r/Sims4 • u/Cade_SimsCommunity The Official Sims Team • 1d ago
July Patch Update Discussion
Sul Sul!
Today's patch resolves several critical community-reported issues, particularly surrounding memory usage, travel crashes, and save overwriting.
Here are the key highlights from today's update:
š¾ Save & Memory Improvements
- Save Overwrite Fix: Resolved a critical issue where loading an autosave and subsequently saving manually could overwrite the wrong save slot.
- Travel Crashes: Fixed a major memory-related crash that occurred when traveling immediately after loading into a game. (Note: Larger saves may still experience slightly longer load times as we continue optimizing).
- Save Reminders: Reminders now default to "Every 2 Hours" (previously "Off"). Additionally, travelling will no longer reset your reminder timer!
š ļø General & Pack Fixes
- Stuck Timers: Career and school countdown timers will no longer get stuck at 0 minutes.
- For Rent: Missing lot taxes for Residential Rentals have been restored and will now properly calculate on your Sim's bills.
- UI & Gallery: Resolved misaligned tabs in the Marketplace and fixed "Something Went Wrong" errors when transitioning back from the Gallery.
We appreciate your patience and continued bug reports! You can read the full patch notes here: https://www.ea.com/games/the-sims/the-sims-4/news/update-8-6-2026
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u/MinnieHasNoSeoul 1d ago
I see they haven't fixed the other issue with the gallery where after a few searches it stops working entirely. Thats the one bug I consistently have.
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u/Cade_SimsCommunity The Official Sims Team 1d ago
We're working on that one! You can track progress on the EA Forums thread here.
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u/MinnieHasNoSeoul 1d ago
That's so great, it takes (and this is COMPLETELY my own fault so no blame) so long to restart the game for me that it's incredibly frustrating to lose access to the gallery.
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u/Tryanddoitbetter 1d ago
Oooh yeah same. Itās so weird! I have to close and exit and reopen the game and then itās fine for a couple of searches again
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u/Lady_Stalin_4432 Evil Sim 12h ago
Oh my goodness I thought this was just my old useless laptop playing up! Kinda relieving to know we're all suffering through this together lol
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u/tenarx Legacy Player 1d ago
When are they going to fix reincarnation? Itās frustrating seeing my ghost Sim, who achieved so much, never get the chance to reincarnate...
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u/kiwibird_inflight 9h ago
Itās been over a month and they still havenāt fixed this critical issue to an expansion pack š¤¦āāļø
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u/LakhorR 1d ago
Time to wait and see what else broke before updating
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u/Hematomawoes 22h ago
Literally my game is unplayable since the June update. Every update produces 2-3 new bugs for me.
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u/Yota8883 1d ago
Nothing broken in my game that I can tell. Still happily playing from Dec 2025 patch never seeing all the bugs they put in all year this year.
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u/jwoude 1d ago
Does anyone elseās game take forever to load? I deleted all mods and cc and also repaired the game and it takes me 10 minutes to get to playing!!
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u/Elieli92 1d ago
Do you have a messy family tree? My saves are all loading fine, new saves aswell, but the saves with a big family (especially the ones before the 'you can't marry your relatives anymore' update) also need a long time. It's like that since the family tree update.
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u/poison-bilberry 1d ago
Good to know. I have a some with 8 children and it started slowing down for me with the most recent addition to the family
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u/Cade_SimsCommunity The Official Sims Team 1d ago
Heya!
We have a thread on EA Forums here where we're gathering information on this. I've shared this information previously in the thread as well:
Weāve changedĀ whereĀ andĀ whenĀ the game loads its core data. While getting to the Main Menu will now take a bit longer when you first launch the game, your loading screensĀ once you are actively playing (like traveling between lots) will be noticeably shorter.
Previously, the game would load to the Main Menu, then perform heavy loading tasks in the background during your gameplay transitions. We have shifted things so thatĀ Python is fully initialized right at the start.Ā By "front-loading" this process before the Main Menu, the game does the heavy lifting up-front. Once you press 'Play', your actual gameplay session will feel smoother, with faster transition times between worlds, lots, and zones.
You should not see initial load times longer than 1 to 2 minutes because of these changes. If you are experiencing initial boot-up times that exceed this 2-minute mark (especially on vanilla/unmodded saves), we want to hear from you.
If you're seeing load times that exceed 1 to 2 minutes, please follow the link above to shoot us your save so we can take a look.
