The Sims Team has released a brand new Update for The Sims 4 on PC and Mac!
To download the latest version of The Sims 4, simply open your Origin program and if the game doesn’t update automatically, right click on The Sims 4 and select ”Update”.
In case you have Mods or Custom Content, the game will automatically disable them for you after first launching The Sims 4 after the update. To re-enable all your Mods and Custom Content, select the Settings option in the Menu and select Settings. Under the”Other” section you’ll find the ”Enable Custom Content and Mods” option. Check it and restart your game in order for it to take effect!
Patch Notes
Update 04/07/2020 – PC: 1.62.67.1020 / Mac: 1.62.67.1020
Hey Simmers,
We know that times are a bit weird right now, but we’re keeping things as normal as possible over here so we have a few fixes for you all.
Thanks for your continued support, we hope that you all are staying home and staying safe out there.
-SimGuruGnome
FIXES & UPDATES
The Sims 4
- Improved compatibility with newer macOS releases, refer to FAQ for more details here
- Made some small visual and functional improvements to the Main Menu.
- Custom paintings on nearby lots that are taken a picture of from your active lot will now properly flag your lot as custom content when uploading it to the Gallery.
- So sneaky!
- We addressed an issue resulting in a “Conflicting Block Cluster” error message that could occur while building, preventing you from being able to draw or move walls.
- Non-active traited Sims will no longer get the “Not Enough Exercise” tense moodlet.
- Stair railings will no longer appear incomplete when placed against a half-wall.
- Whims are once again able to be completed after Travel.
- Whims are things your Sims want to do, but you don’t have to.
- You can now safely raise or lower the foundation of The Nookstone lot in Oasis Springs – walls, floors, and furniture will no longer disappear.
- The Tutorial will no longer lock if your Sim is promoted before you are given the “You Need to Gain Skill to be Promoted” task.
Get Together
- Fixed a graphic issue that could occur on Mac with some Intel graphics cards that caused plants in Windenburg to appear blocky when in Laptop Mode.
- So if you are on a Mac, with an intel graphics card, and you are in laptop mode, and you are playing in Windenburg… we got you covered.
City Living
- Bulldozing 888 Spire Apartment lots should no longer result in error code 123:28b6ee3b.
- We hope it does not result in error code: 123:456789abcde
- We are fairly certain it should not result in error code: 8675-309
- And under no circumstance should error code 42 occur.
Cats & Dogs
- The male veterinarian coat now has a properly visible ID badge.
Seasons
- Sims should no longer get the “Chilled” buff when the thermostat is set to warmer.
- Unless you have a heater that turns on and off repeatedly due to a bad switch in the system, and then when it decides to fail completely, it just ignores input for about 3 hours, and then when you wake up in the morning you have to carry a heavy blanket with you… ah hm… nm.
Get Famous
- Actor prep tasks will no longer reset on traveling.
- This is the second travel issue in the game… was it trying to tell us something?
Island Living
- Beaches are available for weddings.
Discover University
- Sims living in dorms should no longer receive high bills to live there.
Spa Day
- The “Take bath with Soaks” and “Take Mud Bath” interactions are once again, once again available on Showertubs.
- This time we won’t have to remove the fix because of… crosses fingers.
Jungle Adventure
- Child sims will no longer get a flirty buff after eating Flutterberry.
Realm of Magic
- Magical Clones will no longer become permanent Sims after traveling.
- Sims can once again resume writing books when their familiars are active.
Tiny Living Stuff
- Tiny Home Residential lots added to vacation worlds via The Gallery will now properly convert into rental lots.
Since updating on April 7th, my game has been glitching to the point where I can’t even play anymore… don’t know what to do… My sims get stuck on lots, won’t do anything I tell them to do, resetting doesn’t work… HELP!!
it screwed up my whole game,nothing works i don’t know if it’s a mod but my sims don’t show up,the floors are full of question marks,i will try to repair my game and i hope it works
I’ve got the same issue and dont know what to do!!
If you have fixed this issue please tell me
I repaired it and it worked!I hope it works for you too!
Same! I even took all my mods and cc out of the folder and tried again. Llama error icons everywhere!
This is happening to me too!
Now if only they would fix the fact that taking pictures with the cameras lags the game out for a few minutes. An issue that’s been around since Moschino.
It completely freezes my game when I do that.
woww im waiting 😉
That’s exactly what mine is doing!
I hope soon they can fix the camera when taking photos, i miss being able to spin the camera around my sim when taking photos. It’s hard to get the sunset in the background of them when they take a selfie because they always end up facing the wrong way.
