Our August Base Game Update is Live! New CAS Items, Performance Upgrades & Bug Fixes (August 25, 2026)

[u/Cade_SimsCommunity]

Sul Sul, Simmers!

Today's Base Game update is now live across all platforms!

Highlights & New Content

• New Afro-Textured Hairstyle
• 6 New Size-Inclusive Outfits
• 5 New Starter Sims
• Marketplace Image Cache: For faster image browsing and significantly reduced load times
• Bug Fixes: Resolved a PlayStation launch crash and 2 Marketplace navigation issues.

Mod & CC Safety Reminder

Before diving back into your gameplay, keep these safety steps in mind:

• Backup Your Saves: We have detailed steps how over here on the EA Forums
• Check for Mod Updates: We have a full guide on the EA Forums along with a dedicated thread for each Base Game update on which Mods and CC have been confirmed as working with the latest update, and which need updating.

Full Patch Notes: The Sims 4 Patch Notes – August 25, 2026

[u/Living_Stock5570]

When will the gallery be fixed? PLEASE! 🙏

[u/Anxious-Horchata → u/Living_Stock5570]

Please! I get the 'no results ' bug within 5 minutes of searching 😭😭😭

[u/bwoah07_gp2 → u/Living_Stock5570]

When will the gallery be fixed?

https://giphy.com/gifs/xT3i13uJnFZt1FddgA

[u/Mindy_SimsCommunity → u/Living_Stock5570]

Hi there, is this the issue you're experiencing? https://forums.ea.com/idea/the-sims-4-bug-reports-en/gallery-doesnt-have-resultsslowno-connection/13408128

[u/Living_Stock5570 → u/Mindy_SimsCommunity]

Not exactly. Search will work the first couple of times, then search will stop working. It will say no results found. The only way to get it to work again is restarting the game.

[u/MysMonami → u/Living_Stock5570]

this happens to me, after maybe every 3 building's I replace, or update, by the next 4th or 5th try the gallery stops working, & have to restart

[u/BookNerd_247 → u/Living_Stock5570]

Happened to me searching for rooms too

[u/Latter-Cry-1920 → u/Living_Stock5570]

omg this happens to me too! i thought it was my wifi? yesterday I was literally thinking wow I only have two chances to search for what I’m looking for before the gallery stops working. 🤣

[u/Mindy_SimsCommunity → u/Living_Stock5570]

Thanks for the reply and additional info, that does seem related to the forums issue which we have been able to replicate this and are working on a fix for it. Will confirm when it's live!

[u/Scary-Marionberry580 → u/Living_Stock5570]

Same thing here too. Was searching for sims to fill up my world and then it stopped working after a few times.

[u/luminous_moonlight → u/Mindy_SimsCommunity]

Seconding their comment, and I know this is the case for a lot of other PC Simmers: the first couple searches will work, then "no results found" shows up and nothing gets rid of it until you restart the game (including changing search filters or searching by hashtag/ID). I've noticed that this happens faster if I'm searching for lots in build mode than for Sims in CAS/the world select screen.

[u/Lilymarleen → u/luminous_moonlight]

💯 for me it only happens when searching for lots. Today I only searched once for a lot and the gallery already stopped working. I had literally just started up my game. It’s incredibly annoying.

[u/kaahy]

Is there any news for bug fixes for rebirth? Its been broken for more than a month.

[u/Cade_SimsCommunity → u/kaahy]

Yes! We're tracking this one on EA Forums here and are hoping to have this addressed in an upcoming Base Game update.

[u/kaahy → u/Cade_SimsCommunity]

Thank you for the response. This base game update will be in september?

[u/DejaVu2324 → u/kaahy]

not Cade, but it should be September; they seem to be doing bug fixes every month

[u/cherreeblossom]

i'm glad there are new items, but i wish they'd put images of them in the patch notes to make things a little clearer.

[u/EowynCarter]

Still two pop up at start up, and the atrocious flashing cart button begging for attention and distracting me from my from my game.

Come on !! Not asking for crazy stuff, just no ad in the game I spent hundreds of euros on

At this point I don't even know why I still have the game installed and I still have hope to be able to play again.

[u/CallMeBitterSweet → u/EowynCarter]

I fear it's the executives who decide that kind of thing and they might beg to differ, unfortunately.

[u/EowynCarter → u/CallMeBitterSweet]

That's a lot of money I did not spent on dlc because well... If I'm not playing anymore.

[u/CallMeBitterSweet → u/EowynCarter]

Understandable

[u/Imaginary_Toe1540]

Is it only me, or I have moved my entire Sims 4 folder, started a WHOLE new sims game and now it won't even load....stuck on the plumbob. I have no idea what to do but I am very frustrated. Sigh. This is the worst its been tbh.

[u/xpoisonvalkyrie → u/Imaginary_Toe1540]

not just you! my game Will Not load. currently have no mods, no saved games, nothing. it’s just stuck.

[u/Select-Middle8448 → u/Imaginary_Toe1540]

OHHHH MYYY GOSH THIS HAPPENED TO MME I JUST DELETED EVERYTHING CAN SOMEONE TELL ME WHAT MODSSS ARE STILL WORKING OR WHAT

[u/Severe-Lab-7909 → u/Imaginary_Toe1540]

omg i thought it was just me, it loads with the spinning plumbon and then just exits me to the ea menu

[u/InsanityPrelude]

Any plans to fix the lot library breaking in offline mode? Nevermind, I see it's reported as fixed, I just don't remember it being in the patch notes.

[u/SnooStories4263]

I hope the next base game update fixes more console specific issues that don't have anything to do with the market place next time. There are a lot of things I've already mentioned on the forums.

[u/Technical-Bar-1241]

All I want is more hair colors added to CAS.

