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EA Is Working On A Patch For The Sims 1 And The Sims 2 Rereleases

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There are going to be Updates and Fixes for The Sims 1 and The Sims 2 Rereleases.

The Sims 1 and Sims 2 Rereleases are expected to be Updated sometime soon.

EA and Maxis have finally rereleased The Sims 1 and The Sims 2 on PC. And, contracty to their own official release notes, some players can’t even experience the new game stability due to crashes. The Sims 1 is reported to be crashing or booting up to a black screen. While The Sims 2 is still random at crashing as we remember.

The Sims 2 Crash
“Yay for the first crash!” / Source

Another player on The Sims Forums describe their unlucky experience booting up The Sims 1 on Windows PC:

The Sims 1 Crash Statement

Player Report on The Sims 1 Crashing

Just bought the birthday bundle to get both the original Sims and Sims 2. I started playing the original Sims and only got maybe an hour in before the game crashed. Booted it up again and had the same issue. My computer is on Windows 11. The first time it crashed while I was creating a family. The second time was while I was in buy mode. 

– vitreallis


So EA and Maxis released a rerelease who’s main pricing point was fixing several improvements and stability efforts. That unfortunately only ends up in free Quality Assurance testing for EA’s 40USD rerelease bundle until it gets resolved in the next update. But hey, at least we now know that there’s going to be a “next update” for The Sims 1 and The Sims 2.

Read the official announcement:

The Sims 1 and Sims 2 Patch Statement

Official Statement on Sims 1 and Sims 2 Rerelease Issues

Sul Sul Simmers!

We recognize some fans are currently experiencing various issues with The Sims: Legacy Collection and The Sims 2: Legacy Collection. We are currently investigating these issues and hope to have more information on fixes soon.

To help with our investigations, please ensure you’re including screenshots, videos, dxdiags, and (for TS1) vulkaninfo.exe files in your bug reports.

The Sims 2 Rerelease
The Sims 1 and The Sims 2 Essential Cheats

As for myself, I haven’t experienced much issues in The Sims 2 (although I’ve just scratched the surface). However, I am having issues with booting up The Sims 1 to a black screen.

What’s your experience been like with Day 0 of The Sims 1 and The Sims 2 Rereleases? Let us know in the comments below!

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iamVakekz
iamVakekz
1 month ago

I bought the Sims Birthday Bundle. Sims 1 won’t even launch and just go back to EA app. Sims 2 was running okay but it took long for it to load. I thought it already froze but it’s just taking too long to load.

lisa-marie Langheim
lisa-marie Langheim
1 month ago
Reply to  iamVakekz

Got the same problem with Sims 1. Still dont even start. I’m a little bit upset

Netti
Netti
1 month ago

Me too … wanted to play sims 1 sooooooo bad

joel7352
joel7352
1 month ago
Reply to  iamVakekz

I have the same problem with the sims 1 and the sims 2 so far it’s been running fine for me just had a few glitches that’s all

Fieke Visser
Fieke Visser
1 month ago

It still took me quite some time to get the right resolution and I had to put the game in windowed mode in CAS or otherwise their heads wouldn’t fit into the screen. Upon moving my first family into the world the game crashed and even though my family was saved, one of my children disappeared when I moved into a house… I’m going back to Sims 4 until 2 is patched…

Nindya Octaviany Siegfried
Nindya Octaviany Siegfried
1 month ago

Can’t wait for the patch, because I want confirm my favourite custom skintones T_T

ELISABETH BATTERMANN
ELISABETH BATTERMANN
1 month ago

One of my children disappeared Sorry. Funny, not funny. Sure sounds like a real bummer just the way you said it made me start relationally framing this all over the place. Alien abduction? CPS? Spontaneous combustion?

RanMori
RanMori
1 month ago

Bugs I’ve found (and repeated) in TS2:
1. The game crashes when my dog ​​comes back from work (I don’t know yet if it affects this one pet or all pets)
2. The game doesn’t keep the saved setting “turn off camera for special occasions”.

