Sims 3 Playing Slowly
Hello, I hope someone can help me with this. I installed the Sims 3 a few days ago and the first time I played it, it was unbearable it was sooo slow. I installed the update on the prompt screen and the speed seemed to pick up a bit but its gone back to being slow again to play. I reduced the setting recommended to pick up gamespeed & restarted the game, no such luck. It's getting really frustrating because I can't even take the game back to the store because I purchased it from EA online. I have attached my video card info maybe its my PC that's having the issues here. I've uninstalled most things so there's a lot of space but maybe a kind person on here can tell me how to fix this issue. Thanks!
PC Spec is as follows:
Pentium 4 2.30GHz 1GB Ram
Windows XP Service Pack 3
Total memory capacity 224GB, Available: 141GB
Total Physical Memory: 1,024.00 MB
Available Physical Memory: 478.89 MB