New Patch update 1.33 is up

[sdhoey]

My launcher notified me and so I went to the site and its ready.

http://www.thesims3.com/game/patches/-1321973146

[grimsoul]

Wow, Another patch already.

This game update includes the following changes:

    Some art updates
    Stability improvements
    Sims saved with game update 1.32 that exhibit overly dark textures can be restored to normal by editing the Sims in Create a Sim

[BellaClo]

Good news! It looks that they've decided to release patches asap instead of waiting 6-8 weeks. The "stability improvement part" is certainly welcome for me, my game has been a giant bug feast for the last week. No big CTD, just loads if small oddities everywhere. I'll happily patch later tonight.

[Trentorio]

Yay! I hope I can get this patch today. I love Steam but I have regretted at times purchasing my Sims 3 from it.

[Cas]

Good.  I just hope they've fixed the worst of the game corrupting problems with gigs.  Now do I update today, and hope it will be all good, or wait for Twallan's ErrorTrap mod to be updated . . .

[Lasnien]

Quite a large patch for such a short list. Must've been some serious stability improvements included.

Yay! I hope I can get this patch today. I love Steam but I have regretted at times purchasing my Sims 3 from it.

A little off-topic, but if you're not married to keeping your Sims game on Steam, you can use this link to add your games to Origin instead. It will require a reinstall, but you won't have to wait for Steam to push updates and expansions.

[Trentorio]

Quite a large patch for such a short list. Must've been some serious stability improvements included.

A little off-topic, but if you're not married to keeping your Sims game on Steam, you can use this link to add your games to Origin instead. It will require a reinstall, but you won't have to wait for Steam to push updates and expansions.

Thank you. I didn't know if that method still worked since the Steam forums can be very void of answers.

[sdhoey]

So far the only problem I have is trying to edit something in CAS or buy/build mode. It just stays on the "materializing materials" screens and never moves. 

[Pam]

I made a topic for this before seeing that this one is already up.  I'll delete mine and move this one to the General Discussion board.  It's not really about Showtime, so it doesn't need to be on the Showtime board.

[Seabody]

I heard that the reason it's so big is because it also wipes the leaked content from the last patch. Since EA can't tell who got it, they're forcing it on all of us.

Anywho, I'm not patching up until twallan updates the Mods, I might also get some more, hoping this is the last one for a while.

[BellaClo]

Superpatches 1.31/1.32/1.33 have been found to be *a bit* messy and buggy. You can find detailed explanations by Ellacharm3d at Modthesims here:

http://www.modthesims.info/wiki.php?title=Game%20Help:Issues%20with%201.3x%20Superpatcher

(As a side note, that section "how to patch" on their game help/wiki is a place I keep in my bookmarks all the time, a gold mine of great info ;-)

Basically, for anybody who used the superpatches 1.31 or 1.32 or 1.33, and experience bugs and weird behavior in their game, it's advised to uninstall and reinstall the base game and patch it manually (first to 1.29, then incremental to 1.31 and then 1.33).

There is a bit of technical details, but if you scroll down you can find the "What you need" and "What you do" sections which are super clear with all proper links for what need.

This is what I plan to do this morning since my game is riddled with small strange bugs and I used the 1.31 superpatch.

@mods: I've copied this post in the 3 threads for the 3 patches since it's related to all of them.

[wednesday21]

I guess I'll have to patch up now that I think about it - the simport requires you to have the latest patch installed, doesn't it?

Seabody is correct. This is not a usual "launcher", or incremental, patch, it's the manual cumulative "super-patcher" which includes all patches ever released and is only necessary if you don't know your regional code or if there are some issues existing. This time, however, it's the only choice, or at least the only "official" one. You can still use a smaller patch file to patch up from 1.31 to 1.33 but there isn't one for 1.32 to 1.33.

The reason EA is doing this is because there have been numerous problems with the last two super-patches and this one is *supposed* to fix them all in one patch. However, it only adds to the bunch. There's one long guide here at MTS to (hopefully) fixing any and all bugs players have occurred due to installing these three patches. Currently the only bug I noticed in my game is that my Collections folder is empty and that is to do with one of the super-patches. I can live with it though.

Edit: BellaClo beat me to it.

[Esther1981]

Since I don't have Showtime and don't plan on getting it until next month, I can live without the patch right? I never open my launcher anyways unless I buy something from the store or need to patch, so I should be fine. I hope.

[wednesday21]

Since I don't have Showtime and don't plan on getting it until next month, I can live without the patch right? I never open my launcher anyways unless I buy something from the store or need to patch, so I should be fine. I hope.

If you have patch 1.31 and use the social features introduced with it, in order to log in in-game you need the latest patch, which is 1.33. However, if you do not use these features anyway, you can live without the latest patch(es), yes.

[Esther1981]

Awesome! The latest patch I have is 1.29 so I'm good!  Thanks Wednesday!