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.
I was able to install the latest update but whenever my sim goes to travel while being on vacation the game just shuts down.
After I did the update my sims world is glitching. It wont keep the world shapes right. It keeps glitching into cone shapes.
Ugh! I’m also having issues after this “update”. I can’t play for more than about five minutes before my game completely freezes and I have to do a hard shut down. I guess I won’t be playing until they patch the patch.
* I do NOT have any mods or CC in my game.
My game also crashes after 10 mins
omg same with me
same
Same!
My game started to crash every time my sim tries to talk to someone. I can’t play anymore
I am a CC creator and have been for many years! All my textures for CC I create look absolutely terrible, blurry, pixelated since the update patch on 9/3/2020.
Many other CC creators are sharing this issue…and I have heard that the Sims team themselves have purposefully made this happen…lowering the quality of the game…for Star Wars…Really!?!?
PLEASE, PLEASE tell me this issue will be resolved!! Please do not let a huge part of the Sims community down!!
– 13pumpkin
Ugh, seriously, please do something EA…my sims have become hermit shut in’s because I crash everytime they leave the house, sometimes whilst still in the house!
Well this sounds like it has some fun features! Unfortunately, my game won’t run since the update. I open it up just to get an error message saying to relaunch the game. I have mods, so I checked those, updated or deleted any out of date or broken ones, and I still get the error message. Last Exceptions keeps saying it’s something with the attributes. Already tried repairing the game in origin, too. Sooo….. I guess I have to wait until the next update and hope that unbreaks the game??
My game keeps crashing every 5 minutes ever since updating the game. Help!!
After update I can’t even play 5 mins it crashes, and my icons at the bottom of my screen are messed up and out of place.
Game crashes to desktop within 5 mins of playing
ULIMATE FAIL….games crashes and closes after 5 minutes of play…good try on the Stars Wars thing
Nice update – now I can’t travel anywhere without it crashing. PS4 version Patch 1.31 loaded yesterday afternoon and now the game is unplayable. Please fix.
Update broke the game. Cool. Nice way to promote for the game pack if we can’t even play base game. Game crashes to desktop for no reason after 10-15 minutes of playtime in live mode.
My game is pretty much unplayable. The icons at the bottom of the screen are out of place, and anytime a notification comes up it’s messed up and on odd places of the screen with no way to close out of them.
Same!
Cannot place cc doors or windows.
Same!!!
SAME HERE!!
same
the game non stop crashes every 20 minutes ever since this update, plus textures are missing. fix this !!
It started with my Sim being unable to knit, no matter where why were. Suddenly, the game began to glitch, needing a hard reboot every time. Game is unplayable until the patch is patched.
Game keeps crashing even with the basic updated mods (ui cheats and command center). This is so frustrating!
After the recent patch update, my game just shuts down, no error message whatsoever, just straight to desktop, after a minute or two of live gameplay.
Any time my sims interact with each other the game crashes and exits.. update ruined gameplay
What about the plopsy bug!?!?! Can we fix that too!
Every single property I have ( quite a few) all have CC windows and doors. What a total fail by EA. Who cares about SW in a Sims game, Seriously???
Agree!!
i wanna know this too, items show no expiration date and are not listed anymore, only the background colour change but thats all
I don’t know if this is just me but for some reason, all my furniture keeps on disappearing especially the counters and dining tables, it’s so annoying
sadly whenever i open sims it has that little weird glitch when you don’t have the correct mesh this comes up on every sim i have even if they are not wearing any cc or just wearing undergarments i’m not sure what to do
I have the same issue! All of my sims look like the missing CC sims..
I even disabled my mods and cc and still nothing changed. All of the skins are broken.
And I went through and deleted almost all of my CC thinking that was the issue 🙁
My game is crashing every 5-10 minutes. Any update EA???
i can’t update my game i’ve done everything it wont update! can someone help me please?
cc doors and windows don’t work anymore now they end up dissepaeting and only being able to see the outline .Please fix this so then me and other cc builders can get back to creating and building
The exact same thing is happening to me
Mine to i have no cc windows or doors just frames like wtf and we updated EVERY mod that we have on the game so i need them to fix the shit that they messed for wack ass stars wars that nobody asked for
My game keeps crashing after I play with my sims for about 5 min. Are you guys going to address this issue anytime soon. Because now I don’t even want to open my sims game anymore. All though I will say that I can be in build mode I can play for hours. Once I go to actually play my sim, my game shuts down on me. Please take the time and address this issue because I do enjoy playing sims.
Probably won’t be a priority for them until the first patch post Star Wars pack release. 🙁
UPDATE!! one of the adult mods (WW) was updated wrong, they have sense repaired this mod and now just have to update it in your mod folder. My game has been working ever sense.
After the patch, I lost music and sound. just could hear the effects from the mouse. shut down and restarted everything, just to see what would happen, no difference. I didn’t play the game long enough yet to see if it will crash, but it probably will if that is what others are experiencing.