Last edited 1 month ago by RanMori
Kramdjur
Kramdjur
1 month ago
Reply to  RanMori

Omg I had the same bug with my dog coming home from work… it’s really annoying cuz I can’t play that save now. I had saved 20 sec before my dog came home so now everytime i boot up my save it crashes 20 seconds later when my dog comes home from work and would get a promotion…

Emrys
Emrys
1 month ago
Reply to  Kramdjur

My game crashes when my sim and her cat come home from work! But I’d just saved literally as they came home so it just loads and crashes going to have to try and remake them and not give the cat a job

Nexury
Nexury
1 month ago
Reply to  RanMori

I have the same problem with my cat coming from work. Much of this crashes are with pets.

Netti
Netti
1 month ago

I bought the bundle as well (Win 11) , sims 1 won‘t even start & sims 2 crashes every time when I picked a city (when it starts loading the city) . Just getting a message that the game crashed & then it’s gone …

Rebochan
Rebochan
1 month ago

I haven’t had any issues with Sims 1. It works out of the box. I only just got my first crash a few days in.

Haven’t tried Sims 2 yet.

Anne-Charlotte
Anne-Charlotte
1 month ago

I just bought the sims 2 and after playing a few hours some bugs appears in my save like my sims can’t make food anymore, he’s cooking but when he finished to cook the food disappear

Kristina
Kristina
1 month ago

I bought the birthday bundle and it starts in a black screen and i have to restart the pc to be able to do anything because it freezes the whole pc

Jordan ayers
Jordan ayers
1 month ago

I can’t even get the sims 1 to finishing downloading

rachael wills
rachael wills
1 month ago

I can’t even play it as I have a MacBook

Mike
Mike
1 month ago

The Sims 2 – I kept getting an “object error” issue for my sims, I made the same family 3 times as they kept getting an object error – the options for reset and cancel were not clickable so I was forced to click delete. This then having my sim completely disappear from the game, trash and family bin! I don’t understand the full mechanics to fixing these issues, I would’ve thought EA would sort that before release but my naivety loses to capitalism once again.

Last edited 1 month ago by Mike
Debora
Debora
1 month ago
Reply to  Mike

I bought the sims 2. Unfortunately it has a bug. When you are on vacation, it doesn’t leave the loading screen, during the game an object error appears, sometimes the game exits out of nowhere, and the sim doesn’t get pregnant.

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Julia Subilleau
Julia Subilleau
1 month ago

Hello, I bought sims 1 and I can’t launch it. When I click on “play” nothing happen. The ea games window appears
Please can you fix it ?

brenda
brenda
1 month ago

me too

Heather
Heather
1 month ago

Only played sims 1 so far and not super long but an issue I had was saving. Sometimes when I would save the game would crash and it didn’t save it at that save point went to a previous save point since I guess it crashed mid save. And a meal/ 1 plate doesn’t fill all their hunger they have to eat multiple plates to get full…. But love sims 1 soooo happy they rereleased sims 1 and 2 for us to play.

Juli
Juli
1 month ago
Reply to  Heather

If you don’t mind me asking, what did is your Sim eating?
I noticed when my Sims hunger need is really low and I let them eat a salad it doesn’t fill the need fully. However, when I give them spaghetti or a burger it fills the need more.
Hope that helps 🙂

sho
sho
1 month ago

I got the bundle, but I only downloaded Sims 1. It showed no sign of booting up. I did everything to make it work; including information posted on the EA forums. Still, all I got was nothing. I didn’t even try to download the Sims 2 bc I was so annoyed. I opted for a return on the bundle. But I will repurchase once the patch is released and I see comments and reviews on it stating that it was fixed.

Khristyn
Khristyn
1 month ago

Purchased the bundle. Wanted to start with Sims 1 first. That won’t even launch. However, I am able to launch and play Sims 2 SO FAR with no issues. Windows 10. It’s CRAZY how it’s SO random for everyone! No rhyme or reason as to who or why. How will the “possibly” reimburse people for this? I’m sure a lot of us feel duped and regret spending $40.00 on a game that can’t be play at all or the way intended…

Camille
Camille
1 month ago

J’ai acheté les deux jeux en ce début de week-end. Je me faisais une joie de pouvoir jouer à mes jeux d’enfance hier et aujourd’hui. Malheureusement, j’ai été terriblement déçu de me retrouver face à nombreux bugs autant dans le jeu des Sims 1 que dans les Sims 2. Je vais me concentrer sur le jeu des sims 2, car pour le premier tout à été dit. Donc, les Sims 2 on l’air de fonctionner dans l’ensemble, sauf après avoir fait ma famille et construit la maison, j’ai eu la mauvaise surprise de constater que mes sims peuvent pas cuisiner, ni lire un livre, s’assoir sur le canapé ou même aller au toilette. Les chaises proche des tables ne se rabattent pas et lorsqu’un sims monte ou descend un escalier, il est comme téléporté. La jauge de compétence n’apparaît pas au dessus de leurs têtes. De nombreux bugs qui m’empêche de jouer normalement à ce jeu de simulation. J’espère pouvoir jouer prochainement aux deux jeux que j’ai acheté pour me rappeler mon enfance et non me frustrer. Bon courage pour la mise à jour.

