Patch the sims 1 pc

This is everything I did in order to get the game to work on Windows Like I said earlier, this may or may not necessarily work for you, but since it took me 3 hours to even get this game to work, I wanted to share in the event it helps you too! For information on my PC specs, see here.

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Books Video icon An illustration of two cells of a film strip. Video Audio icon An illustration of an audio speaker. Audio Software icon An illustration of a 3. Software Images icon An illustration of two photographs. First of all, you will need to find where your game is installed. This is usually within your Program Files folder, unless you use a custom install location.

If you can see a file called Sims. As you can't use the game disks anymore, you need to use a patched. Some downloads will include the patched file in the download, however if it is not included you will need to download a new one. I will advise you not to use any included. As with any unofficial patch, it is advised to back up the original.

You can do this by renaming the file. Keep the name itself the same, but add. When backed up, you should have 2 files in the install directory: Sims. Unknown User at Imgur. The patched. A glaring issue is the game's built-in resolution, made for older CRT monitors with square displays. This will inevitably look blurry and ugly on a newer monitor, with a lot of empty space on your screen.

To fix this, you must obtain a patched no-CD. Instructions as to how to do this are here if you feel up to doing it manually, however there is a simpler way for you to use this fix. The manual fix is a bit long winded and takes actual effort, but thankfully modders have made this easy work by creating an unofficial p patch. I have used this to patch my own game and it works a treat!

Here is the download page with instructions. Image of the game in p resolution, with glitchy UI visible. Unknown user at Reddit. Although the above fix will get your game running in p, the game's UI won't adjust to this change in resolution.

This is because the UI is not configured through the. Without fixing this, the UI will be glitchy as you can see in the above image. The above download for the p patch also contains a folder called UIGraphics.