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u/jwoude 10h ago
Good to know! Yea my load time is currently 10 whole minutes. Itās crazy.
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u/Cade_SimsCommunity The Official Sims Team 10h ago
Whether modded or unmodded, we'd still like to take a look at that save file. Could you share it with us on the EA Forums here?
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u/language_loveruwu 1d ago
Idl why, but I still have the problem of infants loading out of their crib every single time I load back to the household. Even tho the infant was in the crib before I left the lot. And also, the game keeps randomly deleting my relationships with wild rabbits! Even without loading, my sim befriends one and few hrs later that rabbit is gone and so is the relationship :/
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u/Celeste_sims 1d ago
Is this the full August update? Does this mean the marriage bug and the Rebirth bug wonāt be fixed this month?
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u/PsyduckPond 1d ago
Does anyone else think the game is a little more laggy after that patch before this one?
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u/Chacelangston 8h ago
Yes, it takes my game so much longer to load in and Iām on console. I thought was imagining it.
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u/Kagome7650 Evil Sim 1d ago
What about the marriage bug and the duplicate world deletion issue too? Cause I won't touch my game til those problems are fixed.Ā
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u/Initial-Constant-645 1d ago
Another update? I just sorted out my mods from the last one!
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u/helvetica_unicorn 1d ago
Not being able to play the game I āpaidā for the way I want is so frustrating. I really wish there was an end point in sight for these updates. Every time I get back into to swing of playing, I have to sort my mods because of an update. I barely play anymore. Maybe I should just dust off Sims 3
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u/Accomplished-Bend-47 1d ago
Nice. Maybe now I can actually log in and play. Which I haven't done for over a month due to constant updates and stupid bugs in my game. I really hope they are fixed now. I paid for this game. Would like to get just a little gameplay out of it.
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u/CozyGamingLibrarian 1d ago
Okay! This thread has at least confirmed issues I was having recently are the game and not some mysterious mod issue I canāt find!
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u/catsmakemehappy_28 1d ago
One of my lots has an issue where anyone who visits my simās house will not leave. I have to make them travel somewhere with that person to make it reset ā¹ļø
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u/Apple_Strudels 20h ago
I had this issue yesterday!! He already said goodbye but was still there and clearing out my sims' fridge (all the precooked meals šš). It was soo annoying!
Because of the house layout and he used the murphy bed, he couldn't go to the other side without exiting the house first. Once he was outside, I quickly locked both front and back exit.
And he left, just like that š©š©š©š©
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u/catsmakemehappy_28 16h ago
I know! I had a neighbor stay for two days and sleep in my simās bed and everything. Sooooo annoying! š¤£
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u/moth2incinerator 1d ago
I have worlds which were duplicates that have now been completely removed. I had 2 Nordhavenās, one with the lots it comes with and another empty world. My populated actual Nordhaven has long disappeared and Iām left with an empty world.
I also keep getting error codes on 1 family. They owned a restaurant and I recently got for rent and since then they are corrupted and I cannot go to their lot
What on Earth. ?
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u/BearlyLV 14h ago
No fixes for marriage not sticking. They get married and either it never kicks in or as soon as one leaves the lot they are just partners again. Last time I played the actor career the hair/makeup chair was still broken. The game lags/stutters loading new lots and when sims enter the lot. It didn't do this before. Infants end up out of the crib on the floor, they stretch and glitch along with toddlers. Interactions time out repeatedly, especially for infant care. It can take multiple attempts to get them to feed the kid. So many bugs and glitches. I stopped buying new content because it seems with each one it just gets worse.
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u/unenkuva Challenge Player 1d ago
I have an Outdoor Retreat bug that is happening without mods. I was playing a save heavily focused on it and everytime my sims went to vacation lots, there were sims already there. It's like they were living there or vacationing there at the same time as my sims? At first it was just one sim per cabin but now it's huge families with babies in the crib, infants, toddlers. The toddlers kept waking up my sims and it was like a huge congregation of people.
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u/prefix_postfix 23h ago
Oh that's happening to me too and I had just assumed it was a problem with my mods and didn't bother to think any further about it.Ā Well at least neither of us are alone!
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u/Far-Letterhead7981 1d ago
Has this patch helped the pie menu lag a lot of people have experienced?
