Bugs Galore?!! Sims 2: New Bugs, Old Bugs, MODS.
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
- Hey everyone! Welcome to another video where I am going to talking to you all about Sims 2 BUGS. Game breaking bugs, non-game-breaking-but-annoying bugs, and NEW BUGS that have appeared with the new Legacy Collection version of Sims 2. I have seen so much misinformation flooding the internet about just how buggy The Sims 2 is, so here's a deep dive into known bugs (and the fixes for them) and my PROMISE to you new Sims 2 players, that EA has broken this game waaaay more than it ever was before.
I also have a curated "essential" mod list for you all that was made in consultation with some amazing Sims 2 modders, to help combat the old bugs that players new and old alike may encounter. Thank you to everyone who contributed to that! I will be doing more videos in the future about other mods that I use and love; these are just to get you started!
MOD LIST HERE: docs.google.co...
OR HERE (MTS): modthesims.inf...
Another great mod list for anyone interested: www.hannahcana...
Mod compatibility tracking spreadsheet for Legacy Edition: docs.google.co...
Legacy Edition Support Forums (sooo many bug reports): forums.ea.com/...
April Black videos mentioned:
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"Special" NPCs video: • No, Social Bunny does ...
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I cant believe EA is charging so much for such a dumbster fire.. literally just saw a Sims 2 video from James Turner were he lost his Sim because a loading screen never finished loading, that has never happened to me in all these years and I seriously stress this game out to the max
I've seen quite some videos about the newer version of sims 2 and all of them show bugs, crashes, and yea even corruption, I've seen that video too and it wasn't the only content creator that got corruption that fast, I've never got any of my neighborhoods corrupted in the "starter pack" version like ever, and in this new version seems like a common thing? what the actual f*ck?
Can’t you though?
I had the same problem with never ending loading screens in the Legacy collection! It made me request a refund from EA because I was unable to leave my lot without problems 😭😭😭 It was such a mess.
@@sleepywitchesthe ONLY time I corrupted a neighbourhood it was user error on my part when I was moving PCs (my old Pleasantview save). Literally my fault. This new version... SMH. I know they released a patch today so I hope they really did fix some of those bugs
@@TeaAddictas of yesterday, all my bugs have been fixed. VERY pleased with the game and the fixes
3:20 If you watch James Turner's latest Sims 2 video, his Sim, that he had been playing with for almost 2 hours, disappeared out of nowhere. He just vanished. I've been playing The Sims 2 for 20 years and I never had a Sim disappear like that. So it seems EA not only didn't fix most major bugs, but they also added MEGA GAME-BREAKING NEW ONES. This is why I don't want them to touch The Sims 3. I just know they're going to make even more of a mess. EA and The Sims Team are incapable of testing their products and releasing them without major bugs.
This! I watched his video and my jaw dropped. He handled it much better than I would have. Some people are trying to blame it on custom content however, James was not playing with any custom content when his Sim just vanished. His house was there but a whole different family had moved in. So crazy.
FakeGamerGirl had the same issue with a child sim that went to Uni. Just poof, gone. She doesn't recommend buying the game.
@@caffeole1 I think james is very good at remaining chill when he encounters bugs, he has to be because he plays the sims 4 for a living. The number of people in the comments who were saying stuff along the lines of 'classic sims 2 deleting sims' was wild though. It's clearly being said by people who haven't been playing the sims 2
i have that problem too. but not when i play, i save the game zturn up my computer wanto to play the other day and then my sims or a pet from that household is vanished.....
My sim randomly vanished after her first week of work. The car arrived, she was not in it. I restarted the game, my sim was there again, but my Sims dog was forever gone. Never had this with the old Sims 2. On top, I'm not able to play much longer than 30 min before the game closes itself.
i cannot believe yall actually made a google documents for the essential mods. i don't know any of you but i love you
sims 2 and sims 3 community does this all the time to help fellow players
;)
Right? It is so admirable and gives much-needed hope for humanity, seeing all these people working hard to bring happiness to strangers, of their own free will.
