Sul Sul, Simmers!
We hope you’ve been having a great time celebrating all of the Birthday festivities! We’re plugging away at reports of technical issues that some players have encountered in The Sims 2. Thank you for your support and continued reporting efforts via the official EA Forums, it really helps us identify and resolve issues.
- The Sims Team
For the most current bug updates, please visit The Sims Franchise forums here.
February 4, 2025 patch notes are viewable here.
Fixed Issues:
- Addressed some situations related to the error “Some needed files were corrupted during the installation”
- Addressed some situations where the game could terminate with a pop-up message when creating a family or when entering a pre-made lot
- The game could get stuck on the color swap tool
- The Sims’ voices could be of low quality
- The Sims’ voices could be very quiet
- The custom skin window couldn’t be closed in some cases
- The “Graphics Rules.sgr” file was missing a rule that could cause “D3D” error messages
- During the Alien Abduction cutscene, sometimes audio could drop out and a Sim could reset
- Sims could be unable to eat cooked food
- The game could sometimes present a loading screen that could not progress
- Sims could sometimes disappear
General notes:
- In some cases, issues that have been addressed might have corrupted game saves before they were addressed (e.g. when Sims could disappear). In these cases you should try starting with a fresh save as the game won’t be able to correct the corruption, and working with corrupted saves can lead to unexpected behavior.
- While the Alien Abduction scene now works, the scene is still missing the alien baby. We’re working on that. In the meanwhile you will have the alien baby in the game once the scene is done.
- Some players have tried using Windows shortcut keys to move the full-screen game to another monitor. When in full screen mode the game should not be moved to another monitor or this may cause issues.
While some issues may not be listed here, they may still be in the process of being addressed. Some topics can require an extended investigation on our end, so even though these fixes may be in active review, it’s not a guarantee that we’ll have an immediate fix for it in the upcoming patch.
Please continue to share and report any issues on our forums, and join our official Discord community for tips, tricks, and news!
Dag dag,
The Sims Team