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Hi, I'm having this problem where origin won't load. I'm on a macbook proi. I can login and origin opens but it won't load the store, my game library or anything (see attached screen shot). The sims 4 won't boot up either. Also, I've tried clearing the cache and uninstalling and reinstalling origin.

Mar 21, 2019  Downloading and playing games. Use our article on downloading and playing games in Origin to get into the action. Once you download Origin, follow the installation instructions to play ASAP (as soon as possible). Having problems installing? Check your tech. Double-check that your computer meets the requirements. It started with DA Inquisition won't update. It only shows 'queued'. Then I tried download my other games, all of them are 'queued'. But when I go to Origin - Download queue. There is nothing inside. It has been like this for weeks. I have tried reinstall Origin. It doesn't help. Could someon.

  • Download Origin via online instead.
    https://www.origin.com/en-us/store/
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  • > @Colton147147 said:
    > Download Origin via online instead.
    isn't working. any other suggestions?
  • Hello.
    Are you unable to install the origin program after you have downloaded it from the site? Try saving the download file to a place on your desktop , then try to install the program.
    If you still have problems, try clean booting the computer then try installing origin.
    http://help.ea.com/en/article/how-to-clean-boot-your-pc/

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  • > @rosemow said:
    > Hello.
    > Are you unable to install the origin program after you have downloaded it from the site? Try saving the download file to a place on your desktop , then try to install the program.
    >
    > If you still have problems, try clean booting the computer then try installing origin.
    it wont download from the site. it said that it was unable to download, thanks for the help though =)
  • edited November 2015
    Check to make sure that your anti virus or firewall programs are not stopping it from being downloaded.

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  • I had these issues the previous times I have had to re install the Origin, but I can't remember how I managed to download it...
  • edited November 2015
    Shut down your computer completely. Then restart the computer, go to the origin site and try to download the program.
    Check that you are trying to download the right version of origin, not the Mac version.

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  • Apologies for not replying sooner, but it isn't working after I restarted my computer twice...
  • Hello.
    Are you continuing to be unable to download the origin program file from the site? Or are you now able to download the file but not install it? Could you perhaps try downloading the program file using a diferent computer or internet access then transfer the file onto your simming computer, and install the origin program that way.

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The Mac has plenty of games, but it'll always get the short end of the stick compared to Windows. If you want to play the latest games on your Mac, you have no choice but to install Windows ... or do you?

There are a few ways you can play Windows games on your Mac without having to dedicate a partition to Boot Camp or giving away vast amounts of hard drive space to a virtual machine app like VMWare Fusion or Parallels Desktop. Here are a few other options for playing Windows games on your Mac without the hassle or expense of having to install Windows.

GeForce Now

PC gaming on Mac? Yes you can, thanks to Nvidia's GeForce Now. The service allows users to play PC games from Steam or Battle.net on macOS devices. Better still, the graphic power of these games resides on Nvidia's servers. The biggest drawback: the service remains in beta, and there's been no announcement when the first full release is coming or what a monthly subscription will cost.

For now, at least, the service is free to try and enjoy. All supported GeForce NOW titles work on Macs, and yes, there are plenty of them already available!

The Wine Project

The Mac isn't the only computer whose users have wanted to run software designed for Windows. More than 20 years ago, a project was started to enable Windows software to work on POSIX-compliant operating systems like Linux. It's called The Wine Project, and the effort continues to this day. OS X is POSIX-compliant, too (it's Unix underneath all of Apple's gleam, after all), so Wine will run on the Mac also.

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Wine is a recursive acronym that stands for Wine Is Not an Emulator. It's been around the Unix world for a very long time, and because OS X is a Unix-based operating system, it works on the Mac too.

As the name suggests, Wine isn't an emulator. The easiest way to think about it is as a compatibility layer that translates Windows Application Programming Interface (API) calls into something that the Mac can understand. So when a game says 'draw a square on the screen,' the Mac does what it's told.

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You can use straight-up Wine if you're technically minded. It isn't for the faint of heart, although there are instructions online, and some kind souls have set up tutorials, which you can find using Google. Wine doesn't work with all games, so your best bet is for you to start searching for which games you'd like to play and whether anyone has instructions to get it working on the Mac using Wine.

Note: At the time of this writing, The Wine Project does not support macOS 10.15 Catalina.

CrossOver Mac

CodeWeavers took some of the sting out of Wine by making a Wine-derived app called CrossOver Mac. CrossOver Mac is Wine with specialized Mac support. Like Wine, it's a Windows compatibility layer for the Mac that enables some games to run.

CodeWeavers has modified the source code to Wine, made some improvements to configuration to make it easier, and provided support for their product, so you shouldn't be out in the cold if you have trouble getting things to run.

My experience with CrossOver — like Wine — is somewhat hit or miss. Its list of actual supported games is pretty small. Many other unsupported games do, in fact work — the CrossOver community has many notes about what to do or how to get them to work, which are referenced by the installation program. Still, if you're more comfortable with an app that's supported by a company, CrossOver may be worth a try. What's more, a free trial is available for download, so you won't be on the hook to pay anything to give it a shot.

Boxer

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If you're an old-school gamer and have a hankering to play DOS-based PC games on your Mac, you may have good luck with Boxer. Boxer is a straight-up emulator designed especially for the Mac, which makes it possible to run DOS games without having to do any configuring, installing extra software, or messing around in the Mac Terminal app.

With Boxer, you can drag and drop CD-ROMs (or disk images) from the DOS games you'd like to play. It also wraps them into self-contained 'game boxes' to make them easy to play in the future and gives you a clean interface to find the games you have installed.

Boxer is built using DOSBox, a DOS emulation project that gets a lot of use over at GOG.com, a commercial game download service that houses hundreds of older PC games that work with the Mac. So if you've ever downloaded a GOG.com game that works using DOSBox, you'll have a basic idea of what to expect.

Some final thoughts

In the end, programs like the ones listed above aren't the most reliable way to play Windows games on your Mac, but they do give you an option.

Of course, another option is to run Windows on your Mac, via BootCamp or a virtual machine, which takes a little know-how and a lot of memory space on your Mac's hard drive.

How do you play your Windows games on Mac?

Let us know in the comment below!

Updated October 2019: Updated with the best options.

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