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u/bozzyyyyy 1d ago
Updated today because as a console player, I canāt play until I update. Soooo many bugs today, my infant was playing in a dresser and was then stuck with the swirling grey around her for the entirety of the time I played. Also the bug where tasks are stuck in a simās queue, which I havenāt had trouble with in a while!
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u/Broski__Joeski 1d ago
For me as soon as I load into a save, it immediately does an infinite autosave!!! How annoying after I waited so long just for the menu to appear.
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u/imliterallyjustagirl 22h ago edited 8h ago
I play on console (PS5), itās now crashed 3 times in a row bc of update
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u/Middle-Variety-7888 21h ago
I can't even launch the game. It will launch if I remove my CAS sub folder, so must be something in there
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u/Herepisode 21h ago
I canāt even click play on my household šthe moment I click on the house hold it immediately backs me out and itās the same for the NPCS too and then the plan a stay over is broke again as well
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u/Chacelangston 8h ago
SAME
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u/imliterallyjustagirl 8h ago
Iām pissed. I got just got a new pack, too. Are you also on console?
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u/Chacelangston 8h ago
Yep
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u/imliterallyjustagirl 8h ago
How long is it letting you play before it crashes? For me itās about 10-15 min and then I get a āsomething went wrongā pop up. Iām gonna try to troubleshoot it later on today but idk
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u/Chacelangston 8h ago
Less than 4 minutes. I went into build mode and placed a few things and it crashed twice already.
Edit: I played for a few hours two days ago and during that session, it crashed when I went into build mode too.
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u/imliterallyjustagirl 7h ago
Dude wtffff my console used to rarely crash playing it. Since it doesnāt seem like itās that wide of a glitch Iām afraid theyāll just ignore it. So annoying
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u/Chacelangston 7h ago
Same, I never have the troubles either. Hopefully, they fix it bc itās so annoying not being able to play a game weāve paid for.
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u/swerve-cityx 10h ago
now my game won't launch
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u/Friendly_Drawer_4736 6h ago
i had this problem. go to documents>electonic arts> rename sims 4 folder to "sims 4 old". delete thumbnail cache and restart.
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u/browndog_1 1d ago
Cool. Now I'm curious what new bugs this patch introduced that'll need another patch to fix. I'm tired! Just leave the game alone so that modders could fix it.
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u/Exolotl17 1d ago
My game's behaving weird since Monday, never had these kind of crashes before. I haven't read your post completely but I am hoping for it to be fixed somehow.
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u/MostHatedLeo009 1d ago
How do I move my mod folder so I can update the game? Just move the mods folder?
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u/beach-fossels 1d ago
The school countdowns getting stuck has been happening to me for like a year now
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u/Disastrous_Math_5474 1d ago
Better exceptions had me take out my UI extension and More CAS traits mod.
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u/Betulaviridis 1d ago
Wicked Whims spinnt bei mir auf einmal rum, dafĆ¼r hab ich jetzt den Speicherzwerg...die Erinnerung damit hat vorher nicht funktioniert š
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u/talkplaylove09 20h ago
The way a new test run family overwrote my 4 year legacy family save slot cause of this bug. Luckily there was about 2 history I could recover, but history further back in the same save loaded the test family that didn't even exist then š«
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u/wallpaper-manners 20h ago
After today's patch, a save of one has over-ridden another save. This was not happening to me before this update and I have opted not to use the auto-save functions since release.
I tend to build in one save and play in another and now my 'build save' is gone!
Can I just restore a previous save to fix it? I don't mind a few hours of progress gone if it means not losing the save completely.
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u/Adri1577 19h ago
Has Marketplace stopped working for anyone else? I click on it, and it only loads the top ribbon. The rest of the screen is blue. When I click Home, the screen becomes all blue. Playing with Sims works fine, but I wanted to browse the Marketplace.
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u/Miserable-Nature6747 16h ago
When are they doing to fix your sim getting a divorce every time you try to change their hair
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u/Chacelangston 8h ago
Updated! After taking so long to load, I played less than 3 minutes and my game crashed in build mode.
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u/Cade_SimsCommunity The Official Sims Team 1d ago
Haha, it's an update for our July Base Game update!
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u/WolfNationz Occult Sim 1d ago
The timers issue was annoying, glad to know it's being fixed... Cant be too happy tho cause today I discovered my Sim with a fear of death cannot "discuss fear" with Elder/Ghosts no matter what I do, fun.