eli5: Why is it when sims 3 (for the PC) freezes, the diamonds above their heads still spin/their “zzz”s keep moving, and the grass moves when everything is frozen?

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eli5: Why is it when sims 3 (for the PC) freezes, the diamonds above their heads still spin/their “zzz”s keep moving, and the grass moves when everything is frozen?

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This is because the computer has not frozen, only the game has – and it hasn’t really *frozen* either. The game is performing some process that your machine is taking time doing. Usually this is due to resource constraints (not enough or fast enough RAM or slow CPU).