Which is another very common, very dumb thing people who come here do. They come to complain it's Aweseomemod causing the issue and are certain all their other mods are up to date when in fact they are not.

Nearly all of the many, MANY Speshul Snowflake threads and posts about the same damned thing, their game stalling purportedly due to Awesomemod turn out to be either the wrong resource.cfg, having it placed in the wrong directory or running some other outdated mod (usually Twallan's). The remainder of issues not related to those two main causes are generally not patching and/or not getting the latest version of Awesomemod.

No matter how intelligent or different from the rest someone thinks they may be, it all boils down to the fact that if it's working for everyone else (among the non-tard population) and it's not working for you then YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG. You either fucked something up or forgot something.

We all fuck stuff up from time to time. The difference is while some of us would do obvious things like troubleshooting 101 (if you are going to accuse a mod of causing your issue then you might want to test with ONLY that mod) and just keep working to figure it out on our own, a Speshul Snowflake starts a thread about it, asks us to tell them what is wrong and do their troubleshooting for them even though a whole mess of other Speshul Snowflakes already did that and the information is already there.

You're doing it wrong. Go back and re-read the help section at Mod the Sims on Installing Sims 3 Package Files: Setup & Files (the new way).

It was more or less a reminder to anyone, but I wasn't sure if your preparation process included decrapify of not.

Of course then if you don't decrapify the lazy Mactard pirates will whine. 

On those shirts/posters, I don't know if EA made them for Livenation or Livenation made those themselves but they are seriously the laziest effort of any objects in the store by far. A BBS noob could easily make similar content in very little time by slapping some random image on the net into a shirt or poster in TSR Workshop.

Compare those to say something like this where the creator took real movie posters, remade them with with actual sims and put the text in Simlish and the lack of effort is apparent. They stick out like a sore thumb and do not fit the game environment at all, not to mention the fact that they are charging people for what is essentially advertising.

I am sure there are some people out there who want them, but I won't be downloading everything EA posts no matter what the quality simply because it is EA.

And this, in a nutshell, it exactly why I recommend everyone, particularly the technically and memory challenged types, setup their mods the new way in My Documents without the need for the dll file at all.

I'm sure the memory challenged will still come back with every patch though and complain it isn't working when they in fact forgot to backup their files when they installed a NOCD crack. Some things never change.

It should be noted yet again that Pescado (you know, the person who created the tool) has said the following regarding decrapified files and the sharing of them: (the key part is enlarged for emphasis)


Also, I think you will find little interest in those band T-shirts and posters as they are cheap 5 second cut and paste jobs. Likewise for any non-game content such as images you can put on your BBS profile, Windows wallpaper and whatnot.

Hmm, I went to that link at the BBS and saw this gem in that thread's replies:


That makes our tards look like Einstein.

The noobtards never do. They are either lazy and expect us to tell them what is wrong and how to fix it with minimal effort on their part or they stubbornly think they know what the cause is so they refuse to do basic common sense troubleshooting to rule things out and know for sure.

Seriously, how fucking hard is it to just move your cc out temporarily and try running the game? You can even just drag the whole My Documents/Electronic Arts/ folder to the desktop temporarily and try running a clean game. In the time it takes people to post and wait for replies they could already have done this and rule out a corrupt install or save.

Actually it isn't. That was the whole point of the EA way.  If the package files are in My Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 3/Mods or some subdirectory of it then the exe recognizes them without need for the dll.

According to EA's patch notes for 1.12/2.7/3.3:


Also Mod the Sims in their help section explaining the differences between the old and new way notes:


Anyway, I don't have the d3dx9_31.dll in any of my Sims directories at all in either Program Files or My Documents and have been running all my package files just fine including Awesomemod since installing Ambitions.

Re: J. M. PESCADO WILL YOU MARRY ME?

I think the Mrs. would have something to say about that. One could always attempt to engage her in mortal combat, but the odds of winning such an endeavor are not good.

Stop spamming. You already started a Speshul Snowflake thread for this.

Technically speaking, since Pescado's usage policy is "meh" you can, however if you don't have a good knowledge of coding good luck.

If by some miracle you managed to do it, you would also then sadle yourself to be responsible for updating your Awesomemod variant for every patch, expansion and stuff pack that comes out.

Hope you've got lots of time on your hands.

Are there any people on Mac who are remotely literate when it comes to anything techie and who also give even half a shit about the Sims? It doesn't seem like there are.

I will give you credit for at least attempting to work on a solution though, which is more than what the rest of Mac users who play this game and want to leech the store items from here have attempted to do.

There's that and the whole DAP nonsense too. Addressing both are probably worth a shot.

Not sure when you left and if this was the case then too or not, but in a nutshell, now you need to decrapify those files. See here. As an alternative to created the batch file that post goes into you can also decrapify a mass quantity of files using JFade's Compressorizer. However, after you do that make sure you go and get the newest version of S3RC, add it to your Compresssorizer directory and overwrite the existing file as the one Jfade uses is old.

For getting all the files again, there are several people who maintain directories on file sharing sites archiving them all and you can find them if you look around here a bit, however that requires a lot of clicking and usually waiting for those services to let you download each file one by one.

