I'm so frustrating about Sims 2 vs Sims 3!

[Minty]

Hello Sanx. Hope you will stay around and join in the rest of the forum.

Playing Sims 3 on a laptop comes at a price, especially if you have lots of custom content (some of which has high poly counts - especially hair - that makes them more trouble than they are worth). It's a good idea to periodically purge your game of any things you are not going to use again.

Late Night can be dreadful with laptops, not least of all because Bridgeport is a real resource hog even on a good desktop system, luckily though there are lots of excellent custom worlds that will allow you to play it properly in a smaller world - check out Crazy Town and Bear Mountain Creations for some of them by a guy called Richdre who is a genius at building neat little worlds compatible with all levels of Sims gaming.

Somewhere else to bear in mind is NRaas - Twallan's website. He provides lots of mods that cut down on the clutter in the game (such as the silly number of taxis and cars the game will have zooming about since Late Night was patched) that will speed your game up enormously.

Upgrading the video card for a laptop isn't the same as doing it for your PC/Mac - sometimes you're better off getting a new laptop, it all depends what sort of one you have just now.

If you try and be more specific as to your set up, I'm sure we will be able to help you some more with this.