I am having that same problem as well (minus the crashes).

I just upgraded Awesomemod after not playing the game for a month or so. I never had this problem prior to this last Awesomemod update.

I do not use Awesome story, but I do use ISM.

There's an epic genre? How does one unlock this?

And I've tried modifying NumBooksWrittenForMasterpiece to a lower value, like 1 or 2, and for some reason the game refuses to take it. Any idea why?

Or you can just tell it to keep your save games and config data. Yes, I know--the game starts running instead of uninstalling, and will continue to do so every time you quit. But if you go to the task manager and kill TS3.exe, then the game will uninstall properly and you'll still have all your saves and config settings.

Uh, it's ranking the quality of fertilizer.

I only seemed to get overheating on the loading screen and menus, which seemed utterly bizarre to me. However, this tool seems to have completely fixed that problem. I guess the loading screen just wanted a high fps for whatever reason.

Thanks!

So I was pretty infuriated by the idea of buying the same hair over and over for different age groups. But when I bought one of the YA hairs, I noticed that it was checked as purchased for teens and adults as well. I didn't check elder, but seeing as the hair isn't applicable for children and infants, I suppose that the rumors were wrong. They do seem to apply for all appropriate age groups.

You're right, BlueSoup. I just confirmed it by power-writing to a total of 25 with the shortest novel types, fiction and nonfiction.

I would assume, then Vaudeville = 5 humor novels?

I wonder which sort of novel leads to masterpiece. Drama, perhaps?

"fadeobjects off" = you can see the insides all the time.

Of course, there's not much to see, but there you go.

Music (Symphony branch)

Skills Required: Primarily the guitar, which ought to be maxed by level 10. Secondary skill is logic. It is possible to reach high levels without these skills at the recommended levels, but there will be a massive drain on performance (requiring you to "work hard" every day and have perfect relations with the boss and coworkers).

Skill improvement: There is a "Study Music Theory" option that alternatingly increases logic and guitar skill.

Perks: Autograph sessions similar to those in the rock star branch. You can attend the theater for free. Any perks related to high guitar and logic skills will also accrue to you, of course.

Salary: The level 10 salary (Hit Movie Composer or something of that sort) is just under $400 an hour, netting near $1800 a day. You work four days a week: Friday, Saturday, Monday, and Tuesday.

Opportunities: You can perform a movie symphony at the theatre on Saturday or Sunday evening and net a few thousand.


Level 10 vehicle: To and from work, you use the car immediately inferior to the Margaret Vaguester (the one that looks similar to a Porsche). The taxi is completely replaced by a pink limosine (likely to be blue for male characters).

What, really? So if you go from teen to adult, and then use the cheat, you'll only have 4 traits to change?


My female sims usually wear full outfits, so that usually does it. When they don't, it's still usually a jacket sort of thing.


And can I say that the conductor outfit is great? A female in a tailcoat? Awesome.

Yeah, I'm not that excited about another neighborhood--whoo, the same thing with a differeny layout. However, if it turns out there is more content that'll be available, that'll be something.

I don't think I'll bother with Razor, though, as people are saying there aren't any new objects or outfits. I'll wait for my preorder to show up.

The fatness slider does have some marginal effect on bust size, but anything passed the middle gets into chubby territory.

And unfortunately, I only noticed this after being quite far into a game and I get too attached to my sims to ever consider starting over. If there was a way to enable a full CAS to adjust a sim's body (instead of that stupid body size reward) that could help.

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One of the townies is named "Gobias Koffi"--and he's a nevernude that looks just like Tobias Funke. That's awesome.

Eh? There's still a headmaster in this one?

Yes, just hit the package to exchange button and it'll put a file in the "Exchange" folder in Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3

To get Deathfish, you need to fish at the graveyard between midnight and 4am. You need to use angelfish as bait--and to catch an angelfish, you need a certain type of catfish for bait (it's the kind you can buy at the store).

Deathfish and angel fish are levels 10 and 8 respectively, but using the right bait, I was able to catch them before I had the right fishing skill level.

Ugh, this "power walk" and unnecessary running is driving me crazy. I appreciated it TS2 that sims would only run if they were late, or if you told them to. Now they jog across the road and they do that ugly blocky power walk animation.

I *like* the normal, slow walking animation. It looks natural, and I think it looks better than having sims run around all over the place. Once we figure out how to mod this game, I hope that getting rid of the power walk and greatly reducing a sim's inclination to simply run gets attended to.

Well, a launcher would be a decent start at least.

It seems that there are two different "walk" animations: one of them is a power walk, which is ugly, blocky, and hideous. This is likely the one you're talking about.

The other walk is a normal walk, and it looks nice and *human*. Sadly, it seems that sims will rarely do this one except for short distances (i.e. walking to a bookshelf in the same room).

If we can find some way to put in a mod that eliminates that power walk, I'm all for it. I don't care that the normal walk is slower, at least it isn't an eyesore.

Camera icon on the interface. It's at the bottom of the all the buttons. And unlike TS2, you get nice, large screenshots.


What, you mean you don't like that giant floating eyesore?

Seems it'll be more complicated than a console cheat this time, though.



When the pop up notifications bug you that you only have one day left to pay your bills, there is a "pay bills now" button there--if you click it, your bill will automatically be paid and you don't have to send someone to do it.

As far as household switching goes... it's frustrating to lose wishes, yes. However, on the bright side, neighborhood saves are very small (25mb as compared to 500-1500mb in TS2, depending on buggy savegame bloating) and so it's very easy to start completely fresh and play new households. It's a simple matter of copy pasting a save, which you couldn't do previously.

So it doesn't really make up for it, but it might mitigate it a little... and since it seems losing wishes is a feature rather than a bug (they do tell you about it, after all) I think they could easily change that in the future. Who knows, maybe we can too? It does seem kind of a pointless "feature," I agree.

I understand the pessimism, but I have to say I am rather pleasantly surprised. I find it enjoyable and after the initial shock (I hate how rotating with the mouse is so bloody slow) I think there's more to like than to dislike. That doesn't dismiss valid concerns, of course, but I am wondering if the disappointment is a bit inflated.

Pescado: That's because ETW was distributed on Steam and contained no setup program--it was downloaded as the installed application. That's how Steam works.

Different digital distributors operate differently, and some of them require you to download the setup files first and install them yourself.

Heh, well, that EULA does confirm it then.

As for why it's on an iso--simple, it's the standard way to package releases. Remember, even most DVD games are not direct rips--they have to add a crack directory to the disc and then re-iso it.

Yeah. When the game is loading or at the intro screens, or in CAS, my graphics card temperature skyrockets. My card generally runs hot anyway, but I was looking at temperatures in the high 80s. But when I start the actual game, the temperature plummets and stays at a reasonable level. Why do the intro menus do that?

It's very frustrating, especially since it doesn't seem to be a rendering issue (since as above, the game itself doesn't do it--and furthermore, when the window is not in focus, the temperature drops (even if stuff is still going on and the window is not actually covered up).