I just hated how quickly my sims would overheat or freeze. It totally turned them into house mice. Dinner on the patio was a total no go, since they'd get heat stroke before they'd finish. I even had one sim get frozen just going to the mailbox and paying her bills.... and it wasn't that big a lot. The weird part is, you could have them skate for ages, but doing anything else they'd get too hot or too cold.

My biggest worry is that they wont fix the crap that's already borked. My game cannot function without at least 5 mods running!

I'm glad I'm not the only one who misses Mr. penguin. He's the only one that would keep my snowmen company and would entertain them with a chat and probably some penguin related jokes. Maybe a modder could add it as a "wild animal" to the game?


Everything I don't want to see in Seasons has already been covered here. I had a sim pass out from heat in TS2 while he was sleeping in his underwear in bed. I really wish the air conditioning that came with SN was an actual working object. The entire "the temperature inside is regulated" seems very odd. I mean we can use the fireplaces to keep warm in winter, why not give us a fan or something to keep cool during summer?

So what don't I want to see in Seasons? All of the above. (by that I mean the above posts)

Seems like a lot of people are afraid of Sims constantly overracting to weather effects - but what about that strange preview video where it was raining like hell and Sims were sitting happily in the park, playing chess and picnicking, without so much as glancing upwards every once in a while? I think I'd find that even more annoying - a "non-reaction" to weather, so to speak.

I keep a hope that the maker of the video had the free will turned off and that the sims were just his household sims there to provide an illusion of a full park...

Maybe the player just wanted to see which one would get struck by lightning first. (I hope.)

Lag during weather changes. It happened to me in TS2 and I don't want it to happen again in TS3 goddamnit.

I also hope that EA are reasonable with understanding the capabilities of the average computer and not trying to display weather all over the whole world.

I don't think sims will react to weather in the middle of an action (that would mean to rewrite every outdoor related animation) but only when they are in an idle status.
It is also unknown if they will take out their umbrella when they are in the middle of a "walk to destination" and it starts to rain.

Thought I'm positive that when it starts to rain/hail npcs will interreupt their actions and go home.

New bugs and existing things that got screwed. But that's idle hope and it's the same as hoping for world peace. Those are things in life that won't happen.
Yep, i have not much confidence in a happy ending. I have more confidence in the modders that do the work to clean EA's mess. EA games; screwing everything.

My main concern is about how the snow and such will settle on CC. I hope EA didn't bork all of the CC like they did in Pets.

I don't want CAS crashes,but WTF!This happened!F**kin' CAS crashes are stoppin' me to play!I saw other people has the same problem!

If the 'react to rain/snow and go inside' bothers you, you can make a tuning mod. The precipitation reaction data is in instance 0xB9D79C755BD8B25B. You could change DisallowAutonomous="False" to DisallowAutonomous="True" and then your sims shouldn't freak out about being caught in a storm.
I had a look at the 'look out window' information. Sims with neurotic or brooding traits are more likely to look out windows for fun. Other sims shouldn't be quite so addicted to looking out the window at the weather.

I'll keep look for information on combustion and freezing, but so far I haven't found anything to tune.

I have the problem of lagging when there are weather events (rain/snow/hail). Some of the problems you projected are true. I've been experiencing lag since I installed Sims 3 Seasons.

Hope that the new patch will solve all those bugs currently freezing our games.

Are you sure all your mods are updated for 1.42/seasons, and your custom content is all good? What kind of system are you trying to run the game on? That info will help in guiding you to possible solutions.

I hope to not have fires in the yard every single friggin' time there is lightening.

well ... how to say it ...

I wish I had never installed Seasons and its damned patch 1.42

Gosh, first time since the Sims 1 ( a long long time ago ) I saw so many problems in the same time

Just incredible From a perfectly fine game ( Sims 3 Supernatural - 1.39 ) I got by installing Seasons and patch 1.42 : graphic weird stuff ( a full yellow and red screen instead of a black one ), glitches, errors 12 and 13, raised exceptions, lags, crashes, corrupted saves ..... and I surely forget few more things !

I uninstalled-reinstalled all the stuff at least 8 times but with no result.

So, after 2 days of tries and documentation readings around the web, I stopped braining for nothing and re-install until Supernatural and patch 1.39, just as before.

