Did you search the register for everything "Electronics Arts" and "Sims" related? There must still be entries in there. Uninstall the EA Downloader too if you can.

Get the patches first then worry about Awesomemod.

Do NOT install the patch that comes with Razor. Just install the Razor version of the game itself.

1.2 patch

http://na.llnet.eadownloads.ea.com/u/f/sims/sims3/patches/Sims3_1.2.7.00002_from_1.0.631.00002.exe

1.3 patch

http://akamai.cdn.ea.com/eadownloads/u/f/sims/sims3/patches/sims3_1.3.24.00002_from_1.2.7.00002.exe

Or you can let the EA Download Manager via the Sims 3 Launcher do it. You don't need to log in or a CD in the drive to use it.

Two things I can think of, may sound obvious but humor me.

First, what is the exact path of your resource.cfg? Should be C:\Program Files\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3\Resource.cfg or something along those lines depending on your OS and if you installed to the default directories etc.

Second, can you open your resource.cfg in a text editor and post it here?

I don't understand why the mods would not be working. They are all .package files correct?

Reformat your hard drive and reinstall Windows? Well yes there's that but it's rather a drastic step to take.

Well if you can't uninstall it but just delete the files then it's still going to leave entries in the Windows registry but hopefully it will let you reinstall.

I have had this experience as well but I noticed similar things when my old neighborhood got large even before Indie. I just think Indie on a wolfrun running fast speed just speeds up the process of create of LOT of sims in a short time.

Honestly, in my experience with this game there's a threshold of the number of sims in your neighborhood and I don't know what it is exactly, it may vary for some people, but once you get beyond that threshold it's just BFVFS territory with terrible lag that turning graphics settings down does not help and lobotomized townies who can't even take their asses to the toilet.

I think Indie just facilities speeding this process up by a great deal, but imo it can happen to all neighborhoods sooner or later if there aren't some means of population control in place.

It means somewhere along the way your either modified those lists of files or downloaded some mods that replaced or modified them.

Anytime you mess with a mod that is not a .package and in some way shape or form modifies or replaces an original file the game installed always make a backup copy.

The patches are very picky and expect all the files in the games directory to be the same versions it expects in a fresh install. If you even make minor tweaks to an ini file (a configuration text file that allows you to modify various settings) it will complain and refuse to install.

That razor patch in the directory updates 1.0.631.00002 to 1.0.632.00002. I'm not even sure it's necessary. It may do more harm than good. The first patch Sims3_1.2.7.00002_from_1.0.631.00002.exe and then the second one is sims3_1.3.24.00002_from_1.2.7.00002.exe. I don't even know if you can patch from 1.0.632.00002.

Again, if there is any way on god's green earth you can reinstall the damned thing, even if it means installing a second copy of the game to another directory and then moving your saves over, I would opt for that. You've modified too many files, perhaps have not backed them up, and are not tech savvy enough to wade through all the headache of getting it to work. You need a clean slate and DON'T mess with anything after you reinstall. Do a fresh install. Do not apply the razor patch, don't change anything. Apply the first patch, then apply the second patch. Then if and when you modify things afterwards keep a back up copy.

Also don't do unnecessary things. Don't get a nocd crack or a no censor mod if you are using awesome mod. It already provides that functionality without changing any of the games files. In general if at all possible stick with package mods and try not to mess with mods that change the game's original files unless you know what you are doing and make a backup copy.

Okay I just had another male generated who does have a body. The interesting thing is this one is wearing a two piece, separate top and bottom. The other two when I put them in a dresser, the one piece full body every day outfit came up by default, but there was no outfit highlighted.

Edit: And yet another sim generates without a torso, full body outfit category when I throw him into the dresser.

So far this has been my experience. Any new townie sims the games generated post patch that did not exist prior to it that are male and generate in a full body outfit category end up with no outfit and thus no torso.

I have seen new sims generate with tops and bottoms, have yet to see a new one generate with a full body outfit. Prior to the patch I would get them spawning in those god forsaken overalls and mandarin coat all the time. Now they just have nothing.

Seems this is a reproducable bug too. At least for me.

Well, people wanted no more spawned townies in overalls, I guess this is one way to solve that problem.

Well in a normal neighborhood most people would have a full neighborhood and probably wouldn't have too many new sims being generated, but since I wanted to test Pescado's story mode out on a clean one and see how it reacted I got rid of everyone. So far two for two men the game created have no torso and are also not wearing any outfit, so it's not just an invisible outfit.

I will try and test further.

Considering there's A LOT of people on the Exchange forums bitching about it and you need to have a legal valid key to post there I think that pretty much shoots your theory down. Nice try though.

Okay Gus, question. I notice the date on this thread was 7/29, so just after the patch. Did this townie happen pre or post patch?

