lexapower
6th Apr 2012, 01:00 AM
Hello,
My system specs are I am running a MacBook late 2008 version 5,1 with 8gb of Ram and a 2.4 GhZ Intel Core 2 Duo Processor. Graphic card NVIDIA GeForce 9400M. Game runs very smoothly and looks good.
Game version - I am patched up to 1.33.
Games - I have every single expansion pack and stuff pack except for no Showtime. My most recent addition is Master Suite Stuff.
All of my custom content and mods work except for hairs. They used to make my Sims bald if I used them (the baldness occurred when the Ambitions expansion pack came out). Then I gave up with the game altogether and did not play for a while (this was around the time Late Night came out). I installed Late Night and played a little bit did not mess with hair. Then I took another break from the game and came back to it recently and installed everything up to Master Suite stuff but not Showtime. Now when I download a custom hair, regardless if it's a package file or a Sims3Pack file, it does not show up at all in the game. I am *only* having problems with hair as all other mods and downloads *seem* to work (I don't have a TON of custom content in my game so there's no way of knowing what all works, but the I've tried the Skip Intro and that works fine as well as several mods I play with, none of which have anything to do with appearance or should affect hair as far as I know). I did try uninstalling all of my mods and running the game with only custom hair and it did not work. The custom hair I have been trying is either from Mod The Sims (featured downloads with good feedback) or from PeggyZone and both are not working.
I know this has been a known issue since years ago when the Sims 3 first came out. I read somewhere that with Patch 1.26 the mac hair problem was fixed, and that with patch 1.29 it was broken again. I never played on Patch 1.26 as far as I know (perhaps with late night, but as previously stated I did not try to download any hair) so I cannot confirm or deny if that is true but I thought it would be worth mentioning that I read it somewhere.
When I google help with Mac custom hairs most of the the posts I find are from 2009, and I hope that maybe something has changed since then and someone can give me the up to date 2012 info about the never ending Mac Custom Hair drama. Thanks in advance any help is appreciated! If you need any more info for me or want me to run any tests I am happy to cooperate!
(I have not included any screenshots because the bald sims are no longer a problem since I can not even get the custom hair to show up. Sims that used to have custom hair now load with a different, random hairstyle so nothing visually appears odd).
It also might be worthwhile to mention that I tested several of these hairs on a friend's PC and they worked fine in his game. So this seems to be a Mac-only issue.
My system specs are I am running a MacBook late 2008 version 5,1 with 8gb of Ram and a 2.4 GhZ Intel Core 2 Duo Processor. Graphic card NVIDIA GeForce 9400M. Game runs very smoothly and looks good.
Game version - I am patched up to 1.33.
Games - I have every single expansion pack and stuff pack except for no Showtime. My most recent addition is Master Suite Stuff.
All of my custom content and mods work except for hairs. They used to make my Sims bald if I used them (the baldness occurred when the Ambitions expansion pack came out). Then I gave up with the game altogether and did not play for a while (this was around the time Late Night came out). I installed Late Night and played a little bit did not mess with hair. Then I took another break from the game and came back to it recently and installed everything up to Master Suite stuff but not Showtime. Now when I download a custom hair, regardless if it's a package file or a Sims3Pack file, it does not show up at all in the game. I am *only* having problems with hair as all other mods and downloads *seem* to work (I don't have a TON of custom content in my game so there's no way of knowing what all works, but the I've tried the Skip Intro and that works fine as well as several mods I play with, none of which have anything to do with appearance or should affect hair as far as I know). I did try uninstalling all of my mods and running the game with only custom hair and it did not work. The custom hair I have been trying is either from Mod The Sims (featured downloads with good feedback) or from PeggyZone and both are not working.
I know this has been a known issue since years ago when the Sims 3 first came out. I read somewhere that with Patch 1.26 the mac hair problem was fixed, and that with patch 1.29 it was broken again. I never played on Patch 1.26 as far as I know (perhaps with late night, but as previously stated I did not try to download any hair) so I cannot confirm or deny if that is true but I thought it would be worth mentioning that I read it somewhere.
When I google help with Mac custom hairs most of the the posts I find are from 2009, and I hope that maybe something has changed since then and someone can give me the up to date 2012 info about the never ending Mac Custom Hair drama. Thanks in advance any help is appreciated! If you need any more info for me or want me to run any tests I am happy to cooperate!
(I have not included any screenshots because the bald sims are no longer a problem since I can not even get the custom hair to show up. Sims that used to have custom hair now load with a different, random hairstyle so nothing visually appears odd).
It also might be worthwhile to mention that I tested several of these hairs on a friend's PC and they worked fine in his game. So this seems to be a Mac-only issue.