Everyone was overjoyed when EA announced proper re-releases of The Sims and The Sims 2 with all their DLC for the franchise’s 25th anniversary. Hugely popular and eminently replayable, fans jumped at the chance to go back to genuine classics and ‘rosebud’ their way to a dream mansion full of digital people they can lightly puppet. Sadly, there were niggling issues, but a new patch has rectified manyof them.
In terms of classic PC games, they don’t come much more iconic or widely popular than The Sims. Since the first came out in 2000, the simulation games have reached millions of players, many of whom wouldn’t necessarily count themselves as videogames fans otherwise. Such is the power of building your own house and filling it full of random people you can gently torture and/or guide through life.
The first two installments remain among the most highly regarded in the series. Since they came out so long ago, though, getting the relaxing games to work on modern hardware could be tricky, until EA released contemporary ports to celebrate the first turning 25. Alas, the legacy collections had some problems, but some swift updates are chopping down the barriers to entry.
In the first game, bugs caused from pressing alt+enter or alt+enter have been rectified. A crash wherein The Sims would simply fail to launch has been minimized, though a graphical problem may still occur, and some tracing issues on the travel screen have been sorted. An issue preventing you from clicking on some parts of the map, or saving away from your normal neighborhood, has been rectified as well.
For The Sims 2, a failure to launch from an EA App warning that certain necessary files are corrupt has been sorted out, as well a crash after crating a family or hitting alt+tab or alt+enter. Another, definitely frustrating problem is that it’d start in 800×600 scaled to your full monitor, which has been solved. Disappearing sims have been rectified as well, so you can call off the search parties.
Some general workarounds are suggested for other problems, including based around your personal settings, that you can find in the full patch notes. As you can see, the transition has not been smooth, but steps are being taken to make sure everyone gets to the enjoy The Sims a quarter-century since they first arrived.
And if all else fails, don’t forget The Sims 4 is now a free game. We have lists of all The Sims 1 cheats and all The Sims 2 cheats for you to unlock every inch of the experience while you’re at it.
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