The dog clearly understands how the game works . I don ' t think you fully understand how dogs behave . <| sep |> For the original 40 $ price yeah . But if you can get everything for less than 20 then it ' s well worth it . <| sep |> Do you frequently clear the caches ? Use Save As instead of save ? Frequently move the save files to another folder ? When you start noticing problems , do you save your household to the bin , just in case ? It ' s easy enough to plop them down in a new town if the old town gets too messed up . If you do that , be sure to put items you want to save in ether personal or family inventory , even when saving with the house . Outside of that , can ' t really help you . I ' ve played the sims on a very old laptop and despite how long it ' d take to load , and sometimes while playing it ' d freeze up and need to sit for a while , I only got error 12 once . It was actually the only error I got . I moved to a newer computer recently , and don ' t have the same loading and lag problems , but if I have a ton of saves in the folder , I might get an error .