My bad, sorry. Having a n00b day today. Over there it goes!

Did you look at the picture? It doesn't HAVE A title. But I'm looking around; it's the Flagrant System Error, isn't it?

EDIT: it also doesn't explain the lack of school buses or randomly piling rockstar buses.

Can someone please tell me what the hell this is?
http://s683.photobucket.com/albums/vv196/Jerktits_hammer/?action=view&current=errormessage.png

I'm pretty sure it has to do with Awesomemod. I have a sim who collects Rockstar busses in her inventory and I have to purge them all the time. This randomly started popping up every time she tried to go to work at the music career, and she had to quit her job. Now it seems like it just pops up at random.

Also, school buses are not coming for the kids anymore. I have to manually make them go to school and home. What's the deal?

I'm still getting a crash at the neighborhood screen.   No cc, no mods, no anything but pure base game. Nice.

EDIT: My bad, reboot fixed that. But I am still getting the stupid jump bug where sims won't do anything. Patch didn't fix shit. Game's unplayable.

In this case, the patch is fucking up the vanilla game. Fresh install, no mods or custom content. Even most people people who don't get the unplayable problems like constant route failing are getting weird neighborhood-breaking glitches. The problem I'm getting is a form of route failing, only sims insist on getting in a taxi to go anywhere.

AM is the only core mod I have. All the other mods work fine, so this is baffling me. I wish EA could just make a game that...You know. WORKS.

I'm having this problem also, but specifically with Awesomemod. All my other mods work fine. :/

I thought I said I tried it without mods, but whatever...
Mods are not the problem. Even with a vanilla game, the patch fucks it up.

Okay, the problem is bigger than I thought. Apparently Awesomemod isn't installed at all. I have the latest .NET framework, I used the monkey tool, I did everything right...but Awesomemod isn't fucking installed. All my other mods work perfectly.

Again, I have the razor version, the second patch, and the razor crack. What the hell.

Thank you. It still isn't working though and I can't imagine why. Awesomemod should be installed correctly, I have the framework and all that. I used Delphy's monkey tool to install. Should I be typing
"showconfig" or "<showconfig>" or some other variation?

Tried deleting the .cache files, didn't do anything.
When I install the "aweconf" file, do I install it with the "awesome" file? And what do I enable exactly? I'm sorry, I'm bad at this crap.

Showconfig does not work. Even after enabling testingcheats, still doesn't work.

I'm probably just a lame n00b and not doing this correctly.

But it's shift+ctrl+c to open the console window, right? If I want to change a sim's clothes for example, I'd type,
"dresser Sam Sekemoto"
It doesn't seem to be working, nor does the mirror thing or...anything. The window says "dresser is an unknown command" or something.

If I'm doing it wrong, call me names. If not, then there's a problem here. I have the razor version of the game with the second patch and the latest version of Awesomemod.

I would, but now I've replaced the crack with the original TS3 file and now the game won't even get passed the neighborhood screen. It says "Please insert disc" or some crap, even with Awesomemod installed. What the hell, EA. What the hell.

NO PIXPLZ FOR YOU. Maybe later.

I thought it could be the crack, so I tried it with the original file. Even with Awesomemod, it demanded I put a disc in at the neighborhood selection screen. :|

A lot of people seem to be having this problem and no solution was found yet, as far as I've seen.

I've uninstalled/reinstalled TS3. No custom content whatsoever. First patch installs fine. Second patch installs fine. Though I notice when I try to play the game after the 1.3 patch, my sims are too stupid to live. Every time they try to go somewhere, they get in a taxi...even if they're in THEIR HOUSE. Which means a taxi comes blowing through the damn wall to try and take them somewhere, then there's a jump bug. 1.3 has made the game completely unplayable.

Putting my CC back does nothing. I've reinstalled and tried everything, but this stupification is directly related to the 1.3 patch. I have the razor version and crack. I'm pretty sure I've installed the right version of the patch. What the hell is going on?

Okay, problem solved. Turns out you have to remove the registry value for the actual listing on the add/remove programs list. :| Pain in the ass, but here's the instructions: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314481

Well, that doesn't seem to be the problem here, but thank you. I have Windows Firewall disabled and use Comodo.

Smooth, EA.

I'm running XP, will it work with that?

And damn I sound like a noob, but how do I force setup? Just add that to the end of the filename or something? Sorry for the stupid questions.

I have the Razor version and the patch before 1.3. Everything was working fine, but the game wouldn't patch to 1.3 for some reason or another. I tried to uninstall Sims 3, but add/remove programs was giving me a hard time and wouldn't do it. So I did the smart (see: retarded) thing and just deleted every trace of the game from Program Files, the registry, my documents, etc...

Problem is, it still shows up in my add/remove programs list and acts like it's still installed. It acts like the latest patch is installed too, because when I try to reinstall the game it says "You are trying ot install an earlier version than the patch you have" or some crap.

When I try to remove it from add/remove programs it says :
"An error [-5005 : 0x8000ffff] has occurred while running the setup.
Please make sure you have finished any previous setup and closed other applications."

I've ctrl+f'd the hell out of the registry and deleted what I hope is every trace of the game, but I think it's just the patches that are the problem.