If you manage to get the game working on a Mac which isn’t listed then help others and comment with what worked for you. The steps are exactly the same but the text, and obviously the Device ID, will be different depending on which Intel graphics you have. You need to try and figure it out yourself. If your Mac isn’t listed it’s because no one has posted a successful edit to the files for your Mac. In the Hardware Overview you will see the Model Identifier: To find the Model Identifier click on the Apple logo in the top left corner of your desktop and then About this Mac. The Model Identifier accurately identifies your Mac and will determine whether you need to follow the given instructions.
Late Night and Ambitions are hugely problematic EPs and this fix may just be quite magical in getting the game working again for users with unsupported graphics cards.īelow is a list of all affected Macs. It is also worth reading this page detailing a fix for the Unknown Error message that El Capitan and Sierra users with Late Night and/or Ambitions installed receive.
If you’re not sure how to do this please read instructions here.īear in mind this is still, and probably always will be, a work in progress so any and all input is hugely welcome and greatly received. You need to manually force quit the game in Activity Monitor. Massive thanks also to the11thmoon and wendyp7 for their help in adding the details for the AMD Radeon R9 M370X and the Intel HD 6000.Īs well as the game freezing at the blue screen you may also be experiencing the following error message when trying to restart the game – “Cannot start the process when the game is running. Huge thanks has to be given to tmethei over on the official forums who set the ball rolling and came up with the first workaround for this. We’ve now come up with a fix which should work. This is because your graphics card is newer than the game and isn’t included in the game files. You can probably load the Launcher but the game gets stuck on the blue screen with the green plumbob. If you have one of the following Macs the chances are The Sims 3 doesn’t work for you. Please read my post here and help if you can. The aim is to upload the files so all the user has to do is download them and copy the information into their game instead of applying this fix themselves. If you’re still struggling with this fix I am trying to collect information to create custom GraphicsCards.sgr and GraphicsRules.sgr files for Mac users. Only applicable to the 32-bit version of the game
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