
Probably because whatever processes load in the background have already loaded to some point (even after deleting cache files). The game will usually load slower after a full PC startup, but faster on second boot. ^ The "loads faster on second run" observation is an actual thing. try different combinations of compatibility layers and "admin"/"no admin" settings, it's somewhat a bit of random from one installation to another They should not make problems, but sometimes they do disable anything which is not necessary is there any program which may interfere with video, I/O, input devices enabled? Steam, Skype, Screen recorder/capture, your beloved music player in the background, machine manufacturer's installed software etc. does your hardware is properly (not necessarily in exact way) recognised by the game? have you tried to run the game with CPU limit? It's really old software which sometimes (not always) simply gets mad in multicore 64-bit enviroment, it just happens

check if the Win10 is not a problem itself (updates, rampart telemetry, additional services going wild ), you cannot disable many stuff, but you can limit it a bit clean it, like seriously disable any antivirus software while the game is working later add an exception to the whole Sims directory Speculating on the base of your description: There're numerous things which may make the old program behave weird (or not at all - by design it was not suppoused to even work in such conditions) in completely different enviroment. I am guessing that your issue has to do with either too much CC or bad CC or both. I suggest that you make a copy and test your copy without Downloads and see if there is a problem then.

My operating system is windows 10 home, version 1809. it is 2.50GHz and i have 8 gb of ram installed.

My laptop has a AMD Ryzen 3 2200U processor with radeon vega 3 graphics. I have no idea why this is happening because i have a laptop that is more than capable of running sims 2 because i can run the sims 4 and Skyrim fine with no lag and pauses at all. This is odd because despite the long load times and lag in a lot, i have no problems at all in create a sim and the neighborhood menu. So recently i started to play sims 2 Ultimate collection again but every time i go to play the game, the load times are really long and when playing in a lot, the game won't stop lagging and pausing for a few seconds. Ok, so i know there are a lot of methods to try and fix this but no matter what i do, nothing seems to work.