In my game my sim will ride her bike inside the spa to get out, and rides her bike in the house to go to the sidewalk.
Quote from the patch notes: “This is the second travel issue in the game… was it trying to tell us something?”
Does that mean open world is coming back ( I guess in The Sims 5) ?? Is it just me, who witnessed this as a possible hint???
no i think they said that because of the coronavirus: like you can’t leave home now or you will have problems.
I don’t really understand the point of making the custom pictures of custom content flagged as custom content. You don’t need that piece of cc in your game to have the picture. it is nice for cc creators to get the downloads they deserve. this just kinda feels shady to me
Totally agree! It is the only way console can get anywhere near “CC” and now they are marking it CC…so now we can’t use it…ThAnKs EA
It’s to make sure that no one accidentally downloads an inappropriate or explicit photo
What if pornographic CC makes into the game of a child? I think that is the reasoning.
The game is rated T for teen. I see where you’re coming from but children shouldn’t be playing this game. Its just weirdly catered to them.
I restarted but it’s still disabled how to fix?
I mean my CC is still disabled after I restarted I checked and apply it for many times but it doesn’t work
I’m new to sims and I want to get cc but I don’t how on a Mac. help!!!!
Hi, my game wont Start. Always the same error message over and over again.I delete sims 4 nd all pack. Redownload it. Same error. I delete Origin and updated my computer (Mac book pro 2019). Same error. I delete everything on my computer related to sims 4 or Origin, restant my computer. Dowloaded everything another same. Same error. Can someone please help me?! It is frustrating
This is the message I have every time:
Unable to start:
Initialization error at start up.
[135dec40:90f690cf:00000075:495f32a0]
hi! you should try to delete everything within your electronic arts folder (after moving your saves and mods into a temporary folder). make sure you close out of your game and origin. after you do this, go into origin and press repair in the sims 4 settings. after this, move your saves and mods back into its original folder. this should work, it worked for me. if it doesnt, im sorry 🙁
Same here! Extremely frustrating
I’ve been having the same problem since monday 🙁 i’ve already tried everything and nothing works
This recent update has caused my game to glitch. Floor tiles have colorful question marks, walls look like a plain board wallpaper or something. Also, my sims are invisible. If someone could help that would be awesome!
i have the same issue!! all of my cc wont load even after i restarted the game multiple times and my sims are invisible
I hope they fix this soon
I have the exact same issue!
I’ve tried closing both game and origin and restarting my macbook but no luck.
If any one could help that would be amazing
I updated the sims a few days ago, but now my whole neighbourhood has red/blue objects. Some of them have a green questionmark on them. For example, just trees or wallpaper is red and blue but some houses are completely red/blue. Is there something I can do about this problem?
this “sneaky” comment was such… UGH disrespect to many creators, shame on you, Maxis!!!!!!!!
Does all of this count for Console players as well??
With this new update I can’t see my Sim’s or some floors in build mode pretty please help me
Hello, I can’t get into the world i was in “Oasis Springs” it wont pop up anywhere in the world maps, i tried just going into old saved files but it did the same thing.
After the update I started the game as per usual and wanted to re-activate my CC. So as I was closing the game, wanting to restart afterwards, my iMac completely freaked out; black screen and high pitch sound came out of the stereo. It restarted itself and immediately started up Origin and the sims again; me thinking it had fixed whatever problem was going on. The game was terribly slow.. like “waiting 5 min to go into building mode” slow. After a complete update and restart of my Mac I am able to play again. Hopefully no further glitches! However, I am not able to use the “9” and “0” to move objects up and down! Let me know if anyone of you has the same issue and if it can be fixed.
This update broke my game, i think. It took me freaking 12 hours to update(!!!!!), and when I lauched it all the text in the game were either gone or replaced with codes. Tried to repair it many times, restart origin and my mac and removed mods and CC. But now the game wont lauch at all. Great job!!
same with me!
Hello
If anyone has the same problem as me hear is what I did to sort it out due to the latest update (April 7th 2020)
Problem:
You start sims 4 up then none of the packs you have brought come in all the Items I.e clothing , build object , worlds
How I sorted it:
I closed the game and origin then restarted my whole computer then reopened origin and my game and all the packs were there and all my world and build object
Really hope this help for anyone having this problem
Jemima
I was glad this update happened because it fixed the traveling issue for the Get Famous pack but, it looks like now my sim can’t even go to work now (the acting job). I did notice that the notification that pops up an hour before the job starts wasn’t popping up anymore and restarting the game didn’t help.
