The new Feature Sims 4 Update has just dropped!
Electronic Arts and Maxis studio have just released a new Sims 4 Update across PC, Mac, Xbox and Playstation supported platforms. Adding “new skin customization options” as promised in the Summer 2025 Roadmap, a new Ailments Feature toggle and more.
The new Skin Details will be delivered to players through a Sims Delivery Express drop. So prepare to restart your game again after patching!
Discover everything new, improved and fixed in the official Sims 4 Patch notes down below.
The Skin Customization Options Update
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Installing the Latest Sims 4 Update
You can get the latest The Sims 4 Update on the following official launchers and platforms:
- PC: EA App, Origin, Steam, Epic Games
- Mac: Origin, Steam
- Playstation: PS4 and PS5
- Xbox: Xbox One and Xbox Series X / S
You can download the latest Sims 4 Update by checking for a Patch through the EA App, Steam or Epic Games launcher for Desktop. If you have Automatic Updates enabled the update will automatically download through your client program. In case your EA App is not working properly ensure you’ve cleared your app cache!
If you play The Sims 4 on Xbox Series X / S and Playstation 4 and 5 you can request a new update by checking for updates under The Sims 4 game in the Main Menu. If you’ve enabled automatic updates the Patch should download right away.
Considering that this update is adding new features to the game, it’s expected that Sims 4 Mods and CC will be disabled automatically. Make sure you keep up with your favorite modders and creators to know if the latest game version is compatible with their Mods / CC!
Official Sims 4 Patch Notes
Sul Sul Simmers!
Today’s update brings you a handful of new features intended to improve performance and player experience. We have included the Enchanted by Nature Aliments Option in addition to a handful of other bug fixes.
Thank you for your support and continued reporting efforts via EA Forums. It really helps us identify the issues you care the most about. The Forums are also a great spot for reporting issues with text and translation.
Happy Simming!
– The Sims 4 Team
What’s New?
New Skin Details: Wrinkles, Freckles, & More
New Skin Details have been added to Base Game! For teens and older, we’ve added a selection of Rosacea, Dark Spots, Age Spots, and Eye Bags for faces, as well as Stretch Marks and Freckles for bodies. For adult Sims, we’ve also added Mouth Wrinkles and Body Wrinkles. Learn more in our upcoming Dev Diary!
New Feature: Pack Selection
Pack Selection is a new feature allowing you to customize your experience when starting a new save based on the stories you want to tell and the experiences you want to build. This helps free up resources on your PC, Mac, or consoles without needing to uninstall packs you don’t currently use. Please note that once you’ve started a save, removing packs may affect the save itself, so this feature is best utilized when creating new saves to optimize performance.
Disabling packs will remove pack-specific content like hair, clothing, objects, and gameplay functions. Learn more in the official guide and faq thread!
DirectX 11 (DX11) Updates
We’ve improved DirectX 11 for PC users with Intel GPUs.
Intel GPU users will automatically default to the DX11 executable. Players with GPUs that are not Intel, NVIDIA, or AMD will continue to use DX9.
For detailed DirectX 11 information and instructions on entering launch arguments for the EA app and Steam, please visit this guide.
If you encounter issues, assistance is available here.
Performance Updates
- In this patch, we’ve made several optimizations to enhance your gameplay experience.
- Enhanced rendering performance for smoother visuals.
- Improved responsiveness by optimizing how graphics are processed.
- Fixed issues causing crashes when certain graphics settings were used.
- Addressed shadow flickering to ensure more stable reflections in water.
- Resolved problems with lighting to maintain consistent brightness throughout gameplay.
Enchanted by Nature Ailments Option
In Game Options, the latest expansion pack now has a Pack Settings option for “Ailment Spread”! Unchecking “Enable Ailment Spread” will contain Ailments to Sims that have contracted it, so other Sims won’t catch it. It’s like a sickness that isn’t contagious! You still can have Fairies deliberately give Ailments to other Sims, Naturopaths still will be able to treat clients who have Ailments, and becoming Very Imbalanced can result in Ailments. To play without that last consequence, just uncheck the “Enable Balance & Imbalance” checkbox. This will prevent Sims from getting an Ailment from being Very Imbalanced (because they won’t get Very Imbalanced at all).
You can read more about it in this Dev Diary!
Upcoming Creator Kits
Since kicking off our Creator Kits series, we have launched six one-of-a-kind collections in collaboration with our standout community creators, each bringing their signature style to The Sims 4 franchise.
Coming soon: two new releases featuring Grange Mudroom by Peacemaker_ic and Essential Glam by CRYPTICSIM, both dropping in the store later this month.
Bug Fixes
The Sims 4
- All the Sneakers from our 25th Anniversary Update can now be found in the Cold Weather category.
