The Sims and The Sims 2 Legacy Editions get a much needed update

Fans of the original Sims and The Sims 2 have been treated by EA to a rerelease of the classic games this month, with the Legacy Collect🌸ion coming out for all PC users. You’re able to jump into these classic titles and enjoy the first two entries in this legendary series, however, since release players have been experiencing crashes and glitches galore.

If you’ve been experiencing any of these issues, EA has come to the rescue with the latest update and released for the games on February 12, 2025. These include memory fixes to The Sims that led to random crashes and laggy gameplay, and fixing the “D3D” error that would crash The Sims 2.

EA releases the 3^rd patch for The Sims and The Sims 2 Legacy Editions

Among the fixes to the bugs causing crashes repeatedly, improved error reporting has been added to both games as well. The Sims got quite a few more fixes than The Sims 2, not only fixing the memory issues�� bu🎃t also missing textures such as pool tiles appearing gray and the Work and School icons not appearing on Sim’s portraits.

The Sims also will nowꩵ adopt the aspect ratio of w💝hatever monitor it’s currently being run on. The game previously would not properly scale to different aspect ratios, causing odd visuals and not being able to zoom in properly.

The Sims also now shouldn’t have an issue launching on Snapdragon-based comp🐎uters, which previously could cause the✨ game to be unplayable.

There are still other bugs that the team is aware of that they are working to address, notably a significantly larger number of errors on Inter ARC GPUs and NVIDIA T600 GPUs on The Sims. While this patch doesn’t fix this, it does reassure fans that they are looking into🐽 these issues and can expect 💮a fix soon.

Since release, a fa🥃ir amount of crashes and bugs have been plaguing players of the Legacy Editions. While this patch doesn’t address every single problem, it’s nice to see that the team at EA is at least trying to keep the games playable instead of simply releasing them and vanishing, which some fans expected them to do.