The Sims Team has released a brand new Update for The Sims 4 on PC, Mac and Consoles!
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 9/3/2020
PC: 1.66.139.1020 / Mac: 1.66.139.1220
Console: Version 1.31Hello Simmers!
We are super excited for the upcoming release of The Sims™ 4 Star Wars™: Journey to Batuu, so today we have an important update for you to address a couple of critical issues as well as a few updates to some existing features.
Have your Sims ever dreamed of a jungle-themed wedding escapade? Or a quiet yet elegant wedding in the woods? Sims can now elope in any of the Destination Worlds. Picture this… a warm sunny day in Selvadorada, your Sim and their loved one accompanied by the bustling sounds of Puerto Llamante… it is like the best premise for one of Russkii’s telenovelas.
Besides letting… I mean, encouraging Sims to elope to Destination Worlds, we have made windows a little more dynamic if you will. You can now place windows by stacking them above each other without the use of the bb.moveobjects cheat. Which may seem small but we hope builders enjoy this addition!
For Playstation 4 players, we checked around and we found some additional memory. This should help those Simmers who were unfortunate enough to crash during travel and transitioning in and out of Build Buy on some of their more built-up saves.
Last but not least, we have also made a change for PC and Mac in which there will be a new folder auto-generated in DocumentsElectronic ArtsThe Sims 4 called “ConfigOverride”. Inside this folder, players can place a copy of Default.ini, GraphicsCards.sgr, and/or GraphicsRules.sgr which will override these files where the game is located. So, if you edited these files before, you can now edit them in the new folder.
Happy Simming,
-SimGuruRomeo Ft. SimGuruRusskii
Now onto the fixes:
Sims 4
- Mouse hovering over purchased traits will no longer display the text “Not available for Robots.” We understand that Robots are sentient beings, but unfortunately, these traits are not robot compliant.
- Fixed an issue in which Lots with applied Terrain Manipulation were being placed backwards when downloaded from The Gallery. Where’s the door? Is this the front or the back? Order has been restored at last.
- Fixed an issue in which Terrain Paint did not apply correctly under trees or foundations.
- The UI team did some housekeeping and have fixed some background stretching happening in career panels.
- Blinking shadows no longer appear when placing windows in basement levels that are of the same variant. I do admit that was a bit spooky, not the time windows… not the time.
- Color swatches for Build Mode item “Large Dancing Water Emitter” have been fixed.
- Staircases will no longer get cut through trims when there is no landing. Safety first!
Discover University
- Some flowers and trees in Gibbs Hill will no longer appear to be floating as Sims walk by. To be honest, the idea of floating flora is quite appealing to me.
Eco Lifestyle
- Civil Designer Sims will no longer come home after work wearing random footwear. I’m all for putting your feet up after work, but switching footwear in the middle of things and coming home from work in a completely different state as you went out, is kinda suspicious.
- Fixed an issue that caused some color swatch glitches on Civil Designer outfits.
Realm of Magic
- Fixed an issue with thumbnails generated in The Gallery for Toddlers that generated not only their Sim form but also included their Spellcaster form. We can only contain the cuteness so much!
Nifty Knitting
- What’s that? Did you still hear the sounds of knitting when cancelling knitting interactions? <singsongy voice> Not a problem anymore.
- Fixed an issue with asset cfHair_SP17LocsLong that made it display all adult color swatches.
This update doesn’t seem to work for me. As soon as I select ‘update’ in Origin it just closes down
Same here – it’s done it a few times now for me.
Start up Origin directly instead of clicking on the Sims 4 icon, then select Sims 4 in your library.
Ominous.
So is this the update that comes with the pack? I was kinda expecting new items too but I like it still.
Hope the poorly decorated mood is fixed
So there is no update for your xbox customers????
no it says pc AND CONSOLE.
Right!!!
darn it they didn’t fix any of my glitches! my sims won’t stop baking cakes, my vet is being robbed by kleptomaniac’s, and my sims won’t stop giving each other bad news, and they won’t stop practicing making drinks.
I have a sim that won’t stop making cakes too. What is going on?
Shift click on the mailbox and repeal the ‘foodies unite’ and ‘sharing is caring’ options and the thieving and cakes will stop. I had this problem until I realised it was caused by N.A.P’s 🙂
mine won’t stop using the woodworking table xD
They’re not glitches; you have to check the NAPs you have active in the relevant towns. If you turn cheats on, then shift click the mailbox, you can disable them all. If you then go to settings, you can uncheck the box for ‘enable NPC voting’ under Eco Lifestyle.
This should fix the issue, but only in the neighbourhood you live in
When will we get bunk beds
The Kleptomaniac thing is really annoying! Like some sims stole my stuff during a wedding and I know for fact that those sims aren’t kleptomaniac!
Most of this sounds like eco living naps being active. The baking is the foodies and sharing is caring is for the missing items.
Those are from the N.A.P’s. shift click the mailbox and repack sharing is caring and foodies unite and they’ll stop. my sims kept swiping things from each other’s houses, so I know the struggle.
*repeal
Omg half my community lots aren’t usable because so much furniture is stolen, even when I’m not playing in the lot!