I’m going to legacy if this bull keeps up because i can’t have the game open for several minutes until it just crashes, and remember THIS UPDATE IS MANDATORY
Updated with the newest patch. Items I find in the dumpster keep disappearing and my game just crashes after about 2 mins of playing
I, too, am experiencing this issue 🙁 I do have CC in my game, if that is a contributing factor. I had been playing before no problem up until today. Was playing for about 2 solid hours before it crashed on me. Restarted and spent some time in CAS and Build/Buy – finally went to play and crashed. Halp
my game isn’t working anymore!! when i open it it just crashes!! please someone help me!!
also i deleted all my mods and its still happening
Everytime I open the game there’s no faces on all the Sims, it has a red and black markings with black question mark on their faces. My game is done smh and they hear our complaints riiigghhhtttt.
I just want to throw the whole Sims 4 game away at this point. I hate these patch updates because it cause more problems then it’s worth. If you don’t update then you still will have glitches. I have to use
thought I was the only one who’s game kept crashing within 5 minutes of playing the game after the update, but a lot of people are having the same problem. so I’m glad but not glad at the same time…?
thought it was a mod but I took out all the mods except for just the WickedWhims file (which I just updated to the most recent one on 9/4) and it’s still crashing
Interesting, when I updated wicked whims my game stopped crashing.
Is it me or does the create a sim have way less options for customization since the update? There’s no body types to choose from or anything. Ugh!
My game wont even load past origin unless im on 32 bit Legacy Mode and all my families and cc are gone!! I tried to play with no cc and the game crashes. ;( Ive tried everything. I just wanted to play a little sims before virtual teaching starts back up tomorrow. Help this struggling Pre K teachers aide. :'(
I have a HP gaming Pavilion Laptop with a Geforce GTX anyone know how to fix this.
I play on my MAC and ever since this new update all my bought additional content (game packs etc) are not working. Even the worlds aren’t working and I can’t enter them!!!
after update today (SEP 9 2020) all my CC windows and doors are gone!!!!! and can’t display properly. Also I’m a CC creator this problem is a big issues in CC community now. Please fix asap.
I can no longer place custom content windows onto my walls? Like the wall doesn’t disappear where the window should appear to see through. I watched a youtuber called Carmen King and hers does the exact same thing. Not like you guys will read the comments on here anyways, because you never listen to your audience, but I thought I would just state my issues anyways.
Hullo!
I’ve come to also put down my two cents regarding the update for the new sims4 game pack.
like most comments. I’ve had difficulty placing down CC windows and doors. Much of my builds use alot of Custom Content. In addition, I’ve had several tabs glitch out. The career tab and the profile tab of my sim is not longer legible and has be stuck in a state of “broken”. It sucks that I cannot look at those tabs to properly. I feel part of the reason why the tabs are illegible maybe caused by the update and the custom content that clashes with the new update.
most of the comments seem hopeless about any changes, however I do hope that these comments may be seen as a push toward a batch fix.
hope we see changes soon!
I there a way I could get Sims 2 back. Sims 4 get broken EVERY time EA make a new pack, patch or free upgrade. I spend more time fixing than playing. Star Wars are you kidding. Why is it every new pack is just another way to kill Sims. I think I am done with this game. You have really made covid-19 suck even more.
The list of broken things is to long to list. The MODS are the only thing that add any fun.
Please send me a link so I can have what I had with Sims 2!!!
Every since the update my adult sims can’t interact with toddler. Every time I’m my adult sim and i click on the toddler no options pop up :/ another issue im having is with the weather clothes i recently got the pack yesterday and i wanted to try it out today and none of the clothes work. I do have cc and i turned it off but ir still doesn’t work. Um help pls
After the update plates they prepare disappear. I have to click where I think they are and eventually it’ll show up. Same for the kids projects when they complete them.
My sins 4 game has been crashing. Also I can’t seem to save/exit or save/exit to main menu or even saved then quit. The game won’t close.
My sims 4 game has been crashing. Also I can’t seem to save/exit or save/exit to main menu or even saved then quit. The game won’t close.
After the update i can’t interact with any pop up (adopt pet etc) and like the others, all my doors and windows cc doesnt work properly. Even the ui at the bottom right corner glitches and the text can’t be seen smh
I just open my game and that’s the first thing I notice I’ve been working on this lot for a while (just for room purposes) and nearly half the doors and windows are having are not displaying properly which ruins the whole aesthetic.
Is anyone having issues with their custom content such as windows and doors being blurred out when placed?
After the last update, nothing in my CAS is working anymore. I can’t create a new sim, I can’t edit a sim or even plan outfits. It brings me to the CAS screen but it won’t load my sim.
YOU NEED TO LET US PS4 PLAYERS GET MODS ITS NOT FAIR!
I updated my Sims version and the first day it worked great! Then I moved my household into a downloaded house in my gallery. I made some updates and when I went from build mode to live it crashed. That is after I spent a whole day with no issues. I then went in and tried to reinstall all of my packs, didn’t work. In fact when I played today, I didn’t travel or enable get together, I just played at the house and it still crashed when I tried to save. I’m so frustarted 🙁
For reference I am using the PS4