Simmers, If you’ve been thinking about upgrading your Windows PC to the newest version of the OS, now you have one more reason to do it! In fact, as SimGuruEugi stated on Reddit, the team is planning to expand support to Windows 10 since day one:
Our plan is to support Windows 10 at launch. However, we haven’t started fully testing against it, so we can’t say with 100% certainty whether things will go as planned.
As you may already know, Microsoft decided to offer Windows 10 as a free upgrade, and If you update your computer within a year from the OS launch planned on July 29, the upgrade will be free forever! You can find more info at the Windows 10 overview page or, if you have some questions, you can also head to the FAQ page.
If you’re worried about your save files, Microsoft says that they’ve designed the update to be ‘be fast, easy with no worries as your docs and files are preserved’, but I would suggest you to backup all your save files, just in case something goes wrong.
Update: The Sims 4, The Sims 3, The Sims 2 and The Sims Medieval will all work on Windows 10
confirmed by crinrict and Nate3300Simmer
Hello,
Just want to ask when you find out if the sims 3 works on windows 10 please let us know before the free upgrade ends. As me and a friend is thinking of upgrading to windows 10 still but don’t want to do it and then find out that sims 3 wont work. Both me and this friend didn’t get the sims 4 as we didn’t like the graphics that much and stuck to the sims 3.
thank you
Allura
Of course I will. I am always looking for some informations about this (I even asked the Gurus on Twitter, but they didn’t get back to me yet) and I’ll update the article as soon as I have more news. But you don’t have to worry: the free updates offer starts on JUly 29 and it will last for one year, so there’s still plenty of time left 🙂
I have the same question! Sims 3 has been acting kind of weird on Windows 8.1 lately so I’m a little concerned. =/
Yes, please check this out for Sims 2, too!! I REALLY hope it is good news for us hardened Sims 2 people!!
Yes The Sims 2 will also work on Windows 10 🙂
well that is great news ^-^ ill just wait till im back in college and get teacher to update it for me… as if i do it ill end up breaking laptop again >.>
Fab news!! /thank you for keeping us updated. Do I need to save everything first or will it transport it for me? I don’t want to lose my 25th generation family!
It is recommended you make a back-up first but technically it will transfer the save file too 🙂
Okay so I know that you can install the Sims 3 on Windows 10, but will my game save from running on Windows 7 if I upgrade to Windows 10?
Hi,
It should automatically import your savings,but I would strongly recommend you to do a backup of all your savings.
is the sims double deluxe compatible with windows 10?
I have upgraded windows 10 in my computer. I am scared to buy sims 4 because i have a doubt whether it will work or not! Please help!
Hi Lil,
Don’t worry: Sims 4 works perfectly on Windows 10,guaranteed (we tested it 🙂 )
I purchased a new computer with Win10 and my SIMS2 expansion packs are all crapping out on insert of Disk4 to ensure I am up to date. I am getting a TS2_upd.exe failed error. Have seen a lot of stuff out on the web and tried a couple of things but would like to know if EA will have an official solution for this sometime?
Dear llaria Somma,
I also installed windows 10 but when I play Sims 4, the game ‘crashes’. My created person stays at the same place and doesn’t move anymore. I didn’t got these problems yet when I played Sims on windows 7. What can I do about it?
Kind Regards
Hi Jessie,
I am really really sorry to hear this…Have you tried uninstalling and reinstalling your game? It may seem trivial, but it does wonders sometimes! If you shouldn’t solve this issue, I would highly recommend you to visit EA’s customer service here https://help.ea.com/en/contact-us/new/?product=the-sims-4 and they will surely help you to sort things out.
I really hope this helps and good luck!
Im updating my windows 7 laptop to windows 10 because when i orignally installed the sims 4 to it … it kinda was laggy and the graphics were bad REAL bad. I tried to go to the game settings and fix it but i heard updating the computer will make it run better and with good graphics…….is it true. I need to be relieved because its something i always wanted to know and i been dying to play it since i found out about the sims 4 previewed.
~niecey
I just spent 2 hours working to get Sims 2 complete collection to function on Windows 10 on my hp elitebook 8530w. I found out that Sims 2 was not designed to work with dual core processors or graphics cards higher than 800×600. Ea games no longer sells this game and no longer offers patches. I was told by Ea games that the only was Sims 2 will work on Windows 10 is if you already had it downloaded BEFORE upgrading to Windows 10, and even then there are reports of glitches including black screen, freezing, crashing during load, crashing during full screen, build grid not loading, walls disappear then reappear rapidly non-stop, and more. Some report flawless operations though.
I recently downloaded sims 4 on my windows 10 desktop and tried to use the cheat code box and it won’t pop up. Any idea what could be the problem? Instead it takes a screen shot of what’s on the screen.
Hi Nicole!
This is really weird…Try to repair your game through Origin (open Origin> My Games> Right click on the game cover> Repair Game).
Also, make sure to press all the required keys (Control + Shift + C) simultaneously. Hope you find this helpful!
My sims 4 won’t download on my windows 10 laptop. Can someone please help me!
Oh no 🙁 Can you please explain in details what happens when you try to download? We’ll see If we can help you
I don’t know it the sims will work on my laptop it is a Intel inside hp
I have windows 10 and i really want to buy the sims 4 but is it now working or not??? I hope someone can answer my commont.
(Srry for my bad english)
Yes,it works perfectly 🙂
Hi
I recently downloaded Windows 10 on my PC and when I play the sims 3 it randomly “crashes”. I play the game for about 10-15 minutes and then suddenly the screen goes black, the sound still plays but I can’t see anything and no matter what I press the screen stays black.
Please help,
Thanks.
Will the sims 4 get together work if i install it now with windows 10 on?
Yes sure, it will work
Sims 4 is not working on windows 10 he says that the graphiccart isn’t good.
And give me code: 0e6d1221:1df4e8dc:0000012f:912c9c10
Please help
Hi,
You can try to update the drivers of your video card.
Already done still nothing
can someone pls tell me where to find the saves and mods folder to the sims 4 on windows 10? ive looked everywhere but i cant find them! and i have checked, there not in documents bc my documents folder says its empty..
I want to install the sims 4 in windows 10 but I get error The VC++ runtime redistributable package was not installed successfully. Setup cannot continue. but I install that pakage many times . I dont know what can I do to setup sims 🙁
Hi there
I installed sims 3 on my new i.5 core laptop, it has windows 10. So it installed fine, no problems, but then when I want to play it doesn’t do anything. It opens the game launcher, I click play…but then nothing happens. The game launcher disappears like it should but then nothing..I wait and wait forever. I have sims 4 as well but I haven’t tried instaling it yet on my new laptop as the sims 3 experience totally put me off. But I miss the game, I really want to play….please help.
Hello! I tried installing The Sims 4 on my Windows 10 computer a while back but it actually installed as 3. On my old Windows 7 it installed perfectly fine, though. I know this article is rather old, but I was wondering if there was any explanation for this issue and if it has been fixed. Thank you!
Hey yes I it should work way better no since I play TS4 on PC <3