More Awesome Than You!

Hi there,
First of all, am I right in thinking that the AwesomeMod is now up to date with the recent patches? I thought I'd read that it was, but then I don't always understand all the technical lingo  ;) If it isn't, then my question's irrelevant because I have the latest patch.
But if it is...:
I have WA and Ambitions as well as the latest patch. The only cc I have installed is hair, no mods or anything. I load the game and it goes as far as the first loading screen (the Ambitions one), but the bar doesn't fill at all and for some reason the sound cuts out too, though the sound works for everything up until that point. It works fine when I uninstall AwesomeMod.

Sorry if this has been covered before, I did try and find a similar post!
Thanks  :)

This has been asked several times. There are a few posts below yours asking the same. Judging by the number of times your thread has been viewed no one is going to help. My suggestion is to search moar.

Re-download and install AM (Updates are done all the time which may not warrant a post to tell you it's new).
Personally, I'd re-do the configuration tool also.
Then pull out ALL your cc except AM.  ANY package can conflict with the game if it is badly made, and there's a LOT of badly made crap out there. 

If the game still won't load, THEN post here.

Come on!! This had been already covered times already! Did you even use the search box?

I think they're Google-phobic.  ???

Hey you guys are a bit unfair. I did a lot of searching, both on Google and in this forum and I'm sorry if I didn't find something that had been posted already. I assumed it would have been but nobody's problem seemed to be exactly the same as mine. I wish you'd play a bit nicer, you're quite often a bit aggressive towards us newbies. We are trying not to be idiots!
Anyway, thanks Chandria for the suggestions, unfortunately it didn't work. Although I don't know what the configuration tool is, so I'm about to go and look that up!
Ta.

Patch Fail maybe?

I had the same problem and this solved it.

I don't tend to live on these sites - only checking them when I have a specific issue, and people call their issues the weirdest things which can make it hard to know what to Google for.

Credit of course to Motoki for the original reply to my issue

Thank you very much, I'll look into that. I wasn't aware it had changed, so I'm still using someone's installer... Delphy's? The monkey one. Yeah, I think it's largely down to people calling the same issue different things which makes it very hard to compare. Grrr semantics!
Thanks!

You could also be having the same problem I have. Soon after AMB came out, my game started taking longer to load. The last time I posted it was 10 minutes, it's now 40. It's slowly got worse as time has gone on. I've spent a couple days trying to work out why, without luck. All I can say is that starting a new game fixes it. So now I'm in the process of moving everything to a new town.

To describe my issue. Once I hit load for a save game, the bar will sit there not moving at all, the music will play, sometimes it will cut out for a while. In process monitor all I see is the game continuously accessing FullBuild1.package from the sims3 dir and Shaders_Win32.precomp from AMB dir. After 30-40 minutes the game will start loading and it will load quite fast and while in-game everything works fine and the game saves just fine. I've tried replacing those two files in case something corrupted them, but no luck. I've removed all custom content, but no luck, but as stated, new games seem to be fine.

So it seems something is halting the game at loadup, and it's got worse over time. Sure something might have happened during the AM upgrade process of existing pre-amb games, but I've saved my game with AM installed, so it is beyond reverting back to see if it's AM causing it and I'm out of ideas.

I did that,and  when it comes to the loading screen,the music cuts out,and everything just stops,now when I take out AM,the game is fine again.
I only have WA,so AM is in Program files,can someone help me out of my stupidness?

I believe Fullbuild1 is where a bunch of game resources are stored. If the game is seizing up accessing that for an extended period of time, it probably has something to do with it trying to rummage through the fullbuilds.

One thing you can try to accelerate loading times is to load that entire directory into RAMdisk in advance. This is only about 4 GBs of data, so you won't even need an exceptionally gargantuan RAMdisk. The other thing you can do is tear it apart into MULTIPLE fullbuild files that are pre-decompressed. You can't decompress the entire file as-is because it will exceed the 32-bit address offset, but you can tear it apart into multiple files and repack them. Obviously, this is an advanced measure that is for experts to attempt only, and will probably break patching, so if you have no idea how to do this, don't. But most of these issues are caused by NEEDING MOAR RAMZ.

