Sims 1 Legacy - Bad UI scaling on 4K/high DPI screen

How do you manually change the resolution? I've tried entering commands for the "Advanced Launch Options" in the "View Properies" in the EA app. My native is 1980x 1080 and I tried switching to 1024×768 but the commands I've tried doesn't work properly.

Change the resolution and scale in your computers display settings, in settings

I think the "blurry scaling" is how it's supposed to work in the 2025 release. The scaling doesn't work in 1080p so the zooming doesn't work as intended (the game looks more zoomed out than it should be) and, while the UI is less blurry, the proportions are tiny and it's hard to read. I honestly think a mix between the crisp font/icons and the new proportions would be the perfect thing.

What's the best setting to make the UI larger in Sims 1 Legacy? Right now,mine is set at 1920 x 1080.

The "blurry pixelated big UI" is actually the correct one I believe. The one that you find correct is smaller than what the UI used to be in original The Sims. The "incorrect" one is what it used to be in the vanilla game.

I agree though that the UI is pixelated and messy looking. I don't reallly understand why EA didn't fix the buttons to show correctly on higher resolutions. Half of the buttons in the game have wrong background now so it looks jarring. I also hoped they'd upscale neighbourhood/expansion lots screens so they'd take entire screen space instead of having the black border around everything. It's honestly quite disappointing esp. since the guy behind FreeSO somehow managed to make The Sims Online UI work great on widescreen monitors AND improved graphics greatly while at it. It can be done, it just requires care from the developers.

Also I don't quite understand the reasoning behind using TS1 Complete Collection's rather ugly loading screen instead of the original one from the base game but I guess that's more of a taste question.

At the moment, the scaling just doesn't work at 1920x1080 so the UI is just tiny and the zoom too... I hope this gets fixed.

For me, the different look at 1080p seems more correct, and is the change I believe they made for the new release. If I fire up the original game on an older computer, it’d look a lot more like the “blurry version”.

However, I won’t claim to know for sure. The inconsistencies in how the new release presents the UI based on different screen sizes and resolutions, the Alt + Enter windowed views, etc, has caused quite a bit of confusion for everyone. I’d like EA to clarify specifically what changes they made, what is intended and what is not.

At least on a 27 in or larger screen, at 1080p the UI, text and buttons in the new release now seem an appropriate size to me, and the text is legible. At any other resolution, the UI size and scale feels like it reverts to something made for very small screens, which is then blown up on a large monitor like I’m looking at it through a magnifier.

That said, I do understand how the ‘smaller’ UI at 1080p would be difficult on screens physically smaller than 27 in, such as on laptops. On those screens the blown up UI would probably be better. I feel like this should have been an option you could set for your preference. This all sadly feels like it hasn’t been tested thoroughly enough before release.

I should also clarify that in this issue 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.

Users with a 1080p native display resolution (like me) aren't able to change the scaling of the UI (which by default is way too small @ 1080p). It's a bug, as users with higher native desktop resolutions are able to set -r launch parameters to scale to any res they wish. Doing this in 1080p does nothing. Please fix EA.

Users at higher resolutions can’t ‘scale’ just the UI - they can go to windowed mode and scale the whole window size smaller, but in full screen the UI is blown up and pixelated. Seems it’s not working well either way.