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Simmers' Paradise / General Sims 2 Help / Unbearable Lag; Choppy game performance for no reason
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on: May 25, 2007, 02:30:41 pm
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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. 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.
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Simmers' Paradise / General Sims 2 Help / Unbearable Lag; Choppy game performance for no reason
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on: May 24, 2007, 06:14:50 pm
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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. 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. I ran cleanup and defrag before (to no avail), but the error check utility? Where's that?
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Simmers' Paradise / General Sims 2 Help / Unbearable Lag; Choppy game performance for no reason
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on: May 24, 2007, 05:32:40 pm
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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?
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Simmers' Paradise / General Sims 2 Help / plantsim
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on: March 02, 2007, 02:15:22 pm
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You need to overspray your garden with pesticide.
I don't think it works, though, because I tried to get my Sim to overspray her garden and billion times; and STILL no plant-sim.
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