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I just upgraded from 2gbs of memory, which up until a week ago was working fine, to 8gb.

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The hard drive was replaced a year ago so I’ve got more free space than I will ever come close to needing. I’ve spent days sifting through forums and trying many different suggestions. HELP! My game will not open no matter what I try. You could always try resetting the PRAM and SMC before an OS reinstall:

You shouldn’t lose anything by doing this as it installs the OS over the top of the installed one, so to speak, replacing and fixing any erroneous files in the system. It sounds like your operating system may need reinstalling again. During the purging process your Mac may be unresponsive or slow, and any open apps may take a few seconds for the OS to allocate RAM to them again. Purging RAM would not be the cause of this on your Mac as all memory is reset on startup. Can you help or do you know anyone who can?” Is there a way to fix this? Does anyone know? (I went ahead and bought another computer so freeing up memory on it isn’t an issue anymore but I still would like it to work). I mean it takes like 30 minutes for the thing to boot up and apps load etc. I used the “sudo purge” command to free up some memory on my notebook and now everything is running so incredibly slow. “Hi! I’m changing the subject here – hope you can help me out. Thus turning them into very expensive bookshelf clutter 🙂 *shrug* It’s funny that the whole attitude of EA and maxis with the cider thing and no answers towards mac users, put me off playing and I have had the game uninstalled for the last year. If this doesn’t work it seems I might just have to play the sims without the supernatural, seasons and university expansions. I don’t wish to be a bother but I was just wondering if I was doing some thing wrong. I entered my password, nothing seemed to happen, so I quit terminal and loaded it back up again only for the sudo purge to also pop up with the command not found message. A warning popped up and asks me for my password. So I then tried the sudo purge command just to see what would happen. I have one question though, with the purge command I have tested it out and within terminal the message -bash: purge: command not found, pops up I have all the expansions up to University and am going to try using this technique to try and play the game for more than 5 minutes. I have an Imac, which has 4GB of memory and 1TB of storage/space and I’m at OS X version 10.6.8.

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Hey Belle, I have recently started to install the sims again. This is what you will see instead of the images above:

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When you type in your password it will not appear – just keep typing and hit Enter.Īctivity Monitor has also changed slightly. Once you enter your password the memory will be freed up. You will get a warning message and a prompt to enter your password. However you can still purge the RAM by entering “ sudo purge” (without the quotation marks) into Terminal.

Typing purge no longer works due to the new compressed memory feature built into Mavericks. This is by no means a magical fix for the numerous crashing/lagging/hanging issues but it can help if your issues are memory related.

There’s no limit to the amount of times you can do this. Your game should now perform a bit quicker. After a few moments you should see the free RAM figure increase: If it’s low you definitely need to free some up. Next, open up Activity Monitor and see how much free RAM you have:Īpplications > Utilities > Activity Monitor With the game running (and paused) hold down CMD and press Enter. If you’re running Snow Leopard you can install Xcode from the disc that came with your Mac.įirstly, play in windowed mode so you can see what you’re doing. It’s free, provided by Apple, and available from the App Store.

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If you get “ Command not found” in Terminal you may need to download Xcode in order for it to work. You can buy apps from the App Store to do this but why bother when you can do it through Terminal for free? You can do this when your game starts to lag noticeably which seems to happen to me when I’m moving between Vacation, University and Home worlds in The Sims 3. You need to free some of it up and you can easily do this whilst you’re playing. Another symptom is the Exception Raised, do you wish to debug it? error message. If you suffer from frequent crashes/lagging/hanging in game and/or the dreaded Error 12, this may be because your Mac is running out of RAM whilst you’re playing.