The Sims™ Legacy Collection News

The Sims™ 25th Birthday Celebration

[h2]The Sims 25th Birthday[/h2]

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[h2]25 Hour Live Stream[/h2]
Watch The Sims 25 Hour Livestream, featuring your favorite Simmers and other special guests! Join talented builders & storytellers on YouTube, Twitch and TikTok. Tune in February 4th, 2025 at 2pm PT / 5pm ET!

The Sims™ Legacy Patch Notes

Sul Sul, Simmers!

We hope you’ve been enjoying revisiting The Sims! It’s been super exciting seeing all the joy and enthusiasm from our community for this classic game. We’ve also been focused on the reports of technical issues that some players have had, and have been diligently working to address them. We wanted to say thank you to the community for sharing your detailed reports via the forum to help us improve these games.

- The Sims Legacy Team: – For the most current bug updates, please visit The Sims Franchise forums here.

[h2]Fixed Issues: [/h2]

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

[h2]General Notes: [/h2]

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:” 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.

While some issues may not be listed here, they may still be in the process of being addressed. Some topics can require an extended investigation on our end, so even though these fixes may be in active review, it’s not a guarantee that we’ll have an immediate fix for it in the upcoming patch.

Thank you for playing these games that are such a storied part of our history – starting 25 years ago! Please continue to share and report any issues on our forums, and join our official Discord community for tips, tricks, and news!

Dag dag,

The Sims Team

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3314060/The_Sims_Legacy_Collection/

The Sims Release Notes

Sul Sul Simmers!

We hope you’re in the mood to travel back to the year 2000 with us to celebrate the launch of The Sims! To celebrate with you, we’ve brought The Sims and all packs up to date to make it work more easily with Windows 10 and 11! Revisit your favorite packs or finally play that one you haven’t tried yet.

This release does a lot under the hood to make this 25 year-old game work on your new computer. We thought we’d also make it easier to see all those classic pixels on your monitor! To scale the game to make better use of the screen space available, try using the Alt + Enter key combination to cycle through the different scaling options.

The bulk of the work was to make the first The Sims game compatible with Windows 10/11 from the moment you install it. There are things that you’ll immediately see:

Game now supports the aspect ratio your monitor is set to (not restricted to 4:3)
- Different aspect ratios, such as 16:9, gives a wider view of the game
Crisper rendering and visual fidelity from changing how the game scales textures
Fixed several crashes
Improvements and fixes

When The Sims launches it will automatically use the aspect ratio of the main monitor. Unfortunately you can’t change the aspect ratio directly, but you can direct The Sims to launch on a second monitor with a different aspect ratio by using the -monitor:[num] command (“0” is the default monitor).

We hope you’ll enjoy returning to The Sims’ neighborhoods, Vacation Island, Downtown, Studio Town & Magic Town to spend time with all the classic Sims and Sims families as much as we did. Enjoy encountering Bella, Bonehilda, Chip, Miss Crumplebottom and the rest.

Dag dag!

https://forums.ea.com/blog/the-sims-game-info-hub-en/the-sims-25th-birthday-bundle-release-notes-for-the-sims-and-the-sims-2/11848630

The Sims and The Sims 2 officially return with a Legacy Collection for each

The rumours were true, EA have re-released the classics. The Sims Legacy Collection and The Sims 2 Legacy Collection are live on Steam now.

Read the full article here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/the-sims-and-the-sims-2-officially-return-with-a-legacy-collection-for-each/