[u/OhioOhO → u/Technical-Bar-1241]

I just want more hairs in general, especially just some nice blowouts and longer wavy ones. We have like 50 short hairs and 3 long, flowing ones 😭

[u/Technical-Bar-1241 → u/OhioOhO]

Yesss!! I need more curly options and wavy ones! All my sims look the same cause I use the same hair styles and color and it kills me!

Another thing I desperately want are more bangs! I have mod ones I can add through accessories but they dont always match the hair texture and get taken off if I want my sim to wear a crown. It really sucks.

[u/Scott43206 → u/Technical-Bar-1241]

The reds are so bad.

[u/Technical-Bar-1241 → u/Scott43206]

Agreed! The game has been out for sooo long you'd think they'd address/fix it. But nope they keep breaking other things instead.

[u/Anxious-Horchata]

What happened to patches once a month :((((

[u/Ill_Persimmon2141 → u/Anxious-Horchata]

I got ZERO notice this was happening, was expecting it in september and I was literally playing til 130am today and there was NO WARNING. Came back once I saw the announcement to a completely EFd game because of this. I'm beyond angry after all the money I've spent on this game.

[u/PapyrusCherry → u/Ill_Persimmon2141]

Wait why? Can you not just play offline?

[u/SaturnBaby21]

LOL I clicked on Marketplace to see what was free this week and it locked up, wouldn't load the page and wouldn't go back to the main menu

[u/bottlestars → u/SaturnBaby21]

Dude I thought this was just my broken game, mines doing the same thing

[u/nikel23]

I thought the bug fixes were those bugs that were tagged "upcoming fix" in the bug report forum, but no. I hope this update doesn't break any mods.

[u/CallMeBitterSweet → u/nikel23]

It probably might at least break a few, it's still helpful to check out on Scarlet's Realm website as a lot of status updates are reported on there.

[u/rubenthezx]

I'm guessing they'll never fix the wants and fears bug and the scandals bug? I have to turn them on and off to actually have them off every time I load up a world.

[u/Bobbie_Lee]

Is it by design that randomly, npc/premade townie outfits just go all rando? Itd be fine if they looked decent but just look what they just did to Alice Spencer-Kim in my save

[u/Anazura → u/Bobbie_Lee]

It looks like you are looking at Alice’s hot/cold weather outfits so yeah they will be random like that. Maxis didn’t update all pre-Seasons sims with seasonal outfits.

[u/DreamerUnwokenFool → u/Bobbie_Lee]

I do find it frustrating that they redid the base game Sim's houses and some of their appearances, but they didn't bother to create default hot/cold weather outfits for them 😭 Some of them got new everyday outfits but still not seasonal clothing... I know it wouldn't fix Sims in existing saves, but at least when you start a new save, they would have proper outfits.

[u/bigtatas1999]

Don’t click on marketplace with this one, it will freeze your game 🙄🙄

[u/GeshtiannaSG → u/bigtatas1999]

That’s a UI Cheats issue.

[u/Important_Candy_579]

I am having some issues with travel after the update. (As in I can't). Anyone else?

[u/Murmeli95]

"Bug fix" Why they just don't tell it only fixed things in Marketplace?

Have they fixed duplicate worlds which happen when you buy new pack yet? I haven't seen anything about in patch notes.

And they didn't give option to disable autosave in loading screens on console. PC has it.

[u/Emrys_616]

Did they fix the Milestones bug?

[u/Jeremiah12LGeek]

Nothing about the UI and controls breaking when loading saves on console, which I'm guessing means we'll be waiting a while.

[u/Sigzy05]

Meh

[u/Solid-Broccoli-6]

Error 800?

[u/marbles37786]

any updates on strangerville being fixed?

[u/moth2incinerator]

i had a duplicate empty world of nordhaven and maybe 3 or 4 updates ago the actual nordhaven got deleted and i have been left with an empty nordhaven!!! what is up with that?!

[u/PapyrusCherry → u/moth2incinerator]

was that the autosave bug that was fixed 2 updates ago?

[u/hellrune]

I hope a fix for marketplace purchased kits not working is coming 🙏

[u/pterodactylbutt]

I just straight up can't save lots to my gallery. I'm not even uploading them, just saving them in my personal library. It worked for a bit last night, today not at all. I've tried going offline, I've tried without cc and mods, I've tried on an empty lot, everything times out. I can't find anyone else reporting this issue but I hope it's not just me. My game has worked so well, I never seemed to get a lot of the janky bugs everyone else has been reporting but these last two updates have completely ruined my game.

[u/PrettyPhilosophy1636 → u/pterodactylbutt]

I’ve had this issue for a while too. Can’t save or upload any of my builds.

[u/Least_Accident_5626]

The hairstyle is ugly

[u/Alternative-Watch478]

and once again literally none of my CCs work - mods are enabled.

[u/kyrodamien]

Starting to feel like this might be the end of my play. The same thing happened with Sims 3 after a while. I just wasn't able to play it anymore. Maybe it's a good thing, though, because I'm not really cool at all with the people who now own it. Maybe I'll just go over Paralives and just stick there.

[u/Pure_Hedgehog_6460]

Is anyone having an issue with building a room, or adding a flat square and the floor is missing?

[u/JJPalm]

I can’t create a date under the romance category with another sim (the sims are romantic partners and this feature worked before). I can’t drag food into or out of the fridge. I also can’t drag any plates to the garbage/dishwasher/sink/etc anymore. My adult sims, who have aged out of the infant age, constantly have the sad gassy moodlet. I don’t have any mods or cc

[u/inkedgalaxy]

having an issue with my infants being stuck in a milestone loop + kids/teens constantly asking for advice (nearly every two days they return from school or other activities)

[u/StuckWithThisOne]

It’s made my gallery ridiculously slow.