More Awesome Than You!

Will 1.3 update be compatible with awesome mod

Thank you

There's a 1.3 update?

It appears to be neither Lies nor Propaganda:

http://www.thesims3.com/community/news.html?selMonth=6&selYear=2009#-1926857733

Fixes to Story Progression. Babies will no longer be born to single parents. Player created or controlled households are now "protected" and will no longer be removed through "Story Progression." Warning: Story Progression will no longer remove previously player controlled Sims. Users who take control of too many Sims in the same game may experience poor performance as the neighborhood can become over populated.

And I do not like the sound of this "fix"... does this mean if we have a lot of CAS families and EAxis families that are "Sacred" then we will lose game performance ?  How stu-pid if this affects game play...   >:(

That's not EA's fault, or even a problem. That's just a generic warning label.

Well watch it when your sims give birth. I installed the new patch then played for a bit. The wife in my household went into labor and had twins. I know she had twins because it asked me for 2 names. First baby born was in mom's arms and second baby was found by the dad in the front yard .....lol. Oh, and the smarter paths don't work worth a pooh! They all just stand around unable to go where you tell them to go.

I think what Pescado is saying is that The Sims would lag with too many sims in the neighborhood both before and after the new patch.  The only difference now is that the core game can't move all the people out that it used to be able to, so it's more likely to get overpopulated if you "lock" a lot of Sims by controlling them at least once.  

All in all, it's a good change, though I think a command to "unlock" a Sim family would be useful.  I know some people may switch to a non-played family for just a few seconds to see what's going on, but don't really care if that family later gets manipulated by the story engine if necessary.

So does this mean that the patch works with the awesomemod?

If you don't care one way or the other what happens to them it isn't a big deal if they stay.  However, if they annoy you you can always encourage them to move out of town the old fashion way.  Mind you if you forget to get rid of the presents Grim leaves behind the next tennants of that home may not be very happy.

I don't think it protects the Sims from other Story Progression events, it just keeps them from being run out of town. 

It appears as if the patch will not instal if you have removed the premade families from the Library. I had to replace mine.

Wow... they fixed a lot of bugs.  They must have hired Pescado for the weekend or something.

"Bulldozing a lot with collectable spawners no longer destroys the spawners. "

Does this mean that lots with the "amazing vista" moodlet thing will keep that moodlet when you bulldoze the lot/place a new house in the lot?

Since "beautiful vista" is not a "collectable spawner", I'm going to say: no, this statement has nothing to do with beautiful vistas.

Yep. That will be the "Ooops... it will be in the 1.4 patch".

Anyway, the Mac patch apparently still doesn't exist.
Disregard that, it arrived.

Yeah, sometimes I just want to change their hair or clothes or something stupid like that but am not particularly interested in playing them and don't necessarily need all their wants and inventory etc etc data tracked like I would a sim I want to play.

I guess a way to select whether we want a townie to act like a 'virgin' one that we never touched or one that we do want to lock and come back to would be nice.


Ugh. How anal. Why is the patch worried about whether you have those damned families installed. *sigh* Good thing I backed them up.

Still taking their asses back out again. It causes trouble with Indie to have them in there, possibly with just the game itself as it tends to like to create new sims and families based on them.


True, but I suspect it may work in a somewhat similar manner. I think it's an object, a hidden one. Perhaps they've jiggered a way to keep it on the lot after it gets bulldozed too? I can hope.

I suppose we'll find out soon enough when someone reports back.

So, in fact, does it compatible with the actuel version of awesome ? thanck you for answering

Considering Pescado asked wheter or not there was a patch and the "AWESOMEMOD! SHINY! WIP - Download & Announcements" doesn't say it's compatible, I'd say no.

I'm still waiting for my answer too... suppose we have to be patient  :D I'll test it when I come back home

People posted on a thread in "The Horror, The Horror!' that playing with Awesomemod and/or Indie and the new patch caused the game to CTD.

I assure you it's true in my case.  :P

thanck you, I will waiting so ... ;)

My game crashed tooooooo  ???

Anyone know how to get these back if we weren't smart enough to back them up?

Yup... I failed here too and didn't back mine up... would it be a workaround for some kind simmer to upload them somewhere so that people like me and others here could dl them and re-install them should the newest patch be necessary for continuing to play S3 ?

