whiteknite

hi i read your post on looking at the website to se if my lappie is compatable with the sims 2 and it is, ive looked at many forums and it seems that my problem is not that common, i can load the game and the expansion on fine i have the universaty expansion. but if i chose an existing sim it goes to the loading screen and thats all nothing else happens, the misic still plays in the background but thats all. the same happens when i create my own sim, when i click on the tick to finnish creating it will go to the loading screen and again do nothing the music will still play in the background,ive left it for a while to see if it just needed to catchup but no go. i have to ctrl ald del and end program through the taskmanager which says program not responding. this also happens when i just use the sims 2 with no expansion. now i play wow alot and i have no problems with that, and it needs more advanced systems and graphics to run and i can run it with no problems. i have a figitsu seimens amilo with the intell centreno core two duo running at 3.4gig and 2 gig of ddr2 memory 160 gig sata hard drive and intel 965 express chipset. ive looked at lots of sites and this laptop comes out top for buisness and gaming every time, i think its vista but dont know what to do can u help?