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9 years ago

Package Version Question

Hey all!

A common point of failure for Sims 4 users seems to be attempting to run with Sim 2 or Sims 3 mods.

Running with Sims 2 mods will result in a cryptic “required game data is missing” error. We can definitely improve that error message which hopefully will eliminate some noise.

But Sims 3 mods are a little more tricky because Sims 4 currently does not even recognize these mods as coming from Sims 3. It will try to load the mod and usually crash. The reason for this is because we bumped the version of the .package format to 2.1 (Sims 3 was 2.0), but didn’t change the runtime to reject 2.0 packages (oops).

I would like to change the engine to reject 2.0 packages. But since this is a significant change in behavior I wanted to pose this question to the group: Do you know of any Sims 4 modding tools that currently or ever created .package files with version 2.0?

I have not been able to find any Sims 4 mods using version 2.0 packages, but have only tested a relatively limited amount of content.

Thanks,
SGMS

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