Game is stuck but the task manager says it's still running

[alliejanee]

I installed University Life about two weeks ago and last night I downloaded Dragon Valley. I sent my sim to university for two terms and I just finished my final exams then all of a sudden when my sim was reading the game became stuck at 11:59pm. The the little sims icon about my sim is still moving and the trees are moving and even the sound is still playing. But I can't do anything. I'm using my laptop which is windows 7 and has the best graphics and whatnot for hp. This has never happened to me before for this long. It's been like this for at least an hour.

[pallyndrome]

From what you've said, I'd suggest turning off the game on task manager. When did you last save the game? You may have just been playing it for too long - perhaps your laptop overheated. If I were you, I'd turn the game off, give the computer a little break, then play again, but save often. If it keeps happening (freezing) - there's lots of threads about things to try to fix it in the Technical Help section, and we can help too.

[samoht04]

I've experienced this sort of thing before. Sometimes I leave it running for a bit and it sorts itself out or else I have to close it manually. I also try pressing the P key to make the game pause and eventually it comes up - I assume the game just overloads itself occasionally or something.

I'm moving this to the Tech Help board as it's not specifically a University Life issue.