Hi! So I am a MacBook Air (early 2015 13 inch) user therefore I have Intel HD 6000 graphics which is not compatible with Sims 3 and sadly I haven't got another computer on which I can play Sims 3. Including mine, there is a total of 14 Mac's (having different graphics cards) having this problem. @BluebellFlora came up with an alternative solution but it works out for a few. In other forums, they've been saying that EA needs to release an update but as someone who's contacted EA support a several times and tried troubleshooting steps that EA suggested (which didn't work) I know that an update wouldn't be enough to fix this problem.
So today I contacted EA support again and they suggested me to flag this situation to this forum...
I was wondering if higher tier technicians would get this problem to come to an end. Like for example releasing a new Sims 3 (and all the packs) on Origin which can be downloaded if you already have that Sims 3 registered to Origin (and which is of course compatible with Intel HD 6000 and other graphics cards). They can make the new Sims 3 compatible with them by copying Sims 4's graphics card options (if they are compatible), maybe that would work.
That was just one idea. So it would be really appreciated by hundreds or maybe thousands of simmers if you could make graphics cards below compatible with Sims 3.
Thank you in advance.
List of affected Mac's:
MacBooks:
Early 2015 12″ MacBook, Model Identifier: MacBook8,1 (Intel HD 5300, Broadwell)
MacBook Pros:
Late 2013 Retina 13″ MacBook Pro, Model Identifier: MacBookPro11,1 (Intel Iris 5100, Haswell)
Late 2013 Retina 15″ MacBook Pro, Model Identifier: MacBookPro11,2 (2.0Ghz Intel Core i7 model only) (Intel Iris Pro 5200, Haswell)
Mid 2014 Retina 13″ MacBook Pro, Model Identifier: MacBookPro11,1 (Intel Iris 5100, Haswell)
Mid 2014 Retina 15″ MacBook Pro, Model Identifier: MacBookPro11,2 (2.2Ghz Intel Core i7 model) (Intel Iris Pro 5200, Haswell)
Early 2015 Retina 13″ MacBook Pro, Model Identifier: MacBookPro12,1 (Intel Iris 6100, Broadwell)
Mid 2015 Retina 15″ MacBook Pro, Model Identifier: MacBookPro11,4 (Intel Iris Pro 5200, Haswell)
Mid 2015 Retina 15″ MacBook Pro, Model Identifier: MacBookPro11,5 (AMD Radeon R9 M370X, Haswell)
MacBook Airs:
Early 2015 11″ MacBook Air, Model Identifier: MacBookAir7,1 (Intel HD 6000, Broadwell)
Early 2015 13″ MacBook Air, Model Identifier: MacBookAir7,2 (Intel HD 6000, Broadwell)
iMacs:
Late 2013 21″ iMac, Model Identifier: iMac14,1 (Intel Iris Pro 5200, Haswell)
Late 2015 21″ iMac, Model Identifier: iMac16,1 (Intel HD 6000, Broadwell)
Late 2015 21″ iMac, Model Identifier: iMac16,1 (Intel Iris Pro 6200, Broadwell)
Late 2015 21″ iMac, Model Identifier: iMac16,2 (Intel Iris Pro 6200, Broadwell)
So today I contacted EA support again and they suggested me to flag this situation to this forum...
I was wondering if higher tier technicians would get this problem to come to an end. Like for example releasing a new Sims 3 (and all the packs) on Origin which can be downloaded if you already have that Sims 3 registered to Origin (and which is of course compatible with Intel HD 6000 and other graphics cards). They can make the new Sims 3 compatible with them by copying Sims 4's graphics card options (if they are compatible), maybe that would work.
That was just one idea. So it would be really appreciated by hundreds or maybe thousands of simmers if you could make graphics cards below compatible with Sims 3.
Thank you in advance.
List of affected Mac's:
MacBooks:
Early 2015 12″ MacBook, Model Identifier: MacBook8,1 (Intel HD 5300, Broadwell)
MacBook Pros:
Late 2013 Retina 13″ MacBook Pro, Model Identifier: MacBookPro11,1 (Intel Iris 5100, Haswell)
Late 2013 Retina 15″ MacBook Pro, Model Identifier: MacBookPro11,2 (2.0Ghz Intel Core i7 model only) (Intel Iris Pro 5200, Haswell)
Mid 2014 Retina 13″ MacBook Pro, Model Identifier: MacBookPro11,1 (Intel Iris 5100, Haswell)
Mid 2014 Retina 15″ MacBook Pro, Model Identifier: MacBookPro11,2 (2.2Ghz Intel Core i7 model) (Intel Iris Pro 5200, Haswell)
Early 2015 Retina 13″ MacBook Pro, Model Identifier: MacBookPro12,1 (Intel Iris 6100, Broadwell)
Mid 2015 Retina 15″ MacBook Pro, Model Identifier: MacBookPro11,4 (Intel Iris Pro 5200, Haswell)
Mid 2015 Retina 15″ MacBook Pro, Model Identifier: MacBookPro11,5 (AMD Radeon R9 M370X, Haswell)
MacBook Airs:
Early 2015 11″ MacBook Air, Model Identifier: MacBookAir7,1 (Intel HD 6000, Broadwell)
Early 2015 13″ MacBook Air, Model Identifier: MacBookAir7,2 (Intel HD 6000, Broadwell)
iMacs:
Late 2013 21″ iMac, Model Identifier: iMac14,1 (Intel Iris Pro 5200, Haswell)
Late 2015 21″ iMac, Model Identifier: iMac16,1 (Intel HD 6000, Broadwell)
Late 2015 21″ iMac, Model Identifier: iMac16,1 (Intel Iris Pro 6200, Broadwell)
Late 2015 21″ iMac, Model Identifier: iMac16,2 (Intel Iris Pro 6200, Broadwell)