

The terminal application can be found by doing a spotlight search for “terminal”. It is recommended that you close all applications before applying the fix for the first time in case you do experience problems. However this solution can cause system instability if applied incorrectly or in some special cases (see “Important Notes” below) so use at your own risk. We are investigating a further fix to eliminate this limit, no eta on that fix at this time.Īlternately, if you want to have more than 1000 package files, you can use the below workaround which will change the OS file limit for all applications and will correct the issue. With this patch we now recommend not having more than 1000 package files in your Mod directory or else you risk game stability issues. Initialization error at startup.” This is related to an open file count limit setting in OS X and is more likely to occur when many custom content files are installed.Īn improvement for this issue was released in patch 1.4.114.1210. The game is unstable, or the game fails to start with the following error when custom content is installed: “Unable to Start. With this patch the OS file limit no longer limits the amount of Mods and CC that can be installed. ISSUE 3: A fix for this issue was released in patch 1.Since there is so much custom content available, we cannot say for certain that the patch will fix *every* instance of this type of crash, but we expect it will correct a significant majority of them. ISSUE 2: Some Custom Content will crash when selecting it in Create A Sim on Mac.ISSUE 1: Use of Script Mods will cause the game to crash on boot on Mac.


Below is a summary of the issues we are aware of:

Some people using Mods and Custom Content on the Mac version of The Sims 4 have experienced problems.
