I had started trying to delete all the free stuff from the store, and found that the game ran better for me. I had some weird stuff that wouldn't delete, so I did this today:
http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/372769.page
There IS hope, because when I started deleting whatever I had downloaded, my game started running better. Not just better, but one game is up to week30day1. Nobody has frozen in bed, no one locked up outside any business.
One thing I did was NOT let them work at any jobs other than gathering. We gathered fruits and veggies, planted, sold. I made a minimum home, very small, using all the free flooring and walls. Cheapest furniture, and new furniture made on the sculpting station.
I did try a time travel once, during that time, and a child of school age came back, and as soon as that happened, the fridge locked up. Couldn't prepare meals anymore. And that was something else I had to avoid, having children.
So, as long as I don't work or have children, LOL, the game has been running GREAT.
For awhile I was getting a bug a day (human days) when I played.
My current game is at week10.
I have none of the extra tools, just whatever comes with the game. I still get car pile ups. I end up deleting a lot of the car spaces. And then the parking areas get used to play catch in. That's a nice thought.
If there's no place to park, the townspeople shouldn't be continuing to generate new cars all the time. Seems to work for me anyway.
I'm not doing anything other than what I mentioned, it's the same computer, and the same install of the game as it was when I was having all the problems. There's no magic involved, so I don't know why the game is working right.
Of course, bypassing jobs and children makes for kind of restricted game play. I can keep my own character(s) immortal, but it's kind of sad watching all the neighbors get old and then they start to die.
And the sims really want to have a regular job, and all I can do is send them fishing or out to the garden or off to collect scrap.