I’m only 7 minutes in and my jaw is on the FLOOR at the amount of critical bugs in this game! I knew it was bad but I didn’t know it was this bad. Take it from another long term regular TS2 player folks, this is NOT normal! I do feel bad for anyone playing for the first time or first time in a long time who is getting a bad impression because of these issues!
thank you for speaking up about this! on reddit everyone is acting like ea isn’t a greedy corp for releasing this buggy mess lmao
God bless you and all the modders and content creators who constantly work to make the games better for us.
I knew all this mess was going to happen. I'll just keep playing my own disc version and never touch the legacy edition.
I have all the discs for TS and TS2 and all DLC. I also have loads of CC as well. I may even still have the original bug fixes saved on CDs. So my long way around of asking a question is how are you able to run it on an updated pc? Thanks in advance for your reply. 🙏🏽
@@raye8405For Sims2, run as administrator, get the 4gb patch, graphic rules maker and shadow fix. BellaDovah has a really good written guide on her website and Pixu has a video on here. I run it on windows 10, always clear caches and empty thumbnail folder before playing and try to keep my downloads below 7gb.
I have the version from oldgamesdownload and i’m keeping it cuz i’ve never had any issues with it
@@raye8405 I recommend you to Google it, it helped me a lot. You need to download a special file which allows your computer to launch the game.
I was talking to a simmer friend of mine, and we both hit upon the thought that EA was trying to 'censor' some of the things in the Sims 2. Since for some reason alien abductions are bugged, and neither of us see any reason why they should be messing with that code at all except to maybe add censors or delete parts of the 'cutscenes' which might be why all the cutscenes are so borked in the Legacy version. We don't know if that's true or not. Just a couple older ladies gossipying. But I think it is food for thought considering how PG Sims 4 is without mods.
Possibly! But they better not be, I love my slightly unhinged not really PG-13 Sims 2 thank you very much 😂
@@TeaAddictthey said it is about sims on the same lot trying to observe the situation. they said for now legacy edition players have to just make sure there is no other sim on the lot than the one getting abducted. which is so dumb they would have seen this if they even played that household it is one of the first things to do with that household with the telescope on the roof
@togoxo yeah a modder named Kestrellyn has been saying the same thing and has a mod that can temporarily fix the issue
@@TeaAddict yeah but if they just gave the game to a sims 2 like you, all these issues would have been noticed and it could probably have been fixed easily. if modders can do everything in like a week of time, ea should have just fixed the bugs instead of just hyping up that they are going to make people pay 25usd if they want their old game from 2004 to work. this should have been an optional update for ultimate collection. now the game has issues never seen before and people will think of sims 2 as an old game that just doesnt work. the sinms 2 could have just been noticed by so many players and would have been really liked i they made this release as good as the sims 2 started pack on github but they probably dont have anyone left in the company to know or remember how sims 2 worked.
I can confirm that anything to do with pet jobs is completely trashed. I had three pets working, and the game crashed without fail every time they arrived home.
@@kj.mclean 😭 will be interested to hear from you how the new patch performs! Keep us posted x
Even as a long term player i will be checking out this list because there are definitely a few of those glitch fixes i had missed over the years! Thanks for working on such a detailed list 😊.
I have a customized iso of my Sims 2 discs with securom removed. Used to be how I always installed sim 2.
Today I tried osab's starter pack. That was the quickest & most blissful install of the game I've had since the OG launch. It even went ahead and made all object.package files read only 😭 I barely had to do anything aside from check or uncheck a few boxes. It was beautiful
@@RaidenB yay happy for you! OSAB's starter pack is an actual gift, it's so good
From what I’ve seen, there’s also where the sim doesn’t do what you tell it to
You're absolutely a gift to the Sims 2 community, Tea! I have many of the mods already in my game but that Nuke box I will download right away! It might help with the problem I have with the flu in the game where my Sims will get better then get the flu again when they walk away almost right away! Thanks!