Is it fully patched up to date?  If so, try the configuring your cc in your My Documents folder and see if it works. 
I'm not sure if EAxis changed the setup for the older EP's in their latest patches or not, but from what I've read, I think they may have done so.
(They probably don't say anything specifically so that people will be motivated to buy the newer EP's to get their games working again.)
If it works, you're ahead of the game for when you get HELS and AMB, if it doesn't you're no further behind than you were.

Jip,patched up and ready :),so I tried it,and still nothing.
Grrr,damn EA!! >:(
Any other ideas?

This is a blind stab in the dark, but when you tried that did you also grab the NEW Resource.cfg file and put in the new MODS folder?
The new one is totally different from the old one, so it's not a move and dump thing to change it.  You can find the new one over on ModTheSims.

Also, did you pull out the d3dx9_31.dll files out of the Game/Bin directories? I don't know if it makes a difference if you do or not, it does for some.

Beyond these suggestions, I'm tapped out.

So I did that,but it didn't work,then I decided to send EA to hell,and uninstall and re-install again,I downloaded a new version of AM again.Now the only new problem is that my game doesn't reconize AM....again
I tried the Program files  and Documents again,but still to no avail.(I have the new resource file)
Is there like a minimall chance that you can help me?

If you remove this file, your game no longer works. Put it back, making sure it is installed in your latest game version's game/bin directory, which normally means "all of them", since at one point each of them was probably your latest game version.

I totally agree! Many people told me to pull mine out, but then my game didn't load until I put them all back in.


Okay, way back to basics and another stab in the dark.
Did you delete ALL the cache.package files (especially the Script.cache.package) in your My Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 3/ folder?

Edited to not make the double post faux pas

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. :P

As far as I know, the DLL thing is still required, so it's not a question of new or old way.

I don't use the dll in the framework download package, and ever since I started playing your mod with it's defaults, it's been perfectly fine

I just use the mods folder, the resource.cfg, and then the package folder, all in the documents location.

To sum: you need to put encourage just using resource.cfg from the wiki modthesims use, make the mods folder, put it there, make a package folder. All your features work for me.

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 (http://www.thesims3.com/community/news.html?selMonth=4&selYear=2010):


Also Mod the Sims in their help section explaining the differences between the old and new way (http://www.modthesims.info/wiki.php?title=Game_Help:Installing_Sims_3_Package_Files/Old_Way_to_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.

I don't have them either. I followed my own instructions (http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,17454.msg540991.html#msg540991) to the letter and I've never had an issue.

Just re-installed game on new HDD and didn't add the .dll files, just installed the new EAxis method, with the appropriate resource.cfg file, and everything works fine.

It would appear most people with problems using the new EAxis method either have a bad resource.cfg, have set up too many sub-folders compared to what their resource.cfg is written to allow, or have the resource file in the wrong location.

Holy Hell I can't get this to work. I am a noob and an idiot who has used AwesomeMod since I started playing the base game. I am getting frustrated enough that I'm willing to risk a total lashing! I now have the base game, HEL , WA and Ambitions. I have followed the thread that SJActress has about how to download with the latest patch and EP's. I have looked at the pictures  posted by Simius and my folders matched the pictures posted. Originally when I downloaded the configure file to go with Awesome it just said "cannot find valid path to install" so I saved the file into my mods folder where AwesomeMod is manually. Now when I click on my desktop it just fails to play all together. It says there was an "error during startup".  I have tried reinstalling awesome etc. I have removed all CC and I've double checked to make sure the old files on my computer have been removed from the Program Files. I am brain hurt! What am I missing! I'd rather face that I am a complete idiot than continue to play vanilla!

The aweconf.package file goes in the same folder as awesome.package.

Have you tried putting the d3dx9_31.dll back into ALL the  Program Files EP/SP /Game/Bin locations?

