Mixxi001: We discovered in another post that your system specs can't play this game.. You only have 112 MB of RAM, and your S3 graphics card may not be supported by this game..

Minimum Ram is 256.. then comes the graphics issues.

 

try lowering your video and sound settings through the Options menu.
for directX go to www.microsoft.com/directx and download DirectX 9.0c
i believe that is the latest version, if that doesnt help please post system specs

 

Rachbach,

hi im having the same problems you had and i was wondering if you can answer some of my questions. ok, my sims 2 game freezes up also and the sims move so slow, which is boring. i was wondering how do i update DirectX...a link would help. and what are the things you updated to make your game trouble free? please reply or email me at mixxi001@hotmail.com because i really want to play this game! thanks

 

Thanks for the input Dunphy. Actually, I'm pretty hip on computers and figured the ram might be the problem. I went into the taskmgr and ended all unnecessary programs and so far sims2 has not locked up on. I think I'll buy a couple 1gb memory sticks. 2gb should about do it hopefully. I appreciate your feedback. We were getting frustrated for a while there.

 

back when i had 512 MB of ram the game would freeze up for a few seconds every now and then. it was real sluggish during play mode... (not so much in build- which is what i did most of the time) i would recommend buying some more ram, but make sure you know what kind you need... maybe take your computer to a computer store, or if you wanna take the chance of breaking the stick of ram... take it out of your computer and bring it to Best Buy or some electronics store ( or even a computer store if you dont wanna have the hassel of bringing your whole computer to them ) and ask them if they could get you a stick of either another 512 (would probably be best for the money... anything more would get to be expensive, and im not too sure if 768 is enough) i recently upgraded to 2 gigs, and it runs fine. If thats not the problem, sorry. maybe you could take the computer and get everything upgraded, not sure. but good luck

[EDIT] try turning the video/sound settings down too, before you go out and buy anything