Major, major insane lag.
rwills:
My thoughts are to first do a back-up of the entire My Documents--EA Games--The Sims 2 folder, and then uninstall FreeTime and Bon Voyage.*
Also you'd need to delete any BV-specific or FT-specific custom content you have.
If the lag is still more than you are willing to put up with, then uninstall Seasons.
Base game up through OFB are not as computer-straining as are EPs (and the M&G SP) which came out after OFB.
Remember that Sims2 is not backwards-compatible (you will lose all your saved games), so read about uninstalling EPs (and about back-ups) here before doing any uninstalls:
http://www.sims2wiki.info/wiki.php?title=Game_Help:Uninstall#How_to_Uninstall_Expansions
*If you don't want to lose your saved games, then you should not uninstall an EP.
SangsBleus:
FreeTime and Bon Voyage you say?
Could I possibly substitute an expansion for FreeTime? I just got it and I really like it so far, but I'm not crazy about Bon Voyage. I could uninstall Bon Voyage and possibly University, and the Teen Style SP. If I did that, do you think it would have an effect?
rwills:
Entirely up to you what you want to try to uninstall (with the same caveats mentioned previously) and then see if the lag improves.
All I can offer is that the later EPs are more additionally graphics-intensive and computer-resource-hogging than the earlier ones.
My own desktop computer cannot handle anything after OFB, and that is because the best graphics card it can possibly accomodate (not the manufacturer's chipset, but a freestanding graphics card) gets flummoxed with any of the later EPs.
ancienthighway:
In addition to everything already posted, any neighborhood that loads for the first time after adding new EPs will take longer than you are used to because of the neighborhood files being modified for the new EPs. Subsequent loading, provided the new EPs haven't put the computer into a highly stressed condition, should be more in line with what you're used to having.
Engram:
If you want to keep FT, get rid of Seasons. The rain and snow will make the lag even more insane. That would have been the first one to go if I were in the same situation. That and BV.
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