It DOES make a difference for some players. (It did for me.)

Also, which Resource.cfg file are you using?

Using the Resource file that was linked in the instructions on SJActress. The aweconfig.package is in the same folder as awesome.package (when I tried to just generate and run it- it said no valid path was found!) I will try to put the d3dx9_31.dll back into my program files. I am hoping it is still in my recycle bin because I removed it a while ago :(

Tried restoring the d3dx9_31.dll back into base and all EPs game/bin and it still says the same thing when I try to run the game.

Okay, I took a look at the Simius pics and the Resource.cfg file.  I think the problem might be that your Resource.cfg file is NOT setup for the
the way the pictures show the setup to be. 

Drag and drop all the other folders into your Packages folder until the ONLY TWO things in your Mods folder are the Resource.cfg and the Packages folder.
Like this:
Sims 3 ->Mods
                  Resource.cfg
                  Packages->
                                 Awesome
                                 Overrides
                                 Testing
                                  etc....

Delete your cache.package files and see if it starts (try it both with and without the dll file).
           

Tried both ways- still says the same thing. Grr...I'm so frustrated. I'll keep looking.

Click here and find the link (http://www.modthesims.info/wiki.php?title=Game_Help:Installing_Sims_3_Package_Files/Setup_and_Files) to a Resource.cfg. I'm wondering if the one I linked to in the install post is fucked up. I doubt it, but I can't modify the post anymore.

If it still doesn't work, you fucked up. If it DOES, say so; I'll get the install post fixed.

Sorry if I'm coming across as an idiot, which I am not, but I've been all over this site and several others trying to find out where in the world I can get the Aweconf.package file. I understand it is necessary if you want to change any of the default options in Awesomemod...at least that's what is seemed like from the 9 page Readme I printed out that is a terrific volume of information regarding what the Mod does but doesn't seem to explain how to change it, leading me to assume ( I know, ass u me) that the aweconf file will take care of it nicely. I downloaded the mod yesterday and the only thing that came with the file was the awesome.package file. Oh... I finally got the game to load with the mod but this seemed like an easy/active thread to beg the question... :-)

Thanks!

...You couldn't be bothered to read the rest of the thread where you downloaded AM, then? Cause it's not exactly hidden.

Nope, it isn't on the thread I downloaded AM from. I did eventually find a thread that DID give a link to the aweconfig site to generate the package file.

For those of you who so ENJOY calling us tards and idiots and all sorts of lovely names because we are looking for help, finding answers isn't as easy as you deem it to be. There are any number of ways you can word your search and just as many times will come up with completely different results. Don't assume that we've NOT spent hours going through the forums (on several sites) or Googling until our fingers bleed. Don't assume that typing in a reasonable phrase will magically give us exactly the thread we need. Don't assume that your insults and coarse language will send us scurrying in fear and set us on the straight and narrow path because most of us truly have done the footwork and still come up empty-handed.

So, no thank you Tever for your unwillingness to help and be sure YOU get your facts straight before dealing out the sarcasm.

There's a link in the first fucking post of the awesomemod download thread.

Yes, yes it is. For the first post says this near the bottom:


Click AM configuration tool. I don't know about on your browser, but on mine on that post, that font looks kinda different then the rest surrounding it, indicating that it is in fact a link.

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v280/shadesdarkeyes/righthere.png)

Like I said: not exactly hidden.

Idiot.

(http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i119/keirra1983/Macros/tool.jpg)

Oh, I see at last what the problem is! You can't read, and are too stupid to know that if it's fucking UNDERLINED, it's a fucking LINK to something - you don't even need to be able to read to follow an underlined link! That surely explains everything.

Ok SJActress it wasn't your link.  I tried everything and double checked everything. I finally decided to once again unload all my EP's and base game and reload them. I checked each one as I went and when I finally got to the last (ambitions) it was doing the same thing. I found out that my EA download manager had somehow got f'd up. I purged it and downloaded a new one, put Awesome back in and it is now working. Thank you for all the help.