Library Families (http://www.mediafire.com/?ittnwmjijmd)

Well the should still bel on the CD, I believe in GameData\Shared\NonPackaged\Library but to make it simple here: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=LOILEQC0

It was just Baker, Funke, Glover-Wozny, Lum, Martinez and Williams I think. At least that's all I have.

I suspected EA treachery backed them up. :P

Edit: Ah nm Idjiit beat me to it. Oh well, there's a mirror now. ;)

The patch applied fine for me, with the library families removed.  ???

LMAO

There's no rest for the wicked.

The good die young.

Seeing as how your wicked good, could you just work on awesomemod working with the new patch first?  Then later you could get awesomemod to work with Indie and the new patches.  I wouldn't want your early death to muck up my Sims playing.   :P

I'm having a pathing issue with AwesomeMod and the 1.3 update.  I'm sure this depends on the physical layout of your house, but if I try to do the dishes, my Sim can't seem to find his way to the dishwasher or sink... even if he's standing right in the middle of the kitchen by himself.  To was the dishes, I have to move the dirty dish to the bathroom floor, tell my Sim to clean it, at which point he'll wash it in the bathroom sink.

Nor can my Sim seem to get to his bed unless he's already in the bedroom.  That is, if he's in the living room when I tell him to go to bed, he'll scratch his head.  If I move him to somewhere in the bedroom first, he find the bed.

With AwesomeMod removed, neither issue occurs.  I put AwesomeMod back in, and issues come back.

I have the latest version of AwesomeMod and patch 1.3

AwesomeMod is not (yet) compatible with the 1.3 update.

There is no use reporting bugs with AwesomeMod when you've installed an incompatible patch.

Awesomemod isn't compatible with the1.3 patch.

Err, he already designed Awesomemod to separate out the story elements and let Indie Stone control them if its in place. Other than that there really isn't much else he can do. It's up to them to update their mod to work with the latest patch.

If you're going to be using AwesomeMod core with ISM-driver, ISM-driver needs no updates because it is not a core hack. If you're just using pure ISM with their own core, you are someone else's problem. :P

Oddly enough, over on Facebook (because I haven't ventured over to 3Tardland today), I noticed quite a number of people kermitflailing over the patch and how they can no longer play with mods in the game.  It was a mixed bunch:  some had removed their Mods folder before installing, and some hadn't.

I haven't taken the plunge myself (I'll take the "wait and see" approach with this patch as I did with the last one), so I can't tell you if that's the case for me.

I was briefly experiencing this same problem, but I have not installed the 1.3 patch. What set my problem off was Williham's lockable doors on MTS. The sims only experienced pathfinding issues when trying to use objects on the other side of those doors. I didn't test without AM, but plenty of people on MTS seem to be using them without problem. Whatever is modified in those doors might give JMP an idea of where to look when he makes his fix.

Is AwesomeMod now compatible with the 1.3 patch?  I'm not installing the patch until it is.

Not yet. Still hunting down a few weird bugs.

Thanks!  I'll wait.

That's good to know.  I was thinking I'd have to wait for them to update as well.

I would suggest waiting to install the 1.3 update to anyone currently using AwesomeMod until there is an update that is compatible. I stupidly did not and as a result my sims cannot: go to work (they are stuck in the car in front of the house), move around the house without being ordered to run to each room to use an object, and sometimes they disappear completely and respawn on the front yard. So until Pescado has the time to benevolently update his ridiculously awesome mod I would steer clear of the 1.3 update. That's just my two cents.

One should ALWAYS take the "wait and see" approach with EAxis' crappy patches.  You never know what they'll break next.  People should have learned their lesson after the first patch further fucked up the already fucked up Launcher and caused many CTDs. 

And having patience while waiting on mods to be updated (thus, not installing the patch until then) is a given.

Since awesomemod is not yet updated for 1.3, I'm kind of glad that the updater failed me multiple times. But, for when I do want to install the patch, is there anything confirmed to get it to work? I took out my mods folder, restored my ini files to their backed up versions, and I never deleted the premade families. I figured my problem was my horrible, slow connection these past few days corrupting the update files.


It's just their core mods, right? Maxoids and pigheaded EAdiots seem less than enthusiastic about custom content that isn't just recolored CAST crap, so I wouldn't be surprised if they "fixed" our ability to add real CC. I imagine the reason would be that they want this series to die a quick, humiliating death.