Disappointed but not surprised at the new bugs in the Legacy Collection😔 Holding onto my copy in case things get better but won't be switching over from the UC yet. Looking forward to playing The Sims 1 though, watching your Rotational LP for inspiration - looking for mods and tips to play a more modern rotational gameplay style in TS1. This is a great list, thank you so much for putting it together🤩 I think I was missing a couple of these actually! Will definitely help with rebuilding my downloads folder especially because I stopped updating my mod list with any newer ones, but the bug fixes section on my old mod list is very long so I wonder if there's a few on there that might be worth adding to this list🤔
I got the original sims and sims 2 the other day. I started off playing with Nina and Dina. I didn’t notice anything wrong. I heard about the alien abduction being broken so I went to strange town. Vidcund immediately got abducted, but he disappeared in the cut scene and while that was happening the alien baby being born cut scene started playing. Both were not right. When that ended Vidcund was still on the lot not actually having been abducted. I kept playing and I was having issues with making a meal. The sim, I think Pascal, would just reset. I also kept getting a notification that he missed work and used a day of vacation. The notification literally kept coming over and over. I traveled to another lot, I quit the game and went back in, I switched houses. Nothing stopped it. I then switched to the smith house and the teenage son aged up. He was immediately bugged. He can’t eat certain meals and I kept getting a pop up about an error and he had to be reset. He got abducted as well and he disappeared in the cut scene and again didn’t actually get abducted. I’ve yet to test the vacations and creating a sim. I’ll do that today. All this is a little disappointing to say the least.
@@funnylittlecactus4672 that is SO BAD. I promise you, if you try doing the exact same things in OSAB's free version of the game, NONE of that will happen 😔 I'm so sorry!
@ Until I watched your video I didn’t know that existed. I missed the ultimate collection and maybe last year downloaded the game from old games and did all the work to fix it with the help of a lot of UA-cam videos lol. There were still several things that wouldn’t work and I finally figured that out too. I really wanted the legacy collection because they had already done all the work for me and I thought if something ever happened to the other one this would be nice to have. I was really giving them the benefit of the doubt thinking that they actually released an updated ready to play game. I should have known better I guess. Thank you for putting all this helpful sims 2 information out here for everyone!
Thank you to you and the rest of the gang for the mod list! As someone who plays with not so many gameplay mods, I like how you have distinguished between "essential" mods, bug fixes, and fixes for the game's "quirks" 😁 and phew, legacy collection is looking like a nightmare - I have considered getting a copy just for easy steamdeck compatibility but will hold off I think! Appreciate the work you and the rest of the community are doing playtesting and researching 🥰 (although I wish EA would invest more into QA themselves!!)
they sims 4sified our sims 2..
@@peasoupps seriously, WHAT DID THEY DO?? 🫠🫠
Thank you!!! So incredibly helpful. This community is lucky to have so many great modders helping us all to make our games more stable.
Always happy to be a guinea pig Tea. Great video ❤
You are a gem 💎 for these videos I’m starting a new sims 2 but definitely not the legacy version. So these are super helpful I need a whole series on sims 2 set up. My last save file was a hot mess because I’d had its since I was a child hahah. Need a clean slate and I want to keep it fresh and running well ❤
Great video - most of these mods I have but a couple I have never heard of even after playing sims 2 for years!
Fantastic video!! You may have saved yourself from heartache not having the Legacy Edition!! I had it crash my Laptop last night! LOL. Thank you for all this knowledge!
Regarding firstborn syndrome- marticore has a great video on it which I highly recommend, along with all of her genetics videos!!!
You're so good at explaining things THANK YOU a lot of the essential mods i already had but i just realized i still need a lot of these...
Yeaaars playing TS2 and this is how I find out about that in-game npc and townie maker gun?? wow, thank you so much!!
@@arhiza there are a lot of absolute GEMS hidden inside of that "spawn" menu when you have TestingCheats enabled!
Just pirate this game Don't your money The pirate version works very well
pirate Ultimate collection*
This list has been so helpful getting my (non-Legacy) game back up and running how I like it after a 5 year hiatus + new computer! Thank you all for putting your heads together to make it. 😊
The Business Uniform Fix may possibly be one of those helpful little files Chris Hatch drops in the MTS Sims 2 forums from time to time? Or there's one on page 571 of Stupid/Random Questions V4 with the same name and file size, at any rate. If so, very funny to find out that it apparently works by applying then removing the zombie skin when the employee enters the lot!
@@EldezeeLDZ maybe that's where I found it! I have absolutely no idea lol it was years ago and I never found it again despite various searches 🤣🤷🏼♀️ but yeah may have been from a random thread somewhere!
