Create A household Processing Problem

Hi,
I keep getting stuck on the "Processing" part of create a household, just after you click the tick after creating your sims/pets.

I've installed:

Sims 3
70's 80's etc
diesel
into the future
island paradise
master suite
outdoor living
pets
seasons
showtime
supernatural
uni life

And followed the update and crack guide on this forum.
I've also searched this topic to no avail.
One suggestion was to not give the sim you're creating a name/traits, then a pop up comes up and makes you add these in, before taking you to the processing bit.
I got this to work once with a female werewolf and a dog.
Tried it with a male werewolf and a dog, using the same technique and got stuck on processing again.

I've also tried clicking the tick after each sim creation then going back into create a sim from the portrait screen. Again got stuck on processing after creating a sim and dog.

I do not have any custom content.
my laptop spec:

[th]Processor[/th][th]Processor clock speed[/th][th]Memory[/th]

AMD Turion II Ultra Dual-Core M620

2.5GHz

4.00GB

[th]Graphics Processor[/th]

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4530

[th]Graphics Memory[/th]

512MB

Any ideas?

Hi there

Do you have any mods in your game? If so, what are they?

Nope, no mods at all. 

Although i installed all the games from games4theworld

it somehow picked up a previous few familys in the library, how would i check if i have any mods?

go to documents/electronicarts/thesims3/mods ifmods folder doesnt exist there then u dont have mods  

There was no mods folder.
I've tried leaving the processing part yes, If it works it takes a couple seconds, if it doesn't i've left for over an hour and nothing. 

I've just deleted the whole sims 3 my documents folder, lets see if this works.

//EDIT: Stuck on processing again.

I made a werewolf male, clicked the tick, it processed for a couple seconds then showed him in the portrait, clicked the x to go back, made a dog, clicked the tick and it's just processing again.

I'm going to try to make a family without a pet and see if that works. Just very frustrating making the sims I want over and over, without getting to use them in the game.

Err ok.

Yea I can play fine with any family. I've just made a family of 4 with no pets and it worked fine, moved them into a property and all working fine. 

I would lay the blame on pets, but it has worked before.

No I haven't tried Game Booster from IOBit, Will look into that now.

And to answer your previous post, Yes it's all up to date and applied the ultimate fix as per the guide's instrucctions on here.

I did yea. 

I've just successfully created another family of 2 sims. 

I'll try and make some pets now to see what happens.


EDIT

Just made a Genie and a dog. 

Didn't go into any detail really, which is what I was doing before. It seems if I go into too much detail on the dog then it doesn't want to get past processing.

Yea my graphics card is up to date.

And no mods at all

Tried that, then it got stuck on saving.

I think I'll just have to live with bland sims unfortunately

Yup all ticks, Downloaded the driver agent just to make sure my graphics was up to the latest version and it is.