sims keep freezing in time?

[caffeinated.joy]

Yep, it would definitely be helpful to know how much space is left on the hard drive.

[luckynumber]

This may sound stupid (and believe me, if it doesn't work, please discard my advice) but sometimes when my game, either lots or the game proper is slow to load, I just minimize and pop back in. When the hourglass goes away, then the bar speeds through. Just a thought.
Good luck with your problem!

[simpleprincess]

I have 32.3 hard drive space left.
I woulda thought cpu wise 2 to 3 gigs was alright?
probally 1gb of memory might not be enough maybe?

Was it cos I restored all neighbourhoods? 

EDIT: Also I did system restore, started the game disabling cc, went to strangetown and loaded the newsons again and they are again frozen in time.
Then I exited the lot and loaded the beaker family and it did that loading forevermore thing again.
ive just gone through clean installer and deleted stuff in red except inteen and insim.

 Should I re-do the hard drive and start all over again?
reinstalling the whole game all over agIN? i wonder that its all corrupt.

[amc462000]

you have taken out every bit of your downloads and it still happens? Not just hacks but every one?

[Razamataz]

Try doing a boolproptetingcheatsenabled true then go in and out of buy mode this will then show the error. it alsoe makes a file read the error it should tell you the File name. Then you could post it here so we can look an see whats causing it..