Game won't load after installing the Awesome Mod.
Ms_Tamany:
I have a similar problem. I'm running XP SP2, on a machine that used to have no issues at all with Sims 3. I have a fresh install, fully patched, all eps and sps except for OLS, and a tried-and-working framework. I currently only have NRAAS' No CD mod, and Rick's No Intro mod installed. The game loads up fine with those in place. However, when I drop in AM, the game refuses to even reach the loading screen. It stalls out at the pre-loading, pre-intro black screen with the 'waiting' hourglass cursor, and hangs there doing absolutely nothing until I Ctrl-Alt-Del out of it and kill the process.
Other than tight pants (which I am not currently wearing), does anyone have any ideas what it could be? If I have to wait for the next AM update, so be it, but I'll be utterly miserable playing vanilla until then. I hope that warms the FOJ's cockles to know that. AwesomeMod rocks my world, and doing without it is torture!
witch:
If you're really patched right up, then it's a framework fail. Srsly.
Ms_Tamany:
I tried to edit my first post to add this information, but for some reason it wouldn't save the edits, so I had to wait for someone to reply, so I wouldn't get jumped on for double-posting.
My disks are all store-bought (my sister is the one who keeps paying for them, not me -- I borrow hers). I downloaded all the patches from MTS (I never open the launcher, nor install the EADM). My framework is: 'My Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 3/Mods/Packages', with my only Resource.cfg directly under 'Mods'. The framework is correct, I'm afraid. I have put nothing in the 'Program Files' directories except for 3booter and fpslimiter. I do not have d3dx9_31.dll anywhere, as we don't need that anymore.
Before I uninstalled, I made a backup of my 'My Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 3' folders from my previously-working game. Then, after uninstalling, I scoured the registry for any mention of TS3. I defragged my hard drives twice each, both the one where the programs reside and the one where my 'My Documents' lives. After re-installing, I have not put in any CC, and have started with no mods except for the No Intro and the No CD, and have been testing my other mods one at a time. Any other mod I put in place works - the game loads just fine. Of course, I haven't tested many of them, yet, having only re-installed last night, but the ones I've put in work just fine, except for AM. Whenever I put in AM, the game simply refuses to even reach the loading screen at all, even when using 3booter+fpslimiter instead of directly starting TS3EP03.exe. I have deleted the cache files, which is my first line of troubleshooting. My Resource.cfg file references 'Packages/', not 'Mods/Packages'. It has five levels of 'Packages/*/*/*/*/*',because I have a lot of CC sorted out to be added later, so that's covered, too. I've checked and double-checked, and tried everything I've learned by lurking here for years, and then I've triple-checked, and yes, I have searched. I'm not the first one to feel that the search options for this board are pretty sucky, but I have searched.
Since it's never AM (because it never is, is it?), and since everything else is up-to-date, and since everything else is, apparently, correct, what am I missing? I mean, I'll keep trying with fresh downloads of AM, but still ... what else should I be looking for? What am I missing, here?
wizard_merlin:
Quote from: Ms_Tamany on 2011 April 05, 16:02:25
I have not put in any CC, and have started with no mods except for the No Intro and the No CD, and have been testing my other mods one at a time. Any other mod I put in place works - the game loads just fine. Of course, I haven't tested many of them, yet, having only re-installed last night, but the ones I've put in work just fine, except for AM.
Since it's never AM (because it never is, is it?), and since everything else is up-to-date, and since everything else is, apparently, correct, what am I missing? I mean, I'll keep trying with fresh downloads of AM, but still ... what else should I be looking for? What am I missing, here?
If you place other mods in and they work, but things fall apart when you add AM it sounds like tightpants. Also, if AM was the cause of the problem, there would be more than just you complaining about it as it would be affecting everyone. Perhaps if you, like everyone else with this problem, gets off their high horse about everything else being just perfect and accept that they fucked up, you might do better problem solving. When you have a problem, NEVER assume you have done anything right, assume everything is wrong.
Narmy:
You don't need a no-CD mod with AM...
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