The Sims™ Legacy Patch Notes #3

Fixed Issues:

• A memory issue could lead to various unexpected behaviors after playing for a period of time (random crashes, sluggish performance, missing objects, etc)
  
• A memory management issue could lead to random crashes when traveling between worlds
  
• The game could fail to launch on Snapdragon based computers in some situations
  
• The movie player is temporarily disabled while we address a stability issue. We will provide an update when we are able to restore it. While it is disabled, you will no longer see the intro logo splash
  
• The Relationship panel would show only five relationships
  
• A memory management issue could cause random crashes when zooming in/out of Calamity Forrest and other dense lots
  
• Blue panels that appear when selecting various game elements (e.g. grabbing an object) would not scale to fill the horizontal space
  
• Tiles around pool edges would sometimes appear grey
  
• Importing Sims or Households was looking in the wrong path. Sims and households to be imported can now be placed in “C:\Users\\Saved Games\Electronic Arts\The Sims 25\UserData\Import”
  
• Improved error reporting
  
• On several hardware configurations, the game would display a “Unable to find a suitable Vulkan device” error (AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060, and others)
  
• Spraying roaches (and other bugs?) was more difficult than it should have been
  
• “Work” and “School” icons were missing from Sims portraits
  

General Notes:

• The game by default adopts the aspect ratio of the monitor it is run on. The aspect ratio can now be specified with the launch option “-maxaspect::”.
  Examples: -maxaspect: 16:9, -maxaspect: 4:3 or bespoke ones like -maxaspect: 16:10
  
  • Note that the option will only set the aspect of height to width. It will only restrict the maximum width - it can not increase it
    
  • In windowed mode the window will run at the aspect ratio; at fullscreen black bars will fill the unused space of the monitor
    
  • This will mostly be useful in situations where your monitor (virtual or real) is very wide, but you want the game to be a more traditional aspect ratio
    
  • Note that there are limitations on how extreme a ratio this will accept
    
• There are some hardware configurations that we are seeing a disproportionate number of errors on and are actively investigating. Systems based on Intel ARC GPUs, and NVIDIA T600 GPU laptops are being investigated
  
• Some players who have experienced problems with getting an error indicating a lack of Vulkan compatible devices have reported that in some cases removing "OpenCL™, OpenGL®, and Vulkan® Compatibility Pack" can resolve the issue
  
• We have received reports of “random flies” appearing. This is working as designed