sims keep freezing in time?

[simpleprincess]

Well when I play anybody in pleasantview ill go to buy mode to add something and press play again and the sims have frozen in time? its really werid and its only started doing it today? They wont unfreeze. Everything else works like the arrow and being able to direct the sim to do something plus the audio works but the sims themselves are frozen in action so cant carry out a command? The butterflys are still fluttering and neighbourhood sims still move?

I have every stuff pack now and every expansion installed.
windows xp
nyvida fx 5200 graphics card
1g ram
2-3 gig of cpu
80 gb hard drive

 

[amc462000]

What did you download from the last time you played and today?

[lonleyma1000]

im having the same problem i think its the lava lamps  i downloded from mod the sims i deleted them but it still messed up my fam

[simpleprincess]

It was ethier sims or houses or both, no mods or hacks or anything.They could be anywhere in my downloads folder.

[DaSpecial1]

Try using the hack utility detection device from here:          http://www.simwardrobe.com

A packaged house/lot I downloaded ended up being the culprit in my game a few months ago but folder clutter frustrated me enough to wipe 90% of it out & organize.  I kept only the few things I know worked like the insim and ffs debugger, sguinge mods etc.

Try moving All CC out of game to a seperate folder and slowly add them back to the game dl folder(w/subfolder labels), makes it easier to spot the mods that conflict.   I'm using these steps now myself again because I got lazy about my dl lately (yep even after all that, lol) but it will be a lot quicker to locate things this time.

[simpleprincess]

Im  probally being thick but I cant find the hack dectection thing on that link.

[DaSpecial1]

On the left side (grey tabs) click "Sims 2" then "Programs" then you will see it.

[simpleprincess]

It not doing anything. It seems to happen when ive got into buy mode for a bit then press play again. Its doing with even maxis created sims.

[amc462000]

then remove your downloads folder to your desktop or somewhere and see if it still does it. If not, then it is CC that is not compatible. You will have to add back in a little at a time, until the problem happens again and you will know what is causing the problem. If you do not want to take the large amount of time that is necessary to do this, just start your downloads over from scratch being careful not to download ANYTHING INCLUDING CLOTHES OR HOUSES that are not compatible with your expansion packs or stuff packs.

[simpleprincess]

I want to cry. I took out ALL my downloads and just restored all neighbourhoods by copying and pasting from ts2 data to neighbourhoods folder and now its worse.*sob* I went to strangetown and tried to put the newson family into a small lot and all its doing is loading and loading for an hour now. im so mad cos I upgraded my computer to cope with this problem I dont have the patience to sit here for over an hour to play 1 lot. thats why i upgraded, it seem 1g ram isnt enough 2-3 gigs of cpu aint enough ethier although it didnt do this before though. It just started doing it now. thats WITHOUT cc and any mods hacks etc.... just loading maxis sims in a small maxis lot. *tears hair out*  oh and it keeps cutting back to the desktop.

ps. I have every expansion and stuff pack installed so it couldnt be something i dont have.

[lonleyma1000]

mines bad 2 ive made the same family 9 times and it freezes everytime ive uninstalled it and everything

[simpleprincess]

Its driving me mad lol. I ended up having to "control alt delete" out the game and "end process" it just wouldnt go into the lot , i got bored of waiting. Its worrying because it didnt do this before and with all my thousands of downloads installed. i think Imight make sos to my computer guy friend tommorow get him to clean up my computer, get rid of stuff I dont need that might be hogging everything. if it still does it ill have to upgrade again.

[amc462000]

I think I know your problem. I just looked at your first post again and saw your specs.  This is what you need to run just apartments not counting all of the other ep & sp's:
Minimum System Requirements for The Sims 2 Apartment Life
 
 
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

1.8 Ghz processor (2.4 for Vista)
512 MB RAM (1GB for Vista)
Windows(R) Vista, Windows XP, Windows ME, Windows 98 or Windows 2000 Operating System.
8x or faster CD/DVD drive
At least 1.5 GB of additional hard drive space (5.0 GB total is required if installing both The Sims 2 and The Sims 2 Apartment Life at the same time.)
A T&L-capable video card with at least 32 MB of video RAM.
 
 You do not have enough hard drive space for all of those games and stuff packs maybe. How much of your hard drive is free?  of the 80 gig total you have, is what you called "2-3 gig cpu" all the space you have left?

[caffeinated.joy]

I think they might mean 2-3 ghz

[amc462000]

Of course.    I am sure you are correct. So she doesn't say how much storage she has on it then.