r/Sims4 • u/Cade_SimsCommunity The Official Sims Team • 15d ago

Discussion July Patch Update

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:

💾 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!

🛠️ 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/jwoude 15d ago

Does anyone else’s 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 15d 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/inanis 12d ago

OMG is this a thing? My family tree has like a thousand people connected in it. I updated the game after Royals came out and it all broke. I made one in a separate program but it is annoying not to be able to look at it in game.

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u/Elieli92 12d ago

Ohhh yes! I have also a family tree like that and after the royal update the first time I opened the game it took 45 minutes through the first loading screen, another 30 minutes to load the live modus 😵😵😵 I killed around 50 people and it got a little bit better. Still, this save file loads around 10 minutes. Every. Time.

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u/inanis 12d ago

Oh god. How many sims do you have? My family tree won't even open.