A new window opens with only one item: the folder Contents In that menu, select Show Package Contents.Find the application The Sims 3.app, then right click (or hold the Control key and click if you can't right click) to get the context menu.Within your Applications folder, locate and open the folder The Sims 3.Here's how (also a rather long story, I'm afraid.) :lol: You could try starting the game directly, bypassing the Launcher. It's probably the Launcher that crashes at the time it hands over control to the game itself. I organized it as a numbered list and formatted some text, but left the content unchanged. The following is quoted verbatim as posted by user 'Ashpeef' on the Sims forums. And really, try the linked forum post first this is just a backup plan.
Read no further unless you (or a family member) play Sims 3 and want to get it working in macOS Sierra. It dawned on me, though, that if that forum post ever vanishes, I'll be in trouble with future new Macs and/or reinstalls, so I thought I'd document it here, too. My daughter's fave game, Sims 3, was getting stuck on the loading screen in Sierra.
After much scouring of the internet, I found the solution and tweeted about it: When we upgraded all our Macs to macOS Sierra, my daughter was upset because Sims 3 broke.