Loe
Loe
1 month ago

I also bought the bundle! While others can launch Sims 2 but aren’t able to play sims 1 it’s the opposite with me. Although Sims 1 crashes after awhile. Sims 2 gives an error message whenever I try to launch the game “failed to find any directx 9.0c graphics adapters”? I have windows 10/11

Nicole
Nicole
1 month ago

I am having issues with both. Sims 1 acts like it’s going to load and then takes me back to the ea app screen and sims 2 says some files are corrupted.

Pixie
Pixie
1 month ago

In Sims 1 the crawling bugs are hard to get the star over to spray them and there is constantly I feel like bugs crawling in my house ….. My two sims are 100 with heart and kiss multiple different ways and never once has it asked it we want to have a baby….
Only baby we got so far was form adoption via phone.

Lexiblew
Lexiblew
1 month ago
Reply to  Pixie

You can only make a baby in the heart bed in sims 1, from what I remember.

Dimond
Dimond
1 month ago

I’m a bit disappointed that they didn’t adapt the in-game screenshot resolutions, and the same goes for the video (including the outdated codec, which doesn’t work with modern editing software).

It would’ve also been great if they brought back the original intro when launching The Sims 1.

But these aren’t bug issues—just small adjustments that would make this release much better and more worthwhile.

Charlot
Charlot
1 month ago

When I receive the award from Marlyn Monroe in Sims 1 the game freezes.
When I have kids in the Sims 2 and I go to a community lot, my kids dissapear. They are deleted from my family.

Kristen
Kristen
1 month ago

I unfortunately haven’t even been able to play The Sims 1 at all. I can’t get it to launch. It acts like it’s going to but then it just returns back to the EA app.

brenda
brenda
1 month ago
Reply to  Kristen

same here I have windows 10

Mimi94
Mimi94
1 month ago

Bugs I found so far:

  • Time speeding on x3
  • Certain foods were not able to be made or eaten
  • Pets: My cat disappeared from the household as soon as we moved in
  • Random error windows popping up
  • Dancing in the club: She immediately stops
  • Car driving: I can’t see her driving; she immediately pops up on the road, and there’s no backing up like it used to show.
chris
chris
1 month ago

My bag of bones is stuck in the middle of the floor tried deleting it and it home but not working

Sorah
Sorah
1 month ago

I bought The Sims (1) on Steam and there are old and new bugs.

Bugs I’ve encountered so far:

– Burglar despawns immediately upon spawning.
– El Bandito despawns immediately upon spawning (limiting the framerate to 30FPS in Nvidia settings fixes this).
– Animal control cannot be called if the preview window is still open.
– Random flies still appear even when the house is clean.
– Roaches have an absurdly small hitbox, making them nearly impossible to click unless the game is paused.
– The move_objects cheat no longer works on Sims, removing the ability to reset stuck or bugged Sims.
– The pet bathtub remains broken. The Sim fills it, calls the pet, then immediately cancels the action.
– After playing for 3 hours, the game suddenly crashed. The Event Viewer log indicates ntdll.dll as the faulting module. (RAM access issue?)

My Rig: Windows 11, Ryzen 7 9800X3D, 2080 Super and 64GB DDR5 RAM.