Because I never had this happen before then I started a new neighborhood, destroyed all humans, moved a new sim in, EAxis story mode generated a couple of families so far and both males generated are torsoless.

I thought maybe a messed up outfit or something so I selected one and did the dresser command on him. When it goes to the selection of outfits, no outfit is highlighted where usually the current one he is wearing would be. When I try to use the design tool on him it says he has no style and a style (outfit?) needs to be selected first.

I wonder if this is a patch induced bug that new male sims created by the story engine end up without a torso. Ugh.

Okay let's try this approach. Have you downloaded the no censor blur patch? Anything that messes with the camera? Otherwise any sort of 'mod' that was not a .package file (ie it replaces a game file).

Do you have a nocd crack?

If you modified any file from the original install then you need to restore the original file. Like if you used a cracked TS3.exe and TS3Host.dll then you need to put back the ones that were there before you put the crack in.

Honestly, if you still have the original install disc/files I would just reinstall the game. You'll still have your saves as long as you choose to keep them when it prompts you when you uninstall.

Based on what? Hearsay?

Plenty of people have patched successfully but human nature being what it is the ones who have not are making much more noise than the ones who have.

A lot of the loudest noise is coming from the Exchange, MTS and TSR whose average users are quite frankly not the most savvy to begin with. And lord knows many in this community love an excuse to kermitflail.

Why don't you just try it? You won't lose you save games. Worst that can happen is you have to reinstall and just apply the first patch. Eh.

If you have troubles with it you can always ask around for a solution.

I swear all this hysteria over the patch is scaring off people from even trying to apply the damned thing when they don't even know if they'll have problems, they just think they will because they read a bunch of other people going on about it so.

ENOUGH of this! It's been talked about and debated in multiple threads over and over ad nauseum.

It's his mod so it goes by his rules. Use it or lose it!

Indie seems hell bent on forcing sims to be hetero no matter what in my experience. Somehow I doubt the gender preference thing will help because I think it ignores it. I know I have had sims who have flirted with the same sex more than the opposite which should set that preference value, but Indie has paired them with the opposite sex regardless. Let me know if it works for you.


This, like the "Species" value is likely something for an expansion.

Out of curiousity why are so many people using that script error thing? It's meant as a debug tool and those messages won't mean anything to 99% of the people playing the game.

Is this some sort of BBistic ZOMG I will never use that hair but I just have to have it just because thing?

Is that something the patch changed? My sims are always eating fruit in their inventory. Garlic too and it gives them bad breath. 

I think Pes added the eat food from inventory if hungry bit to SC a while back, at least mine seem to now while they were out stone hunting unless I was totally hallucinating it.

Personally, I think the whole fruit thing is stupid and panders to BBism where there were persistent rumors with TS2 that if you ate spaghetti you would have twins bla bla.

Uh if you patch to 1.3 then restore an old 1.27 no cd cracked version of the exe you are reverting to an old exe file and thus defeating the purpose of the patch.

You're still running 1.27 so there's no point in even bothering going through the trouble unless you care about the few other minor things EA updated like burying some blurb in the readme that Adaptive Antialiasing doesn't work well with this game on ATI cards. 

Why in heaven's name would you apply the French patch to the English version and what genius at EA allowed such a thing to be possible?

As for 'installing' Awesomemod you don't need the Delphy tool. That's for the lazy. Just drop the damned thing in C:\Program Files\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3\Mods\Packages or the Hacks subdirectory under packages and call it good. Make sure you have the resource.cfg though. The Delphy tool should install that.

Now as for the Delphy tool not recognizing it, it should recognize a package file.

Please tell me you unzipped it after you downloaded it.

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Voodoo.

Good lord where is Miss Cleo when you need her?

The bubble bath will totally wipe away negative stressed moodlets. I had a writer sim who routinely would get stressed to significant degrees and the bubble bath always saved her. Of course I also added the rubber ducky for the extra bonus.

She'd even get wants to take a bubble bath. I never had her bathe til tranquil though, seems this might be some new thing the patch enabled. I just had her take a regular length bubble bath and she'd be good to go and get back to the writing in no time. This was with a cheaper tub too.

Nanacake are you just doing a recolor? If so you shouldn't need to mess with Milkshape at all. But if you are editing the mesh or replacing it with the new one then you will definitely need plugins for it. Wes Howe's is the main one. There's some good tutorials over at MTS. Also Simlogical and CustomSims3 are good spots with a people who are really in the know.

Yeah, pretty much. It tells the game where to look for the mods and sets the priority it gaves the files in those directories. You can edit it with a simple text editor, even Notepad.

I'm not sure if it will take a whole path though like C:\blabla\bla etc or if it will only allow a subdirectory of Electronic Arts\The Sims 3\

He had the excuse of no bald hair before, but now he doesn't. Unless he's waiting for a long bear or something.