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.
After this update cc doors and windows are broken, game freezes, floors have a strange shine to them, game sometimes crashes when travelling, lots of glitches. All for a new game pack that I do not want!
Can we not be given the ability to roll back to a previous update or refuse any new updates that we do not require?
I noticed whenever you have to use options after selection or the phone, it shows a pink button in the middle of my screen or it’ll show a yellow box in the corner but will not show up the options.
That problem is caused by the UI cheats mod! I had the same thing and removing UI cheats solved it. 🙂
I’m on PS4 and the game crashes every time I try to load into my save. I’ve tried EVERY single trouble shoot and did not start experiencing this until today. I downloaded Tiny Living and Perfect Patio yesterday and now it’s happened today. Please help I can’t even load into a game to play.
I think its a problem for all formats the game is played on. I play on pc and have done the origin repair game which people online suggest and its still the same I do not have any mods in my game but I have many of the expansion packs and stuff packs. I think its a major problem for players and EA needs to sort it out as soon as possible. My game crashes and takes me back to my desktop. I have also done many things it suggest online to fix the problem but none of them work.
CC doors and windows not functioning after this update!
Game keeps crashing after maybe 5 minutes of game play, if i even get to play for that long. It seems as though I’m not the only one thats had this issue since the last update for this month. Several have said we should have the option for whether or not to update the game-that definitely needs to happen. I didnt need an update, my game worked perfectly, but now its junk.
My game is crashing every time i go to build in Glimmerbrook post Star Wars update.
My game crashes without fail after about 10 minutes of playing, no matter what I do in-game. It crashes faster if i’m in Build/Buy. First the windows/doors, now this! SMH
Ever since the update my gallery hasn’t been working. Its showing a red cross and when I click on it, it says item not found. I’ve repaired it, deleted it, removed all my mods, all my expansion packs and still isn’t working!!! Does anyone know what to do??
My windows and doors are also not working! It’s very annoying and happens everytime they update!
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!!!
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 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!!!
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.
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!
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.
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.
I noticed whenever you have to use options after selection or the phone, it shows a pink button in the middle of my screen or it’ll show a yellow box in the corner but will not show up the options.
That problem is caused by the UI cheats mod! I had the same thing and removing UI cheats solved it. 🙂
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
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.
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.
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
it’s a NAP, remove “foodies unite”
I think we have all done that but it keeps happening!!
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
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.
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
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 that problem as well.
Same here. I can literally play for 5 minutes and then the game crashes. :/
I’m having the same issue but I can’t even play. So sad 🙁
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.
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
Et aucune maj pour Plopsy ? Je ne peux plus rien vendre sur plopsy 🙁
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.
Is anyone else having the issue where sims just keep making cake?
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.
Yes!! Driving me mad.
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.
mine won’t stop using the woodworking table xD
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.
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!
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
Most of this sounds like eco living naps being active. The baking is the foodies and sharing is caring is for the missing items.
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.
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 🙂
Omg half my community lots aren’t usable because so much furniture is stolen, even when I’m not playing in the lot!
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
All cc windows and doors don’t work anymore… I’m in tears
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!!!
OMG me too! So sad 🙁
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.
I’m in literal tears about it.
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
Ominous.
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.
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.
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!
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….
Game crashes to desktop within 5 mins of playing
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 KEEPS CRASHING
The game is crashing and returning to desktop every 5 minutes since installing this patch and it never crashed before this patch.
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!
I was able to install the latest update but whenever my sim goes to travel while being on vacation the game just shuts down.
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.
After I did the update my sims world is glitching. It wont keep the world shapes right. It keeps glitching into cone shapes.
My game also crashes after 10 mins
My game started to crash every time my sim tries to talk to someone. I can’t play anymore
omg same with me
same
Same!