Sad Simmer
Sad Simmer
1 month ago

I lose almost every child I make in create a sim. They just disappear when I move the family into a house! Help

Sophie
Sophie
1 month ago
Reply to  Sad Simmer

Same here, first family I created, the second I moved them into a house, the kid disappeared

brenda
brenda
1 month ago

I have only 1 issue with Sims 2 Mr. Humble returns all the time to give me a computer.. The only issue I have had with-it ..so far!
How ever a very aggravating issue with Sims 1 It Will NOT even start at all! Witch is really getting me upset! I bought the packs separately because I already have the Sims 4 content that was included; witch technically means I paid more!!! as for that vulx thing I have no Idea what that is! so Please Fix These issues! I paid alot of money for them And I want to play Sims 1 soo bad!
I have windows 10

Last edited 1 month ago by brenda
Kathryn
Kathryn
1 month ago

It would be nice if The Sims 2 would load/play, but I keep getting this message pop up that it won’t play and I need to install DirectX 9.0 and just won’t go into the game. Who else has this?

SimmerSabi
SimmerSabi
1 month ago

I cant even load the sims 1 at all. At first it wasnt even popping up, after doing the supposed fix for that it will now open and begin to load and after about 5 seconds of that in the loading screen it crashes. I get zero error popups it just poofs off and then brings up my EA app… its quite frustrating.

Kali86
Kali86
1 month ago

I’m glad I didn’t buy the bundle than & kept my physical copy with all mods that helps me run it on modern pc.

Frankie
Frankie
1 month ago

The Sims 1 worked for 30 minutes then crashed in buy mode. I can install the sims 2 but can’t launch it because it says “necessary files were corrupted during installation” or something like that. I uninstalled and reinstalled a couple times and the same thing happens each time. I got a refund.

joel7352
joel7352
1 month ago

I bought the sims birthday bundle the sims 1 won’t even launch at all I click on play and it opens EA app again it doesn’t launch the game please fix it and the sims 2 so far I haven’t experienced any issues yet works fine for me

Paula
Paula
1 month ago

Hi
Mein Sim war auf der UNI und hat dort seinen Abschluss gemacht. Dort lief alles noch problemlos. Zurück in der Nachbarschaft konnte mein Sim kochen aber das Essen buggt immer weg. Außerdem werden keine Erinnerungen mehr abgespeichert, wie ich habe den kennengelernt oder geküsst. Ich bin dann in anderen Haushalten rein, da lief alles Problem los. Echt frustrierend! Hat das jemand auch?

Nex
Nex
1 month ago

Yep, having the dog coming home from work issue. Also reported it to the EA app, so yay sims 2, I saved 40 minutes before he comes home. I was playing a Family I was hoping I could keep going through. Guess I’ll have to wait and hope the patch works for this save.

Ming
Ming
1 month ago

Same issue, ts1 starts. playable for about 15 mins with every 10-30 sec saving then crash without notice or warning. I know that when you install ts1 from cd, you have to tell the game that you are running a pc with a one core cpu cause the game is not build for more then one cpu to fix that you can make a .bat image with a waiting point but that can’t be it that’s so easy to fix that eas heads of knowledge would get to that point by themself… so yeah… little bit embarrassing that they didn’t test that before bringing the game out…

N A
N A
1 month ago

Sims 2 runs ok sims 1 just crashes randomly and now I cant get a refund because I can’t contact ea games even with the game guarantee as I keep being sent back to the forum. Very disappointing EA.

LUKE
LUKE
1 month ago

We need a patch for Sims 1 to be able to change the resolution to fit full screen without compromise

Ana
Ana
1 month ago

i definitely won’t be playing this game until a patch comes out– ridiculous they charge $40 for the bundle and its bricked right out the box. i purchased it when it came out and i have yet to boot it up bc of the constant problems and im waiting until its been patched — now that this is paid content and people are spending money, EA doesn’t have any reason to not be patching it

Taylor Schipman
Taylor Schipman
1 month ago

Sims 2 has been working for me! It crashed right after I made a household but haven’t had issues since! Sims 1 won’t even launch. It says it’s launching then takes me back to the EA app screen 🙁 hoping it gets fixed soon!

Eleah
Eleah
1 month ago

The patch completely broke the sims 2 for me. I got 13 hours on it this week end no issues at all now it crashes as soon as I try to load into it.

DCurlee85
DCurlee85
1 month ago

I recently bought Sims 1. For some reason, my Sims can’t give any dogs a bath. Every time I have a Sim fill the doggy tub and he calls a dog over, he drains it right away. By the time the dog comes up to the Sim, the interaction cancels immediately.

Also, there are times when a Sim is supposed to move to some place or perform some action, but that Sim would take forever before going to do whatever I want him or her to do.

I hope EA can fix these problems soon.