To the best of my knowledge, the EA patch doesn't conflict with AwesomeMod. However a corrupted patch can possibly FUBAR your game with or without AwesomeMod.

So, because I posted something and responded to something someone wrote concerning my post I'm suddenly a lurker?

There are supernatural entities in the game; they're called ghosts.

I just wasn't able to discern it from the mass of things in there that so many people have uploaded.

You can find all the registry entries in

/Users/<your account>/Library/Preferences/The Sims 3 Preferences/system.reg

Open it with any text editor. There are many other .reg files, but I don't know what exactly they are for.

In the Mac side I found this as the corresponding entry in the registry:


SKU is apparently set to 1, though, I don't know what this means :/.

Yeah, I'm having the same problem here (except I didn't waste my money on the game), but I don't know what program to use either. I tried opening it with the 3viewer, but it didn't really do anything...

I'm on a laptop, so I don't have a scrollwheel.  I sometimes use my mouse, but the scrollwheel has been acting up lately (it will scroll, but clicking and holding it does nothing).  For scrolling, I can use the side of the pad, and for clicking and holding the scrollwheel, Sims 3 allows me to hold down both the right and the left mouse buttons.  That doesn't work in all games, though.  So basically, I have the capabilities to use a scrollwheel, but in different forms.  I hope that wouldn't be a problem.

If Awesomemod does end up needing a scrollwheel, give us a little advance notice, so that us strangeos can take care of our system.

Then you do, in fact, have a scrolly wheel, regardless of its physical form.

Says who?  TS2 base was 5 years ago, and for many players, many, many dollars ago.  Where's this rule that says we have to accept being given as little as possible in the base game just so they can milk more money out of releasing the same recycled EPs?  How about they start giving us more value in the base game and concentrating on actually delivering new, interesting content for the game they've promised would be such a remarkable evolution from TS2?  I don't feel like spending 20-30 bucks on an EP just to get the same exact shit we got in Nightlife or University, etc.

Given that I had the same card before updating to a GeForce 7600 (my rig can't handle much more), I can speak from experience. For the base game alone, it might be ok. If you want to play with one or even more expansion packs, the game starts choking, the odd visual artifacts appear.

From what I have seen, kids that are taken get put into other households. I had twins taken by the social worker and found one living with a neighbor just down the street, I found the other one living in a house near the beach. 

Note about the Mac: in the retail version there's apparently no way to avoid the launcher.
The binaries which launch the game have changed in the final release. In the Reloaded version there were three of them: cider, cider_noui and Sims3-Launcher; in the retail version the *Launcher one is missing.
If, in Reloaded, I launch cider from the terminal, it loads TS3.exe directly; if I do the same in retail, it loads the launcher. Cider_noui, despite its name, seems to not have any difference in the way it operates.

On a side note, in Mac there isn't a specific download manager anywhere, and I suspect it's rolled in the Launcher itself - if you don't apply the official patch the Launcher it is not able to download and install anything, so apparently they included this feature in the patch.

I don't know at the present moment how to manage this crap. I tried renaming TS3.exe in Sims3 launcher etc, but it doesn't seem to work.

Over at RYG and Prism we've tested the game for any trace of DRM. This is our statement on the issues:

-Gamers are able to install Riverview via the EADM and then remove the EADM and continue playing with that neighborhood.

I know, the anti-sucurom people go bananas, but I've never used my DVD player in this computer to do anything except for to install two games. I don't download and burn cds or dvds or anything of the sort. If I did, I'm sure I'd be as bananas about it as y'all are...in fact, maybe moreso.

By the way, I have to say I absolutely LOVE that there is an interaction for "romantic interest" called "Let's just be friends."  It doesn't even have a huge negative effect on the relationship (after all, you aren't even going steady!).  In the Sims 2, falling out of love with somebody was irritatingly difficult.  People got jealous over the stupidest crap, and the only way to stop them from getting jealous was to get rid of the love, which was usually only possible by doing something to make them jealous =P  Basically, falling in love ruined relationships in Sims 2.  It was very hard to go back to being friends.