Sims 4 Overheating Macbook Pro Free

Most Macs has a really bad thermal design. It's normal for it to get hot by doing anything more intensive than browsing Facebook. If they get too hot they will thermal throttle, which means they will lower the performance to prevent damage from overheating.

Macbooks are not designed to play games. They have awful ventilation, they will rapidly overheat and struggle, particularly with games that are resource heavy like Sims 4. Macbooks unlike PCs will constantly be doing “other stuff” behind the scenes. I had ran into some extra money. I NEVER have played the sims in ultra or high settings except for my sims being high but because I had a MacBook and my schooling requires more coding than I thought, I couldn’t keep my MacBook with both sims 3 and 4 and mods/cc AND intense coding projects and notes and continents.

Macbook Pro Sim Card

This is how it looks like inside my own Macbook Air 11'. You can see the tiny little fan at the bottom left corner. It blows the hot air out the back of the computer, and it pulls cold air in from.... wherever it finds it's way in. I can't really find any reasonably engineered air intake in this computer. I decided to put on Noctua NT-H1 which is one of the best thermal pastes out there.

Also, the green stuff is conformal coating that I did to prevent water damage. This computer was water damaged when I bought it, which is why I got it cheap. I have fixed it and it's now fully working. I don't recommend opening up your Mac if it's under warranty.

Macbook Overheating When Playing Sims 4

What you may want to consider is a laptop chiller, which is basically a bunch of fans blowing at the underside of the computer. It may help a little bit.

Why Does My Mac Get Hot When I Play Sims 4

Mar 19, 2018 2:02 PM