I'm able to run both Awesomemod and Indiestone perfectly with the new patch. But I had to do some stuff before I got it to work. You should try these for safe measure:


1. Temporarily move the whole mods package to your desktop.
2. Delete all the *cache.package files from the Sims 3 folder found in your documents folder.
3.Run the game without any of the mods.
4. Start a new game (chose any neighborhood, I chose Sunset Valley).
5. Once the new game has loaded, go ahead and quit out of the game. You don't need to save. We just needed to rebuild the cache.
6. Navigate to your mods folder and delete the enablescripterror.package if you have it.
7. Place the mods folder back to the Sims 3 directory.
8. Run the game.

Before I did all of that my game would crash to the desktop but now I am able to run both Awesomemod and Indiestone together without any problems. Indiestone still run Story Progression (I'm still getting notifications of my horny neighbors having their 5th baby). All other custom content still works and all the features of Awesomdmod still work (like robotic hand of god)

Now. I'm not guaranteeing that this will work for you but I am sharing my experiences and I'm hoping it works as a temporary solution 'till Awesomemod and Indiestone get updated to work with 1.3.

Have fun! :)

AwesomeMod is now ready for public field trials in 1.3.24. IndieStone Driver will not need to be updated intrinsically for the patch because it is not Core, but if you are running pure IndieStone, they need to update their core. Of course, this is someone else's problem.

I've tried the new AwesomeMod for 1.3.24 and all the route failures are fixed.
Thank you!

I did not do things in the same order as you, but I also had to delete the enablescripterror.package file before my game agreed to play. It would always crash upon either trying to load a saved game or start a new one.

Pescado,

Last patch you supplied links in the Awesome Mod download thread to non-launcher patches. Would you consider doing the same for 1.3?

http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,16099.msg464201.html#msg464201

Yeah I just found the thread and was about to edit with a "D'oh!". Thanks anyway.

Have you all noticed that lots where BV buffs have proven to be located, if the lot is bulldozed, ie. empty Sunset/Riverview hoods, there is an empty house icon over it. Not the square empty lot, but house shaped icon that indicates it is empty. I wonder if the spawners are there after patching the game? Maybe, the BV buff too. Didn't see this before patching. I must build and test this out.

Actually, some said they'd never used Indie or Awesome (or any other mod; just patterns and clothes), but they were still CTD. This patch seems to be as flaky as the previous one upon whom it chooses to unleash its wrath.]

ETA:  I just tried to install the bastard (after replacing different INI files that had been fiddled with), and I keep getting "Invalid file."  I can't think of what I'm missing that would be causing this.  Might be gameplay.package, but I'm pretty sure I have the original in there.

I've patched my game and it works beautiful with the latest awesome, Indie, nointro and nomosaic.
I have also alot of CC and they are there in my game, works perfect! (so far.... ::))
But I had to remove the enablescripterror.package if I don't want a CTD when choosing lot...

A new version of the enablescripterror.package is out on MTS.

Link (http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=359796)

I was getting "invalid file" error until I removed the mods subdirectories, resource.cfg (the Mods one), 3booter, fps limiter, and restored the original .ini files for the camera settings (I had those modified) as well as Sims3.ini (where I modified the collision distances). No idea which of those might be the culprit.

http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,16099.msg464222.html#msg464222 (http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,16099.msg464222.html#msg464222)

/emote Bow down and worship J.M. Pescado

If you're trying to get people to check {E1F84AB6-D46A-43C7-A056-D3C7795DBB21} in the Temp folder, you should point out for those that don't know that the rtpatch log will be in another similarly named folder (because some of us don't have E1F8blahblahblah).

Mine's pointing out that the VideoCamera.ini is breaking it.  I swear to Jeebus that I just replaced it with the original, and it's still throwing errors.  GRAZALFRACK.  This is fucking ridiculous.


As Pes has pointed out before, this is just heartwarming voodoo and chanting.  It doesn't do anything.

ETA:  OK, Imma 'bout to choke a bitch.  I've replaced the godforsaken gameplay.package with the original one three times now, and it's still throwing errors.  I can haz patch plz EAxis??

videocamera and shaders were the root of my problem, luckilly I had renamed the originals to .bak, though it took me a minute to realize it :-(

Once i restored those two files everything ran fine.

Well, my game works perfect without the enablescripterror.package-
Is it a "must", or?  ???

