Any word on the sims 3 freezing issue on nividia 320m graphics card being fixed anytime soon?

everytime i try to play the sims 3 on my 2011 13" macbook running os x lion it freezes afer several minutes. after doing research I found out it was because of an incompatible graphics card. any word on this being fixed anytime soon? or any way to get around this?

try updating linon to 10.7.2 plus there is a updated from electronic arts if you haven't done so already.  I have a macbook with a nvidia 9400 which had the same problem.  As soon as I downloaded the update from EA it solved the problem.  The update from EA was done back on September 1st 2011.

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