Nope. Didn't make a CAS. I forgot how to........lol

I've been sitting here all night long trying to figure out what on God's Green Earth, do I have on my hard drive that could affect two different games from the same company?!!? None of my other games are affected. Just those two.

It's just plain weird....

Well, the lagging still persists. I kept trying to remember exactly when this all started. I remember I had to download an update for EA Download Manager because I wanted this new neighborhood from Sims Design Avenue. So, I did everything I was suppose to do. Once I remembered that, I uninstalled everything Sims 3 related. Including, the Download Manager. Now, the lagging has gotten to the point of, affecting a different EA Game. Mass Effect 2. So, something on my harddrive is affecting both games. They both lag something terrible.

Took my downloads folder out. Still lags. Updated my video drivers. Still lags. Took practically everything out of my Sims 2 folder. Still lags.

I'm just wondering if I just uninstalled my Sims 2 games and reinstalled them if that would work. That's about my only option.

By the way, does anybody know the exact path to where the games are that I got through the download manager?!!? It would be easier than redownloading them again. If, in fact, they actually are on my hard drive.

Something keeps popping into my mind when reading this.

I knew this lady who caught a virus/bug. And, what it did was, it latched onto her Excel program and made spreadsheets until her hard drive was full.

Moving a Sim to a different neighborhood borks your game.

Be careful.

Nonni Baaaaaay-Beeeeeee!!

You did a great job!

It worked.

Thank you!

Since I had to generate a new Sims 2 folder, all the houses I had in the houses bin vanished.

I'm guessing the Lot Catalog Folder on my desktop contains all my houses. Is it safe to assume that I can copy and paste the contents from the desktop folder to the folder inside the game and all the downloaded houses will show up?

Thank you!

You're welcome!

I downloaded it and uploaded it to Box.net

See if you can download it.

Link removed.

Might be your internet connection. I'm using Internet Explorer, and I saw it just fine. Got there with no problem.

I'm 53.

You know, I swear I didn't want to uninstall the games. But, something made me double check here. 

Who in a million years would've thought that all I had to do was, yank out my Sims 2 folder?!!?

Nonni, Baaaaayyy-Beeeee!! Did in fact save the day.

Thank you both!

I'll tell you, I was just about ready to uninstall my games, then I ran across your post. So, I gave it a try. You know the outcome. YAY!

I don't know why, but, Dean Martin, and the song, Seattle, ran through my mind wen I saw you were from Washington. Lord knows, I just dated myself. YIKES!

The hammer tool came with the Pets EP.

Nonnie, Baaaaaayyy-Beeeee!!!

I followed your suggestion, and it worked!! I tried twice and I don't get those black and blue flashes anymore. Granted, I had nothing in the game when I did that, but I'm happy with the result.

From Las Vegas to wherever you are, I send you a million hugs and kisses.

Thank you!

Well, I defragmented my hard drive overnight. Ran another virus scan. Found nothing. I also uninstalled three programs I don't use anymore.  Then, I went via msconfig and shut down a few unneeded programs at start up because I know I don't need them.

I yanked out my downloads folder, SavedSims, Projects and Neighborhoods folder. When the game started up, just after, Over Waxing Banisters, scrooled by, the game/screen flashed black then blue, then resumed. It's never done that before. The animated preview of the neighborhoods lagged pretty bad. I regenerated all the hood's again on purpose. I didn't even bother going into any neigborhood.

It's amazing how this just all of a sudden just happened.