UPDATE: in 11 days, the initiative has reached nearly 70% of its goal 🥳
while simmers on twitter, youtube & twitch are already familiar with this initiative started by @lilsimsie, the tumblr community is just now getting to know it. I chose to tag you because of your successful posts over the last year, and I really hope you'll help make this initiative a success & will decide to boost this post!
As someone who knows alot about piracy please Pirate the sims 1 and 2 because the new rerelease has denuvo tacked onto it and that mf will kill your computers and drain your wifi
let me explain what denuvo is
in short its "anti cheat" code thats only purpose is to complicate the game code so badly that it makes it near impossible for pirates to reverse engineere the game and pirate it, ofc this is not true and Pirates can crack many versions of denuvo it just takes time
so essentially it does nothing but ruin your computer
how?
This extra slop code is integrated into the code of the game so it runs every single time you launch the game and on top of the code slop that games are made of that make your compute heat up and use up ram denuvo code is running ON TOP, using more ram AND internet, forcing offline games to go fully online When the games previously didnt need an internet connection at all.
It has been proven so many times that it cause issues from longer load times to frame rate drops, denuvo's code slows everything down and almost always performance improves by like 50% after denuvo is removed by developers.
There are games that were completely unplayable like they wouldn't even launch because of denuvo, and the company claims this is not their fault and that people should upgrade their computers so this wont happen.. yeah right
Essentially with the reveal that EA didn't fix anything about the sims 1 and 2 and just released them as is but with denuvo attached they literally sold you code to keep you Connected to their servers and force you to not be able to share anything with anyone and forcing the games to preform 50 times worse than their 25 year old selves...
So please dont buy a program that will kill your computers and ruin your games and allow EA to be permanently Connected on your computer thats posing as the sims 1 and 2!!!!
Please please just pirate these 2 games!
Also even though sims 4 is free also Pirate that shit its not worth paying over 1k dollars in dlcs when hslf od them do not work
PIRATE EA GAMES PEOPLE its literally the better choice for your poor computers
Just wanted to add onto this as someone who actually did cough up the money for the MySims Cozy Bundle for Switch out of nostalgia/love for that series - EA cannot be handled to rerelease games. The MySims bundle is a buggy, unoptimized, and untweaked mess that had the opportunity to do literally hundreds of QoL changes and refused to do any while at the same time being an incredibly poorly-adapted port for the Switch's controls. It was actually painful to try and play.
EA already released Sims 2 for free in 2014, and you can still get the entire game for free on certain sites like OGD. Do not fucking bother with these rereleases.
mutt's guide to using dsr on ts4, with pictures!!!
ok so, dsr is a thing available for nvidia gpus that allows you to take veeery high resolution screenshots of games without much trouble, like this
it's an alternative to srwe, as it plays nicer with a lot of reshade shaders and is just, generally more nice to use! let me teach you how to use it - full tutorial with pictures for every step under the cut (im sorry its too long without the cut)
step 1: right click your desktop and open the nvidia control panel
step 2: go here (adjust desktop size and position)
step 3: make sure your settings are set as follows! this is important
step 4: now, go here (change resolution)
step 5: under change resolution, click on this button (highlighted with a red square)
step 6: in the windows that appears, make sure that "enable resolutions not exposed by display" is ticked! this is very important! (again, highlighted in red - it should look like this)
step 7: now, click on "create custom resolution"
step 8: this is where you set your desired resolution, and where i get a bit rambly; so, in my opinion, there is ZERO reason to go above normal 4K for TS4, as it's generally not a really high-poly game and it has rather simple graphics. you can fuck around a lot here, but if you don't feel like it, here are my settings - this will give you 4K screenshots. NOTE: THE REFRESH RATE DOESN'T NEED TO BE 75! SET IT TO WHATEVER THE REFRESH RATE OF YOUR MONITOR IS!
step 9: now, click on test
step 10: let the thing load, and after it's done, a window like this should pop up.. but yknow, in your language. click on "yes" (or accept or ok!! idk mine's in russian; basically, the button highlighted here!)
step 11: click "ok" in the window that pops up! like this! afterwards, close the nvidia panel
step 12: open the sims 4 and go into game options, then into graphics
step 13: set your "display type" as "fullscreen", like this
step 14: under "resolution", select whatever resolution you setup earlier; in my case it's 4K, so if you used the same resolution, your settings should look like this
step 15: click on apply changes!
AND UR DONEE!! WAHOOIEE!! now, take your screenshot using reshade, and then go back into sims settings and set it back to what you usually play at, then apply changes!
every time you need to take an HD screenshot, simply open game settings and use your custom resolution! that's it, have fun :3
Mesh 100% by me, please don’t include in your recolors!
Ombre overlay addon & Bicolor overlay addon (found under earrings - still can combine with earrings)
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Hi I hope you will like this hair, it's a long straight emo haircut with volume around the head, perfect for sims who are looking for a haircut inspired by emo trends from the 2000's-2010's.
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depressed i lost this really cool eyeliner when i restarted my mod folder, it's similar to the set black fluid but its not black fluid ;-; i can't find it for shit ugh (it has a few different variations not just the one)
