the Main Menu and in-game? A couple people have reported that cmd-enter doesn't work for them, but it's not clear why.
At any rate, you can edit options.ini to set fullscreen to 0 rather than 1. The file is in Documents > Electronic Arts > The Sims 3; you can open it with TextEdit and cmd-F to search for "fullscreen," which will take you right to the value you need to change.
November 2020