No. You can't have it.

Wait a minute, you want a PC port of a second image of TS3 within Origin that leads to a download failure? Well okay, that I think we can manage even on a bad day.

It's just not fair we don't get 64-bit.

Do we know if it’s truly 64-bit or just a back door launcher? (Asking before I get excited/jealous)

No, no one had given a real answer on whether it is true 64 bit or just capable of working with Macs 64 bit mandatory system while still causing constant error 12s,
I hope its a true 64 bit update, but I'm not holding my breath.

A whole bunch of Mac players on a more current version of the macOS are reporting in on EA's Answers.HQ that they are seeing the same thing I am. Thus far the new TS3 entry on Origin for Mac is apparently just a placeholder that leads to a download failure. There's no successful downloads reported yet.

https://answers.ea.com/t5/Technical...p/9636105#M8517

https://answers.ea.com/t5/Technical...ight/true#M8522

What is the point of a 64-bit version with 4GB of RAM?

To allow the game to run. There aren't any new Macs models shipping with only 4 GB that I know of, but if anyone upgraded a Mac with 4 GB so that it's now running Catalina or higher, let's remember that they can't currently run the original version of TS3 at all precisely because it is 32-bit. These players want their games back, in whatever form they can get them.

The other point would be the improved features of the new version, although we don't yet quite know what they all are yet. Metal graphics processing is known to be one. We hope the EPs won't be such a pain to install as they are now on the older version. And maybe the 2 GB RAM limit will be lifted, although yeah with 4 GB total the player will only be able to take that so far depending on which macOS they have and whatever else they have running.

"nor can we comment on unannounced roadmaps that may or may not exist." Errr, I'm pretty sure you can comment on anything that does exist, should you have need to quell any disgruntled stirrings. So reading between the lines, it does not and probably will not exist.

If I'm going to have to constantly load up Origin, to see a 64bit TS3 - of which I have long hoped for like so many - be greyed-out that I cannot have on my PC, I am going to frikken-well uninstall Origin and all EA games that come with it! The damn mindless nerve to thrust it in my face like that, then say nope, not for you, no plans for that, so dream on. Like I'm going to quietly hide it from my library panel and happily ignore it exists at all. The damn nerve. If they can strip out bowing to a shrine in upcoming TS4 EP because of complaints, then this is going to spill over them like molten lava if they don't soon find a way to appease the Windows massive. And I don't mind if I'm one of the ones doing the pouring of lava because the decision to make it 64bit should have been across the board, irrelevant of coming to the rescue of Mac/TS3 users. For same reasons, they released TS4 as 64bit for Mac. Imagine them leaving the Windows version in a 32bit hell all this while? Total uproar if they did! The same uproar they'll now be facing over this TS3 Mac upgrade.

The fact they cannot comment one way or the other, no idea of their own plans, or lack thereof, on a matter that an ant could have had the foresight predicting it will become a very sore spot for Windows players, is just mind-boggling. They are not some medical emergency team, in the middle of a major crisis, never knowing if they'll have enough medicine day after day. Yet to ask them, they go on frustrated like that is the way their workload goes. BS. They should make proper plans to satisfy everyone on these types of matters. None of this "we just don't know" crap. Highly unprofessional. And now just watch how an animosity between Mac and Windows players starts to grow, and hellfire soon starts being unleashed on forums across the galaxy. That's what they'll instigate, which they have now set in motion. An ant could have seen it coming.

Hey, shouldn't you be busy serving tea to some sisters who died a hundred thousand years ago or something? (my memories of that show are beginning to fade and yikes somehow I got three series/seasons behind, but I still remember laughing an awful lot for years there...)

MaxisJoe did not mean that the team is physically unable to move their vocal cords and form the words players want to hear. He meant that, even if there is more information about projects being considered, rejected, or already under way, they are all under a Non-Disclosure Agreement that prohibits discussing them.

Oh yeah, that episode with one of the best gags. While off making tea, returning to the Dwarf Boys, only to hear said sisters are all dead. What, I've only been gone five minutes?! Are you sure they're all dead? Classic.

But regarding a Windows 64bit TS3, the current "mum's the word" attitude will certainly pass as acceptable for the short term. But if and when those reports from Mac TS3 gamers come in, of just how much better the game is. Just how much more fantastic and liberating an experience it has become, then for their own sake they'd better not stay so close-lipped and undetermined. More to the point, they'd better be saying the Windows upgrade is in the pipeline and soon available for download. Nothing else will do, if they truly want to keep the peace - and customers.

