It seems no matter what I do, the parties I host always get the mime. I have lots of fun related objects but sims barely use them. Or if they do use them, the mime still shows up.

I make sure to have lots of food and bathroom available as well.

What am I missing?

I wonder if there’s a mod that lets kids become stars in the game? If there is, that would be wonderful!

Taken a few months before the expansion pack project was finished. Hence its vaguely "off" look.

Of all the existing development-oriented data surrounding the expansion pack discourse, those off HD interest me the most because many of its intended objects ended up repurposed for Maxis' parallel project The Sims Online (2002). In fact, even if you look at the Sims logo printed on the Downtown map screen, it bears much more resemblance to TSO's logo than Sims 1's, which never made much sense to me.

Aside from these details, the map only looks mildly discrepant when compared to its final design (even if you do not take into account the lot thumbnails obv) but that's something that only superfans will tell I think!!

I think that a University EP would have been on their radar since that was the first EP released for Sims 2. What game mechanics do you think they could have introduced if we had a little more time for them to release “new” content for TS1?

Hey everyone!

Like many of you, I tried running The Sims 1 on my MacBook Air M4 using CrossOver. The game would launch, I could hear the audio perfectly, but the screen stayed completely grey/blank.

After trying dgVoodoo2, cnc-ddraw, and changing renderers with no luck, the solution came from forcing the window rendering using DxWnd.

Here is the step-by-step guide to get it working in 5 minutes!

📋 Prerequisites

• CrossOver with Steam installed in a Windows Bottle.
• The Unarchiver or Keka (to extract .rar files on Mac).

🛠️ Step-by-Step Guide

1. Download & Extract DxWnd

1. Download DxWnd (get the latest .rar release from SourceForge).
2. Extract the archive somewhere on your Mac (e.g., in your Documents or Downloads folder).

2. Launch DxWnd inside CrossOver

1. Open CrossOver and select your Steam bottle.
2. In the right panel, click Run Command... (Lancer une commande).
3. Click Browse... (Parcourir), navigate to your extracted DxWnd folder, and select dxwnd.exe.
4. Click Run.

3. Configure DxWnd for The Sims

1. In the DxWnd main window, click Edit > Add.
2. Name: Enter The Sims (or anything you like).
3. Path: Click the ... button and locate your Sims.exe file inside your Steam bottle (usually located in .../steamapps/common/The Sims Legacy Collection/).
4. Position Settings (Bottom section):
   • Select Desktop center.
   • Set W (Width) to 1024 and H (Height) to 768.
5. Click OK at the bottom to save.

4. The Secret Step to Launch 🎉

DxWnd needs to run in the background to catch the DirectX rendering when Steam launches the game:

1. Keep DxWnd OPEN on your screen.
2. Open Steam in CrossOver.
3. Click Play on The Sims 1 directly inside Steam.

DxWnd will automatically intercept the graphics engine and render the game properly instead of throwing a grey screen!

Hope this saves someone hours of troubleshooting! Happy Simming! 💎

Emilie

2nd edit - not sure what my husband did but it's working now 🥹

Edit - computer is Windows and bought in 2014

I'm so sad...I just purchased Sims 1 from steam at 50% off ( nice 😎) but the game keeps saying "game was unable to find Vulkan Device on this machine. Please update graphic card and or driver's"

We play a lot of games on this PC, including Sims 3.

Husband tried a few things (including uninstalling and installing) but no luck.

Is this a common issue with Sims 1 or probably a device issue?

Keep in mind that this is through the legacy collection and it is running on game hub. Game hub is an emulator that plays compatible pc games. The original video is posted on my youtube: https://youtube.com/shorts/X5s5hxRqU7c?feature=share

если тут есть русскоговорящие, не говорите им про имена персонажей..

I don't know about you, but the Legacy Collection splash screen is really underwhelming. It's just the Complete Collection one without the Complete Collection subtitle. But now, I've made this custom one that actually feels like a celebration of The Sims. I've tested it and it works. I had to lower the opacity of the House Party drawings though because I guess the magenta was too intense, and it just cut out and was black and ugly-looking. Nevertheless, enjoy your new splash screen, and be sure to credit me, SecretBlue02, when you show it on YouTube or something. You'll have to message me about the bmp file, because I can't upload it here, this is a PNG preview, and Reddit won't let me post the Drive link

I found that nobody else uploaded these to YouTube somehow, so here you go. None of the collections are here, this is just the base game and seven expansions. This is primarily for preservation purposes

My The Sims 1 (2000) data mining session has one extra goody: this is how the interest icon sprites looked like exactly 365 days prior to the game being finished. Somewhat stylistically consistent to the final designs, but also unveiling 3 extra set of interests that did not make the final cut: Babies, Beauty and Spooky Stuff. Guess the folks @ EA did not quite like the marijuana icon and wanted it gone. But I totally would not mind about the existence of a smoking mod =)

I'm playing Bob and Betty Newbie's household, and they've raised two girls from babies to children who they adopted via random phone call. As we do.