- Our Wide Leg Jeans from the Anniversary Update (ymBottom_SDX037Jeans & yfBottom_SDX037Jeans) can now be found under the Masculine Fashion Preference category.
- The new Tucked Tees from the Anniversary Update are now both available in the Athletic, Sleep, and Hot Weather categories.
- Sims with the Feminine Fashion Preference will now see the Blazer & Tee top (yfTop_SDX037BlazerTee & ymTop_SDX037BlazerTee) from the Anniversary Update in Create a Sim.
- The Curly Shag hair from the Anniversary Update is now listed under the Wavy hair texture.
Console
- [EA Forums] With a recent update we identified that an updated User Agreement and Privacy & Cookie Policy was not being shown causing the game to be offline. Simmers will now be prompted to accept the agreements if there is an updated version before reaching the Main Menu to allow the game to connect to the Gallery and Events.
- [EA Forums] Settings configured in Game Options, such as Volume levels, should now accurately save between sessions. We are aware of an instance where some PlayStation users may see a Display Size prompt and a version of a User Agreement when starting a new session and we are monitoring and investigating this.
- In Live Mode when the Notification Wall is open, pressing RT or R2 to clear all notifications no longer affects the game speed.
High School Years
- [EA Forums] When four or more teens from the active household attend high school, all of them now have High School Day tasks.
Businesses & Hobbies
- [EA Forums] When adding a Sim from the Gallery or My Library that has custom tattoos to a household in a new game, the Sim’s skin no longer turns pitch black.
Enchanted by Nature
- [EA Forums] For more flexibility in how you play, “Enable Ailments Spread” now is a toggle within Game Options > Pack Settings.
- [EA Forums] When cooking, Sims with Bad Luck are now less likely to start a fire.
Sleek Bathroom
- Dirty state on the Serenity Stone Tub bathtubs, Throne of Stone toilets and Sleek Stone Sink sinks are now properly displayed with correct color.
- Dirty state will no longer incorrectly change the color swatch of the Serenity Stone Tub bathtubs.
Release Notes
Pack Selector
The Sims 4 now lets you choose which Packs you want to play with directly from in-game settings! Simply head over to Main Menu and choose the new “Pack Selection” option.
From there, you can select Expansion Packs, Game Packs, Stuff Packs and Kits you want to enable or disable.
After choosing which Packs or Kits you want to deselect, you’ll be prompted with a new screen. Warning you about the gameplay consequences that may occur in your current saves, recommending that you start a new save and giving you an option to restart your game. Which will always be required when toggling Packs on and off.
Skin Details
Check out the latest free base game update for The Sims™ 4. There are eye wrinkles & bags, age spots, and more details for Sims’ faces, arms, legs, backs, upper body, & lower body.
Read more about the new Skin Details right here!
It’s an SDX
To confirm – the latest Sims 4 Skin Details will be delivered to players in a seperate form through a Sims Delivery Express (SDX) drop. You’ll have to restart your game again after patching to get the new Skin Details in Create A Sim:
The update is around 1GB on Desktop platforms!
What’s your experience so far with the latest Sims 4 Update? Join the conversation below and stay tuned on Sims Community for the latest news and updates!
I think the pack selector is a good ideal, I wish they took it a step further to allow players to disable occult features with the individual packs. I purchased werewolves for the custom content, not necessarily for the gameplay. I don’t really like having werewolves in my game. I also wish the ailment feature extended to pets. It’s frustrating having pets because they get sick what feels like every 30 seconds which is why I don’t have any pets in my game, it becomes kind of a nuisance. I am appreciative that EA is adding more features to the base game.
the werewolves pack has an option in settings to limit werewolves to moonwood mill, iirc.
They can still spawn in any world, just not in their beast form. What people are asking for is a complete disable option where the game doesn’t auto create anymore new werewolf Sims.
The update broke my game i cant play any household in any of my save files
SAME 🙁
same
I have the same issue. Hope it’ll be fixed soon
Same here. I came for answers.
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I am not sure if anyone else is having this issue, but all of my saves are gone!
I had played the sims a while ago when I was working on the event. I didn’t uninstall it recently. After the patch today, the game loaded in as if it was just installed and all of my saves are gone! Please help!!
I can start the game, but then the page where you start a new game / load a game / resume is mostly black and clicking on anything does not open a visible menu.
Im having the same issue i think? It’s like the game has frozen
Update broke my game too. When I load in and select a household to play as it loads and then crashes saying “Unable to load game please relaunch.” Relaunching does absolutely nothing to fix that crash. Actually do not know what to do.