Im having the cake issue too but for the klepto thing check that the neighborhood your in doesn’t have the Sharing is Caring action plan active (from the eco pack) cause that means random npc sims can just take your stuff and stuff from community lots.
I am having the same problem all they do is steal and start fighting, when I am trying to run my business in the middle they start fighting. Then I am looking around they are stealing all of my stuff, and the millions of cakes in the house is crazy. I WISH when they made SIMS 4 they took more ideas from SIMS 3. I have been playing since the SIMS forever and I am frustrated with what is happening now. So SIMS 3 is back. I hope they do something soon instead of making new packs and start cleaning up this mess.
Yes!!!!! Everything you are saying is happening to me as well. Sims 3 was so much better. They have really screwed us and they don’t care. It saddens me that I have invested so much into this game for me not to be able to play it. It crashes every 10 mins and to add the practice making drinks, give bad news, making a lot of cakes, and the stealing of my sims things. Changing clothes I didn’t put on them and not going to school or work. My actress sim doesn’t go to acting gigs. The random push ups during conversations and randomly stop in a middle of a task to do something else. It is ridiculous they have ruined a good game series for more money.
OMG!!! I am dealing with the same thing.
Et aucune maj pour Plopsy ? Je ne peux plus rien vendre sur plopsy 🙁
Is anyone else having the issue where sims just keep making cake?
Yes!! Driving me mad.
It’s a N.A.P! Shift click the mail box and repeal the Foodies Unite option 🙂
I’ve done that and they still keep doing it. Also quitting what they’re doing to do pushups or playing with clay.
We Xbox users have way more crashes than Playstation it sucks that it doesn’t apply to us as well. I haven’t played The Sims on my Xbox in about a month. Money just sitting on my console. I just want to play.
CAN’T BELIEVE SIM GURUS KNOWS ABOUT HOW SIMS WON’T STOP FRIGIN BAKING AND DIDN’T FIX IT!
Its a N.A.P thing
All cc windows and doors don’t work anymore… I’m in tears
I’m in literal tears about it.
Yep same problem here. Update killed my CC windows and doors and arches and even caused my Island living AND Vintage glamour doors and windows to no linger work. I noticed to that a BUNCH of the CC thumbnails are now gone as well and I am stuck with a white box and red X. What the crap!!!
This was a concern of mine. I was certain it would’ve broken cc windows the first intial update but I guess it took this update for it to happen. Have to wait until TS4 studio updates. Hopefully they make a batch update otherwise we have to wait for creators and some have retired.
OMG me too! So sad 🙁
Cool to see eloping in destination worlds.
Could we please at least hear if the baking cakes glitch is getting worked on? Also, playstation user here and the lagging in the game is just getting worse and worse.
Will this fix the issue of the game crashing upon loading a household?
I’m having that issue too since I updated! I can play for like five minutes and then it crashes
I’m having that problem as well.
Same here. I can literally play for 5 minutes and then the game crashes. :/
Yep same issue. No issues before this update, now I get 2 minutes gameplay (if I’m lucky) then the game will freeze for a second, then close to desktop.
ever since i updated the game i can play for 5 minutes and the game crashes… i have mods and cc but i took out the mods that haven’t been updated yet & i updated the rest…. sooooooo confused this has never happened
I’m having the same issue but I can’t even play. So sad 🙁
Didn’t fix the random clay appearing in sims inventories I see….
for REAL. all my sim does is want to play with the dang clay lol
I’m still having issues with my sims obsessed with baking???? obsessed with random lumps or clay that make them not want to do anything else??? this is making gameplay annoying and ur patch updates don’t seem to fix anything for me. annoyed again cause i love this game
I think they just gave up since they couldn’t find a way to fix this bug!!!
Are you making plans to fix sims stopping their current tasks to stretch or do push-ups every five minutes? Every time my sim starts a task that needs to be followed through to get the benefits, I can’t get them to finish because they keep going to stretch or do a pushup
it’s a NAP, remove “foodies unite”
I think we have all done that but it keeps happening!!
I have the same issue! The cake baking is such a waste of time and I have to keep baby sitting in order to stop ANY cooking activity that I I have not ordered same with the clay lumps I keep selling them to stop fiddling with the clay. Those were the main issues I wished would have been addressed with the bug fixes!
Seeing that not a lot of simmer are happy about the new pack (I’m still super salt) I was hoping that we would get some free new stuff with this update.
It would’ve taken longer to make anything decent such as the requested skin color or baby updates because the pack announcement just recently dropped. They haven’t seen the numbers yet to see if the pack is successful or not. Plus they’re working from home so things will be slower than if not for the pandemic situation.
I’m having CC issues now with this update. I’ve re-downloaded all my Maxis Match CC windows and doors, removed all mods, yet on the house, you can see the outline but the glass bit is gone! They still function but ascetically look terrible! I’m fed up of updates breaking things more!
This has been my experience too although on console instead. Every time the game is working fine and all is well they release an update that ruins it and causes crashes and issues that didn’t exist before. Crazy frustrating.
are you ever gonna fix the broken parenting commands?
