The last time I played WA was ages ago (at least a year), and I didn't have this issue - however, I played a bit yesterday and experienced it. Perhaps it was the latest patch.

I downloaded the latest version, but the outerwear issue still seems to be happening, along with the CAS and buy mode bloat.

I appreciate the advice. I'll try with the slower drive for now and see how it goes.

I need to replace my hard drive, because I'm getting BSODs and messages that tell me it's about to fail.

Unfortunately, I have to play Sims on a laptop because I am constantly travelling. For reference, my processor is an Intel i7 running at 2.5 GHz, and I have 8gb of RAM (not that the game can use it). Unfortunately, I only have Intel HD Integrated Graphics, but I seem to be getting away with it with the game on low settings.

The computer repairman I called said that a faster drive (which is what I had) will wear out sooner. What I had was a terabyte drive that ran at 7200 - my game ran extraordinarily well considering with all expansions and quite a lot of custom content. I'm considering replacing this drive with one that runs at 5400. I can't quite afford a solid state drive at the moment.

Basically, I have two questions. 1) Should I get the drive that runs at 7200 or the one that runs at 5400? And 2) could playing the Sims 3 have worn out my old drive prematurely?

Yes, the outerwear thing has been borked for a long time. And it's not just everyday clothes that are showing up inappropriately--sometimes I end up with a sim in swimsuit, flippers and gloves as an outerwear outfit. I haven't had time to test this comprehensively to find out when or why this happens, but it's definitely connected to AM.

I am also experiencing the bloated CAS and buy mode, and I wonder if these two issues have the same root cause.

Seconding this.  Tired of seeing male children running around in the snow in shorts, a t-shirt and long pink princess gloves.

I guess that's rather realistic, then.  But it would be nice to be able to move in case of glitches, etc.

Have you checked for conflicts?

Kleptomaniac sims used to be able to steal things from inside buildings.  With one of the recent patches, EA changed it so they can only steal things outside on community lots.  I don't want them to have unlimited swipes or be able to do it all day (as one mod allows), but it would be nice to be able to steal from inside museums and such.  Is this within the scope of Awesomemod, or would it just be an XML tweak?

As of this latest version, the "fixall" command is not working.  Other awesomemod commands do work correctly, so I know the mod is being recognised.

I've had this problem all along.  Turning off the internet (and any unnecessary programmes running in the background) and setting autosave to 20 minutes or so helps.  The Crash Log Analyser says it's due to insufficient memory, though.  How much memory have you got?  I only have 2 Gb and am planning to upgrade to 4 Gb shortly.

I've been annoyed lately about calls my sims get late at night, when parties end.  It's the "We missed you at the party, blah blah blah" phone call.  It's annoying to get the call when I've already clicked "no thanks" on the party invitation dialogue box.  It's especially annoying for sims that require lots of friends for their careers, as they get invited to more parties - one every day or two, in some cases.  I don't want to silence the sims' phones, because sometimes there are useful opportunities, etc. that come up over the phone.

Would it be within the domain of Awesomemod to stop the redundant phone calls? 

Yeah, that might be a good idea. 

Yes, actually, though I assumed it was just a glitch and gave them a new mailbox from buydebug...

I've been getting those, too, since 1.26.  One was definitely a corrupt save, but my graphics card isn't well suited to games and seems to be part of the problem.  Turning down the settings, getting rid of memories, and using a smaller neighbourhood is helping so far.

There did not appear to be anything unusual about the three sims that caused trouble - I think one of them was a former maid that had married into an inactive family though.  I'll test some more to see if it always happens.

EDIT:  Sorry, apparently I forgot to remove an old mod.  All fixed now!

Okay, RoboticHandofGod works now.  However, I just tried to makeover someone in an inactive family (using the "makeover [sim]" command) and my game froze in the makeover screen.  The various buttons (options, accept family, etc.) respond to clicking but do not actually DO anything.  Had to shut down the game in task manager.

Not sure about autosave, but HandOfGod is not working for me either.  Furthermore, when a family calls a maid, at least two of them arrive and stand on the lawn doing nothing for most of the day, cleaning only half the mess before leaving because 'it's time to go', taking full wages with them.

I've been thinking about building a new laptop on the higher end of things.  I don't suppose you'd be willing to share your specs?

Strange.  I'm getting Error 12 on vacation as well now.

I second this.  I mostly use WW to townify everything I download, and it's kind of a nuisance going through every single file.

I'm afraid I can't help you with the rest, but I do know that Bust a Move comes with University.

I've been using the Wardrobe Wrangler to townify all my accessories.  That seems to work fine, Gwenke, although it's rather tedious to fix everything.

I've been having trouble getting my game to load with this stuff installed.  The Cubic and Deco sets both crash my game as soon as the loading screen is about to fade to the neighbourhood-choosing-thing.  I changed field 0040 to 0x0001 in SimPE, to no effect.  Is this because I only have the base game and University, or did I screw something up while editing?

I'm too lazy to rebin all the miscategorised Peggy hair, so I just pretend my sims have chosen to dye theirs but forgot the eyebrows.