jwaas, the Awesome-compatible Indie Stone mod shouldn't have been affected by the patch, because it's not a core mod. It was probably just the usual voodoo that caused your game to run better after taking it out.
I see, I was thinking that maybe the non-core part of Indie Stone also needed updating. Either way, I still see no problems to date besides the two extremely minor problems I mentioned earlier, and the occasional graphical glitch that occasionally happens anyway. I have yet to run the patched game completely vanilla and see how that works.
I forgot to mention that the best bug that I got when running Awesome and IS together was when my family's 6 met himself at school. Apparently something interpreted "Make genetic offspring from bin Sims and sometimes use them to populate the hood" as "Take the exact Sims in the bin and plop them in the hood as often as possible, multiple times, including copies of the playable Sims."
Not wanting my computer to turn into the fabled BFBVFS, I deleted that hood in a hurry and started over with Awesome alone, then with the unmodded story mode.
Finally, I had to respond to your post because it's the first time in months, maybe years, that I've seen both
affected and
it's spelled and used correctly in the same sentence on an internet forum. I guess the high standards kept here, and the P&L engaged in when said standards aren't met, really do make a difference for the better.