A couple of days ago, I came out of my Sims 3 stupor. I felt like I had been on a bender. (Only without the tasty beer – Wil) My new and fragile house keeping regime had fallen to pieces. I quit cooking dinner. Or willingly shopping for food. The house was getting sloppy again. Who cares if my dishes are done, it’s my sims dishes that are important! You should have seen my laundry hamper. It was overflowing everywhere.
But I expected this, really. I knew it would be like that for at least two weeks. I am getting a grasp on my own life again. Actually, for the past several days, I’ve been reading a great deal. So… that’s good.
When I found out that EA was releasing the Sims 3 as a Mac/Win hybrid DVD, I was thrilled. Aspyr seemed to have pretty much abandon the Sims 2, we don’t even have the last few expansion packs. Bastards. I was tried of seeing things I could not have because our game was translated and released by a seperate company.
That’s to say the Mac releases did not have it’s issues, this time around. I hate to say this, because I was/am so grateful to EA for finally getting on board with the Mac players, but the first few days were full of frustrations for me. I have had a handful of crashes. One major crash that resulted in the complete loss of all my families. I still had downloaded material. And I had the beginning versions of those particular sims, but the households I had been building were gone. Which pissed me off because Posey and Simon were due to have their first baby.
Extremely sluggish performance forced me to play using my laptop display, rather than the monitor I normally have connected to it. (I only use one display at a time so it’s not a dual monitor situation.) The sound would disappear after a few moments of game play when i was using my soundstick USB speakers. It was fine when using my headophones.
Miraculously, the sound issues has disappeared. And the performance issues when using my monitor improved, they aren’t great, the sims still stop and take long pauses between actions, but not like before. The only things that has changed since it wasn’t working is it is no longer 88 some odd degrees in our easy bake apartment. As near as I can figure, maybe my laptop was overheating? It is a very system intensive game. I turn every single application off before playing.
All in all, it’s a great deal of fun to play. And I will discuss some of my characters in depth later, for Fee. Who loves the Sim stories. However, I would like to leave you with one other bug. I gave my Sim, Clive, a guitar to play. It is now permanently attached to his body. No matter what I do, change clothes, take a shower, go to bed, workout, that guitar is stuck to his body. And it leads to some very interesting stylistic choices when he actually plays the guitar.
Hi Jodi, I haven’t played computer games since “Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy” on my Commodore 64. Now I am retired and I bought Sims 3 and installed it on my new iMac. The first night I didn’t go to bed until 3 am. It’s a good thing they didn’t have these games when I was young and in school. I never would have studied. Oh, what am I saying, I never studied anyway :- ) I am now hooked on computer games. Well Sims 3 anyway. So far I can only manage one character at a time. I have a lot to learn, but I am enjoying every minute of it. My housework has gone to by the wayside too. It can wait. This is the most elaborate game of “playing with dolls” I have ever experienced. Thanks for your blog. Maggie
The Sims is the only place where you can kill someone with two strategically placed toilets.
I love this game and all, but i miss making my 8-adult-families and filling up an entire neighborhood with them. this makes for great parties. but i guess now i give one single family more attention, also i went from the sims deluxe to sims 3 and it blew my mind for a few days. what bothers me , however, is that you would have to spend real life money in the site to get, sim stuff. well just saying.
also, now i love making families with 3 or more babies at the same time.
i love sims babies!!!
I had exactly the same problem. My families have all been deleted 3 times, and i have just given up! To be honest there is no more point in me even trying to make or build on another family, because it will crash again; and my family will be deleted. I have also noticed as you have, that when your family has gone and your house that you made has also gone; your original family is still in the family bin! I don’t suppose you know any possible way of getting your family back? Because i have the save on my EA file.
My sims if up to date, so there is no problem there. However I really think I’m never going to bother now. I’m glad however, that its not just me.
Thanks for the post.