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Sylmos
New Vanguard
3 years ago

Sims 4: repair changes language; missing text strings

I noticed that the Uploaded Videos and Screenshots folders in the Documents are in a foreign language. I decided to fix the game using the EA app. After the repair, my game changed the language from ...
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Hikari38
3 years ago

What he did was find the Windows Registry Editor (typed "regedit" in the system search bar) and then found the tab HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Maxis\The Sims 4. Then he found a file under the name of "Locale". Right clicked it, chose the option to "Modify...". A window popped up and there he found the "value data" section, where he typed en_US and the game language changed back to English, without having to reinstall the entire game.

I bought the base game as a physical copy and I believe I used the "traditional" way till everything moved to digital copies only. Then I would purchase the following DLC via Origin. Growing Together is the first EP I bought via EA App, since I was forced to migrate.

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crinrict
Hero+
3 years ago
@Hikari38 Interesting that this worked. I've tried changing the language with the registry and have failed so far but maybe cause yours was an odd language change, it was possible this way.

Thanks for checking back.

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