Edit: And if there is one thing they'll be watching like hawks over the coming months, is the percentage of TS4 Mac players trailing off, as many make a happy return back to play TS3 in a way they have been so longing to do for years. And for as long as they'll be studying this dynamic, we Windows players will get no word at all. Particularly if the shift from Mac TS4 to TS3 is more than just a fad to see what all the 64bit fuss is about. That if it's ongoing and makes a noticeable dent to TS4 pack and base game sales, then we Windows players will get nothing at all till TS4 comes to the end of its run. If even then. Much how I see the evolution of the Mac had brought this necessity about, it will be downright unfair to leave Widows players out in the cold, who would happily shitft back over to TS3 from TS4 if they too were given the opportunity. After all, they would not have wanted to make TS3 64bit for anyone while TS4 is still trying to sell. But they did, evolution demanded. So then do it for all, if fairness be the main objective, or at least the pretense EA wants to invoke.

Did I miss where they said it was going to be an actual 64-bit game and not just 64-bit compatible, because I still haven't seen that. There is no point in getting all upset over something that isn't confirmed imo.

I was wondering the same thing. We have no idea if it will acualy run better then the current version on pc. The very least we know is it can now utilize atleast 4 gigs of memory which is good since the normal mac vistion can only use 2. Whether or not it can use MORE we won't know until someone trys it out and reports back.

That is very true, taken on the value you are expressing.

However, if it was just a a rework of the game to run as 64-bit compatible on a Mac, - nothing to write home about for Windows players and "glad you can join us again, Mac players" - rather than be a fully fleshed-out 64-bit upgrade - filling Windows players with jealousy that can lead to rival rage if left out in the dark long term - then would it not be better for those devs to just say that period, definitively. That it will only open access to modern Mac users once again, but no difference to the game performance and certainly no differences compared to the long-standing Windows version. (And the new stuff added, whatever that is, is nothing that you'd actually want, so no need to yap over that either.) You see how that can nip all potential confusion and jealous stirrings right in the bud.

Yet they put out this - as you have probably already read above -

I also know a lot of you are wondering if this release will also include a 64-bit update for Windows players. No, it won't.
And that's the other question I can't and won't answer: "When, or will, there be a Windows 64-bit update?"
We can't comment on rumors and speculation nor can we comment on unannounced roadmaps that may or may not exist.
If there was more I could tell you about this - I would.

Why leave it a mystery with ambiguous and provocative statements such as as this, if there actually is no big mystery to what the 64-bit Mac update entails. Especially when communicating with Windows users who see 64-bit and start chomping at the bit, but are spoken to in riddles because of gagging-orders. If the recent statements from Maxis are meant to mollify the community by saying they are going to be more open and transparent, well this is not it. That quoted statement is the very antithesis of transparency, especially if the Mac update is nothing more than a fixer-upper to get it up and running again, a little bit of spit and polish thrown in, yet the game is no more technically different than it was ten years ago, as such there is no need to do same to the Windows version. Yet why is everyone so uncertain about the upgrade? Mac players don't even know what it's actually about till they install and play the upgraded version and discover, while Windows players will be left hanging on the Mac players every reported word hereafter? Just what the heck is that all about? Transparency? I just don't see it - if you'll pardon the pun.

Wait! RX 560 is 2017 GPU, while GTX 680 is 2012 GPU. Why this discrepancy between NVidia and AMD GPUs. Does it have some reason or it is just EA throwing GPU names to annoy people?

The cards need to support Metal and need to actually have been used in a shipped Mac configuration. It does seem like some of the older but higher end AMD cards should suffice like the Radeon 7950 HDs, but they may never have appeared in a Mac that meets other requirements.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202239

https://answers.ea.com/t5/Technical...ight/true#M8594

The FAQ mentioned that it overhauls memory, so maybe this will be a real 64 bit update? Not counting on it though

pls dont make me buy a MacBook

... hypothetically, it should be possible somehow to make it run for a PC right? In some way

So it's been released as of oct. 28th, but I've yet to see an update from anyone who has actually gotten it to work... All the notes seem to be copious amounts of errors/failures. How many licks does it take to get to the center of a tootsie pop and is it a true 64 bit update are things the world may never know...

MaxisJoe has announced that they figured out how to fix it, and the fix will be rolling out over the next few days.

EA actively fixing issues in The Sims 3. I never thought I'd see the day.

I know that it's been stated time and time again that there will be no Sims 3 64-Bit version coming to windows, and yet my heart still has hope settled inside of it.

https://simsvip.com/2020/10/28/the-...ayers/#comments