Ok I did more online digging and I FIXED it! Woot!

I came across an entry somewhere where someone posted they had an invisible fire problem.

When I typed in the testingcheatsenabled true I got an error.. I looked up the error and it mentioned the trellis. Aha!  I went back onto the lot, deleted all the trellises, saved and then exited and re entered the lot. The whole fence line was ablaze!!!

Called the fire department who put it (and the kid's rear end cuz I could not for the life of me get him to come away from the fire lol!) out, saved the lot and voila! Time running normally again.

How exhausting! I'm wondering now if lightning will strike that trellis everytime. It looked really cool as a privacy fence along the front side of the pool.

I'm thrilled though, this lot is 4th generation, going on 5th for this family. I all ready almost lost them once when I.. ahem.. accidentally deleted the eye file for that family. lol

Thanks for letting me run at the mouth here til I figured it out. I was really worried for a bit there.

Oh, and then this morning my game wouldn't load AT ALL. Talk about panic inducing. I saw about deleting the group cache file and it worked like a charm.

I am positive. I can go to the lot just across from it I built about the same time and it runs perfectly. I checked to see. The clock runs just as it should.

There's not a *lot* of stuff on the lot. It's pretty bare, really, especially when I started just dumping stuff off of it trying to figure out what might be causing it. When I click triple speed it goes "normal speed".

I've been playing Sims since the beginning and I've never seen or heard of this problem before.

I am loving the Clean Installer though. Since I deleted a ton of duplicate downloads my game is loading so much faster! I had no idea I had that many duplicated files. It was insane!

The only hacks I am running now is the nurse baby and the friends/careers one, and my other lots work fine with those two.

Can it be the dog? It's a custom basset.. I found it at mod the sims 2. Is there a program like Sims file cop for Sims 2?

Okay.. it was neither the nurse baby *nor* the no friends for careers hacks. I took em both out, put one in, took it out put the other in.. then put them both back in.

It was also *not* the Urbz thing, which is gone now anyway.

I found two entirely different hacks that came with something I downloaded a day or so ago, deleted those and the spawn thing is gone entirely but time is still wonky on *just that one lot*. I don't get it. I've taken everything off that lot I can think of that might be causing the time lag.

It's always the lots I really wanna play that get screwed up somehow. Ugh!

I've searched online but haven't found anyone else who has the time lag problem. I can count to 12, SLOWLY, between sim minutes. It's *that* slow. I just don't get what happened! It was fine. Had a sim couple, then a sim baby.. then had another sim baby and added a dog about the same time. I deleted both the new baby and the dog, saved, gone back into the neighborhood and then re entered the lot much like you'd do with a stuck sim thinking maybe either the new sim baby or the dog might be the problem, but it didn't fix anything.

I'm completely stumped here.

Thanks for all your help and advice.. if you have any ideas, I'd be grateful!

I tried another lot. Time worked fine but still had the spawn memory thing.  I took both hacks out but time still ran weird.I got impatient and went looking. I found the Clean Installer and installed it, found an Urbz something or other that got d/l'd with something else so I trashed that. I'm still deleting tons of duplicates in my downloads folder.

Hopefully that will solve it!

If not, I'll take the nurse baby/no friends out  and see what happens then.

Hopefully getting rid of that Urbz thing will have fixed it.

I downloaded a nurse baby hack and also the pets version of No friends for career thing (I have all packs to Seasons).

Time in my lot is not working correctly. Normal speed game play goes reallllly slow, and triple speed is "normal speed." I don't even know how to explain it but it's driving me nuts. How do I fix it? I took out the nurse baby hack thinking that might be it. Nope.

Also, when I click on an active sim I get "Spawn- Memory" something or other as an option.

Can I fix it? I really don't wanna scrap the lot!

Thanks,

Ell