I know that the folder name can be different. Jordi had already pointed it out: "Look in your temp folder for a directory with an alfanumeric string", not "Look in {E1F84AB6-D46A-43C7-A056-D3C7795DBB21} in the Temp".

My bad.  Just pointing it out for the people who will go ZOMG I HAZ NO SUCH FOLDER.

Also about the enablescripterror.package -- that's more or less something to enable error logging that's helpful for modders in order to fix their mods.

It allows the game to create error logs if/when a script fails. You really only need it if you want to be able to post an error log when you report a bug or crash, or if you're making a core mod yourself. It doesn't change gameplay at all.

Well, for a while it seemed to fix the CTD at 1/4 loading for some people, including me, even though it was created only to debug it.

I recently took it out, and it seems not to be needed for that purpose anymore.

Surprising after reading this entire thread that no one has asked....
Is the new version of Awesomemod backwards compatible for not-yet-patched games?  Or is it even useful for people who haven't updated to use the new one?

Hm...I could have sworn that it would be just like the version released after the previous patch -- it's meant to be used with a patched game. 

Yes, that's what I wondered....The thing is, the previous version isn't available for download for people who haven't patched so far.

Well, doing so makes you running the Unholy Hybrid, but in THEORY, it shouldn't blow up.

My patched game is not letting me play sans-disk.  Is the no-cd fix in awesomemod working properly?

Edit because I fail at reading, I repeatedly installed the wrong one.  Note to self - awesome(2).zip is more recent than awesome.zip

It is for me! Did you get today's version of the Awesome Mod?

So I read that long list of fixes and so-called improvements but I couldn't find any message about what are the two FATTEST bugs in the game:
1. The save issue (error code 13 and 12... and endless saves)
2. The stereos that are not playing.
(3. crash on launch)

Does that mean that EA totally ignores the hundreds or thousands of reports about this issues that can be found on the net?
Maybe they are feeling so much shame for this substantial bugs (ever heard of an official game release where the saves wouldn't work?) that they didn't even mention that they (hopefully) fixed it now.
Since I didn't install the patch yet, is there anyone of you who can confirm the save or radio bugs do still happen?

This is EAxis we're talking about here.  It'll be quite a while before the biggest bugs of all are fixed (if at all).  Remember all of the memory leaks in TS2?  Good God, there's some serious leaks going on with TS3 (Firefox isn't this bad), and somehow, I doubt that "fixed a very slow memory leak triggered by the "Fertilize" interaction" solved the problem.

I love how they use the words "rare", "obscure" and "very slow" when describing some of the bugs. However, I have yet to see them call any bug "disastrous", "catastrophic", or even "very frequent".

I was actually going to ask the same question. I just installed the newest version of AM, and I get through the initial loading screen fine, but get an immediate soft crash when going to load the saved game. I have NOT installed the latest sims3 patch yet.

I am having the EXACT same issue. I am guessing that the new Awesome blows up un-patched games, as J. M. said.  :o

Does anyone have a previous version of Awesome that they would be willing to upload to us peasants?

I backed up the previous release I was running from 7-23, I can email it if you like

Well I don't know if anyone can help me here but I've read 18 copies of my rtpatch.log and it says that the 1.3 patch is getting hung up on the Baker.package which I know is one of the families from the Library and which I've replaced 3 times from my DVD game files when the mirror ones here didn't help...  My patch.log is not recording all the times I've attempted to install the patch so now can't tell what it's hanging up on but still getting the "File Not Found" error code... have also replaced all gameplaydata, gameplay, etc files and never had the shader or camera mods...

So, finally decided to just save my Saved Sims, Saved Games, Downloads to my desktop... and uninstall the entire game... only to be met w/this error code:

Error Information:
>Kernel\KernelMedia.cpp (95)
>SetupNew\setup.cpp (851)
PAPP:
PVENDOR:Electronic Arts (http://www.TheSims3.com)
PGUID:C05D8CDB-417D-4335-A38C-A0659EDFD6B8
$15.0.0.498
@Windows XP Service Pack 3 (2600)
IE Version: 8.0.6001.18702

I just re-updated the XP SP3... so now am completely stumped as how to even uninstall my game... any help or suggestions would be much appreciated...   ::)

Make backups of beloved mods and whatnot.