Super glad you have found this helpful for getting back into your game! 😊
Thanks for this! I just shared with FB group - talk about a crazy week! Whew, been on my toes.
Thank you! This is exactly what I was after!!! This is exactly what I’ve been wanting!
Oh, a couple of those I never heard of, time to butch download, thanks! 🤓
Maybe I'm wrong but I think EA should have fixed all of this if they were going to ask us to pay for the game. 🤔
I 100% agree with you
Great job! Just in case, I noticed in the memories fixes list that Cyjon's mod was included along other memory fixes that conflict with it (Nopke's LTW fix and Midge's Party Memory fix). Don't know if it was included intentionally so people could pick and choose the ones they wanted or just a mistake :)
@@rodrigope. Oh good spot thank you! I might edit that ❤️
I didn’t know about the hug thing, I had that in a uni dorm, and it was the worst!
I usually use the debug mode to make an alien looking sim since I love aliens, but with the new rerelease it’s literally impossible, such a bummer…I hope they fix all the bugs!
@@lonzalussuriosa9954 hopefully soon!
In legacy, I set uniform for my employee, but she didn’t change into it and also did not show up in it for the next shift.
@@Mindy14 👀🫠
seeing everyone feeling my pain of having sims randomly getting yeeted out of existence….although not to this extent/scale omg. my game rarely likes to delete a sim (usually a baby or toddler lol) but i back up religiously (literally every time i enter and leave the game i backup) so i can just revert back to before that happened
not using the legacy version of the game btw, just a 🏴☠️’d copy of all the discs
Over 3000 views in 13 hours and only 300 likes!!! YOU DESERVE WAAAAAY MORE LIKES! 😇😇😇
Thank you 🥹
Lol, all those legit game-breaking bugs and then there's just that one person who doesn't realise alt-placement can only be done with a cheat
Hahahaha I will admit I laughed a lot when I saw that bug report... And then I left them a reply with some cheat codes 🤣❤️
@@TeaAddict that's good! It's the same on the subreddit, trying to be patient with people asking about 'bugs' that are just the way the game is. The little things we take for granted in 3&4
I had a toddler disappear yesterday 😢
@@Mindy14 😔
thank you for the list!
one drive is the first thing.............I prevent and unlink from my PC when I install windows. I cant stand it in general. Its annoying as hell. If One Drive annoys you(Because you dont need it) You go into one drive settings and press UNLINK. So it stops saving files to it.
@@nyranstanton203 louder for the people in the back!!!
@@TeaAddict I have this philosophy in this world, you might aswell just seek happiness and this is one way a person can step a little further towards achieving a little more of that happiness.
I use the ACR Mod and that hasn't been working with the Legacy addition. I kept getting controller errors with the attraction system and my sims pregnancies kept getting deleted. I removed it from my game and all seems to be fixed. Any suggestions for ACR replacements?
@@kristinkirtz8472 hey, which version of ACR were you using? Romantic Standards could be something to look into?
@@TeaAddict Hey! Looks like it was version 2.0. I'll definitely look into it! Thanks :)
@@kristinkirtz8472 there's been some investigating going on by modders into Legacy and why things are borked and some mods aren't working - it looks like they broke a very important piece of code relating to "manage inventory" which ACR relies on. It may be worth waiting to see if they patch it, which should fix ACR!
@@TeaAddict You are so awesome! Thank you for your advice
@kristinkirtz8472 ACR should now be working after the latest patch 👍🏼
I'm in love with your t-shirt
Bookmarked! So far, I have only tested Sims 2 Legacy with the mods I used for the CD version, and it seems to work flawlessly. I missed the free non-CD version as I am not deeply embedded in the SIms community. But I decided to test this one. I totally understand that you don't want to rock the boat to get into another version, let alone pay for it. I probably wouldn't either, if I still had a working CD reader.
@@MagnusItland awesome! I'm glad the mods seem to be working well with Legacy so far ☺️ by the looks of my Discord and of the mod compatibility tracking spreadsheet there are a few bigger ones that may be problematic, but definitely most of what we listed should work!
You (all) are amazing thanks for the list.
