I don't want to be one of "those" people, but no matter what I do, I can't get this damn thing to work. I got a new computer and I've reinstalled Sims 3 + the high end loft stuff pack + world adventures. I have followed the instructions stickied at the top of this forum to the letter at least 10 times and still, it's not working for me. It's highly likely I'm doing something wrong somewhere because the instructions in the thread are stickied for a reason but I just can't figure out where it is I'm going wrong. Here's what I'm doing.

- As the thread says, I've grabbed the framework zip and copied the files from there into each game's directory (Sims 3, Loft Stuff and WA)
- Downloading and installing a new version of awesomemod and copying it into the sims 3 directory, then right clicking/install to sims 3
- copied the resource cfg file into the main Sims 3 directory.

I load up the launcher and it still whines about there not being a CD, which if AwesomeMod was working, it wouldn't do. So I moved the resource.cfg file to the WA directory along with AwesomeMod itself and still the same. I have no idea what it is I'm doing wrong. Perhaps the only possibility I can think of is that my game now has something like 6 resource.cfg files after doing it the way the thread tells you to (there's one in the mods/files directory in the framework as well as in the root directory) and that's messing things up somehow, OR I'm copying over the wrong file - the thread isn't exactly specific about which one you have to copy which is odd since the framework adds two. Seriously, I have no idea and something tells me it's just me being a doofus about some part of this process that's making it so difficult. I'd appreciate any help you guys can give me, and I'm sorry if this is a super retarded question. I know you must get it all the time.

EDIT: Holy shit, I really am retarded. I'd already installed the framework and I was trying to do the manual installation of it form the thread on top of that. Please disregard my stupidity >.>

Okay, sorry if this sounds really retarded, especially after the current exchange but I just cannot seem to get AM working and I have no idea why.

For reference, I don't have WA and my game is patched to the most recent version. I installed the framework through the installer on MTS and put AM (version 1.7.9) and its config file in Sims 3/Mods/Packages. My resource.cfg file looks like this;

Priority 500
DirectoryFiles Mods/Packages/... autoupdate
PackedFile Mods/Packages/*.package
PackedFile Mods/Packages/*/*.package
PackedFile Mods/Packages/*/*/*.package
PackedFile Mods/Packages/*/*/*/*.package
PackedFile Mods/Packages/*/*/*/*/*.package

I can load the game up just fine (as long as the CD is in - I have the DVD version of the game if that matters at all) and the loading screen starts but when it finishes loading, it crashes straight away. Unfortunately it doesn't throw up any kind of error message so I have nothing to show you or tell you except that.

I'm probably retarded and missed something somewhere but I've been trying everything I can think of to make this work and nothing seems to be happening. I really would appreciate someone smarter than me telling me what the hell I did wrong =\

I'm not sure if this is AL specific or if my game is just strange. Since it's a new EP, I took out all my CC like I always do, deleted cache and it's STILL happening.

When I try to get one of my sims to study one of the new skills, they'll take the book from the bookshelf, sit down, open it, close it and put it back. I figured maybe it was something to do with the bookcases not being updated or something so I tried it on every single bookcase in the game. Nope, still happens. Nothing is cancelling out the interaction so I can't figure out why they refuse to study anything but cleaning, mechanical and cooking. I figure it must be one of EA's wonderful bugs.