Get Revo Uninstaller; it's free.  Using the advanced setting (it'll ask you four of which you'd like to do), go to uninstall TS3, ignore the same bullshit error code again and continue on hitting Next, deleting every fucking trace of the program (or just do it manually without Revo, but make sure you delete the patch files from the Temp folder and the registry keys).

You have to make sure you delete every trace -- and I mean EVERY trace -- of the bastard patch and TS3 before it will uninstall properly (also don't be surprised if it takes a while to reinstall; mine kept hanging).

ETA:  You'll probably want Revo in any case.  I tried deleting shit manually like I usually do, but no matter how many times I deleted registry keys, they were STILL there.

I encountered the same problem... and didn't back up the old version of awesomemod. Can you email me a copy, too? I am going to send you an email now. Thanks!

Just an FYI for those of you trying to use older versions of AM:

If you aren't willing to patch your Sims 3 copy, and instead try to use it unpatched with an older version of AwesomeMod, don't bother posting with any problems in the meantime on these forums.  Nothing Pescado hates more than bug reports and requests for help from people using outdated versions.  The latest copy of AM seems to work fine with all my savegames, both AM enabled ones and not.  Perhaps you should clean your old savegame of any AM elements first (with the new patch installed), and then install the new AM.

Or, you could try and help Pes find out where problems in AM are coming from (which is the whole point of him time-bombing copies).  AM is actually still a beta, and as such we're unofficially expected to help when we find problems by reporting bugs.

Make backups of beloved mods and whatnot.

Get Revo Uninstaller; it's free.  Using the advanced setting (it'll ask you four of which you'd like to do), go to uninstall TS3, ignore the same bullshit error code again and continue on hitting Next, deleting every fucking trace of the program (or just do it manually without Revo, but make sure you delete the patch files from the Temp folder and the registry keys).

You have to make sure you delete every trace -- and I mean EVERY trace -- of the bastard patch and TS3 before it will uninstall properly (also don't be surprised if it takes a while to reinstall; mine kept hanging).

ETA:  You'll probably want Revo in any case.  I tried deleting shit manually like I usually do, but no matter how many times I deleted registry keys, they were STILL there.

Thanks!  Now I just need to reinstall the rest of my custom content and recreate my sim families.  Thanks EA.

Just save everything in your Sims folder that's under My Documents.  Your saved families are there, and after you reinstall, you should just be able to copy them back into the fresh install like I did.

OK, I did reinstall.  I got my families etc., but my game now does not recognize my custon content even though the content is in the appropriate folders (I checked against my laptop which I haven't used for a week).  I have looked around, but I can't find any place to enable custom content like was on the opening menu for Sims 2.  What am I doing wrong now?

You do have the Resource.cfg file in the appropriate spot, yes?

Okay, first I want to take the time to thank Motoki, Anonym, Twoftmama and Zaphod for helping me out here a LOT !

Next, I successfully performed the manual un-install of my game... and now can load and play... and am about to load up the newest version of AM and a few XML tuning mods as well... however, I do have just one problem... in that I cannot see my previous Saved SV game even tho I had placed it on my desktop along w/my SavedSims file... which I cannot see either... yet ~

JBoat... how do I remove any traces of the old AM on them ?  Maybe you could PM me w/that info if you don't want to take up space here... and I can see all of my cc downloads and use them EXCEPT for the ones from the TS3 store that I paid for... figures!  Any ideas or suggestions are once again much appreciated...   ???

If you can start the game and load a savegame, there should be no need to clean a save of any old mod or AM content.  I am fairly sure the newer AM can handle old AM content fine.  If there was a problem with the latest patch install and you had to clean a savegame of all mods and core mods, you'd have to un-patch The Sims, remove all mods/core mods, load the savegame (or try to), and then re-save.  That's what cleaning is.  Sometimes it works on modded savegames, sometimes not.

Did you run the TS3 Launcher and check to see if all of your downloads are installed?  That's where both the purchased and free (shared) stuff is.  The folder for it is in \My Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3\Downloads\.  If you made a backup folder of that before uninstalling/reinstalling, you can simply move the contents back in, restart the Launcher, and re-install all of it.

sent  :)

Oh... and thanks so much!  How dumb that we have to re-install all of our Downloads folder but at least I won't lose anything that way... cause I can see all of my cc (TS3 store content) too when I open my Downloads folder... but in the Launcher the window is completely empty of any downloads... so guess this isn't like TS2 where we could just reload the DL folder from our desktop after each patch... but again, I'm just happy I didn't lose the stuff that's been paid for already...   :)

And about my previous saved game... when I go into the game to select a "game" to play... I only have the option of choosing a brand new game... and Riverside isn't there either even tho I saved my download of it... so will just re-install it as well... but prolly going to just give up on my saved game cause there's no way I'm going to uninstall again... Stupid EAxis really sucks !

