Is/are your game(s) fully updated?  For base game only, this means to 1.8 and for WA this means to 2.3.  If not, AwesomeMod will be incompatible as Pescado is not maintaining two versions anymore. 

If you are fully patched, then you may have an old copy of AwesomeMod lurking somewhere in your folders.  You will need to perform a search to ensure that is not the case.

Just a suggestion, but if you have Twallan's Supercomputer, you could try "Recover missing Sims".

You are saying it's already patched to "1.5[insert lots of numbers here].  First of all, the base game is up to 1.8 and the expansion is up to 2.3.  AwesomeMod is not compatible with any previous versions of the game/patches, only the latest.  Pescado discontinued everything but the current test version.

So, in order to be able to use AwesomeMod at all, you need to fully patch your games.  Perhaps this is your problem.

You may be able to repair his tree using Twallan's Supercomputer.  I have copied this bit from his post on the website he is hosted on (on the Supercomputer under Sim>Advanced):  

Family : Contains a sub menu allowing the user to change the genealogy of the active sim
            Add Child : Adds a new child to a sim
            Add Parent : Adds a new parent to a sim
            Add Sibling : Adds a new sibling to a sim
            Remove Child : Removes an existing child from a sim
            Remove Parent : Removes an existing parent from a sim
            Remove Sibling : Removes an existing sibling from a sim

This will also add collateral relationships, if applicable (such as grandparent, brother, sister, etc.)

Here's the link to his new home in case you want any other info:  http://ts3.tscexchange.com/index.php?PHPSESSID=e4982f139af701ef96f059a8fbb25c08&topic=995.0,

Wrong person, you have (unfortunately) chosen the same unoriginal avatar as Audrey. I meant the message for her.

If you want to insult Witch, who is a regular here, you can forget it.  Besides, I've already determined that you're not worth it.  Not sure what your "original" (NOT) post was about, but I DON'T CARE.  Now, I'm "Yelling At You."  Figure it out.  I am currently not inclined to help you.  And,  I sincerely doubt that anyone else is going to rush in to be your "knight in shining armour".

I don't think I will ever offer you any advice again ... and if I don't then surely you're screwed on this site. anyway.  Perhaps, Audrey, you will need to return to BBS since you can't even follow simple directions.  Funny. how we keep crossing paths, isn't it?

Snowbawl, I'm almost brain-dead here ... THIS IS NOT GOOD!  Wish I knew you IRL. And, to top it off, there are a bunch of other "id 1iots" one must deal with!  Apathy is one thing (and I have definitely got that theme goin' on) , but what about the "cool kids" (sounds like something you would not want to be) posting stupid threads about how much you hate someone you don't give a shit about at all?  VERY interesting!  I don't get it ... and, moreover, can't be "arsed" to care...

I suggest you follow Witch's instructions to you earlier, in one of the many threads here you've posted in, and "turn in your computer, explaining that you're too stupid to use it".  I am monitoring you now.  You obviously have a problem following the simplest of directions.  Perhaps you are too stupid to live?  And believe me, you have previously seen teh (sic) "ultimate restraint".  I don't think you should keep posting.

Those ending with "2" are the international versions.  The U.S. versions are the ones ending in a "1".  Don your flight helmet, and proceed with caution!  May the force be with you!

I PM'd you and was trying to upload the file, but it's too large for 4-Shared.  I then tried to zip just the file ending in .dbc and upload that ~ also too large.  I'm not sure if it would have worked anyway.  Tomorrow, I'll try another source when I get a chance.  I'm on the Board of my Homeowner's Association, am the webmaster, created the website and have an FTP server with that, so I'll try that and if I can make that work, I'll send you a link to the file.

Yes, overwrite the original file.  You may have to modify the file, dependent on how you have set up your folders, and whether or not you have WA.  It is becoming exponentially more complicated. 

Not speaking about you, however, idiots are already failing to follow simple directions and complaining that it is too confusing.  I suppose that is to be expected, and can't say I wasn't warned.

Let me tell you something.  They are not doing this (pick one) a) for "us", b) for shits & giggles; or C) for any number of other reasons.  They ARE making a profit, and one that they are trying to expand upon by 1) the EA store and the new strategy of selling the game and expansions at a higher price by bundling in so called "free" store points.  This is (pure & simple) a marketing strategy.

They might not be making a big enough profit (in their eyes) but, they are, certainly, profiting.  Otherwise, there would not be a Sims 3 game at all.  Period.  End of story.  It's a company, and that's all there is at the end of the day.

So, what you're saying, in effect, is that the Sims 3 (and expansions, present & future) is what's  known as a "loss leader" for EA?  Ask your brother-in-law if this is what he means.  I doubt their profits are this low. If they were, we would undoubtedly be hearing about how since they are not generating sufficient revenue off the Sims 3 franchise to sustain it, that there may not be a future.  The "caek is a lie".

