" An integrated card is part of the motherboard, and can't be physically removed. You can add a better sound card if you have an open pci slot on your motherboard. It used to be that motherboards had 4 or 5 open slots, but nowadays, sometimes there's only 1 or 2 slots. "

Got that from Yahoo Answers. Not sure why it would be causing such a problem, but apparently these graphics cards don't like games.

I looked at other topics about this, and went on MTS and found nothing relevent because there were no topics based on a Mac.

I did many similar things to the other posts, I took out every other custom files including the custom neighborhoods and Sims3pack files, replaced the sliders, the slider hack and recource. file, tried multiple other slider hacks and the for some weird reason the CC only works if I don't use framework.

I had a belly slider, Johna's Sliders and a few others in the game before I downloaded some corrupted files, then I removed all the bad files, and this was thing that didn't work after I fixed it.

Is this an actual problem, or is it just because EA coding hates Macs? And if it's not just coding, does anyone know how to fix this?

I actually do have an intergrated card with a second card, but it wasn't doing anything to help me. The crashing stopped, but then the "Unhandled Page Fault on Write Access bull started and happens every time I play. But I will try this, THANK YOU.

I have a shitty Mac that I regret buying everyday of my life and I'm in the process of selling it.

Oh right.

You'll have to forgive me, I thought this was a discussion site for Sims 3 problems.

Oh, it wasn't Store items. It was just custom items in the sims3pack format.

All I was asking for was some suggestions, I don't see why I'm being shooed, damn.

Okay, so I took out the CC completely, but then the game was really slow for some reason.

I added some CC in, just about 90 things, mostly clothing, hair and accessories and NO custom furniture and things were fine, but then the game crashes without warning now. There's no glitching or anything before it happens.

I also realized that every other time the game crashes, majority of the CC comes up invisible or broken.

Not sure what to do at this point, one causes insane lagging and slow speed it's un-playable and another makes a crash.
Either way, I can't play.

You're probably right. I have about 400+ items of CC and I just don't think it's capable of handling that many .package files. Would CC through the launcher cause less problems you think?

I was making those decisions based on mods that might conflict each other, items that needs meshes or outdated items. I wasn't just clicking with my eyes closed.

But it's not doing anything too harmful now... If it crashes again, I'll remove the CC and it put it back in piece by piece until I run into a problem, like you all suggested.

Okay so I deleted what I though could've been the problem, and I didn't get the Exception Raised message, however I did get the Icon glitch, but it didn't crash. It crashed out of the blue with no notice about 30 minutes after that.

And here's a video of the kind of graphics problems I deal with. Has anybody even come close to a problem like this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4zxSylg5u4

The strange thing is, I even cheated a little to see if there was an actual problem and made them best friend using testingcheats and the horse still shit a brick when I tried to pet it. So I think there's an interaction problem in my system, wouldn't surprise me.

I will try that, after I just re-installed all of the mods I had in the game, such as a lighting/weather mod and " no intro" and removed things I don't need to survive in the game and I'll see if it worked.

If still a no go, I'll remove all of my 400+ CC items and go slowly.

As selfish as this sounds, I'd really rather not NOT play without  custom content, the base game and expansions items are nauseating. Any ideas on maybe how I could fix this problem without removing the content?

I also googled this issue and found a site that suggested doing this:

"Ea support told me this (for MAC users only!):

 

1. Drag The Sims 3 icon from your desktop to the trash bin.   
2. Go to Users\[username]\Library\Preferences and delete the Sims 3 preferences folder if it appears.   
3. Go to Users\[username]\Documents\Electronic Arts and move the Sims 3 folder to your desktop.   
4. Finally, go to Users\[username]\Applications and delete the Sims 3 folder there.   
5. Control-click on the trash bin and select Secure Deleted, restart your computer, and reinstall The Sims 3. "

But the person tried it and said it was still unsuccessful.

Where might I find those? ^

& anybody else have the Wild Animals problem?

@Unknown|User I'm not sure, this is the only game that I have on here, cause frankly I'm scared to add anything else without this POS exploding.

@Neowulf I'm not completely sure, I will have to try that and get back to you sometime today.