Thanks so much tho and at least this has been a real learning experience and I know MUCH more about my game files than I really ever wanted to...  :P

So I'm experiencing a very... odd and annoying issue.

I updated to the latest patch today and installed the latest version of Awesomemod (I'm also using Indie Stone and a few minor tuning hacks). Whenever I load any of my saves or even create a new family the results are always similar to this.

(http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h165/revall/WeirdGlitch.jpg)

To explain a few things, all those sims WERE ghosts (you can still see the electricity radiating off two of them) and now they obviously look very much alive. Besides my sim who is putting out the fire all other sims (pre-patch created and post-patch created) have pathing issues and won't due anything except stand there. The only reason I can think of why my sim is still putting out the fire is because I had saved my game while he was doing that.  The GUI looks a bit screwy. For starters the icons for any of my household sims are gone. Then the little sim image (that is above the Life Time Wish) is of a female sim I've never created or played as. This is especially odd because even when I switch to different saves in other neighborhoods she is there.

has i has already explain in another thread, I have exactly the same problem, but I DON'T patch my game, so, it cannot come from the patch, I feel it's come from hacks, because I have also awesome and Indi hack, and when I remove one of them, the game is correct.

I cannot explain correctly, I am not a Hacker, or a Html maker, I just say  that the last patch cannot be responsable, because I haven't it .

Does anyone know which xml files were most likely modified in GameplayData.package?

Many people, myself included, are simply waiting and researching the patch before we install it. This is not an uncommon approach.

Hmmm so I removed the game fully using the suggestion of Revo Uninstaller and then reinstalled the game and the latest patch. I reinstalled it with no mods (except a no cd patch) and the game still tweaked out as I described above. So I removed the no cd patch and used my cd to play the game and it worked fine. So I'm guessing the no cd patch was my issue. Now time to readd all the mods and see if it works.

I was able to get the game to recognize my custom content by uninstalling Delphy's helper and then re-installing it.  If anyone else is having this problem, I hope this helps.

Thanks Zaphod for your help.

Exactly what I was going to comment.  I am just waiting for my main mods to be updated.  My issue now is that my version of Awesomemod is expiring....and it's the most recent version from 7/23.  I'm surprised, again, that no one has mentioned that little problem.  Guess either way, if I don't update or I do update, I won't be playing come tomorrow. Unless all the modders have updated by then.....

Baker is one of the library families. Maybe it got corrupted? You could try copying them back into the library from your cd.

Anyway, the patch made my game unplayable, it's so slow now. A conspiracy to make us all upgrade our computers?

Does anyone know if EA has officially recognized and acknowledged it's fuck up with patch 1.3?

I was over at EA today reading some of the posts about the borkiness people have been experiencing with the patch, and it was funny in a sicko kind of way. The first couple of pages, people were reporting problems and pasting their tech data, and everyone was basically being told to update their drivers. Yeah, right. But what was rather amusing was that by page 14, 15, and 16 (I skipped ahead!), people were saying things like 'I know my PC is up to date and %$#& you, EA". LOL.

BTW, people were posting the same kind of stuff that I've seen here (I haven't experienced any issues myself since I haven't patched yet and don't plan to at this time!), and apparently they have to take mods out before they post issues or their posts seem to get deleted. So yeah, it looks to me like most of these are EA issues, not AM issues, but unless they've admitted fault after I visited, no, I don't think EA has acknowledged anything.

I don't know if I should be posting this here or making a new thread but here goes...

So I'm trying to install this 1.3 patch.

I was able to update from 1.0.631 to 1.2.7 awhile back but now 1.3 doesn't work.
My error log tells me  "Error: err0031 - Invalid file found" for "code_version.txt"
Inside = "description=Version: 0.DL-0.0.11195 Changelist: 625803" and it's only 58 bytes.

After getting that error every time I tried to update, I forcefully uninstalled the game with Revo Uninstaller.

