EA drops a new Patch for The Sims 4!
In a surprising turn of events, in the middle of a big Expansion Pack reveal, Electronic Arts has dropped a new Sims 4 Update across PC, Mac and Console supported platforms.
The latest Patch for the game resolves an issue with the newer Pack Disabler feature, where the button would appear greyed out for some players. If you have Mods / CC installed you shouldn’t worry about updating again.
This update was targeted to a specific issue that did not require us to update the current TDESC version, so it should not have any impact on mods.
– The Sims Direct Team
Find out what’s new and improved in the upcoming patch notes:
The Pack Disabler Update
Table of Contents
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.
Official Sims 4 Patch Notes
Update 9/4/2025
PC: 1.117.244.1020 / Mac: 1.117.244.1220
Console: Version 2.19
Sul Sul Simmers!
Today’s update resolves the extended length of time the “Confirm” button remained greyed out after players disable packs based on community feedback.
-The Sims 4 Team
Bug Fixes
Base Game
- [EA Forums] Resolved an issue where the “Confirm” button remained disabled for far too long after players disabled packs from the pack selection screen.
- NOTE: The actual time delay is largely specific to the specs of your machine, though some delay on the Confirm button is necessary to ensure that all selected packs are fully loaded before players can confirm any changes. This delay ensures packs load correctly, which provides a smoother and safer experience for players when managing their pack selections.
The update is around 500MB on Windows PC and Mac.
What’s your experience like with the latest Sims 4 Update drop? Let us know in the comments down below!
THAT’S IT?! That’s what you’ve updated??? Not the dozens of other issues making the game unplayable for hundreds of players!??
The update broke my WW MOD!!!
How?
Shoudnt have check you are on v185B, thats the one that supports this patch and the fairies one
Mine doesn’t even launch !!!
same!!
has anyone fixed the no launching issue??
cant even play my game ughhhh
I’ve been playing this game since launch and this update straight up broke my game. It won’t even launch anymore. “An error on our end caused the launch to fail”. It only launched when I took mods out of my game entirely. It even failed to launch when I unchecked script mods. I was playing this morning perfectly fine at like, 9am, and come back to a game that functions less than it did only hours before.
Try just taking ur scripts out. It works better.
Will it run without the scripts? Idk
les deux derniere mise a jours des sims ne peux plus jouer je me sort toujours des mondes grrrrrrrrr.
The update has broken my game! It’s crashed 4 times & frozen mid play 5 times where i’ve had to restart my console each time, all in the last 30 minutes. Crashed while loading onto a lot, entering build mode & while in CAS, not acceptable. Hoping it’ll be somewhat playable tonight, this is my down time after work.
So far I haven’t had any issues with the new update.
*reads comments*
*Turns on airplane mode*
*Plays broken game in peace*
I think Sims 4 scared that there gonna lose players n money. They may have a few streamers who may stay but we already lost money with a broken game. They think they have to rush out new content. But if they only fix the issues they won’t lose 50 to 75 idiots I tell you
It’s poor scripting on the Sims 4, they just rush out poop now without testing it fully. I miss when they used to care about their end product. They need to get it together and start delivering better product. They have other Sim life competitors pple will drop this and flock to those.
Welp, glad I checked the comments before downloading. Looks like it’s offline mode from now on.
What about those f***in’ bra default nudity and server error house lot gallery error glitches?! They haven’t been notified nor fixed yet!! POS EA and burglar update shoving everything down our throats!!
I’ve just installed the most recent patch, now every loading screen takes forever. It does load in the end, but waiting time is insane. Is it just me or anyone else has a similar issue? My mod folder was updated and things worked fine before yesterday’s patch. So upset, the weekend is ruined. Can’t play when everything is so slow. When I read the patch notes it seemed super safe, like what can go wrong if they just touched one button.
I just spent most of the night the other night going through each of my mods individually and finding the broken content (after the first patch where they added the pack selector) because my game wouldn’t load the save file. It kept getting rerouted to the world selection page.
I worked hard to remove the broken mod, update it, repair the game, and finally got my game to load and run without issues.
Extremely worried about this new patch. I don’t want to automatically download this patch. I don’t trust it.
which script mod was it?? cuz i cant seem to find it and am getting frustrated lowkey lol. i can turn off the script mods but the game gets boring :/
i had to remove every single mod that used core 51 or xml injector. it took hours. 🙁 a lot of little ms sam’s were broken
Stop updating so much. Really unnecessary to update so often, people don’t have enough space for constant updates. And if you’re going to update, don’t focus on dumb crap.
So they fix the only bug on the last update that only affects one person and ignore the rest??
I haven’t even been able to fix my broken game from the last patch and that’s after completely uninstalling the game AND the app and reinstalling them! Loading a household only recirculates to the world map page and trying to place any lot anywhere results in an error! Maybe focus on the issues that are actually making people completely unable to play rather than some stupid function that no one cared about enough to be there in the first place?
you may have to remove all mods that use xml injector or core 51, that’s what worked for me, hope that helps
Unfortunately, I didn’t even have any that used those on my computer prior to even the August update. Nothing changed…
Fuck ass game and joke of a company tbh. I have no clue how you don’t see the irony of releasing this feature then announcing your 3rd dlc pack in ONE YEAR, and just ignoring all other issues with your game.
Capitalist pigs
I can’t even play it anymore. It just sits on the loading screen.
I got the latest EP – a mistake, after lovestruck completely broke my game for over a month – and I haven’t been able to load into Innisgreen since I got it, it just endlessly load screens and crashes… a major point of the pack was fairies and fables and I can’t even play it… can you not focus on actual gameplay elements to fix? There’s enough with for rent alone to occupy your time! Because no offense, I don’t even know or care what button you’re talking about being fixed with this update, but I’m defo scared to update my game again as it continually makes the issues worse!
My game literally stopped launching. I’ve tried everything and it won’t launch. Some “patch,” they went in to fix one thing and broke something else.
once i’m in my household and click on my sim no actions pop up. I have to hold shift and click on my game. I can’t even enter in CAS. this little patch broke my game yet again! please fix this
I’m fully aware that all developments of the game are under the strategy from above, not just the develop coding team. But with this MINOR update, all kinds of bugs and EA app functional disabilities that have occured so far since August still remain.
This is kind of arrogant for a company to not only shut out players in more than 8 regions and counties from purchasing other EPs once the latest launched (some even the latest and the Kits or GPs) from last month without any proper notice, but also just launch an update that even needs a second patch to fulfill the purpose of this update in the beginning.
Of course no one can force anyone to sell their products to, but it’s also ironic to see the customers trying all methods (both online and off-line) to solve or bypass the problems while the company who takes all the revenue keeping creating them.
My game has been and still is broken since the August update. EVEN if I remove my mods. Tried playing with & without mods and when I load a household, it just goes back to the neighborhood select.
i still cant launch the game cause it keeps saying game license is invalid, now ive spent hundreds of dollars on this game, if this is how EA is gonna do this i want all my money back for everything i bought including the game before it became free to play and a refund on my EA membership. this is stupid. FIX IT NOW.
the game is broken and THATS it