Too bad for me but yes, I blame EA for this.

In only few days on the EA/Sims 3 forum, more than 20 pages full of crashes and complaints !
And mostly from Mac Simmers who never experimented such problems before !



Now, when I read here and there that CC is to blame, I turn red.
And when I read things about the weakness of the computers which crash in such situation, I become really mad ! :D

Maybe one day, EA will success to create an expansion that will crash our computers for good and then, we will loose much more than a few sims ...

Sounds like you need a new graphics card. With Seasons, what do you expect? Mine's starting to go downhill, so after three years, I'm getting a new one and Seasons at Xmas.

Sounds you don't know much about Macs ... And no, my 1024 Mb graphic card is working more than just fine for EVERYTHING except Seasons ... So, I know the bugs don't come from my computer except if you think that EA is aways coding the right way.

And as I'm not the only one who can't get Seasons working on his/her computer ...........

And As I said, Supernatural and patch 1.39 work perfectly. And I already know too, for the last 10 years, it won't be the first time EA doesn't care about Mac users :D

Are you running on OSX with Cider or using BootCamp for running the game in a Win environment? If it's under OSX with Cider, which I suspect, the issues are known, and not terribly well addressed by EA. As wasteful as it may seem, BootCamp with Win 7 on Mac hardware is probably a better performing solution for you than waiting for EA to get its act together on the Mac.

You are surely right. And Bootcamp is THE solution versus a bad ciderization :D

But as these bugs are touching 90% of the Mac users, I get a ( tiny little ) hope to see an amelioration in the next patch and the ability to bypass the 1.42 patch with another super patcher.

Wait and see now


Except the bugs ( and the very cheap festival animation ), Seasons is a beautiful expansion. But what I most wanted was playing in Monte Vista world

Some news for the Mac players ..........

With the big amount of Mac users complaining about patch 1.42 and Seasons, here are some news from EA :

probably quicker and easier to buy a pc... you know what big companies can be like!

Buy a PC .....

Why buy a computer full of bugs, viruses, and so many holes that even my little sister can hack it in less than 2 hours ...

At least, if I really need Windows, I can install it via a VM PC don't.

Strange how PC people are always telling to Mac people to buy a PC . Gosh ! Are u ONLY playing to the Sims with your computer ?

And if I well remember, the Mac is not the problem in this particular situation. PC program made by EA is.

No offense, but It could be great if PC people stopped to say silly things about computing stuff, and mainly things they even don't know.




PS : For information : http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/po...975/604090.page

66 pages of people ( BOTH PC and Mac ) who have problems with Seasons and patch 1.42 ... Think a bit.

So, for $2,000 US, you can buy an iMac with a i5 processor, 8 GB RAM, 1 TB HD, a 675M (mobile) graphics chip, and a 27 inch monitor. Clearly the choice for a discerning buyer looking for the best bang for the buck.

Folks, if you love your Macs so much, go bother Apple about why you can't run an EA game on it. Then you can come back and complain when the Apple tech guru tells you to go buy a PC to play the damned game.

Damned ... why do mac use should go complain to Apple because a game company has made the choice NOT to code CORRECTLY their CIDERIZED game ( which is by the way, a free thing at the core ) ??
Do you complain to Dell or HP or anything else when Windows isn't working ? Don't think so ...

The point isn't mac user vs pc user it is : why would a company just decide they don't give crap about a bunch of users who PAY for a game.
Hell, when I pay for something, I want it to work fine and I want to be hear and heard and understand when I do so.
If we live in a world where : you pay, you can complain and have satisfaction otherwise shut-the-hell-out -> than ... I paid, I can complain, why am I not satisfied ?
Because I don't pay EA enough maybe ? Because they have parts in Windows or HP or Dell or anything else ?

Oooooh, that must be it ...

Yeah so, let me spend my 2 000$ on a mac that I can use properly and well ... way better than I use a PC since not a single freeware is indeed free on PC ... just sayin' ... if I want to.
Apple isn't using AppleScript for it's OS : it's godamn Unix nothing obscure and unknown ! EA as NO excuse for NOT playing fair in this game.

Stop the Applebashing now.
I'm with you Blackgryffin, I totally agree with what you say.
We have right to complain just as YOU, PC user do ...

Thanks.