As excited as Simmers were to see the legacy re-release of The Sims and The Sims 2, the launch wasn’t quite a roaring success. Many players encountered crashes, glitches, and more, that led many to feel disappointed about the amount of money they spent on the games. Thankfully, EA quickly released a statement that they would be putting out a patch to help with some of these problems. Just a few days later, we have the first patch for The Sims Legacy Collection and The Sims 2 Legacy Collection. Like the games themselves came in a bundle, the patch notes for both legacy collections are combined.
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These aren’t your average patch notes, however. In addition to a list of bugs that the Legacy Collection team has fixed, EA offers some notes and tips for players to resolve some of the issues themselves. This “General Notes” section adds commentary for some of the commonly reported errors, offering updates on whether the Sims Legacy team is looking into it or if there are changes on the players’ end that could help.
Given the number of complaints that many nostalgia-seeking Simmers have put out, this won’t be the only patch required for these Sims Legacy Collection games to run smoothly. As noted in the Patch Notes, many issues that have been reported are still in the process of being investigated or resolved. However, an initial fix so soon after the release is a promising start as The Sims continues to celebrate its 25th birthday.
The Sims Legacy Collection & The Sims 2 Legacy Collection February 4 Patch Notes
For a full look at which fixes this first patch offers for the Sims re-releases, as well as some notes from the team, see the full The Sims and The Sims 2 patch notes from EA below.
The Sims
Fixed Issues
- Alt+Tab or Alt+Enter can sometimes cause a crash
- Alt+Enter can sometimes cause the Windows title bar to be hidden
- Alt+Enter can sometimes not toggle between full screen and windowed modes
- On some systems, The Sims can appear to launch and then immediately exit (no splash screen displayed)
- The Sims should now launch in most situations
- In some cases where there is an underlying graphics issue, The Sims will display a message
- Some players are unable to click on various parts of the neighborhood map
- The travel screen, when traveling between neighborhoods/worlds, can sometimes appear garbled or glitched
- The Sims might crash if you are not on the default neighborhood, interact with another Sim, and then save
- When using Alt+Enter to cycle window and zoom sizes, the HUD could be clipped. At this zoom level, The Sims will now instead clip from the top of the screen.
- In some situations in windowed mode the title bar might not be visible
- The Family friends counter could sometimes not be visible
The Sims General Notes
- Several players have had problems (e.g. walls, floors, objects not showing up; game not launching; other oddities) that are addressed by updating graphics drivers to the latest versions. Please make sure your drivers are up to date.
- The Sims game window is of a fixed size that can’t have its basic properties changed after it has launched. Moving the window from a monitor to another with a different, lesser resolution can lead to unexpected results, possibly even crashes. If you want to run The Sims on that second monitor please use the option “-monitor:<num>” to force it to launch on the other monitor. “0” is your primary monitor, a second monitor is “1” and so on. We are investigating adding this as a menu option in the future.
- In some situations, players have noted that music only plays in Live mode. Please check your computer sound options and make sure that everything is properly configured (e.g. on a 5.1 surround system make sure that your center speaker is functioning).
- You might be prompted to “Enable the help system” every time you return to a house. This is the game trying to have you complete the tutorial. This will continue to happen until you complete the tutorial.
The Sims 2
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Fixed Issues
- Alt-Tab or Alt+Enter can sometimes cause a crash
- Some players on EA App received an error message indicating that certain needed files were corrupt
- The game would sometimes crash after creating a family
- The game sometimes launched at a small resolution (800×600) and then scaled that small format to fill the entire monitor
- In certain situations the game will launch and then immediately show a “DirectX” error, requiring use of the “-w” option to work around the problem
- Sometimes a Sim (or multiple Sims) would disappear after the player moves to another lot or neighborhood, or after leaving and rejoining the game despite saving
- Sometimes non-adult Sims (children, pets) would disappear
- Some interactions that result in a transferable reward (e.g. a dog returns from work) can cause the game to crash
- Addressed some infinite loading screen issues
The Sims 2 General Notes
- Several players have had problems that are addressed by updating graphics drivers to the latest versions. Please make sure your drivers are up to date.
- Remember that the “boolProp testingCheatsEnabled” cheat will cause the game to periodically show various dialogue boxes with debugging information in them. The cheat is working as expected.
- We are investigating an issue where during certain cinematic events (such as Alien Abduction), the Sim can be reset and the event fails. While we are investigating this, you can work around the issue by making certain there are no other Sims on the lot to observe the event.