Silly Puddie and Future Cube is still going on, talk about wild
same! I get about 16 added to my inventory every sim hour. Makes me loads of cash but super annoying.
so i guess in the new star wars game they’ll have it so a sims inventory gets loaded with light sabers, hooray
It’s broken my game
Still haven’t been able to accept NPC invitations!
Was trying to make a storybook house and was planning to use the stone outlined windows and doors from get together and they are glitching into the wall. I havent played sims in a month so I’m not sure if this is due to the update but it is very frustrating…
OMG ALL OF MY WINDOWS AND DOORS WON’T WORK!!
Could we fix the icon for the babies. All it shows is their legs/feet.
Anyone getting an error in the game saying: the game cannot be loaded; relaunch the game? It says each one of the mods and cc that I use is broken with BetterException. Help. 🙁
I haven’t updated but since cc windows and doors are broken it’s best to start with that (and remove all mods too). Try removing custom windows and doors if you have. And delete the localthumb file. Then try to load it again.
& no fixes for glitches like sim constantly wanting to do push-ups,practice programming & baking a cake or getting a cheese platter out.Also,items are still being stolen even though the Sharing is Caring NAP isn’t on in every town! Also,my fully grown cow plant is invisible 🙁
I just updated today and a bunch of the Nifty knitting items are missing is anyone else experiencing this?
Such a small update causing big problems.
It’s closing out the game. This my 3ed time I had to close out and I’ve deleted all my mods again
This update crashes when I press update. It also will not download itself. What gives?
Can you guys fix the issue with sims randomly doing the bored animation despite them not being bored?
So I just updated my game with the new patch and now when I load my save, all my sims faces are replaced with question marks along with most of my wallpapers, trees, and a few items. Also, some of my floors are all black and won’t change no matter what floor option I choose.
Basically, this patch completely broke my game. My save basically just one big question mark.
Do you use custom content?
my game automatically updated now i cant place cc windows or doors
Under application settings for origin, move the option for automatic update for games from 1 to 0. This will gray it out and prevent the game from updating automatically in the future. This way you have to manually update your game instead. You’ll be able to play offline and usually have no issues (unless origin has a mandatory update then it may try to force you to update but if you allow origin to update just quickly go offline once the origin screen launches after it updates so it doesn’t start a sims update by accident).
broke my windows and doors and im not able to pick a person for something because its all glitchedn out loading dimond thing is broke it is gray and white im on pc and im really starting to dislike EA alot more for their effortless work
Mine looks exactly the same!
Ever since the update, the game has been crashing. I tried right-clicking and repairing in Origin, but it didn’t seem to help.
Since this update my game has crashed twice and I’ve updated the mods I use and still crashes.
yes! mine too. especially if there’s a lot of npc’s that are having conversations. the game crashes immediately. i updated all the mods i have and it still keeps crashing.
Wish they would do a fix so when babies born to married couples take their fathers surname automatically and also when sims get married, why don’t they take their partners surname? Keep having to change the names in CAS so my sim families can have the same surname!
Ever since the update my game keeps crashing after like a 5 min game play. I’ve already kept taking out mods and updating them, but no dice. Is there gonna be a new update soon to fix this?
Since this update the game keep closing in the middle of playthrough I can only play for a couple minutes and crash and close out
Since the update my game crashes whenever I go out into public, sometimes it’s within minutes, sometimes I can play for quite a bit before it goes, but it’s always a CTD. All mods are updated, the ones that aren’t were removed, still, no luck here…
After the update, my game keeps crashing frequently, it isn’t due to any mods because I didn’t have them on. But even so it keeps crashing for me.
Well all this update has done is mess with my game can uninstall updates as I now can’t ask people to help with anything like potty training or blowing candles out and the phone calendar and job skills and other icons have all changed and move I don’t like it PLEASE HELP!
Ever since my sims have been updated, it keeps crashing/closing unexpectedly. Even better, it won’t let me even load my game without closing! I even took my mods folder out and still got the same results. I just hope they resolve this as soon as.
Any idea when the RB button issue on Xbox will be fixed? I keep asking here & on Twitter but never get a response. It’s beyond frustrating having to reload the entire game every time I want to edit employee outfits on restaurants & vet clinics because the RB button stops working. :/
This fixed absolutely nothing !!
Since this update my screen is all silver and all the ui is broken so I can’t see what I’m clicking, can’t see anything on map apart from the lots!
GAME KEEPS CRASHING
I’m having problems with repeated crashing on installing this update. I had no issues before this update, now I get 2 minutes gameplay (if I’m lucky) then without warning the game will freeze for a second, then close to desktop.
Me too! It’s so annoying, do you play on pc?
Hi, yes I do.
The game is crashing and returning to desktop every 5 minutes since installing this patch and it never crashed before this patch.
Is anyone else having an issue with door and window mods not working on the walls after this update? All my cc works and shows up but for some reason once I put a door or window on the wall it only shows the frame.
I updated and I can no longer get freelancer jobs to complete and pay out. It shows all the yellow check marks next to each step but then nothing happens. They just stay there and I don’t get paid and I have to cancel the job to select a new one.
same….