The Sims 25th Birthday Bundle Release Notes for The Sims and The Sims 2

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!

The Sims 2 Release Notes 

Sul Sul Simmers!

Put down that grilled cheese sandwich and get ready for a trip down memory lane to 2004 with us! We’ve revived The Sims 2 and most of its packs to work easily with Windows 10 and 11! Please note that modern licensing restrictions have required the removal of 1 pack and some of the original songs, but we have included as many as possible.

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 enter and leave full-screen mode. Enjoy that glorious widescreen The Sims 2 view!

There are a few more updates as well to look out for:

• GraphicsRules.sgr now supports modern hardware configurations
• Fixed a shadow bug that surrounded Sims with a big black square
• Wide screen and higher game resolutions are now supported
• UI scales better to higher resolutions
• Texture memory corruption and “pink soup” are fixed
• Dragging The Sims 2 window from one monitor to another works more smoothly
• If your computer has a lot of RAM, The Sims 2 is able to use it
• Fixed several crashes
• Improvements and fixes

We hope you’ll enjoy returning to the Belladonna Cove, Desiderata Valley, Riverblossom Hills, Pleasant View, Strangetown, & Veronaville! Spend time with all the classic Sims and Sim families. The Goths, Greenmans, Smiths, Monty/Capps and more are ready to come back to your screen from 21 years ago.

Dag dag!