#thesimspatch

The Sims Legacy has received an update. Patch 7, which was released 03.04.25, addresses the following in The Sims game:

Fixed Issues:

- General stability and performance improvements

- Various game tabs don’t use the full available window width

- Name selection for townies is not as random as it should be

- Animal Control can’t be called if the picture-in-picture window is open

- Travel loading screens are inconsistently scaled

- Using Shift + Windows + Arrow keys to move the game window between monitors doesn’t always resize as expected 

- The Sim portrait camera was not always correctly positioned (already created portraits will not be regenerated)

Functionality Improvements: 

- The Sims will warn users whose user names contain characters that could cause crashes 

- Edge-scrolling hit zone now includes the full letterboxing area

The Sims General Notes:

- The Sims requires a Vulkan compatible GPU. Please check GPU compatibility with the manufacturer, and keep your drivers up to date.

The Sims Legacy has received an update. Patch 6, which was released 14.03.25, addresses the following in The Sims game:

Fixed Issues:

- General stability and performance improvements

- Alt+Enter does not always scale the way players expect

- The Sims can crash if a Sim interacts with the shower while the Tragic Clown is on the lot

- If The Sims gets minimized while loading packs for the first time, the player can be prevented from interacting with the game until it is restarted

- Lots whose families are on vacation do not have a Vacation icon

- Tiles around pools are rendered with original fidelity

- The Sims would minimize if it was not the foreground application

- Aggressively cycling through window zoom levels and full screen with Alt+Enter can lead to unresponsiveness or a crash

- The UI scaling at different levels can be too extreme

- In windowed mode, the bottom of the game window will sometimes default to being behind the Windows taskbar

Functionality Improvements: 

- The Sims now has in-game options to control window size, game resolution and aspect ratio (derived from resolution) used at launch

- The Sims is now using an improved pixel scaling strategy that provides better looking sprites, UI, etc

- In windowed mode, the game window can be resized and the game palette (where The Sims is displayed) is scaled to match the window dimensions. The Sims will preserve the original launch aspect ratio

The Sims General Notes:

The Sims Legacy has received an update. Patch 5, which was released 27.02.25, addresses the following in The Sims game:

Fixed Issues:

- General stability and performance improvements

- Some players had difficulty setting/changing the game language

- Some players had problems with with their game save directories not being recreated and, in some cases, causing a crash on the Steam platform

- In some situations the game would not recreate missing UserData folders. The game is now more robust in replacing missing UserData folder in the game save directory

- The game could sometimes take a very long time to launch

- A crash would occur when queuing certain events at the Goth house

- The game would crash on some computers that were waking from sleep

- Text/caption added to a snapshot would not be saved

- Family friend counter would sometimes be grey

The Sims General Notes:

Please note that The Sims (TS1) requires a Vulkan compatible GPU. Please check on your GPU manufacturer’s website to see if your GPU is compatible with Vulkan and ensure you are updated to the latest driver version.

The Sims Legacy has received an update. Patch 4, which was released 20.02.25, addresses the following in The Sims game:

Fixed Issues:

- General stability improvements

- Addressed video player issues

- Performance improvement with AMD GPUs

- On some systems, walls, floors and other items might not appear on screen

- The game could crash when zooming in/out of Calamity Forest

- Child Sims would sometimes show a “Missing Animation” error when interacting with mail

- On some computers set to 2k resolution, visual artifacts or tearing could be present on various game screens

- The blue panel on the bottom of the screen did not properly fill the horizontal space

- Tiles near pool edges sometimes displayed as empty and grey

- The Burglar appearing could crash the game

The Sims General Notes:

The game by default adopts the aspect ratio of the monitor it is run on. The aspect ratio can now be specified with the launch option “-maxaspect:<width>:<height>” (note that underbars ‘_’ can be used instead of colons). Examples: -maxaspect:16:9, -maxaspect_4_3 or bespoke ones like -maxaspect:16:10

- Note that the option will only set the aspect of height to width. It will only restrict the maximum width - it can not increase it

- In windowed mode, the window will run at the aspect ratio; at fullscreen black bars will fill the unused space of the monitor

- This will mostly be useful in situations where your monitor (virtual or real) is very wide, but you want the game to be a more traditional aspect ratio

- Note that there are limitations on how extreme a ratio this will accept

There are some hardware configurations that we are seeing a disproportionate number of errors on and are actively investigating.

Some players who have experienced problems with getting an error indicating a lack of Vulkan compatible devices have reported that in some cases removing "OpenCL™, OpenGL®, and Vulkan® Compatibility Pack" can resolve the issue

We have received reports of “random flies” appearing. This is working as designed