The good news is that most broken custom content can be fixed.

You’ve just got to know what you’re looking at and how to fix it.

What Is Broken Custom Content?

A sim sitting at the computer in a cozy room in The Sims 4.

Broken custom contentis any piece of custom content that doesn’t behave the way you’d expect it to.

The effects of broken custom content can be subtle, or far-reaching.

How Does Custom Content Break?

The Sims 4 lovestruck couple on a picnic blanket after woohoo.

Modern Classic Living Room mod by Sixam.cc

You needboth a texture and a meshto make your custom content show up in the game.

If there are problems with either, the object won’t display correctly.

Scripts area special kind of codethat lets the game do new things.

A Sims 4 sim wearing a hat that wasn’t made correctly and is glitchy and polygonal.

Scripts are really fussy and can be tricky to manage.

If your game’s glitching out, and you have script modsthey are an equally likely culprit.

The Sims 4 regularpatches frequently change bits of the game’s codeto make the new content work.

A blue sim hacking in The Sims 4.

This canbreak mods and CCthat rely on the pre-update code.

Alternatively, some of the game’s files might have got corrupted up by an update.

Check any CC you recently downloaded.

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If all else fails, repair your gamein Origin or the EA app.

Missing Mesh/Floating Head

Parts of your sim are missing.

They might be missing a leg, their hair, their body, or even their face.

A sim fixing the toilet in The Sims 4.

Something’s wrong with a CAS object’s mesh, and it’s not showing up in your game.

As with texture issues you may be missing a mesh file or you might have game corruption.

The steps for this arethe same as for texture issues.

A Sim who’s missing their legs and has their body overlaid with question marks and colour blocks.

Check all CC has a mesh and consider repairing your game.

you’ve downloaded a CC bed, but Sims won’t sleep in it.

There are two basic reasons why this might happen.

An image of a Sim in CAS with their torso missing and strange questionmark patterns over their skin.

Check yourBetterExceptions logand see what file is likely to cause the problem.

Then, check and see if there’s abatch fixfor the object in Sims 4 Studio.

Againthe fix is the same as CC that doesn’t quite work.

A Sim standing next to a scaled-up version of the game’s toy car, shouting forbidden words at it.

Check your exceptions, apply a batch fix if possible, or check content one by one.

Alternatively,images may use post-processing softwarelike Reshade or photo editors and are not fully representative.

Before downloading CC - especially if you’re paying for it -check that you trust the creator.

Eliza pancakes on fire in The Sims 4.

Usewell-known modding siteswith a reputation for well-curated content.

Organising CC makes iteasier to locate something you know is causing an issue.

Options include:

Also, consider aQuarantine folderfor new CC.

An image of a Sim wearing a baseball cap with anime eyes that’s glitching out, next to the preview image the creator made for that picture,where it’s fine.

Put anything new into the quarantine folder, and if you get issues you could easily remove it.

Go into your mod manager or your mods folder anddisable 50 percent of the CC in your Mods folder.

If the error isn’t happening, great!

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You’ll need to either find something else, ignore it, or download the CC.

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Image of three Sims sitting in a living room with furniture from Sixam.CC’s Modern Classic Living Room Mod for The Sims 4.

Modern Classic Living Room mod by Sixam.cc

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