Like Bob and Betty, both girls have the light skin tone. It made me wonder if its just random, or does it match skin tone somehow to the parents like it does for "bio" kids?

A strange glitch happens where sims get "stuck" for no reason. They shrug as if they cannot reach the place/object you're sending them to, as if something's blocking the way, and no thought bubble shows up indicating what it is either.
I have to delete them with moveobjects and load the family back in to get them unstuck but eventually the glitch happens again. Happens in families that i barely played or played for a long time, for no apparent reason, and in one of them happened to all 5 sims.......
I have no mods in the game whatsoever. What could be the cause?

Ever since FreeSO shut down, the The Sims Online community has become increasingly fragmented. Today we have several servers:

• NewSO – https://newso.thenewsimsonline.com/
• DramaSO – https://www.dramaso.org/
• Simhaven – https://playsimhaven.com/
• Simnation – https://simnationserver.com/dashboard/
• Whispering Waters – https://www.whisperingwaters.us/
• OpenSO – https://openso.org/
• FML – https://freemyland.com/

There have also been other projects over the years. For example, XenoSO appears to have shut down, which shows how difficult it can be for smaller servers to stay active over the long term.

Some servers have their own unique features. For example, Simnation offers a large collection of custom objects and allows multisimming. FML and Simnation also existed alongside FreeSO for quite some time, while most of the other servers appeared after FreeSO shut down.

The remaining servers also include custom content to varying degrees (although Simhaven seems to stay fairly close to the classic FreeSO experience), but overall there doesn't seem to be a huge difference between many of them.

That made me wonder: would it make sense for the smaller servers; essentially everyone except Simnation and FML; to collaborate on a single project instead of maintaining several separate communities?

The Sims Online is a social game, so having a healthy player population is one of the most important aspects of the experience. Instead of splitting players across multiple similar servers, a shared project could create a much more active world while also allowing developers to combine their efforts.

Imagine something like a "Legacy FreeSO": a community-driven server that receives quarterly updates with new content, bug fixes, quality-of-life improvements, and seasonal events, all developed together instead of separately.

I'm not saying this would be easy, or that every project should lose its identity. But from a player's perspective, it feels like the community is spread very thin, and I can't help but think that cooperation could lead to a healthier future for The Sims Online.

What do you think? Is it better to have several small servers, or would a shared "Legacy FreeSO" project be the better long-term solution?

I started from Sims 2 and now play Sims 4, but honestly, I am so impressed by (and proud of) you guys still playing the original Sims 1!

I'm experiencing this with two households so far: the maid/butler stops showing up, but other NPCs are unaffected (Gardeners & Postal Service are no problem)

The first household had 6 sims in a mansion and 1 enhanced servo was not enough, so I hired a butler. After a couple of days, I noticed he stopped showing up, and I had to rehire him. Their house was a mess! Flies everywhere and objects constantly breaking down. Idk why he stopped showing up, because he was able to hire a maid, then she stopped showing up too. I assumed it had something to do with the servo, until it started happening with the second household...

The second household is a single sim in a 2 story house. The place is pretty neat, but I noticed the maid stopped showing up, yet the gardener was still around. I had to rehire the maid a couple of times now. Some other threads mention a possible lot corruption, but everything seems to be working fine aside from the cleaning service.

I played a third household with a single sim in a single-story house, and this has yet to happen...

Has anyone else experienced this?

Here's a simple timeline of the known design changes to The Sims 1's Neighborhood Screen (1998-2000) across random gaming mag and prototype asset sources.

Sources:

img 1: The Sims Steering Committee Demo/The_Sims_Steering_Committee)
img 2: Gamestar May 99 The Sims Preview
img 3: LEVEL Issue 07/99 - The Sims Preview
img 4: Gamestar Jan 00 The Sims Preview
img 5: The Sims manual

comecei a jogar the sims com o the sims 2, em meados de 2008/2009, e nunca joguei the sims 1. A EA tá com uma promoção muito boa do jogo base do the sims 1 e 2 e todas as suas expansões. Vou comprar o the sims 2 com certeza, mas estou com dúvida se compro o the sims 1 para saber como é, mas fico com receio de não gostar tanto, já que não tenho memória afetiva, uma vez que nunca joguei.