anyone else concerned about up coming skin tone update and game performance?

If I were you I would wait and see if there are any reports of significant performance changes once the patch drops.

Honestly I would always wait to hear about any problems or bugs that a patch brings before updating the game myself, especially if I'm not playing on a good pc.

Hard to say. The actual addition of more skins tone shouldn't cause you much issue but it does sound like the new textures are going to be at a higher resolution so that the end up looking cleaner. They said that player's with low end computer may need to turn off "uncompressed sim textures" or potentially experience a crash. Because of this low end players may not even be able to see the improvement to the skins even though they'll have access to all the new skins.

Now whether this update breaks the game as a whole that is also hard to say. Te update is not only adding new skins but is adding sliders to the skins and the makeup is being updated to have sliders as well. This mean that all skin and makeup cc will break. This could also potentially break sims that use cc skin or makeup. If I was a player using cc skin and makeup I would remove them from my game, fix all my sims, and wait for the update and for creators to update all their work.

I'm turning auto update off for the first time for this one because I know it'll break my CC skin and cause so many problems. I'll wait it out and see what happens before I take the risk.

I'l risk it. My game experiences very little bugs. I also delete all my cache files before an update and run a repair for every major update to ensure my game is safe.

I don't think it will impact performance that much, I have not noticed any slowdown when using cc skins which are more detailed than maxis skins but who knows...

I'm not going to download the update when it releases because the timing is pretty bad, it's too close to the holidays so both mod creators and the developers will be busy with other things in case things need to be patched or updated.

I have over 160 sims I have created, and I worry they will look different after the update. So I wish this was optional.

I don't want this update if all it's going to do is break the custom skin tones that I love having in my game. I prefer how my sims look with custom skin tones. The default skin tones are ugly and no amount of sliders will improve that.

"VentusMatt;c-17739727" wrote:
Hard to say. The actual addition of more skins tone shouldn't cause you much issue but it does sound like the new textures are going to be at a higher resolution so that the end up looking cleaner. They said that player's with low end computer may need to turn off "uncompressed sim textures" or potentially experience a crash. Because of this low end players may not even be able to see the improvement to the skins even though they'll have access to all the new skins.

Now whether this update breaks the game as a whole that is also hard to say. Te update is not only adding new skins but is adding sliders to the skins and the makeup is being updated to have sliders as well. This mean that all skin and makeup cc will break. This could also potentially break sims that use cc skin or makeup. If I was a player using cc skin and makeup I would remove them from my game, fix all my sims, and wait for the update and for creators to update all their work.

This is interesting to hear. So I can turn off uncompressed Sim textures and still play the game. In this case my computer should be able to handle the update.

As for custom content I think it will most likely break. Hopefully players will be able to update/fix their cc with sims 4 studio at some point. The frequent updates that can break cc and mods is the main reason why I limit my game to only a few essential mods.

"Atreya33;c-17739841" wrote:

"VentusMatt;c-17739727" wrote:
Hard to say. The actual addition of more skins tone shouldn't cause you much issue but it does sound like the new textures are going to be at a higher resolution so that the end up looking cleaner. They said that player's with low end computer may need to turn off "uncompressed sim textures" or potentially experience a crash. Because of this low end players may not even be able to see the improvement to the skins even though they'll have access to all the new skins.

Now whether this update breaks the game as a whole that is also hard to say. Te update is not only adding new skins but is adding sliders to the skins and the makeup is being updated to have sliders as well. This mean that all skin and makeup cc will break. This could also potentially break sims that use cc skin or makeup. If I was a player using cc skin and makeup I would remove them from my game, fix all my sims, and wait for the update and for creators to update all their work.

This is interesting to hear. So I can turn off uncompressed Sim textures and still play the game. In this case my computer should be able to handle the update.

As for custom content I think it will most likely break. Hopefully players will be able to update/fix their cc with sims 4 studio at some point. The frequent updates that can break cc and mods is the main reason why I limit my game to only a few essential mods.

I doubt CC skintones will "break". More likely this will be an add-on to base-game and patches rather than remove "old" stuff. If they did that, (remove the old skintones), then all the Sims in the game, whether pre-mades or ones you made (or random ones) would all have to be deleted and redone (or at least their skin colour redone individually in CAS).

My guess as to why this is such a HUGE project. It will be like a pack in itself. Adding a new custom way for skins on top of the one already in the game.

"Admiral8Q;c-17739858" wrote:

"Atreya33;c-17739841" wrote:

"VentusMatt;c-17739727" wrote:
Hard to say. The actual addition of more skins tone shouldn't cause you much issue but it does sound like the new textures are going to be at a higher resolution so that the end up looking cleaner. They said that player's with low end computer may need to turn off "uncompressed sim textures" or potentially experience a crash. Because of this low end players may not even be able to see the improvement to the skins even though they'll have access to all the new skins.

Now whether this update breaks the game as a whole that is also hard to say. Te update is not only adding new skins but is adding sliders to the skins and the makeup is being updated to have sliders as well. This mean that all skin and makeup cc will break. This could also potentially break sims that use cc skin or makeup. If I was a player using cc skin and makeup I would remove them from my game, fix all my sims, and wait for the update and for creators to update all their work.

This is interesting to hear. So I can turn off uncompressed Sim textures and still play the game. In this case my computer should be able to handle the update.

As for custom content I think it will most likely break. Hopefully players will be able to update/fix their cc with sims 4 studio at some point. The frequent updates that can break cc and mods is the main reason why I limit my game to only a few essential mods.

I doubt CC skintones will "break". More likely this will be an add-on to base-game and patches rather than remove "old" stuff. If they did that, (remove the old skintones), then all the Sims in the game, whether pre-mades or ones you made (or random ones) would all have to be deleted and redone (or at least their skin colour redone individually in CAS).

My guess as to why this is such a HUGE project. It will be like a pack in itself. Adding a new custom way for skins on top of the one already in the game.

Considering that adding stacking windows broke custom windows, and adding upgradable beds broke custom beds, I'd say that custom skins and makeup breaking is more likely than not. I don't know all the specifics, but there will be changes to the database, and custom skins and makeup won't have those fields, whereas for existing in-game skins and makeup they can add a "default" entry as part of the update.