I've been able to save on the WA 2.2.8.002002 without any issues. 

In my WA game I've had a sim with the green thumb trait happily growing a garden of plants, including ones from China. I've got the very latest patch, and minimal CC - just defaults and 2 hairs. It may be some CC that's interfering.

You can just buy common relics from the shop.

Sim-Fu video - my sim is the blue belt, this was part of an adventure quest.
http://tinypic.com/r/29dbxue/6

You need to click on 3booter, which will then launch both the FPS limiter and your game.

The game still needs a FPS limiter, I just tested it then with my GTS250 1gb, and I was getting frame rates between 200 and 3500. My GPU temp jump 10'c before the game had even loaded properly. I'm using the manual FPS creation tool for now, and it's keeping my game to 30fps happily.
Stupid Fucking EA. Why can't they put Vsync in? 

Nvidia card users can also run EVGA to adjust their fan speed. I use it to put the fan at max, and use JM's 3 booter and fps plugin to keep things sweet. There is also a thread floating around of a standalone fps limiter here on MATY, but it wouldn't play nice for me, and the 3booter was easier.

For those with questions about video cards: My machine is a good example.
Originally I had a ATI 9550 - 128mb. Ran fine on med/low settings, could play for hours without a single issue. I was given a ATI 9800 series, 512mb. Game looked beautiful, on med/high settings, but then I noticed my system would get unstable and crash. Temp monitors showed my card hitting the high 80'c range, and then the system would reboot. Sometimes it would lock out the video card until it cooled. Thinking that the card had died, I went and bought the earlier mentioned Nvidia GTS250 -1GB. Game was even more pretty. Card would get to 79'c and I could smell a burning smell. The heat sink on this bitch is huge, like 2" thick of fins and copper pipes and a fan plus I have fans pushing air right over it. Set up a fps monitor and realised I was getting 3000+ fps while the game was loading. [That stupid plumbbob screen] I would get ingame fps from 100+ to 1500+. Using 3booter and the fps plugin, I get a happy 30fps, everything is pretty, and my card never gets over 60'c unless it's a hot day. The only time I get abnormal spikes in heat is when using the launcher, as that shows 1500 - 3000+ fps.

Before you blame the card - Crysis runs lovely with vsync on, and keeps it below 60'c. EAxis fucked up.

If you are trying to do it on the cheap, check out what is the max processor your mb can handle. Even better if it is a reasonably new socket type for further upgradability. I'm using an old AMD AM2 socket, but my mb will take newer AM2s and AM3s. As for video cards, I'm quite pleased with my Nvidia GTS250 1gb. Things are pretty, and it was AUD $170.
Edit: Can't say I've done much with core2, all the recent work I've done building kit is quadcore.

If we ask for specs, we want specs. Processor, ram, video card. Did you create the framework properly? Are you using framework from Pescado or Delphy and not someone like Rose/Peggy's? If you remove awesomemod & the config file, does your game return to regular speeds?
In short: MOAR information pls.

I think that should be Fairlight's new permanent outfit.

The easy way is to get the 3booter and fps plugin found here.

I'm just sick of getting UAC issues every time I save a file on my thumb drive. I don't care if the OS get's toasted, I reformat every 6 mths regardless.

Out of curiosity, what's the big deal about disabling UAC?

I can see the pop up now:
"Do you want to check the mail box? Just remember, it's dark in there, your hand may be eaten by a Grue."

I have a large amount of TS3 content, and my save times would be 20 seconds tops. I think that some CC is borked, watch out for content made with the TSR tool, or anything downloaded from there.

You're right Rice Ball, I've been building PCs for 7 years. If I had more money, the rig would be bleeding edge. Unfortunately Shroomlet comes first. I've been circling around Win7 but I still play old games, and I would hate to lose the compatibility, and I'm currently to busy to make my machine dual boot. The joy of computers is they only run as fast as your slowest component.
Yes the GTS250 is over kill for TS3, but RA3 sure looks purty!


Getting in before Pescado: PIRATE CAT DOESN'T PAY FOR HIS GAMES!

If the WGA is an issue, you're not trying hard enough.  Found a legitimate key, modded my hosts file, and haven't looked back since. Same way I get CS4 to play nice.

It was a freebie for building a computer for a friend. I've got a brand new mobo that supports amd 2/3 and the plan is to buy a new cpu after I drop some money on a better psu and cooling.

Since we're throwing around hardware configs and questions, I just upgraded to a AMD 4600+ dual core with 4gb ram and a shiny new Nvidia GTS250 1gb video card. TS3 flies, and I'm looking forward to reinstalling TS2 to enjoy it at a reasonable speed.
I am wondering if it would be worthwhile to arr-quire a copy of 64 bit XP to take advantage of the new hardware. Does 64 bit XP recognise more ram or is 4gb still the limit? I'd rather not go to Vista, I just find it really clunky.

If you go Win XP, it takes about 3 mins of work, plus letting the computer do it's thing to make a disc with the appropriate SATA drivers built in. I'm actually building one for Saraswati, going for a quad core Intel, 4gb ram, 1gb video card, burner, 1TB sata drive and Gigabyte mobo for $1100 AUD. I quite like what your looking at spec wise.

You could kill the OS, and go Pirate Cat. Otherwise it looks pretty sound. BTW your shopping cart link doesn't show anything for me - it would be cookie based.

I would use Alcohol 120% rather than Nero though, if they have it installed.

I tried this with the 7 homeless families I had, worked wonderfully and also got rid of my 1am lag. I was playing an existing family, went to edit town and could use familyfunds cheats without issue.

My Klepto got a shower, bath and bar when he went to the gym for the first time, now he only gets lights. I'm stuck waiting for them to regenerate it's been 3 sim weeks and nothing has come back.