Ever since The Sims 4’s latest update for PC / Mac many Custom Content users have reported seeing broken text and missing interactions on Custom Content items and custom interactions added with Mods / CC.
Thankfully SimGuruGraham has issued a statement on The Sims Forums saying that they’ll be fixing this issue in the upcoming update. Until then he also provided a temporary workaround for Custom Content creators that don’t want to wait until the next update arrives:
Hi all,
Those of you who play with mods or custom content may have noticed that some custom text (names, descriptions, etc) that is part of a mod/CC have either gone blank, or switched to displaying “**DEBUG**” (on game version PC 1.51.75.1020 / Mac 1.51.75.1220). This was an unintentional side effect of the 4/16 update. The Sims 4 team is planning on releasing another update in the near future specifically to address this issue, which will restore the text as it was displayed previously.
Technical info:
The issue we’ve identified is that any user-generated content authored using strings in string tables with non-zero group ids will show up in-game as blank. Changing string tables to use 0x00000000 for group id can be used as a temporary workaround for creators who do not want to wait until the next update. The next update will not cause conflicts with this workaround. Long term, we do recommend that mod/cc creators have the top bit set to avoid conflicts with Maxis created content.
Thanks!
-SimGuruGraham
34 Comments
When is the next update coming out?
Reply to Leah
Just in case others didn’t see this on twitter, SimGuruGraham said that they will be targeting to have an update to fix blank text in cc on Friday.
Reply to Chickadee
Do you have a link? I’ve been searching for update news but can’t find it anywhere!
Reply to Alicia Greene
https://twitter.com/SimGuruGraham
It the message on April 17th.
Reply to Chickadee
Hi! can you please add custom content on consules? It would be fun to customize and personalized characters on the sims or use the library for people to publish their custom content for other people to use thanks!
Reply to Chickadee
Today?
My computer won’t even open sims because of this bug so….
And when will this update be??
Reply to Hannah
@ Hannah I haven’t come across that complain associated with this but. If you still have mods in your game you should take them out and delet the localcache file then download the updated mods. Maybe you have a corrupt cc. Does your game just crash or does it give you an error message.
This is great news! I thought the mods I had were corrupt. I have another issue, though. When in a club reunion (meeting? I play the game in french), when my sim socializes, the relatiinship improves, but it immediately goes down as well, meaning that there’s actually no improvement at all! Haha it’s hard to make friends that way. I’ve tried it with other sims and it keeps happening. I was wondering if you guys are aware of this or if this isn’t a bug.
Reply to AlexaGD
Huh I’ve never tried that before however it may be a simple bug. You could try to cheat in relationships with cheats but if you wanna play without cheats I don’t know what to say about it.
Reply to AlexaGD
@AlexaGD, it sounds like a bug! Go to EA Answers HQ in the Bug Reports section here: https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/bd-p/The-Sims-4-Bugs
You can do a search to see if the bug has already been reported. (If it has, then click the “Me Too” button and then add your experience to the bottom of the thread.)
If it hasn’t been reported already, then please create a bug report so it is brought to their attention!
Oh! This makes me so happy. I don’t have to slave over my computer for hours trying to fix another bug :)))
What about ps4 or xbox one? Since the update on tues. It has been really buggie.
As a CC Creator, I can safely say I’ve never been within a mile of any strings, string tables or group IDs. Presumably we are relying on the creators of Sims4Studio, etc to change this in their software?
Hi! Is the new update out there? I´m currently playing offline because I still wanted to play with mods and I know that it takes up to few days for the creators to update them, so I would like to know if the new Fridays-update is out now?
Reply to Caro
The new small update for PC and Mac is now live.
Since the update for console when I’m on build mode instead of deleting an bokect when I press triangle, it just duplicates the object. I never used to do that please fix it!
As a CC Creator, I can safely say I’ve never been within a mile of any strings, string tables or group IDs. Presumably we are relying on the creators of Sims4Studio, etc to change this in their software?
What about ps4 or xbox one? Since the update on tues. It has been really buggie.
Oh! This makes me so happy. I don’t have to slave over my computer for hours trying to fix another bug :)))
This is great news! I thought the mods I had were corrupt. I have another issue, though. When in a club reunion (meeting? I play the game in french), when my sim socializes, the relatiinship improves, but it immediately goes down as well, meaning that there’s actually no improvement at all! Haha it’s hard to make friends that way. I’ve tried it with other sims and it keeps happening. I was wondering if you guys are aware of this or if this isn’t a bug.
Reply to AlexaGD
Huh I’ve never tried that before however it may be a simple bug. You could try to cheat in relationships with cheats but if you wanna play without cheats I don’t know what to say about it.
Reply to AlexaGD
@AlexaGD, it sounds like a bug! Go to EA Answers HQ in the Bug Reports section here: https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/bd-p/The-Sims-4-Bugs
You can do a search to see if the bug has already been reported. (If it has, then click the “Me Too” button and then add your experience to the bottom of the thread.)
If it hasn’t been reported already, then please create a bug report so it is brought to their attention!
My computer won’t even open sims because of this bug so….
And when will this update be??
Reply to Hannah
@ Hannah I haven’t come across that complain associated with this but. If you still have mods in your game you should take them out and delet the localcache file then download the updated mods. Maybe you have a corrupt cc. Does your game just crash or does it give you an error message.
When is the next update coming out?
Reply to Leah
Just in case others didn’t see this on twitter, SimGuruGraham said that they will be targeting to have an update to fix blank text in cc on Friday.
Reply to Chickadee
Today?
Reply to Chickadee
Do you have a link? I’ve been searching for update news but can’t find it anywhere!
Reply to Alicia Greene
https://twitter.com/SimGuruGraham
It the message on April 17th.
Reply to Chickadee
Hi! can you please add custom content on consules? It would be fun to customize and personalized characters on the sims or use the library for people to publish their custom content for other people to use thanks!
Since the update for console when I’m on build mode instead of deleting an bokect when I press triangle, it just duplicates the object. I never used to do that please fix it!
Hi! Is the new update out there? I´m currently playing offline because I still wanted to play with mods and I know that it takes up to few days for the creators to update them, so I would like to know if the new Fridays-update is out now?
Reply to Caro
The new small update for PC and Mac is now live.
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