Anyone else having these gameplay issues?

So I literally deleted all of my other games because I wanted to play the sims again. There's plenty space on my laptop (one made for gaming) and the game used to run smoothly. It hasn't been more than 5 months probably since I last played. 

To the point, I can play in CAS just fine, no delays, no glitching, nothing. It's pretty smooth. But when I get to the actual game, it delays when I try to click on things and my sim takes FOREVER to do an action when I get to finally choose it. My assumption is that maybe I have too many packs n such but I only bought two things; eco lifestyle and the artist studio kit. I do have a lot of other packs downloaded but again, it's never been THIS bad before. I can handle lag but this made me want to rip my hair out lol

Any ideas as to fix this? Note: Im even playing on the lowest graphics.