Unbearable Lag; Choppy game performance for no reason
Pyromaniac:
Thanks, I'll give it a try. In the meantime, I noticed that if you go straight to University from the main menu, it becomes marginally less laggy. But if you enter the neighbourhood, the whole game crawls like a snail.
ETA: Nope, no conflicting hacks. This is driving me insane. :o
Wednesday17:
Your copy of the Sims has expired it's shelf life, you got to get a new one, like Maxis designed it.
I'm sorry, I know this isn't funny when it happens to you, I am deeply ashamed. I had a bad problem myself for the last MONTHS: my CAS would terminate the game each time. Even without ANY custom content. I tried EVERYTHING I could think of. And just yesterday I found out what had caused that problem. As simple as a couple of mp3 files in the CAS music directory. One of them must've gotten corrupt.
What I want to say with that: think OUTSIDE the box. Look at the other files as well, which are not in the downloads folder. Look at your dvd, is something wrong with that? Did you do a full scan disk with surface check (sorry not familiar with the names of the routines on English windows)? Also, there's a tool which checks your RAM physically, try a google search. Did you try another performance hungry game and did it run smoothly? Hmm... that's all I can think of for now. Good luck and please report back.
Dinki:
How many lots do you have in your neighborhoods? the more lots, espacially with families, especially of 5 or more sims and the more CC on the lots the laggier my game gets.
Pyromaniac:
Quote from: Wednesday17;743322
Your copy of the Sims has expired it's shelf life
I've already tried everything I could think of, so this seems like a plausible theory. I'm using an extremely old copy of Uni (Bought it when it was released), and I haven't installed any of my other EPs yet 'cause I wanted to "re-live" the whole University experience. I downloaded the basegame starter and ran my original Sims 2, and things went fine. Now I'm wondering if it's just a uni thing, and things will start working if I install Nightlife.
:lol: ...Wow. You know I'm getting desperate when I think installing more EPs will make the game run faster.
Quote from: Dinki;743749
How many lots do you have in your neighborhoods?
I created a whole new neighbourhood with no families, no lots, and no scenery. Besides, this "lag error" was extremely sudden. It wasn't a gradual lag (where it gets laggier every time I run the game). I was able to play this yesterday with no issues, but now it slows to a crawl.
ancienthighway:
I'm sure the expired shelf life is tongue-in-cheek.
Have you tried running Uni with BGS?
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