Sims 3 freezing on my laptop

Hello, I'm new to this, but I want to thank everyone here for all that you do. You give some great assistance and advice, and it has helped me through so far.

I have a few of the Sims 3 bought games and I have downloaded a few expansions. For about a month everything was working perfectly for me, but the past few days the game freezes about every minute. I usually just click on another speed and it goes back to normal for a minute, and continues that way. I have read somewhere looking at other questions about this, that someone asked if it was a laptop. I have a laptop, so is there something different I can do to possibly solve this problem?

Hello,

Please try this Fix: https://games4theworld.forumotion.com/t752-the-sims-3-ultimate-fix-should-fix-most-of-your-problems

I applied the fix immediately after the downloads, and it worked great up until a few days ago.

I've been using mods/cc since then also. Everything worked fine. I downloaded the Twallan's Master Controller mod, then I started to see a difference in the game. So I deleted it, no change, then reinstalled all the games, then copied my backup over. Still no change. Now I'm stuck dealing with the freezing.

Hello,

Please try this:

1. Go to My Documents\Electronic Arts\
2. You'll see a folder called The Sims 3 .
3. Drag & drop this folder to your Desktop and remove it from Documents.
4. Start the game and see if it works now.

Good luck!

Thanks, gonna give it a try now. I'll let you know how it goes.

//EDIT

I just tried it, but when I started playing everything got lost, I have
to start over again. Is it lost for good, or is there something I can
do to get it back? I did not back it up, before I tried.

So maybe that's what happened. I did exactly as instructed, drag and drop. And the game started over. But all the worlds I was currently working on, i.e. legacy, asylum, they're gone. And as you said the mods/cc are gone also.

I tried that, but I think the problem might have been, I had an extra The Sims 3 folder inside The 3 folder. So by the time I figured that out, I thought it best to just start anew. Thank you for all the help. I truly appreciate it and everything else you all do.