This is exactly whats happening to me it refuses to load and just says “failure to launch on our part”
When are they going to fix the tomarang lots being corrupted? or fix anything from for rent. I cant change a residential lot into a small business lot… So annoying
For people currently getting booted to the world select screen or stuck in endless loading screens when trying to load into a lot/household: first, of course remember to take out your mods, load into game, disable mods/script mods, load back in and reenable mods, put back in only the mods you know do not usually break with game updates/need to be updated frequently.
That said, if you’ve done all that, and are still not able to get into your lots/households, I recommend either disabling script mods entirely, or only keeping the script mods tied to Andrew’s Pose Player, and Scumbumbo’s Teleport Any Sim. Those are the only script mods I seem to be able to keep in my game without the game breaking.
Unfortunately, after completing all the steps, it still doesn’t work.
rompió absolutamente todas mis modificaciones, también contenido personalizado, me atascó administrando mundos y no me deja jugar más, espero que arreglen todo para no tener que desinstalar todo de nuevo, por favor
anybody else no longer able to save their lots/game? Also making a sim it froze on the screen moving it into a lot, restart and the sim was deleted… wtf is going on?
So is the “only one teen gets tasks” fixed when multiple are sent? Or is it still only for one teen (they said they’ve fixed it before)
I can’t get on my game
This update crashed my game. Character creator works, I can’t run any old households, or any new households. The loading screen lags and glitches, then I get sent back to the world selection screen. I HAVE AUTO UPDATES TURNED OFF, but because EA does not respect or acknowledge the concept of consent I no longer have access to a product that I paid for.
Playing any households work fine with me but what I’m still dissatisfied are those son of a b****es who work for EA still not resolving that goddamn server error preventing me from saving house lots after successfully saving only one and they better get rid of the damn default underwear and bra under nude mode!!
I’m still having an issue with the loading screen, claiming to adjust the graphics, but when they tries, it makes the graphics worse, saving traveling, and going into cast can cost us as well. This been happening to me for months and for some years so I read please fix this.
I can reach the CAS when loading a save but when I attempt to load into the household, I get stuck in the cut screen never to load. This is with all of my save files. I have an issue finder downloaded to the game and the only issue running is “Injector”. All mods have been updated or if broken, have been deleted until otherwise. The update has crashed our games. I wish they would test run the update before deploying it with bugs, ultimately ruining some peoples games all together. Thank goodness I took precautions.
I play on xbox and since the update i cant even play the game. It loads up to the main page but I can move the cursor, can’t click anything litrally ANYTHING its like the game has frozen. I can see the arrow but it dont move, I can press buttons and hear the selection click but it does nothing.
Ive tried restarting the game several times and still the same thing. The game is litrally unplayable.
Update does appear to have broken my game as others have said 🙁 the game will open and load normally through to world selection but any attempt to select a household and enter live mode goes from loading screen back to world selection. CAS and build mode seem to work normally, but none of my previous save files are playable. I’ve attempted starting from a new save to see if live mode loads then but so far stuck in an endless loading screen.
this update broke my game and i am actually devastated why did y’all do this
Not Again!! is the gaming company running the Sims run by demons who are horribly underpaid?? what is even going on in that company?? oh the years of pain
I play offline and disable automatic updates for a reason – so your buggy-ass updates don’t at best cripple my game, and at worst, nuke it from orbit in its entirety. Imagine my delight when I realised that the EA app straight up would not let me launch my game – which, I cannot stress enough, I paid for and still own, at least in theory – without allowing your wretched update to break my game so completely that two days in, I still haven’t been able to get it running. Oh, but I can give my sims WRINKLES now (or, you know, at some hypothetical time in the far distant future, when the game actually starts working again.) So you know, totally worth it…. except that I ALREADY HAD SEVERAL MODS FOR THAT, and they provided exponentially better results than anything I’m seeing from this latest update online.
Legitimate question: are y’all *proud* of the work you do? I’ve never personally been in a position of going to work every day and make millions of people’s lives just a little bit worse, using nothing but the vast and unknowable depths of my own incompetence, so I don’t really know what that would feel like, but it couldn’t possibly be a GOOD feeling, right? Or is if just something you become numb to over time? Inquiring minds want to know
A tip for anyone who is having trouble getting their game to open a save file, or at least a suggestion. What worked for me was to completely pull the Sims 4 folder out onto my desktop, like the folder you’d normally use in order to get to the mod folder in your Documents-Electronic Arts folder, when you relaunch the game it’ll download a fresh copy of it to launch. You won’t have your save files, they’ll still be safely on your desktop, but for me it let me into a new tester save file. Not ideal, I’m sure people want to play with their usual save files, but it’d work to test mods/play a temporary save file until there’s a fix released.
Still waiting for vampires to get updated… Food isn’t filling and I don’t only wanna eat plasma fruit. And I’m not biting sims every single time. I’d prefer vampires that can eat like normal sims. And just take less weaknesses it’s frustrating