I am running a gateway with 1.5GB memory and a 512GB vidio card and i only had a problem when the sprinklers came on. Once I got rid of them it worked great. Love all the extras. I agree with you about the Pets EP. My buddy has a Dell that is about half of what I'm running has all the EPs also and noticed that his really slowed down untill he got rid of all his old neighborhoods that he had played the heck out off and started over. He seemed to think maybe the houses had too much memory in them. I don't know but it helped him. If you upgrade a little at a time, it really doesn't cost alot. It helps if you can do it yourself . 1GB memory should be less them $100.00 and takes about 10 minutes to put in.

yea,  sorry about that, my card is a 512 ati ...................... 1 Hour later YIPPEEE!! It's FIXED. Thanks you guys   :worship:    , after i put in the sprinker hack I can play and water at the same time. I have to say that after reading all the other problems people are having, mine didn't seem so bad. Thanks again everyone. What a great group of people we have here !!  :lurk:

thank you TenshiiAkari12 I will try one and see

i have a gateway 5200x with 1.5 GB Memory; x1600 Pro radeon 256 graphics card; Pentium 4 3.00GHz processor; 150GB harddrive . I have 87% free space. I have all paks except celebration. My computer sets all options on high in the game so I even tried setting them to low but when the sprinkles come on it all but stops it. Nothing else I do or where I go seems to slow the gameplay. Just when sprinklers come on. Also I have a car lot that has 3 emploees and up to 8 custumers without a propblem. I really dont think it is my computer. Thanks for your suggestions. Any More??

Wondering if anyone has had a problem with extremely slow gameplay in seasons. Seems to happen when to sprinklers come on in the greenhouse,at least it resumed to normal once I took them out. I am sure it is not my computer as I just updated it with ram/vidio card/ect.. If there is something to fix this I would be pleased to find out what it is. I did take out all downloads/mods but did not help