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im not knew to the sims i have played the sims since the start but i cant handle it anymore i have cerebal palsy and other disabilties chonic pain and c PTSD the sims is my escape and now my game is broke i have tried everything im so sad i have cried and im 46 years old they need to make it so updates can be optional it is not fair to simmers
Fix for Owned Packs Showing Up as Unowned in SIMS 4 Game Mode
I spent days and finally found a solution to this that EA or any other support forum will not tell you. If you use OneDrive you have to go to your One Drive Icon in the menu bar far right bottom corner, go to settings and make sure to go to "Manage Backup" and turn off "Documents" back up, otherwise when you play the game EA looks at your files in one drive and not the files that are on your "C:\Program FIles\EA Games\The Sims 4 folder. You first need to uninstall everything, your EA App and SIMS4 program file. Then go to EA and download the App and when you run all your packs will download again. Now that your OneDrive is turn off for Documents, everything will get redirected to your C drive and your Desktop Documents. I highly recommend do not turn back on OneDrive for backing up your documents or it will redirect everything again in there and when you run EA it will show your packs as unowned again. Hope this helps, I thought it was worth posting because its a deep dive fix that is not easy to figure out.I’m getting error whenever I’m in build mode
Hi, new player here 🥲 Since the last update I couldn’t decide if I should update or not. I’m currently using sims 4 in offline mode and I can make characters and I can’t seem to build anything! I’m trying to change the high school lot but it gives me error and I also can’t put any residential lots from gallery to my game either. Should I just update the game??? I’m afraid cause everyone seems to be saying their mod and cc doesn’t work and they had to delete. Idk what to do, please help!!
Partners turned into siblings
I had a lesbian couple in one of my households and after the update they were no longer married. Is EA trying to hint at their no longer supporting the LGBTQ community since their purchase by the Saudis? I had heard the game now was making married couples into siblings and you can't go in and change them back to romantic couples. That is pretty heavy handed on someone at EA.
How do I stop lessons from displaying on login?
I got Business and Hobbies and it keeps showing me lessons (I think that's what these pop ups are) when I log in. What they are about changes but they are all about B+H content: I have all tutorials and lessons disabled. How do I stop these messages when I start the game? No, removing mods doesn't help.
Random skin replacement: purple and flames design
One of my characters now has purple skin that becomes a flame detail near the arms. Hands and arms are yellow, orange, and red flames. It’s not a tattoo. It’s not custom content, that’s disabled. It doesn’t change in CAS. Sim doesn’t have an ailment or curse.
I can't play anymore after I turned the mods off
After the latest update (March 17, 2026), my game would not let me play at all. Every time I tried, I got an "error: failed to launch" message from the EA App. I clicked manage and repair so many times, but nothing worked, or if it did, it was only for a handful of minutes, not hours. When I finally did get into the game, the whole interface was shrunk. It's way too small for me to read pop-ups or menus, etc. I don't know how that happened. Also, I keep getting a pop-up saying one or more packs have been uninstalled, but I didn't uninstall anything. And, it has also slowed the speed of the game down significantly with lag. I switched mods off and tried to reload back into the game, thinking maybe that was the problem, but now I can't even play at all. The play button is grayed out for me, and I can't click repair or uninstall, only manage add-ons and view properties.
Sims napping instead of sleeping, even at night.
My sims will default to napping when they have low/no energy instead of sleeping. Some. yes, will use their assigned bed but will default to napping, even at night. I saw someone mention this 11 years ago, that they will nap during the day and sleep at night, yet it's still an issue? It's not just one household, but literally every sim. It's annoying having to constantly make sure they are being "realistic" in their energy levels and having to change them from napping to sleeping.
Sims can hug while in different rooms
Don’t be fooled when they said they fix some bugs. They didn’t, when my sims interacted by hugging they both stood in two different rooms and their arms extended to each other. But other then that my game is somewhat playable like if i ignore when my sims interact with hugging someone, I haven’t seen how it looks to kiss or physical affection someone but ea once again didn’t fix stuff that has been in the game before. [CM edit - descriptive title]
sims 4 cottage living why do verdant mushrooms turn to wild mushrooms?
I have specifically planted verdant mushrooms on my lot but when it comes to harvesting them the option is "harvest wild mushrooms" instead of "harvest verdant mushrooms". In the screenshot you can see the mushroom is labeled verdant mushrooms but when I click to harvest it says "harvest wild mushrooms" and in these screenshots you can see it is labeled verdant mushrooms as well but it says "harvest verdant mushrooms" When my sim harvested them they both show up as verdant mushrooms in his inventory, but I also have had them show up as wild mushrooms. What gives?Game loading forever
Ok, so yesterday there was a fix deployed and it fixed CC, the game went back to normal and worked just like before the update once again. Cool. Today, there is a new notification in my game advising me that the fix was deployed. Ok, ty, I'm aware since yesterday. So why, today, once I clear that notif and click 'Resume game' is it loading to infinity? I tried twice, both times got the same notif and dismissed it, and still my game simply won't load. What is it this time? Is anyone having the same problem?
Install File Location Auto-Changing
Is anyone else having a problem where the game isn’t loading because it’s pulling from the wrong location? I went into my settings in the EA app to manually change it but it never updates the link. I even tried copying the correct folder into the file path it’s pulling from and it creates a folder that doesn’t work :( because of this I haven’t even been able to play! I also tried uninstalling & repairing the game and nothing has worked so far. I noticed this happened after the recent update. Does anyone have any tips/advice/suggestions on how to fix this?"Content not installed" error in EA App
I am having a similar problem, except I don't have any CC or Mods. I've been trying to build a new save moving my older lots and sims into a brand new save -- and it was working perfectly up through the March 17 update. Then the March 18 one started causing issues on my Macbook laptop. When I try to download content I saved on March 17 it says I own everything when I open it in my library, but when I try to download Sims it says "Content Not Installed". It's worse with lots. They won't load at all. They just get stuck in a loop after that "Content Not Installed" message and I see a little red "System Error" message flash as it tries and fails to load a lot. I am beginning to suspect that it has to do with the Sims 4 Bonus Content which now says that it's available on PCs only? I have done everything to try to fix this, including a full uninstall, reinstall, but I'm still having issues. I asked AI and a solution it came up with was just going into an old save and resaving the lots after the March 18 update. So I tried that and the game crashed. This March 18 update may have fixed things for console users, but it has definitely messed things up for Macbook users.Can't Download Stuff from the Gallery.
Hello, I do own most of the packs and kits before this Marketplace showed up. Yesterday when I was downloading rooms from the gallery, I got this message: I did try it with one and only one or two items showed up. But, I should let you know that this happens to some of the stuff from the gallery and not all. I am wondering if the reason why I can't download some lots or rooms from the gallery is because some people already bought stuff from the Marketplace that are in the gallery, or that they do custom content that can't be downloaded. In the case of the one room that I did try to download. I don't think any of the missing items were ccs. I should also mention here, that I did try to look under bugs, but I don't know if I am not using the right key words, but I can't find the information for this issue. But, I did manage to download the rooms that can be downloaded from the gallery. But I am wondering if this is going to be fixed in the next update.
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