Sims - How to get motivated to play it?

It's so frustrating! Create A Sim is really slow for me as well. The actual game runs okay, not lightning fast, but playable at least.

The real thing why I'm struggling to play is because my game keeps crashing, so I literally have to save it every 10 mins, cause if I don't I get caught up in the game. And the next thing I know, it's been 3 hours and the games suddenly crashes, then I'm like "NOOO,ALL THAT PLAYTIME FOR NOTHING!" and I get so demotivated when this happens!!

The real thing why I'm struggling to play is because my game keeps crashing, so I literally have to save it every 10 mins, cause if I don't I get caught up in the game. And the next thing I know, it's been 3 hours and the games suddenly crashes, then I'm like "NOOO,ALL THAT PLAYTIME FOR NOTHING!" and I get so demotivated when this happens!!

I have to do the same thing and it's so irritating! Once I was playing a legacy family. I played for the majority of that day; I was on Generation 1 when I started playing and I got about halfway through Generation 2. I got so caught up in the game that I completely forgot about saving. Then my game froze and I had to restart my laptop and of course I had lost everything What a waste of a day I wish Sims 3 had an auto-save feature so that it automatically saved your game every half an hour or so.