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Okay, this has never happened before. I used to be able to run the Sims 2 + all EPs on high graphic settings with barely any lag, but when I opened the game today, it was extremely choppy; the neighbourhood camera crawled like a snail, and I couldn't even enter the boolprop cheat without waiting a few seconds for each letter to load.

I have no clue what caused this, since nothing unusual happened to my computer. I tried lowering the graphic settings, but it made absolutely no difference. I turned off shaders (boolprop useshaders false) - no difference. I ran disk defrag and cleanup, closed background tasks, ran -w and -nosound mode but the game was still laggy like hell.

I ran dxdiag to check on my settings, and everything was the same as before. In a desperate last attempt, I deleted all the custom content I installed in the past 48 hours; still made no difference.

I'm just...stumped. :| I've got no idea why this happened, or how to fix it. Any help?

It could be your computer just needs to be run through a basic maintenance. Trying running a disk cleanup, and defrag. It wouldn't hurt to run the Error check utility on your hard drive either.

Maybe you have just too MUCH CC and you need to delete more. Games go slow with more CC, I would know. :smile:

I doubt it. I have less than 400 files of CC, most of which are hacks/mods. Also, my game ran fine before.



I ran cleanup and defrag before (to no avail), but the error check utility? Where's that?

Open the My Computer icon on the desktop.  Right click on the drive you want to check, select Properties, Tools Tab, Error-checking.

Ran the error check. Still laggy as hell.

Do I need a graphic card update or something? It shouldn't be the case, since everything was fine when I used my current one...

Maybe there's a hack or mod conflict. Try running that thing that checks for conflict. It's somewhere on InSim...

You mean the hack conflict utility? It's at Paladin's Place (http://www.simwardrobe.com/). Click Sims 2 on the left hand sidebar and go to objects.

Oh well I saw the link on InSim somewhere...let me go look...

yes, probably from Squinge. LOL. He's always giving the link to it.

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

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.

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.

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.
 
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.

I'm sure the expired shelf life is tongue-in-cheek.

Have you tried running Uni with BGS?

I would if I knew what it was.

...Yeah. Excuse my utter stupidity.

Base Game Starter

I never heard of BGS either :laugh:

Ok, I was being real lazy Squinge.  And you have heard of the Base Game Starter that Numenor made. :P

:sign5: No I haven't :rofl:

Then you have now.  Nifty little scripts that alter the Registry settings to allow you to run up to any of the EPs you have.

:rofl: true :laugh:

Rofl, I feel completely stupid. I even mentioned using the BGS in one of my earlier posts...another sign of retardation.

It's fixed, though. I installed Nightlife and played everything smoothly. The uni game seems to be the only problem.

Hehe, actually my game runs smoother since I installed Seasons and I`m not the only one to have noticed it.

I`m glad it`s over, a slow game can be a real blood pressure raiser.

Oh, and you might want to patch both EPs (if you haven`t done it yet).