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Sims 4 Mac patch to address April update issues

Published on April 14, 2020June 22, 2022 by BluebellFlora4 Comments

EA have today released a hotfix patch to address the issues created by last week’s patch.

Mac Patch: 1.62.69.1220

Players can once again launch The Sims 4 in their language preference when their choice is different from the Origin language options.
Downloaded Packs are now correctly moved to their new location. Origin will no longer insist on reinstalling the packs. This means players won’t end up with two copies.
A few stability improvements were made.

Importantly, if you applied any of the workarounds we posted at Answers HQ you do not have to reverse them, the game will do all the work for you 🙂

Sims 4 Packs not showing as downloaded in Origin since April 2020 patch

Published on April 10, 2020June 22, 2022 by BluebellFlora2 Comments

This isn’t really much of an issue as the packs are in fact downloaded and show up in the game but it is confusing some because Origin shows Download in the orange button instead of Play. The fix is super easy and requires creating a new folder in the Applications folder where the game is installed, and moving across a bunch of folders from the game app. Full instructions on how to do this are detailed in this thread at Answers HQ.

This is only relevant for users with an existing installation of the game. If you have installed the game since the 7 April patch you don’t need to worry about this as Origin has created the new folder for you.

Boxy shadows under Sim since 1.58 patch

Published on November 15, 2019October 2, 2020 by BluebellFlora16 Comments

Do you have these horrible shadows under your Sims since downloading the Discover University patch?

You can get rid of them in several ways like enabling laptop mode or disabling post processing effects. My preferred method is to edit the GraphicsRules.sgr file as it does not affect any other graphics settings. You will need to apply this fix after each patch update as the file will be replaced (or until EA fix the problem):

Follow these instructions to make copies of the graphics files and add them to your Sims 4 folder – https://bluebellflora.com/2020/09/03/what-is-the-configoverride-folder-editing-sims-4-graphics-files-the-easy-way/
Open the GraphicsRules.sgr file with TextEdit
Hold down CMD and F to bring up the search box and enter SSAO
There should be four results of SsaoEnabled that come up
Make sure the value next to it is false for each instance:
prop $ConfigGroup SsaoEnabled false
Close the file, it should automatically save

They should now be gone!