:mrgreen: Thank you! It occurred to me last night that it may tell you something you will understand if I tell you what went on in my games.
I had played TS2 once the Uni came, but didn't play 3 until LN came out, + I saw the music in the kiddos game. Not sure of time frame.
From the beginning used my method of 'sort family, bin' till I had the whole of BP in the bin + could start my Perfect BP with own created sim.
Zero lag, zero freezes as I in anyway dumped the butterfly park. Exchanged ALL elevators in game as had seen the problem with Aquarius. Only cheat I ever used was to get the Map to the stars for current sim so I could 'track' + see if anyone was stuck in lifts after the clubs closed. Noticed sometimes Sims would even be 'stuck' in the Grind, so always vigilant in scanning the town. Obviously as debug was always enabled I saw and kept control of spawners + in fact removed them all anyway, unless my sim was 'collecting' but usually he only collected in vac worlds.
Only problem ever encountered was when the traveling broke. If they took a photo, that also made the game 'fatal freeze'. Shrugged it off and just never traveled.
Only came and joined the com when I couldn't get the Band gig challenge done, last Feb I think. Didn't use my page until Sept/Oct I think, but had been buying from the store from get go. Uploaded to my studio to 'bank' as it was a good way for me to move sims from one computer to the other. First d/l from the exchange a world from Coasterboi + a world from Pyrontium. Only later d/l'd the odd pattern, sim or venue.
First uninstall was not because of problems, but because Pets recommended installing Origin. If, not when Origin launched the game it took 20 minutes.
Installed Pets on other pc, no Origin, no problems.
Uninstalled Pets on main pc, uninstalled Origin, reinstalled Pets. No problems.
CC of course gone, no more silly broken boots on everyone and malformed children.
Read about the 'bad CC' to dumb to understand it.
Had no choice but to patch for ST, had to accept Origin. TG no more 20min loading time, and could launch from launcher.
Got 'clever' when I d/l'd a copy of one of my sims that had that Shymo outfit identified by Crinrit, + uninstalled it in my launcher. Red lined my launcher. Didn't know better, thought if I had broken my launcher I had 'broken' my game.
Did the whole uninstall all over again, and lost all my port achieves.
No problems with anything at all until my video card crashed and burned and because of a 3-4 week waiting period, got the one I now have which is of course 'too new'. Got the Ai sorted and the only problem I have is that the wild horses and unicorns that spawn in every hood, regardless of whether you leave the Horse Venue there or not, cause huge shattered crystals in the sky when they appear, and game crashes if they enter the lot I am on. BB is totally unplayable, hoods get progressively worse, map view becomes a 'fatal freeze' if a horse spawns while in that view. I never had a hood degrade before.
I am hopeless with time, but I had a Bridgeport I had played from about a week after the release of LN, up until the Origin/Pet uninstall. I did still have my library copies of families tho. That was when I made the huge push to get them uploaded to 'Bank', in case I lost them for some reason as well.
I was not aware of the problems it could cause, and the only 'dopplegangers' I got was when traveling broke.
Whew. Hope there is something in there that adds to your knowledge.