I have the same problem. Before the update everything worked just fine and to be honest I didn’t even care that much about the prep tasks since (in my opinion) they didn’t really contribute to the final result of acting events. Now it’s literally impossible for your sim to be an actor. I love the game and I appreciate that people who work on it are willing to continuously make things better, but what I hate about the EA is that they never double-check their “bug fixes”. And now we have to wait again for another update – for how long? It’s kind of exhausting.
Oh, thanks! I’ve just started to play the game and now I can’t:
Initialization error at start up.[135dec40:90f690cf:00000075:495f32a0]
I’ve spent several hours trying to fix this together with your helpcenter and nothing helped.
Do you test the updates before the release?!!! I have lots of questions to your QA 🙁
Great after the update my game on Xbox console crashes even more. I’m so fed up with this game. I can barley do anything. If even crashes while saving. This is so annoying. I and other console fans been dealing with this for years now.
And we don’t even have mods on console so wtf
Just downloaded the patch and now a load of my packs are being installed, some saying they’ll take over an hour to download! Has this happened to anyone else?
Should have been clearer, they were already installed before the update!
Glad I’m not the only one this happened to. This is super annoying and if I can’t play I’m going to be disappointed.
So my actor sim can go to auditions, can do all the tasks without resetting (great!) but now she can’t go to work? the notification for 1 hour before work doesn’t show up and she just doesn’t go? I can’t force her to go as well. This is… very annoying. Anyway is this easy to fix? 🙂
Hi! I had this issue, apparently its to do with loading screens. Before you go to the audition you can travel but between the audition and the gig, if there is any loading screen at all (including CAS, world map etc) the pop up wont appear and the time for the gig will come and go with nothing happening. So you have to avoid all of this between the audition and the gig. The whole thing is really annoying but its a quick fix so you can at least get your sim to go. Hope they fix it soon!
I’m on mac and can’t launch the game at all. Not even without mods or saves. Even after repairing the game.
same, very pissed off
same
I last played TS4 on April 6. I log in today (Easter) and wait through a long update, but I think that’s okay. I’ll see something new maybe or it will run better. NOPE!! First, Willow Creek and Newcrest are GONE; just gone. My newest (and cutest!) sim family was living in Newcrest, so I try to save them with Manage Worlds and move them elsewhere. Not only are they now invisible, but the flooring is messed up in all worlds. Not happy :{ So much for a relaxing end to Easter.
Not sure if it’s just me or not but when I open the game, loading page tips don’t show up(it simply says “Loading tips” or something along those lines.), when the main menu pops up, none of the packs(all of them) show up like usual. When I click play(or new game or load game), a loading screen comes on… then the game shuts down.
This all happened after the update. I’ve restarted and everything. 😐
mines exactly the same, I’m pissed.
This is happening to me as well! It’s frustrating and you’re not alone!
Can someone please help! I play on Xbox one and the last few days I’m unable to save.. just keep getting error 22,
I’ve restarted the game multiple times and restarted the Xbox, still keep getting the error? Can someone please help me
Actor career don’t work anymore. My sim don’t go to rehearsal (for dome reason right away I have the role) and when the time to go to recording starts my sim don’t go anywhere. Just stays at his home and no notification appears. IT’S NOT POSSSIBLE TO GO TO WORK ANYMORE AS ACTOR.
Hi everyone, I’m having a problem with my game where some of the writing in the job section is redacted and in the game section I have no fame stars that show up also when I go into world my screen is black I leave to the pause menu ad it’s the house I was playing in?! Some reply if they have the same problem
This update is causing my game to not load correctly and then it shuts itself down. I uninstalled and reinstalled origin. What else can I do?
Anyone else not able to launch the game on Mac with this new update?
Me. I restarted origin and everything. Reinstalled all my packs and still my sims will not open. I’m so fed up at this point.
Same. Try to repair my game and nothing works
yes! me!
Me too!
me too im trying so hard to find the reason behind this
Yes me too!
Same can’t load the game after I updated
Same here… trying to reinstall the game to see if it fixes it.
me too on pc… disappointed as I’ve recently bought a couple of packs
Unable to start:
Initialization error at start up.
[135dec40:90f690cf:00000075:495f32a0]
that’s what my MAC says whenever i try to open the game.
I taken out all of the CC and Mods and still it won’t work.
