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ShioriHaru
4 years ago
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Sims 4 skintones and makeup weird changes after first time updating since 2019

Hello! I was playing The Sims 4 in offline mode for several years, since the updates were getting really annoying, and also critically affected my sims or gameplay which was really hard to accept....
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  • puzzlezaddict's avatar
    puzzlezaddict
    4 years ago

    @ShioriHaru  This method is safe insofar as it won't corrupt the sims themselves.  However, I believe taking sims into CAS can mark them as played.  This is fine for residents—just mark them as unplayed again if you want—but it may result in special NPC sims losing their assignments.  You'd need a mod to get around this, I think by manually giving them back their assignments.

    If you want to edit special NPCs and would like help finding or using a mod to make them retain their assignments, let me know, and I'll ask someone who's actually done this to post.

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puzzlezaddict
Hero+
4 years ago

@ShioriHaru  The makeup may be a game issue, perhaps the result of the update that introduced a number of makeup sliders a while back.  You should be able to turn down the opacity of the blush.

The fact that the skintones look the same in screenshots strongly suggests that their appearance is not a game issue but rather a software issue on your side or on the driver/OS side.  It's certainly possible that something about the game changed under the hood, and Windows 10 handles it differently than 8.1, but the sims aren't supposed to look different, and as far as I can remember, there haven't been any similar complaints to yours from players who didn't use custom content.

There's nothing obvious in your dxdiag that would explain the issue, although it's possible your Asus software is having some effect.  You could try playing in a clean boot to see whether it helps; you may need to manually disable some Asus/Armoury processes in the Task Manager as well.

https://www.windowscentral.com/how-clean-boot-windows-10

If that doesn't help, try playing around with the Nvidia Control Panel settings.  Here's a good explanation of what the settings do:

https://www.nvidia.com/content/Control-Panel-Help/vLatest/en-us/mergedProjects/nv3d/Manage_3D_Settings_(reference).htm

There's no harm in experimenting a bit to see what you can get.

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ShioriHaru
4 years ago

Okay, using the cas.fulledit i was able to restore the skin and makeup color/transparency.
All fine and dandy with the family sims, but how safe is this method done on sims not in world, worker sims, neighbours? because literally every sim in my game has the issue

  • puzzlezaddict's avatar
    puzzlezaddict
    Hero+
    4 years ago

    @ShioriHaru  This method is safe insofar as it won't corrupt the sims themselves.  However, I believe taking sims into CAS can mark them as played.  This is fine for residents—just mark them as unplayed again if you want—but it may result in special NPC sims losing their assignments.  You'd need a mod to get around this, I think by manually giving them back their assignments.

    If you want to edit special NPCs and would like help finding or using a mod to make them retain their assignments, let me know, and I'll ask someone who's actually done this to post.

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