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Game Update for 1.63

This game update includes the following changes:


Into the Future fixes

  • Loaded games no longer crash after saving and quitting while arriving in the future.
  • Sim heads no longer appear on the bodies of Plumbots on display.
  • Descendants can no longer own more than one house in the future.
  • Future outfits purchased by pregnant Sims will no longer duplicate in the outfit picker.
  • Future outfits purchased by pregnant Sims no longer disappear from the outfit picker when the baby arrives.
  • Pregnant Sims keep their belly when wearing clothing purchased from the clothing pedestal.
  • The projection paneling in the Bot Emporium is now interactive.
  • The Time Portal will no longer disappear when travelling to the future.
  • The colors of the trees in Utopia will now stay consistent when the camera is moved around.
  • Fixed an issue with loading legacy statues.


University Life fixes

  • Fixed Sims not always loading correctly when travelling to University.
  • Fixed Sims sometimes losing family data when travelling.
  • Fixed placement of elevator shafts.


Base Game Fixes

  • Fixed Sims sometimes turning invisible after a save/load.


Mac Fixes

  • Improved stability and performance for Mac version.


Patch notes copied from


Direct downloads

Links to update your game manually are located in


Actual changes

For those interested in the technical bits, here's some information on what

  • the incremental patch actually added, deleted and updated from the previous patch (ie 1.57) in column 1 , and
  • what the Superpatcher touched from each of the different originating states (next 3 columns) as I have below.

The versions are not a misnumbering, there are actual changes in 1.63.5 from 1.63.4.

I've summarised the changes below. These numbers are from the report the program InstallWatch generated. So, I have no idea how accurate they actually are, but for the purpose of comparing what patch did what thing, it serves its purpose. This is for Region 1, since that is what I have. I cannot say if the Digital Download (Region 17) has the same results.

Incremental 1.63.4.024 from 1.57.62.023 Superpatcher 1.63.5.024 from 1.63.4.024 Superpatcher 1.63.5.024 from 1.57.62.023 Superpatcher 1.63.5.024 from 1.0.631.000
  • 9 files added
  • 1 file deleted
  • 161 updated
  • 2 files added
  • 0 file deleted
  • 641 updated
  • 10 files added
  • 0 file deleted
  • 633 updated
  • 518 files added
  • 0 file deleted
  • 125 updated

Click on the "More Info" links to expand and view each table that corresponds to the above patching.

Incremental 1.63.4.024 from 1.57.62.023


Superpatcher 1.63.5.024 from 1.63.4.024


Superpatcher 1.63.5.024 from 1.57.62.023

Superpatcher 1.63.5.024 from 1.0.631.000

Incremental vs SuperPatcher

Before I get into this section, let me clarify that as of this edit,

  • there is no Superpatcher version 1.63.4 available from EA, and
  • there is no Incrementals of 1.63.5.024001_from_1.57.62.023001 nor 1.63.5.024001_from_1.62.153.024001 from EA


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Here is the differential report of the 1.63 manual patch, 1.63.4 Incremental vs 1.63.5 SuperPatcher, on the left and right columns respectively as shown on the address bar of each panel. There is a difference in the patch, although it is not significant to gameplay as the files affected are thumbnails of a sort.


CAW version

Snapshot of MD5 checksum of new CAW ie 1.19.6, compared to CAW for previous patch ie 1.19.5, illustrating that the MD5 values and date-time-stamp do differ.

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