

Installing into a new admin user account that had never seen the game.Forcing the laptop to only use the AMD card via energy settings (thanks to for this and the NVRAM suggestions).Resetting NVRAM via key command during startup (not convinced it worked).Editing options.ini to match the settings from when TS4 worked last week.Launching while the laptop was not connected to the internet.Turning off every single accessible option in Origin (various notifications, web helper, etc.).Disabling Origin in-game both globally and for TS4.

Doing a clean uninstall/reinstall of Origin.Removing the Sims 4 game folder from Documents\Electronic Arts.I tried these troubleshooting steps, none of which worked: When I once left my laptop alone for 12 minutes, it was still frozen trying to load TS4, and I had to hold down the power button to shut down. In either case, the computer did not respond to cmd-optn-esc, and if I tried to tab or click on something else, it eventually restarted itself. With options.ini set to open the game in windowed mode, the TS4 window hung on a white screen indefinitely. With a clean game folder or otherwise fresh options.ini in place, the right half of my screen would go dark, and the left half would show an enlarged version of what the right half of the desktop would normally look like. After the November 12 update, I cannot get Sims 4 to launch on my Mac.