It's entirely possible.  There has been talk that EA "broke the launcher" with the latest patch and so it seems they may come out with a patch to address that.  Who knows when that will be?  Also, I don't know what, if anything, else it may break or fix.  Undoubtedly, there will be a way around all that as well.  But, I agree, a game should not be this much work.

Yes.  I had all my content installed before I patched, so those were the .dbc files already in DCCache.  I did not have to reinstall most of my stuff.  I had moved out my downloads folder, DCCache file, Saves, Mods before reinstalling/patching.  It pays to back-up your stuff.

I am running 1.8/2.3 - store-bought versions of both games.  As you know, AwesomeMod is updated frequently, so is also frequently changed in my game.  I try to update before each time I play to make sure I have the current version.  I played for awhile last night, so it was the one posted yesterday - 12/22/09 @ 4:22 AM.  I have now downloaded the one from today - 12/23/09 @ 10:10 AM but will most likely not get to play the game tonight.

The laptop I play on has a Intel Core 2 Duo T7500 processor @ 2.20 GHz per core; 4 GB RAM, running Windows Vista 64-bit and an NVidia GEForce 8600M GT video card with 512 MB RAM.  Surely not the best, but better than my old desktop, which couldn't run it.  One of these days I'll be able to replace it, but I'll also have to replace my son's desktop which is almost as old!

@Batman:  That seems odd.  I tend to think it is the CC and not the Resource.cfg.  I'm using the resource.cfg I posted, and I have no problem with my custom content ~ as far as I can tell, all of my store stuff is in game and what little package files I left after the last patch seem to be showing up fine as well (I had begun moving some of it back but when this new patch came out, with all the trouble people have had, I moved most of it back out.)  I copied the content of the DCCache file to Mods>Packages, but also left it where it was.  Game is running fine and has not been crashing.

@simfan:  Yes, I guess.  I don't even know if you re-download any "shared" files whether they will install.  When I went to TSR to tell them not to direct people to "google" me on MATY, but instead to post the contents of the Resource.cfg file on their site, I noticed that a lot of them seem to be saying that EA has "broken the launcher" with this patch, rather than having a more "insidious" intent.  Of course, this could be bullshit ... and there are people complaining, but since people here have also had problems with the launcher, perhaps this is true and they will again "patch the patch" in an attempt to fix it.  If that happens, maybe things will work as usual.  I, in fact, had a problem with the launcher when I used the World Adventures shortcut, but when I used the shortcut for the base game it worked fine.  So, I don't know what to think.

I'm really NOT an expert at this at all.  Just reading and observing here, and a somewhat more advanced knowledge of the workings of my computer.  No modding experience at all, though.

Not load time; I'm speaking of the lag that many people have experienced with package files since the last patch came out.

If you read the thread, you would have known that this issue exists before converting them.  I hope you backed them up.  I have no idea why only the Modern Minimalist set works.  I did not convert any of my Sims3.packs to packages because I already knew it would slow down the game.

Try cutting all your package conversion files to your desktop and then starting your game to see what difference it makes.

I don't know if it's good to compress the files at this point, given that we're having problems installing them.  I think you better search MOAR before making that decision.  But, before this we were using S3rc which is available here at MATY under the "Armoire of Invincibility".

As far as the Process Monitor, if you read through this thread there are links, I believe, to the thread that has the Process Monitor in it (page 11 of the thread and the Delphy screen shots are on page 12 of the thread).  It took me less time to go there and copy the link to the thread than to try to find it here, so here is the link:  http://www.modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=379085.

You're welcome!  Hmm, I'm a bit perplexed about the TSR thing.  I visited their site and posted directly to the moderator and to the guy who first brought me to attention telling them that they're free to post the contents of the file (it's not proprietary information), however, I do not want them to direct people to Google me.

I'm not the best one to ask about the other issues, I have never extracted Sims3 packs to packages.  As of the last patch, the package files were a problem in that they slowed the game way down.  You may want to ask Skadi about the method to use or try searching "converting Sims 3.packs to packages"  and, in fact, she has done this already to some of the files and they are in the Pudding Factory:  http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,16949.msg508899.html#msg508899.

Once you have the packages installed, you will most likely need to go to MTS2 where they have a program called "Process Monitor" (courtesy of TickleOnTheTum) and Delphy posted a screenshot of a filter (but there are more).  A bit tedious (like everything else with this game is becoming), but it may help.

Yes.  I don't know whether it matters at all.  I did this after both games were installed and patched (and everything seems to be showing).Some legally obtained, some shared.  And just so you know, credit for this is not mine.  There were a couple of others here who found this method ... I only copied what they had done.

So have you searched using "blue lots"?

I thought so, brownlustgirl.  This is the blue lot issue, yes?  I never had it personally, and so don't know much about it.

Audrey:  You should have at least 1 file with the ending .dbc in the DCCache.