It's probably easier to just get a comprehensive pack of those files via torrent. The annoying thing with that though is that they all claim to have everything but are almost always missing something or other.  

Going out on a limb here, but uh don't use the launcher? 

Alternately if you absolutely insist on needlessly launching your game from that bloated, buggy piece of crap, go back and REREAD WHAT I SAID THE FIRST TIME. There is a way but it involves searching on your part. I am not going to do everything for you. Also, if you do it and then come back at a later date and complain that you can't patch I will point at you and laugh.

Which is why I like the new way better. Don't tell people who are obviously already confused to do it the old way. It's one more thing for them to mess up and it just needless complicates things. Plus with the new way, they won't come back after the next expansion and complain it isn't working when the cause is they forgot to copy the dll over to the new directory.

Look just do it the new way. There's one less file to fuck up and I don't think people who don't know what they are doing should be messing around the Program Files areas anyway.

Move the mods folder and everything under it to My Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims3/

Delete your old resource.cfg

Get a new resource.cfg. Put it in the My Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims3/Mods folder.  Make sure it is one specifically for the new way. If you aren't sure, open it in notepad and check the directory paths. If any reference the mods folder it's wrong.

Make sure your game is patched to the latest, version 1.14. I can't stress this enough. The new method for installing custom content does work for the base game but you absolutely must be patched up to version 1.12 or higher for it to work.

For more detailed info with pictures and a link to a new resource.cfg file go to the Mod the Sims help section here:

http://www.modthesims.info/wiki.php?title=Game_Help:Installing_Sims_3_Package_Files/Setup_and_Files

If you having a Speshul Snowflake kind of day (life?) and you can't make sense of the Mod the Sims info or just can't get it to work there is an installer that basically does everything for you here:

http://www.customsims3.com/smf/index.php?topic=2420.0

Lastly, remember that while this is the place for support of issues directly relating to Awesomemod, if you are completely clear that Awesemod is the cause and have tested with only Awesomemod and no other mods or custom content to narrow that down, this is not the help desk for how to install mods in general for Sims 3.. There are plenty of other places better suited for that so next time take your ass to Mod the Sims.

Are you trying to run the game from the launcher (ie the icon the game installs by default on your desktop)? If so, that would be why. Awesomemod does not disable the CD check on the launcher so you will either need to run the game directly from the actual game or episode exe file or get a cracked file for the launcher. The latter is not recommended as it causes problems patching later on. You can backup your files but many people forget to do so.

If you are launching straight from the game exe and it's still not working without the CD then Awesomemod is either not installed right or you turned off the CD Check disable in the config. I'm assuming the former because by default the CD Check is disabled and you would have had to actively go out of your way to change that.

Yo asswad. You don't need Delphy's installer to install the damned thing. That's only for clueless tards who can't figure out how to do it on their own and need some program to hold their hand and do everything for them.

For the record, that Monkey Installer has also been discontinued and does not the support the new officially EA sanctioned method to install mods. That method consists of 3 steps,

1) Under /My Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 3/ create a Mods directory and under that a Packages directory (you can create further subdirectories if you wish).

[This next step is where most tards fuck up]

2) Create a new resource.cfg in the Mods folder with the correct paths not referencing that folder or download one that explicitly states it is for the new version.

3) Place (the latest, duh) Awesomemod  /My Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 3/Mods/Packages/ (or a subdirectory).

You're done.

And I take it being Swedish is also the reason you can't quote properly?

Awesomemod has a bodysnatch command which I think will just snatch their facial structure without the other garbage onto any other sim of your choice and then shred the original sim. Worth a shot maybe.

Out of curiosity, what ended up being the offending item that caused all this borkedness?

As it would require far less resources than emulating Windows, one would think it would be a better solution.

Alternately, someone could ask Pescado for the source code to S3RC/Decrapify or use the existing source code for Peter Jones' S3SU that extracts packages to compile a utility that either decrapifies on Mac or extracts Sims3Pack to package on Mac.

Pescado even says in his post for the SR3/Decrapify utilty:

And that was over a year ago.

I guess I don't understand the mentality. I would rather be resourceful than to have to ask people to do things for me and then have to keep coming back and doing it every time a new set it released.

Who the hell is Baldtard? Is that like Baltar?

Isn't it interesting how we had BOLDtard and cApStard appear around the same time?

At least BOLDtard had some nerve, however misplaced and fucked up it might be.

cApStard on the other hand is all 'please, i don't want any trouble, i just want free shit handed to me already neatly converted without having to get off my ass and search or use any tools, then i want to be left alone to be annoying as fuck in peace.

Then fix your name or GTFO!

Is there some problem with Delphy's Sims 3 Pack Multi-Extractor or Peter Jones' Sims3Pack Unpacker or markjs' Sims3Pack Extractor?

And before you cry 'WAHHHH but I'm an entitled princess a Mac user!' Windows emulators for Mac do exist. If they are too resource intensive for your system you can always get a DOS emulator and decrapify them then install it via the launcher.

If that's all too complicated for you then either buy the damned things from the EA store or deal without it. As Pescado said elsewhere, we are not the help desk for incompetent pirates. If you are going to ARR something then you should learn to be resourceful.