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Updated to Lion and now The Sims 3 freezes. Any ideas?

Recently upgraded to Lion from Snow Leopard. The sims 3 was running fine on Snow Leapord but not seems to crash and not work at all on Lion. Any ideas why?

MacBook, Mac OS X (10.7), Previously had Snow Leopard

Posted on Jul 22, 2011 6:14 AM

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Sep 4, 2011 12:34 AM in response to JuliaFromFrance

JuliaFromFrance wrote:


I've downloaded the last patch, the update went perfectly but when I started playing, and not even 5 minutes later the game froze again !


I'm on a Mac Book Pro 13" Mid 2010


Our problem is still unresolved, I think we're going to wait a long time until The Sims 3 re-running like on snow leopard !

Because Lion is the most defective OSX ever. NOTHING works or is as stable like in Snow, be it Graphics Drivers or Quicktime or TimeMachine or Airport.. all is broken in 10.7.x

Sep 11, 2011 5:29 PM in response to brianfromburien

Here is a update to my previous post: Sims 3 is now fixed! Open the app on Lion and have the program go through the update process. There is a update that EA put out that fixes the problem with the video card. I updated the game myself and tried it, and it works. It no longer crashed as soon as the family got loaded. I was able to control everything in the game.

Oct 7, 2011 10:37 AM in response to brianfromburien

I have a Macbook Pro, 13-inch, Early 2011


Processor 2.3 GHz Intel Core i5

Memory 8 GB 1333 MHz DDR3

Graphics Intel HD Graphics 3000 512 MB

Software Mac OS X Lion 10.7.1 (11B26)


But the game still freezes when I tried moving the family in. I've reinstalled a couple of times and yet the same thing happens. And when I tried downloading the updates on the Sims 3 page, it doesn't even finish downloading and the game launches. I'm not very sure about the difference between Nvidia Geforce or the one that I have. Please help, if possible, thank you!

Oct 11, 2011 6:39 AM in response to missylala12

If you check the Sims 3 Forums (and this thread) you'll see it's 50-50. For most, the 1.25 patch from EA fixes it, but the fix seems to work for all graphics cards and the errors seem to be expansion pack related possibly as most people report the base game working. Make sure the game is at version 1.25, and if possible remove expansion packs 1 by 1 to try to isolate the issue. Good luck.

Updated to Lion and now The Sims 3 freezes. Any ideas?

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