In celebration of The Sims’ 25th birthday, the team has rolled out a range of exciting updates, content, patches, and reveals throughout February. This includes The Sims 25th Birthday Bundle, which gives players the chance to revisit The Sims 1 and The Sims 2 and relive how everything started.
However, since the release of this bundle, players have encountered several ongoing bugs and issues with both games. To address this, the team has released a new patch for The Sims 1 and The Sims 2, helping players enjoy the experience with fewer problems.
The February 6 Patch addresses many errors that players have found frustrating during their Sims 1 and Sims 2 adventures. This includes issues such as random crashes, poor performance, launch errors, audio problems, and frozen loading screens, among others.
Take a full look at the complete The Sims 1 & The Sims 2 Patch 2 details below, as indicated in the official EA update:
The Sims Patch Notes – February 6, 2025
Fixed Issues:
- A memory issue could lead to various unexpected behaviors after playing for a period of time (random crashes, sluggish performance, missing objects, etc)
- The mood level arrows and mood bars had visual artifacts in some cases
- The mouse scroll wheel could take a lot of clicks to zoom
- Some players were encountering a “Vulkan device” error at launch
The Sims General Notes:
We are investigating an issue where traveling between worlds can result in crashes in some situations
There are some hardware configurations that we are seeing a disproportionate number of errors on and are actively investigating. Systems based on Intel ARC GPUs, Snapdragon laptops with Qualcomm Adreno X1-85 GPU, NVIDIA T600 GPU laptops are being investigated
Users that have experienced problems with getting an error indicating a lack of Vulkan compatible devices have reported that in some cases removing “OpenCL™, OpenGL®, and Vulkan® Compatibility Pack” can resolve the issue.
When you want to import Sims or Houses, the game could look in the wrong directory to find them. You can now work around this by placing them in “Program Files/Maxis/The Sims/UserData/Import”
The Sims 2 Patch Notes – February 6, 2025
Fixed Issues:
- Addressed some situations related to the error “Some needed files were corrupted during the installation”
- Addressed some situations where the game could terminate with a pop-up message when creating a family or when entering a pre-made lot
- The game could get stuck on the color swap tool
- The Sims’ voices could be of low quality
- The Sims’ voices could be very quiet
- The custom skin window couldn’t be closed in some cases
- The “Graphics Rules.sgr” file was missing a rule that could cause “D3D” error messages
- During the Alien Abduction cutscene, sometimes audio could drop out and a Sim could reset
- Sims could be unable to eat cooked food
- The game could sometimes present a loading screen that could not progress
- Sims could sometimes disappear
The Sims 2 General notes:
Some players have tried using Windows shortcut keys to move the full-screen game to another monitor. When in full screen mode the game should not be moved to another monitor or this may cause issues.
In some cases, issues that have been addressed might have corrupted game saves before they were addressed (e.g. when Sims could disappear). In these cases you should try starting with a fresh save as the game won’t be able to correct the corruption, and working with corrupted saves can lead to unexpected behavior.
While the Alien Abduction scene now works, the scene is still missing the alien baby. We’re working on that. In the meanwhile you will have the alien baby in the game once the scene is done.
Keep an eye out for more updates on all things The Sims, and be sure to check out the site to stay informed about the latest news and announcements.
