This is far more about game engine.
I'm using Win7 on an i5 with 6GB ram and a 1TB (D🙂 dedicated games HD, yet my sims 3 experience comes once every 30 secs after a prolonged game freeze. This has happened on multiple platforms and multiple computers. The most common obvious denominator is the game itself.
This is incredibly frustrating and makes the game almost unplayable, yet this is the third time I've tried to get the problem fixed...
Do you run with a setting that is not default (aging off)? Have you added lots to the game that are outside of the standard setup? Do you use any non-game mods?
I just wish the company would stop spending all their money on llama breeding and hire someone to try and fix the base game platform...
Ffs, there are still errors that were reported in Nightlife in the game!
The only thing I can recommend is that you make sure your graphics drivers are updated and you could try to re-install the game...
(Yup, 15 discs with an install time of about three hours here!) but most of all do not stop asking for help! 😉
