#flashing purple

Question time! 

I suspect the answer is on LeeFish somewhere, but after an hour of browsing, I could not find what I was looking for. (It’s a great site, but I really wish it had a search option...) 

Here’s the question: Would an SSD help with the flashing purple problem? 

Here’s some background: 

I’ve had this flashing purple problem for a few months now, but it’s mostly been minor and happening only when the computer has been on too long. But lately it’s gotten worse, and been happening sooner. For example, today I turned on the computer, loaded my game, and went directly to play this family (i.e., no moving around the neighbourhood at all), and the above picture is what I see. No flashing purple on the lot, but I had them visit a community lot after half a day, and most of that lot was flashing purple. 

Programs/tweaks I have used following these tutorials:  - Graphics Rules Maker - CFF Explorer - Data Execution Prevention

The game sometimes crashes too, which is something that was not a problem for me until recently. So I wonder if maybe my desktop computer is getting old and tired. It has been wheezing more than it used to... 

Back to the SSD question: I’m not wanting to spend money on a new computer right now, but I could spring $100 or so on something like that if it would help. I use this computer mainly for playing the Sims, so I’d really like it to run better. From what I’ve heard, the SSD is great for running programs and games quickly, but I haven’t looked too deeply into it, and I don’t know if it would make much of a difference with older games like TS2. 

So lately I've been noticing flashing purple sims in my game. Not really the sims themselves, but the clothing, and the sims will have their arms outstretched and they're levitating rather than walking. It will also show up in icons, like the family picture when you click on a household to play.

I went to Google with my problem and there's very little on flashing pink/purple. One post on a forum said it was an outdated censor file, but I don't think that's the issue. I did find that raemia had this problem previously and looked through her comments on that (the 7.4 post of her legacy), but it wasn't all that conclusive.

Anyway, I'm going through my downloads and decided to have Clean Installer take a look, seeing as it has been a while since I've looked for duplicates and the like. What I noticed right away were files highlighted in light blue, a.k.a. Incomplete Body Shop Projects, and I am wondering if they are the culprit. From the FAQ on S2P Clean Installer it states:

Packages that are marked in light blue, with a type of "Incomplete BodyShop Project", contain BodyShop projects which do not have a Binary Index. These are almost always incomplete BodyShop files, which were taken from the Projects folder instead of the Saved Sims folder. However, there are some default replacements which will be incorrectly flagged.

Now a good portion of the light blue highlights are indeed default files. I'm sure most of them are fine, but I'm removing them for experimental purposes.

First 42 sims have moved in to the new Clayfield. I just finished fixing their personalities and genetics in SimPE. Next batch will move in as soon as I get my game loaded!