Is it? I never knew... That would explain a lot, seeing as how he's both insane and neurotic.

Later, I went into CAS and opened up the Sim Bin. My various other downloads/creations were there, and when I had finally found my newly exported imported saved sim, this is what I saw:



wat dis?!

It's disturbingly funny...

Seriously? Unless my brains have been addled, I remember 4th speed was really fast. The little green bar under the sleep icon zoomed across within seconds!

Oopsies... Well, I did this today:


And I deleted everything... mods, saved games, registry keys, everything! 4th speed is still the same, if not slower, than 3rd speed. Ruh roh! I haven't used a significant amount of memory, and I'm pretty sure I don't have a virus.  The only things I did before I restarted were update Awesomemod and patch. I haven't updated Windows in awhile, but I don't think that would affect my simming.

Also, I found out that if I crack the game before I patch, I don't get that error message.

So when I first got my laptop back in March, the first thing I arr'd was TS3, and it ran perfectly, zipping along even with the highest graphics settings.  I stopped playing for a few months and when I restarted, I immediately patched my game.  After every patch, Windows would pop up with a little notice, saying something along the lines of "this program may not have installed correctly".  Naturally, I ignored the error message, and continued to launch Sims.  When I started it up,  everything was slower, and most noticeably, my 4th speed option had stopped working! What gives? Should I have listened to the error message?  Should I actually go out and buy the game? Forget that, I'm a poor bastard.

Really? I assumed it would pop up immediately after getting to skill level 8.  Thanks!

I never got the opportunity that lets you plant eggs, steak, etc., because I had some other skill opportunity at the time. Is there any way around this, or am I doomed to using shitty nice quality eggs for my key lime pies for the rest of my life?