I have problems with CC on my Mac on a daily basis and I'm still confused and I spend all day trying to fix it.

I suggest just do what I'm doing, sell the Mac and get a non-piece of shit.

Something else I noticed was that in my custom neighborhood, that was fixed for pets, has no random little animals on the land, and all wild animals are not interact-able. I did "Watch Horse" or "Watch Deer" about 20 times and I still couldn't pet the damn thing.

I know I've already posted a few things about graphics problems, however they are getting increasingly worse, even after I paid Apple Care $400 to replace my entire graphics system and put in a new graphics card, andshit like this keeps happening, every 10 minutes or so.
 But only when I'm in Plan Outfit and Change Appearance screen. The icons of the objects glitch, then my Sim glitches then I get a
"Exception Raised: Unwritten page fault access on write address ________ x __________. Do you wish to debug it?
" and whether I press yes or no, it shuts my game down.

This happens literally every time I play. I also noticed that my CC decides when it wants to work, and then randomly starts working again, but regardless my game doesn't stay on long enough to enjoy it.

Here's a snippet of what the Error Report from my Mac said, if you need the full, I'll just run the game for you and get a new one.

Process:         cider [4421]
Path:            /Applications/The Sims 3.localized/The Sims3.app/Contents/Resources/AddOns/The Sims 3 Pets.app/Contents/MacOS/cider
Identifier:      com.transgaming.thesims3ep05
Version:         1.0 (1.0)
Build Info:      Cedega-5.3~5.3
Code Type:       X86 (Native)
Parent Process:  ??? [1]

Date/Time:       2012-01-13 00:58:08.001 -0500
OS Version:      Mac OS X 10.6.8 (10K549)
Report Version:  6

Interval Since Last Report:          122383 sec
Crashes Since Last Report:           4
Per-App Interval Since Last Report:  53661 sec
Per-App Crashes Since Last Report:   3
Anonymous UUID:                      67E6FE54-73C2-4072-9A81-631EFEC0C5EB

Exception Type:  EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
Exception Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x00000000ffdc5000
Crashed Thread:  67


Here's some examples of the shit I've been dealing with, which is making me want to rip my hair out.







If you could just give me even an idea, even if it's ass-backwards wrong, just let me know cause I'm getting kind of desperate for help cause no one at Mac has any experience with Sims.

I don't know if it's because my Macbook hates me and my soul but this is so irritating.

I deleted over 30 CC items that were really hard to find hoping they might've been the problem, but NOPE.

Every time I'm in wardrobe or Create a Sim, this pops up. The icons glitch first, then it craps out. Like this v

Okay, so I hadn't played Sims in a few days and i was going to play it. Everything loaded fine, until I noticed my sims were missing their custom hair, clothing and accessories.

All their hair suddenly just looked like a base color, or were completely bald, most of the custom shirts aren't working (Just a empty space on the sim) and all the custom accessories ( i.e. cigarettes/ 3D facial piercings) are non-existant, all of a sudden.

I have NO idea what happened, for most of my CC to suddenly break, as I hadn't played in weeks and nothing was altered and now I'm getting those " Exception Raised Unwritten default on write access on address ____ x _____ Do you wish to debug it?" messages so often it's almost becoming literally impossible to play.

Does ANYONE have ideas why it's doing this?



(photo is supposed to have custom hair and multiple facial piercings)

Very true ^

i'm replacing this piece of shit for a Digital Storm soon, and this thing is going in the lake out back.

Possibly set on fire first.

I actually fixed it, because I backtracked and realized that I must've had some bad cc. Everything's fine now, except the furniture. I have a mac, and it doesn't like me and makes my game crash on a regular basis, so sometimes I just figure it's my computer biting me in the ass but thanks for the help.

I'll try harder not to be stupid next time

The animations still don't work as they didn't before, but now the custom hair and clothes aren't working.

The clothes are just invisible and the hairs either come up bald or have some kind of base color and that's it.

Any suggestions on what to do to get all these working again?

I figured that. But the "exception raised" is my biggest "pain-in-ass" concern, is that from too much crap or a crappy computer?