My favorite Sim bug of all time was one of my neighborhoods got super corrupted, probably some bad custom content or something. Some random guy started showing up on my lot and it looked like he was having a fling with a female sim on my lot. The only problem was he was brain damaged and acted and had all the mannerisms of a baby yet he was in an adult body. Since babies can't walk, when he'd show up on the lot he would just lay there in his adult body flailing around like a baby. the female Sim would try to pick him up like a baby but since there was no animations for that she would just get frustrated. I would have to delete him from the lot with cheats to get rid of him because once he showed up he couldn't move and was holding up traffic 🤣🤣 To this day I can't replicate it, even with Sim PE
Oh my goodness 😂😂😂 never heard of that one! Sounds horrifying and HILARIOUS
@@TeaAddict It was! Poor "Edmund Hsu" was permanently brain damaged to where he was a baby in a man's body
some Knut Futa stuff going on)
Thank GOD I was able to get the Ultimate Collection in pretty much the last month or so before they stopped offering it.
Hello. Question about the list of mods. There is a known problem with the fact that Pescado mods have functions that are not described by them, such as disabled gifts after dates. There are alternative mods that don't have such hidden "fixes". Maybe it's better to replace Pescado with them?
@@grayhairs6292 hey! Yes we considered that pretty carefully. The main Pescado mod people have now replaced with smaller mods is alfixes, which you'll notice is not included on our list because we looked into it and realised it's definitely not worth it. Many of his other mods are still good though, and from our experience help way more than they harm ☺️
The EA devs had their work cut out for them by modders. All they had to do was incorporate all the fixes that have been created over the years to the game. In a perfect world, they'd even pay the modders to use their fixes, but I guess that's asking too much from EA.
Thank you for this ! Just switch to Linux a few days ago and saw that @23:00 you pressed a button to switch windows? Is that something you need to configure ?
@@laloou1997 hey! Yay another Linux convert 😁😁 and no I'm just using alt-tab same as windows ☺️
Thank you !!
OMG NOT THE MURDER CABIN!
@@charmful 🤣🤣
On one hand I'm glad they're addressing the bugs but on the other I'm appalled that they didn't seem to bother testing the game before they released it... Is EA really that desperate for money?
@@OddSauce the lack of proper QA testing from EA has been a massive issue for the last 10 years. It's not just Sims 2 (although this is truly appalling, if even ONE Dev had jumped into play test the Curious house, imagine how many of these bugs they would have picked up??) - Sims 4 has had this issue for its entire 10 year legacy too.
I've always found rolling the dice to be enough to prevent FBS, I don't roll the pacifier.
Also unless Midge states it, no sim loaded only ever hid the Super Hug it didn't remove it. They may have updated it to do so IDK. I just use Chris Hatch's mod as I know it detects and removes it. It detected the SDH about 6 times on installing Bayland School. 😂
oh dear!! I shoulda cleaned the lot lol sorry
@@TeaAddict You warned me you hadn't. It came Au naturel. It contains a couple of mods like phone hack and a portal too, don't worry about it.
I love your videos, But i also love the t-shirt you are wearing. Where did you get it?
It was a Christmas present so I'm not sure sorry! Isn't it cute though? My mum and hubby got me tickets to see the Beauty and The Beast stage musical later this year and that shirt so I can wear it when I go 😁
There was a time when this would have really exciting to me -- I was having trouble finding copies and Steam proton simplifies setting things up a Linux so much (it gets a platinum rating on ProtonDB, btw). But since then I have found a way to run the original Sims 1 & 2, so its not so interesting any more.
Just realized while watching. Mind you I dont think people mess with it.
Theres 1 mod I tend to have. Its a fix because if a sim learns Physiology. They will learn body still so fast
With GummiluttPhysiologyFix, they dont learn the body skill to 10 in all one go.
Something I figured to drop
@@ShortDarkFlower it's included in the video & mod list 👍🏼
I’m getting and PC for the first time and I want to play the sims 2, I know nothing and I only played the sims 3 and 4. Is it really different from them with mods and packs?
@@Makenzie-k1m yes it is a different game. Highly moddable, very customisable, but keep in mind it came out between 2004-2009 so parts of it are dated. Many of us TS2 players use a lot of CC to make the game more modern, but the gameplay is un-matched!
