hi, thanks for the reply, the battery is okay cause it's a new computer. After I wrote my last message yesterday I checked the time on the computer and it was set at sept 2003 at 3am,not sure if the game does that or not so I put it at the right date and time but lost everything but knew it would do that. I started a new one and just got my garden and everything back. I set the time on the computer last night at 5pm and paused it for the night and this morning it was just at 5:45pm and for every 10 minutes the game plays the time on the computer on goes by 1 minutes. strange.