The Sims 4’s latest update brought a shiny new feature for those who play The Sims 4 on PC!
As explained in the patch notes:
Simmers with a Razer Chroma enabled setup (Single Zone Chroma RGB Lighting is not supported) can get more immersed in The Sims by extending the experience to your desktop. The Razer Chroma lighting will reflect the moods of your selected Sims*, colors that match the theme of the secret world you are visiting and more. You can disable the dynamic lighting in Game Options > Other if this is something you don’t fancy as well.
There’s now a brand new option in Game Options > Other called Enable Keyboard Dynamic Lighting. This feature will make supported peripherals light up in the color of The Sims 4 and the emotions of the Sims that you are playing!
At the moment the only supported brand of PC Peripherals is Razer – which goes beyond just the “Keyboard” that they’ve mentioned. I’ve got a chance to test out this feature myself on my PC Setup and it works both for my Razer Keyboard and Mouse. I’ve also seen a few reports saying that Razer Headphones also support this new feature!
When in the Main Menu your Razer setup will have a spinning plumbob effect with bright green and white spinning all across your peripherals! Check out the preview below:
You can also see what it looks like in action down below:
SHINY! New Dynamic Keyboard Lighting added to #TheSims4 for supported keyboards! pic.twitter.com/dbmNUyIhxy
— Sims Community (@TheSimCommunity) January 21, 2021
As soon as you load up your saved game the peripherals will correspond to the emotion of the Sim you’ve selected. Did you select an Angry Sim from your household? All of the supported peripherals will turn red immediately!
Here’s to hoping that RGB Peripherals from different brands get this cool feature in the near future!
This doesn’t work for me. I have a Razer Mouse and Keyboard and even the Razer Raptor and nothing shows for me.
Do you have the Chroma Connect module installed on Razer Synapse?
The article fails to mention that to make this work you need to have the Chroma Connect module installed on Razer Synapse, once I did that and restarted the program and game it worked for me.
The article fails to mention that to make this work you need to have the Chroma Connect module installed on Razer Synapse, once I did that and restarted the program and game it worked for me.
thank you for this I finally could do it.
I have the chroma connect module but it still won’t work. Do you know any other reason?
Does it work on logitech keyboards?
only razer the text says
It doesn’t work
This feature looks so awesome to me. I really wish I had a Razer set-up!
It randomly stopped working for me and not sure why… Anyone else experience this?
If you have ASUS Aura, you can get this working as well with ChromaControl, works great on my ASUS setup with Razer Synapse installed: https://github.com/ChromaControl/ChromaControl/releases/tag/msix-beta
I have Asus Tuf, will it still work with this download?
Yep – same RGB system.
Need Corsair K70 support please
I am very surprised that they don’t support the SteelSeries keyboards, considering it was SteelSeries that made the official Sims 4 Mouse and Plumbob. Is there some bad blood between the 2 companies perhaps?
Surprise to see my Logitech G19 keyboard works with dynamic TS4 lighting, despite it’s an old keyboard with no more support. If only the game also has G19 applet where I can see my Sims Needs on small screen.