Now with the game freshly installed, I am still getting the same error and I'm just at my wits end. :(

FYI: I'm using the Razor version of the game. I heard it's the same as retail, but apparently not.
Any ideas anyone?

Ignore me.
I had to back track all the way and make sure 1.2.7 installed properly. Now that is it, everything is working.
Yay.  :D

Isn't it common for any large company to pretend their inadequacies don't exist? It makes me question capitalism.

I finally got my patch installed, but I'm crashing as soon as I try to open a neighborhood (even vanilla neighborhoods I haven't been screwing with). So, I went into my mods directory and used my mod troubleshooting method (remove half of your packages and run the game until you narrow it down to the culprit), but it seems the problem is there being any package in my mods directory at all. I tried reinstalling the framework monkey, but no go.

Thanks for the tip about looking for rtpatch.log in the temp directory.  I was getting the invalid file error while patching, and it told me exactly which one was the problem.

For me, it was TSLHost.dll.  I tried the original from the CD, but it didn't work.  I'm guessing that means it needs the version that EA updated to in the 1.2.7 patch.  If you're industrious you can find that version on one of the internets.  :)

Hey Tangie -

I posted just ONE post in the 1.3 Bug thread about how EAxis should admit they've made a mistake... along w/tweaking one of their Sim Gurus who goes by the name of "Big Guy" and received a warning today in my personal email that my post was inappropriate for derogatory statements... all I said basically was that his and my reading comprehension were vastly different as he had posted that the "majority of simmers were having no problems w/the 1.3 patch unless they had used AM or IS"... and I countered w/the statement that I had been scanning several websites that suggested something far different... so of course all the "Gurus" have to keep their heads really far up Eaxis' ass... and I don't think Eaxis will ever admit anything ever...  ::)   ;)

Can you say "anti-modding" ?  LOL !   :P

Wow. So I just reinstalled my game, installed the first patch to the vanilla game, and now wanted to update to the second patch, but it still says "Invalid file found". Did anyone else have that problem? Really running out of ideas here.

If you read the thread, you'll notice several people post about that.  Anyway, search for the file "rtpatch.log".  You'll probably find a few if your install failed more than once.  Open the most recent one in a text editor and look at the bottom of the file.  It should tell you exactly which file it had a problem with.

@Wolfeyes: I actually remember reading your post (although I didn't know it was YOU at the time  :)) But I'm not surprised you were admonished about it; they clearly don't like criticism, independant thinkers, or anyone who questions their authority in any way. Basically, they're ^%holes!

I read a post from someone on this board just a few minutes ago (sorry, I already forgot who!), that said they called EA and were told to not download the patch, that they knew it was flawed and that they would be creating a new patch. If that's true, I thought that was a pretty interesting admission, but that is obviously not a public acknowledgement.

You are reading too much into thing ... well drawing the wrong conclusions.

Official forums are all like that, they pick some users to be moderators and the whole thing is just a PR gig as very few if any of the actual development team bothers to check the forums and any "user feedback" is given to then by the community manager.

The Sims 3 Official Forums are in no way different that Bethsoft or Bioware (ok BioWare is now EA) forums.

The reason moderators act that way is simple, they are spineless little shits that want to hold to the little power they have, even if its as pathetic as of being a moderator.

EA is basically blaming everything on modding.

http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/78530.page

Yeah... I'm Wolfstarz over there so I can see how you wouldn't have known it was me... and the fact that EAxis does not acknowledge things publicly is the very root of their problem... I don't know why they can't even take the attitude of "Hey we're all human and make mistakes from time to time..."  Maybe they all have the "Perfectionist" trait... and it's not so hidden anymore...   :P   ::)

I think I understand EA techs: mix their experience with the average sw user (idiot AND entitled) with the bunch of BBS delusional bug reports... I can't honestly blame them too much. As a matter of fact they know that many players use mods; they don't have the slightest idea of how they're made or work, nor they know how to trust a bug report. I mean, if you were an EA programmer/tech, and a random 12 would tell you s/he "didn't touch ANYTHING at all, honest!", would you trust him/her?

This doesn't discharge them of the patch crime: the 1.3 is massively fucked up anyway; sooner or later they'll have to acknowledge that (silently) and fix the crap.

In my case I'm partly lucky: I don't experience weirdness playing TS3 patched in Windows, but in Mac OS (same machine, same executable, same files, same configuration, same saved game) is literally unplayable.