Snow Leopard (mac): does upgrading fuck up the game?
dedust:
I updated to Snow Leopard without even thinking it could fuck up my game. Just recently I went to see if my game was still ok, it loaded really fast from the first loading screen after skipping the intro video. That was about it then, probably has a lot to do with the newly found 64 bitness though.
Then things started to get creepy. Mortimer Goth had his textures replaced with some random sim he talked to, had his face completely white, and some ugly green striped shirt all over him. EWW. In CAS he looked normal, in live mode he was fucked up. Even his thumbnail eventually refreshed to the fucked up version. Then his son's thumbnail turned black, with RED EYES. He looks normal in live mode, but his thumbnail is creepy. Mortimer however has all his textures plastered in new creative ways. Every time he went to work, he came back with new textures. Mostly greyish, sorta like poured wall textures. He probably got them from the building's wall. Maybe they had wet paint.
After dealing with this for a while the buy mode went haywire, its graphics exploded and the only way I could navigate through was with the mouseover texts. Should have taken a screencap, the mess was unbelievable. Later the whole game crashed, my mac got really stuck, had to reboot. Now I'm trying to reinstall the whole thing, apparently the installer got stuck too.
Quote from the official forum:
"Through testing with The Sims 3, we have discovered some compatibility issues with this new operating system on specific graphics cards. Errors will occur when playing the game on the ATI x1600/1900 and Nvidia 7300/7600GT graphics cards. On the ATI x1600/1900, you can avoid the errors by changing the ‘lighting/shadows' graphics option to the lowest setting as shown in the screenshot below.
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If you happen to be on the Nvidia 7300/7600GT, we would not recommend upgrading to Snow Leopard and playing The Sims 3 until these issues are addressed. We are looking into a resolution as quickly as possible and will keep you updated asap. We appreciate your patience. We know how much you love your Sims AND Snow Leopards ☺"
I'm running this on 9400M/9600M GT and probably have every bug they've found so far. Blergh. So basically, your game either will or will not be fucked up with SL. It could have graphic glitches, nothing major, and nothing that would mess the game itself forever.
Mazza:
I really hate to post this but some issues are known
http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/96855.page
simmilk:
Thanks for correcting my original subject line--that's precisely what I meant. ;)
I didn't see stuff out there about TS3 and Snow Leopard when I started this thread.
ejk:
My game does not run under 10.6.
My copy of Snow Leopard arrived today, and I did a full system install. I erased the hard drive and added my documents and information from my time machine back up.
When I installed Sims 3, a completely clean install of it, it seemed to work ok until I updated to the 1.4 patch. Directly from the digital download install, the program opens with no problem. After updating, the application just bounces in the dock and it says "application not responding."
Attempted all the suggestions on the Sims 3 forum. None worked, of course.
So therefore, on my end: Snow Leopard = Fucks up the game.
CheritaChen:
I'm not asking this to imply that 10.6 doesn't really fuck up the game, since I don't have it yet and I always play under XP with Boot Camp anyway, but...after you completed your installation of Snow Leopard, did you make sure you ran Software Update repeatedly until there were no updates available? Every once in a while, they actually fix something right away. If you haven't run it, do so before you try running the game again, just in case. If it still won't launch, report it to Apple.
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