All I can say to this is : Arrrrrr, Matey!
😂😂 ☠️🦜
Shouldn’t ‘creaturefixes’ be placed amongst the essential mod? Without it, Mrs Crumplebottom can be bitten by a vampire, which will corrupt the whole game and require reinstallation (since it modifies the sacred objects.package).
I’m afraid people who don’t play supernaturals might skip that mod, but it’s actually crucial (if I’m not mistaken)
good shout, updated 👍
You're the best simtuber! ❤
Here 🎉 for this!!!!
Im.not in the sim community but a few videos came on my timeline cause im a gamer .. and ya the community should def boycott this game .. ea dont deserve your money
I have to check out of curiosity whether if I replace the EP4 folder from LC with the one from UC, whether these errors with pets will be fixed.🤔
@@oskarpilarski7291 that would be interesting to try!
@@TeaAddict after update game on EA App my game is crashing now, so I can't try this XD. But If the game doesn't fight with me I will test it.
@oskarpilarski7291 oh good 😄😄🫠 hopefully it starts working soon...
@@TeaAddict update:. I launch TS2 without Downloads folder and I saw that the bug with pets and promotion was fixed (probably) because when pets back home game don't crash, freeze etc
@oskarpilarski7291 that's good news!
I am deffo not a programmer but I'm certain you can't just 'recompile for 64-bit', even if you have the source code. something to do with asynchronous operations at the machine code level, semaphores, flags, etc. best we could hope for from that is maybe offloading something simple like sound effects or music to a separate thread, but then you have de-sync issues to contend with. best not play with things you aren't certain to be supporting for the next 40 years for certain. meanwhile, the older a game gets the easier it should be to run, (the issue we always have is windows fundamentals, fundamentally changing all the time! resulting in games that perform more stably under wine for linux, because it targets how windows used to do things! )
@@lonergothonline interesting! I am CERTAINLY not a programmer either 🤣 I guess I was thinking of when they took The Sims 3 (a 32 bit game) and did something to it (I woulda used the word "recompiled" but maybe that's the wrong word??) to make it work on 64 bit Mac OS, cos Mac basically said "no more 32 bit on Mac". I believe other games in the past have been updated too?
Is there a link/list for all the mods I should get?
@@timewizardhs689 literally check the video description my friend
@@TeaAddict perfect thanks. I’m using the legacy steam version on my steam deck (which runs on Linux) so far no crashes and it’s running great. Will these mods work okay running on legacy version (Linux operating system) on steam deck?
Would be amazing if you could do a video tutorial for applying mods to legacy version. I bet like me there are a lot a new players coming in that would be interested in such content 🙏
@timewizardhs689 hey! The process is exactly the same as adding mods to the older versions of the game :) you just need to make sure you have a "Downloads" folder inside your My Documents / EA Games / The Sims 2 Legacy folder, and all mods go in there. I have made a whole series of videos in the past about mods and cc for the Sims 2 if you want to check those out ❤️
I have no idea how Steam Deck works but I run my Sims 2 on my Linux system on a computer and everything works perfectly!
Okay thanks I’ll give this a go! I found my first glitch today which was my sim not being able to cook food, looking this up online seems to be a common problem with legacy edition lots of people are talking about. Do you know if there is a mod to fix this issue or is it a new bug for legacy version?
I create a family that I play with, then I save the game in the evening and turn off the PC and when I want to play again the next day, either the Sim has disappeared from the household or one of the pets has disappeared and they don't come back, no matter how many tricks I use. Is that a BUG? i bet there´s nothing i can do or? i have the new game version
@@Hasenkind1 sadly yes that's a bug with the new version of the game. EA claim to have fixed it with the latest patch if you start a new hood
Re-released again? Or are you talking about the one from a few years ago?
there's been a re-release of ts1 and 2 this week
no hate whatsoever but where are you from? i was thinking australia but i've never heard anyone pronounce "miscellaneous" like this before
@@minadelina I am from Australia yes haha, I was being a bit silly with the way I said that word! Was just being a dork 🤓
i kept it for the mems
You (all) are amazing thanks for the list.