Thank you so much for pointing this out to me! I was given this laptop by a family member not long ago and hadn't noticed I wasn't getting any updates. Took me a good few hours to find a fix online as Windows Updater itself was corrupted, but it's all sorted and up to date now. I dread to think how much longer I would have carried on without picking up on the lack of updates, so thanks again.
I've attached a screenshot of my save files - all the visible ones are the same save game. Hadn't realised I had so many as MCCC autosaves for me, could too many saves be an issue? Regardless I've stopped saving now.
@remedialcha0s Your saves list looks fine, and the fact that you have a lot of saves shouldn't have any impact here. The game should only load data from the save you're playing, otehr than the thumbnails from the other saves at the Main Menu of course. On the other hand, it's not going to hurt anything to move your older saves elsewhere, and it might make keeping track of the saves easier for you. Whatever you prefer is fine.
Your save was using most of your computer's memory but not all of it, and I wonder if the RAM use keeps going up until you really can't do anything at all with the save. It's difficult to tell from one screenshot, but you can keep an eye on the Task Manager once the save starts to lag and see what happens.
It's also entirely possible that this save's RAM use is fairly stable but that it's high enough overall to cause problems. In that case, try playing this save immediately after restarting your computer and without opening anything else, other than the EA App of course. It can also help to put the App in offline mode. Other than cutting off access to the Gallery, this shouldn't affect the game at all.
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