Feb 4 2020
The 20th anniversary PC/Mac patch is a real let-down. We’re getting: 4 pieces of music, a hot tub (for everyone), 2 Bug fixes and some crashing fixes .. that’s it, that’s the patch. It does make me wonder why we have a patch at all – On the bright side, I think 99% of all […]
Feb 2 2020
Problem My Sim gets invited by another Sim but instead of traveling to the lot, I’m booted back to the map or the game crashes I try to travel to a different lot but instead of the lot showing, I’m booted back to the map or the game crashes. I don’t get any error messages […]
Jan 21 2020
Problem I clicked on all the new things and they are not being shown as new anymore but as soon as I change to a different category and back, the highlights are also back. Cause Probably a corruption of the file ReticulatedSplinesView. Solution Delete the following file: Documents\Electronic Arts\TheSims 4\ReticulatedSplinesView. Start the game to recreate the […]
Jan 21 2020
Problem Since Patch 1.60.54 there’s a new highlight in Bodies and Skins that doesn’t go away although there’s no new skin color Cause There’s probably a wrong value in the ReticulatedSplinesView for bodies and skin tones. Solution The highlight can be removed manually as described here: Manually removing New Highlights AHQ Thread on the Issue Highlighting […]
Jan 21 2020
Introduction Sims 4 is marking new things that come with a pack with a highlight and moves them to the top of the list so that the player immediately sees what’s new. Most of the time, it’s easy to get rid of those by clicking through the categories but there are reasons when it’s easier […]
Jan 16 2020
Today’s patch is in preparation for the Tiny Living Stuff Pack that will be available on Jan 21 2020 on PC/Mac. Because of this, there’s only a tiny amount of bug fixes (although we had less in the past). Both the Shower never ending issue as well as the Game Speed Ups have been fixed. The […]
Dec 13 2019
Update This bug was fixed in Patch 1.60.54 Problem My game suddenly speeds up to speed 3 or ultra speed. Pausing the game doesn’t work anymore either. Cause This bug is caused by the maid coming when one or more Sims are off-lot Solution Fire the maid and make sure (s)he leaves the lot. Just canceling […]
Dec 13 2019
Update This bug was fixed in Patch 1.60.54 Problem My Sim showers and showers but the hygiene bar never budges. Cause The mud bath fix from Patch 1.59.73 seems to have turned Shower/Tub combos into tubs and taking a shower is now not working properly anymore. Solution Replace your Shower/Tub combos with a shower or take […]
Dec 12 2019
Today we get another big patch with a bit of new stuff and tons of bug fixes. Whims are unfortunately still not fixed but on the other hand they fixed the freelancer tasks and odd jobs not getting checked, the big issue with the missing harvestables, the broken spellcaster’s eyes as well as the issue […]
Feb 21 2020
Gallery Newsfeed stays empty
Problem There are no entries in my gallery newsfeed when I choose the tab News in the gallery. The List stays empty. I also get a LastUIException. Cause Unclear, probably some kind of caching error. Solution Close the game Navigate to your windows documents folder (Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 4) Delete the following file: notify.glob The […]
By crin • Technical Issue • • Tags: Gallery