Fans of the originalSimsandThe Sims 2have been treated by EA to a rerelease of the classic games this month, with the Legacy Collection 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 andpatch notesreleased for the games on July 15, 2025. These include memory fixes toThe Simsthat led to random crashes and laggy gameplay, and fixing the “D3D” error that would crashThe Sims 2.
EA releases the 3rdpatch 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 Simsgot quite a few more fixes thanThe Sims 2, not only fixing the memory issues but also missing textures such as pool tiles appearing gray and the Work and School icons not appearing on Sim’s portraits.
The Simsalso will now adopt the aspect ratio of whatever 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 Simsalso now shouldn’t have an issue launching on Snapdragon-based computers, 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 onThe 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 fair 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.
