Ok so I went out and bought a new video card today because the game wouldnt even stay playing into create a sim. All the hair styles werent showing up and the game kept crashing. Now I installed the video card and my game worked for a good hour or 2 in create a sim. It was a little slow but it worked perfectly. Then I moved her into a house and this is when it started crashing again! I tried the game compatability test and I passed. I have a compaq Presario which is about 2 years old if that. I just got a Nvidea geforce 8400 gs with 512 mb. I have 1.5 RAM, plenty of hard drive space, and windows xp sp2. My processor is an athlon 64 with 2.2ghz. I'm quite low on money, but I'm assuming its crashing because of RAM. I was planning on buying some, but is this a good idea? A  message came up like the 5th time opening the game after it worked saying my video card isnt compatable. I just spent more than 60 dollars. It'd be greatly appreciated if someone could help because I did enjoy what I got to play and this is frustrating. Thanks in advance! 

Ok so I've read through a few FAQs and I found out how to backup the game on the desktop and I pulled out the saved sims and downloads folders and pasted them on my desktop. After that the game loaded perfectly. Now I need to know how to delete things and get my game working again without deleting all of my content. Any help would be appreciated. I am a dummy when in comes to computers so the more info and steps you can give the better. Thank you

So since I installed AL I can not seem to download any furniture. All the create a sim stuff comes up: hair, makeup, skins, clothes, eyes, ect. But for some reason I have no downloaded furniture. I'm about to install the patch hoping that will work plus none of my mods are working either. Any help would be greatly appreciated thank you. Its getting hard to play with no mods or new furniture, I'm too used to them.

I have had some requests to upload some of my sims but is it possible to extract them from the game and upload them on here or modthesims2 ?

I don't know if I'm doing something wrong or if this is a glitch but I cannot seem to turn my plant sim back into human form. I really love the sim I made and I don't want him to be a plant sim. I called the garden club several times and there is no option to buy a potion, please help me.

I was debating on sharing my sims with people but I have a few questions first.

1.Do you have to use body shop?(can I use all custom content and just create a sim?)
2.Where would I go to upload sims?
3.If anyone can find a nice and easy tutorial for it please let me know.

Thanks in advance.