Was planning on getting a new expansion but if I can’t even play, what’s the point?
u maybe must uninstall the game ik that u will lost everything but when my game was not working 3 month ago i must uninstall sims and all my saves are gone. I have an old mac and i have an legacy version i’m very nervous whats is happening, its quarantine now and sims was my idea when i was bored. I hope that u will repair game fast !
im sorry for my bad english but im from poland 🙁
I wish they fix the crashing on console platforms. I can’t even play with my family or travel to the magic realm without it crashing on Xbox. Sometimes it crashes in build mode and when I save. I’m sick of it.
My game keeps crashing after the update on a 2017 Mac. Can I go an update back??? I am soo pissed at this point!
After reading all of these posts I get a bit scared to install the update. Has anyone here installed the updated without it causing issues to play the game?
I am also disappointed with the choice of flagging paintings as cc. I understand the need if there are indeed people who use it to spread certain types of photos. I wish they would have made some distinction between cc that needs to be installed and saved images. I would like to filter out real cc, but don’t mind painting and photos (the decent kind of pictures of course).
Please don’t install the update, for your sake. I don’t know anyone who’s updated it successfully. I did not look up the reactions and now my whole game is screwed up and I am scared what could be lost.
I am not able to even open the game anymore, since the update………. I am trying to figure out why it is not working, for 2 hours now……..
Ok so I’m just going to hold off on updating… I’m seeing several CAS or loading issues that I don’t need. I’m assuming those who are on PC and were able to launch the game but had issues removed their mods and deleted localthumbcache.
I also have problems launching my game after the update, I just got an initialization error whenever I tried to start it. After repairing my game and removing CC I got it to open, but then all the text in the game menus had disappeared 🙁
What about the issue with the get to work pack detective career. No matter how many times I try to arrest someone they don’t go back to the police station with me.
I play on an Xbox I really want cc and mods but I know it’s very hard to get those for us i hope we do and that we don’t have to what also before the update I had a family that had a pregnant teen and it has that little thing to corner In my saved families screen I know that mean cc or mode and it work just fine so does that mean I have a mode or cc in my game please answer my question about the pregnant teen and if Xbox is going to get cc and modes soon
How do u get cc simmers! I have been trying videos and nothing works , mine lending me a hand?¿
@shartke.. you just download the items you want and cut/paste them into this path:
Documents/Electronic Arts/ when you open Electronic Arts you right click your mouse and choose ‘new’ then Folder.
Name the folder Mods.
Sometimes people have their files in packages so you have to download a program to open them and extract the files. I use WinRar.
Put one cc item/file you’ve downloaded into this Mods folder to test it out and make sure you’re doing it right.
Close everything and start your game.
In the Games start-up page you’ll need to check the box that says ‘show downloads or cc or enable CC’ (I can’t remember what its called)
Go to CAS if you’ve gotten the cc for hair or clothes and see how it looks. If you’ve gotten items for Build/Buy go ingame and load a household you don’t play and check it out.
Usually I click the custom content box in Build/Buy because it only shows cc -making it easy to find everything you want to check out.
Hopefully this is clear, if not maybe someone else has concise instructions.
Unable to start:
Initialization error at start up.
[135dec40:90f690cf:00000075:495f32a0]
that’s what my MAC says whenever i try to open the game.
I taken out all of the CC and Mods and still it won’t work.
Was planning on getting a new expansion but if I can’t even play, what’s the point?
I updated and it got rid of 3 days worth of building a home of mine. All that saved data , gone. Thanks Sims.
Update kind of broke my game? Almost everything is covered in question marks and the two default worlds got deleted completely
Sul sul,
My nephew plays the Sims 4 on PS4 and the recent update is stopping him from moving a household in from the library.
He selects a house in the world, chooses ‘move in family from library’ and gets a notification that he needs to go into game options to turn on “online features”. He goes into game options but the option isn’t there.
He is 12 so I’m not sure if this is why he’s prevented from using it but I can’t imagine that would be the case as he’s not downloading any dodgy content, just literally a family.
Anyone experiencing this or know how to fix it? I’ve not got my PS4 on me to check myself.
Can’t play my game anymore after new update, have numbers instead of words and empty command clouds.
SAME!
Me too! I am playing mac, tried the usual mac fix, did not work 🙁 /Users/ulvhild/Desktop/Skjermbilde 2020-04-11 kl. 20.23.34.png
So basically they fixed the bug where prep tasks reseted after every travel but now Sims won’t go to a gig, nice job wow :v
My game has continued to crags several times after updating , ive done everything ive thought i could, what should i do
Unable to start:
Initialization error at start up.
[135dec40:90f690cf:00000075:495f32a0]
I’m on MAC and can’t launch the game.
Already try repairing the game and nothing works
Fix it! Unable to play after this update