The Sims Legacy has received an update. Patch 4, which was released 20.02.25, addresses the following in The Sims game:
Fixed Issues:
- General stability improvements
- Addressed video player issues
- Performance improvement with AMD GPUs
- On some systems, walls, floors and other items might not appear on screen
- The game could crash when zooming in/out of Calamity Forest
- Child Sims would sometimes show a “Missing Animation” error when interacting with mail
- On some computers set to 2k resolution, visual artifacts or tearing could be present on various game screens
- The blue panel on the bottom of the screen did not properly fill the horizontal space
- Tiles near pool edges sometimes displayed as empty and grey
- The Burglar appearing could crash the game
The Sims 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:<width>:<height>” (note that underbars ‘_’ can be used instead of colons). 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.
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
Patch update source: https://www.ea.com/games/the-sims/news/sims-legacy-and-the-sims-2-legacy-patch-notes-20-02
