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Sims 1 Legacy Crashing
Just bought the birthday bundle to get both the original Sims and Sims 2. I started playing the original Sims and only got maybe an hour in before the game crashed. Booted it up again and had the same issue. My computer is on Windows 11. The first time it crashed while I was creating a family. The second time was while I was in buy mode.
Running Sims 1 & 2 Legacy Editions on Mac M1/M2: Issues and Solutions
Hi everyone, I’ve been testing out the new Sims 1 and Sims 2 Legacy Editions on my M1 MacBook Pro (2021) and wanted to share my experience. These games are designed for Windows 10/11, but running them on a Mac comes with challenges due to the ARM architecture. Here’s what I’ve tried: What Didn’t Work: Parallels Desktop (Windows 11): Sims 1: The game wouldn’t launch at all. Sims 2: Showed a DirectX 9 error: "Failed to find any DirectX 9.0c compatible graphics adapters." Despite adjusting Parallels settings (e.g., allocating 4–6 CPU cores, 8 GB RAM, and enabling DirectX), the VM didn’t emulate the required DirectX features correctly. Running dxdiag revealed that Direct3D Acceleration was disabled, and DirectX 12 Ultimate was marked as unavailable. Parallels Desktop (Windows 10): Couldn’t test this because Microsoft no longer supports Windows 10 ARM, and Parallels doesn’t allow it to be installed on M1/M2 Macs. Other Tools: I haven't tried any other tools, as honestly, I was antsy to play. Once I found Shadow PC, I decided to try it. What Worked: Shadow PC: A cloud-based x86 Windows PC solved all compatibility issues. Full DirectX 9 support, high-end GPU (equivalent to RTX 3070), and native Windows gaming. Both Sims 1 and Sims 2 ran smoothly without errors or tweaks. Next Steps: I plan to keep an eye on EA release notes and updates to see if future patches improve compatibility with virtualization tools like Parallels or Wine/Crossover. I'll update on this discussion as I find out anything new.
Is there anywhere I can get sims 1 ?!?
I love the sims games, and i'm working on collecting them all. I've never ever played sims 1, but I want so badly to play it. Is there somewhere online I can download the game with all packs ? Who actually works on windows 10 computers (my msi laptop has the newest update). My laptop don't have a cd room, and the cd's in general basically don't exist in norway :( So i'm really hoping someone knows somewhere I can get the game to complete my collection and finally try this game?
The Sims 1 Setup won't even start!?
Hi, So I recently got a new PC with Windows 8 on it, and now I wanted to install the Sims 1. It worked on my Windows 7 computer, and when my brother installed it on his Windows 8 PC it worked absolutely fine! My PC however, doesn't even want to start the Setup!!! I click on setup, nothing happens. I try to fix compadability issues with it, nothing happens, I try to run it in Administrator mode; nothing happens. I don't know what to do, it's just the regular Sims 1 CD (No deluxe or so), and I really want to get this game to work! Please help!
Sims 1 Complete Collection Issues
I downloaded the game, but not any patches.. so that is probably the culprit. Since the website for this game has long been defunct, any idea as to where I would find them? Anyway, this is what happens. I make a family, move them in, and then all the loading begins (such as townies) because I am starting a new game. Then once I get to the lot, I click through all the start up messages and accept the help hints. Then I realize I am stuck in build mode, no ability to go into live and that my sim family is not there. I exit and go to saved sims, to find all sims I created completely vanished. I try again and it loads everything up like townies, the start pop-ups, and help screen all over again as though I had never played before. The same issue as before, stuck in build mode and sims vanished. Then I try a premade family and it seems to be working fine, only for me to get a glitch upon trying to save the game.... "There was an error encountered trying to save this house." I am using Windows 10. Please help, because it will make playing this a bit frustrating.
Sims 1 Legacy - Bad UI scaling on 4K/high DPI screen
I have a 3840x2160 (4K) screen. When I launch Sims 1 Legacy Collection (Windows 11, Steam) the UI is oversized and pixelated, as if it were set to 800x600. Only when I manually set Windows to 1920x1080 resolution does the Legacy Collection's updated UI scaling take effect, where text is not pixelated, is much more readable, and the UI takes up less screen space. EA documentation says the release contains "updates for more versatile pixel resolution scaling on large monitors". It seems to only be working for 1920x1080, no larger. [It's scaling for large monitors but has been implemented in a way that is uncomfortable to view.] I am in no way expecting a 25 year old game to be pixel perfect native 4K, but it seems to be a bug that unless the screen resolution is set to exactly 1920x1080, the UI is scaled back up and difficult to view on high DPI screens. For a 2025 release I have freshly paid for, I should not have to manually set and unset my screen resolution in Windows to view it properly. See examples below. Here it doesn't seem like much difference but view them full screen on a 4K monitor to see what I'm talking about. EDIT: To clarify, I’m not talking about the Alt + Enter “scaling” which toggles through windowed view sizes. I’m talking specifically about the size of the UI itself in the game window, viewed in full screen, which greatly varies between 1080p and other resolutions. EDIT 2: The UI size itself isn't necessarily as much of the issue, but more that it's blurry, glitchy and uncomfortable to view and read in 4K. 'Oversized' was a subjective way for me to describe it, but it appeared that way to me on a large monitor due to how pixelated it looked in comparison to the smaller UI in 1080p (which has its own issues as described here, here and elsewhere). Windows natively to 3840x2160 scale Bad - oversized UI, blurry text, pixelated object sprites Windows manually set to 1920x1080 Good - UI as optimised for new release, legible text, better pixel scaling for sprites. But I had to manually set this before launching the gameSims Legacy Collection won’t open
As the title says the Sims Legacy Collection just refuses to open, I press play and it looks like it’s loading and preparing to launch the game but then just reopens the ea app. My computer meets all of the requirements and why trying to find the vulkaninfo.exe application that they need for the supposed solution, I can’t find it. It says there is no application like that on my computer in the System32 folder. I really don’t want to have to refund the game and was looking so forward to playing it after so many years.
