Awesome. Best show ever.

Oh, this must be the part where I'm supposed to get all frothy about your 'tard' comment, and all your peers come out to cheer you on in wankfest of forum superiority. No thanks. You don't want to help me, fine, don't.

Hmm, I don't recall saying anything like "WAAAAAAAAAAAAA IT WON'T LOAD", but here is what I believe to be the relevant information. If there is something else, please let me know.

1. I had a working game, all SPs and EPs, mods, CC and AM.
2. I installed Showtime from the DVD. When it asked to perform updates, I let it.
3. I started Showtime from the Launcher icon and got the warning about an outdated mod, so I just quit.
4. I ran the AM Updater and let it install the latest AM test version.
5. Now the game just sits at an un-moving progress bar, but if I take out AM, it starts.

I let the AM Updater install the latest test version, and now my game will only start if I remove AM. But the thought of playing without AM fills me with dread. Do I need to just be patient and wait for another AM release, or is there any other solution?

So, I messed around with some Things I Should Not Have Touched, and I managed to get four semi-playable mummies in my house, which was entertaining for a while. Then I killed them off by forcing their age transition, and I started getting the "Flagrant Error" messages. Eventually I got the one informing me that my save was corrupted and had turned into a BFBVFS. So I thought, what do I have to lose, and tried to take a picture. It worked.

I do not recommend this as a solution  

Edit: GAH...new neighborhood, and I can take photos at home, but I can't take them on an adventure where I need to. I give up.

Thank you for the suggestion, but it is still not working. It seems to hang at the point the picture would be saved, because after I have to reset, no picture.

Thanks. I tried all of that too, still no joy. Maybe there will be a patch.

Thanks for the tip, but it seems this time is not one of those times, even with extra swearing. Sigh...

One of the Egypt adventures wants you to take a photo of a treasure chest. I figured out the stupid way that using the in-game camera or cell phone wouldn't satisfy the requirement. So, I bought one of each of the cameras in the market, and after I press C to take the photo, the "Take Photo" action remains in the queue. It can't be killed, and I have to resetsim to continue. I found a few references to this problem on the BBS, but no solutions. Any ideas, please?

I just donated my $50.00. I don't post often, but when I do, I always get the helpful, surly advice I've come to know and love. And without AwesomeMod, Sims 3 just wouldn't be worth the trouble. Thanks for everything!

It works amazingly well. I run XP in a VirtualBox for a few things, like printing greeting cards. And I still haven't been able to get my webcam to work under Ubuntu. But aside from the launcher, the Sims works great, and everything else I use is open source.

I wish it could be more, but $10 was all I could manage because I'm on disability and my husband just got laid off. I really depend on the info here, even though I don't post much (because I'm afraid of the regulars) :/

Thank you so much. I will give that a try. If all else fails I will just go back to using XP to play the Sim (I kept the partition), but I really want to get away from that and just use Linux.

Thanks for the tip. It is over 1800 packages once I extract them. Guess I need to do some more research.

I've recently switched to Linux and Sims 3 & all expansions are running great with Wine & PlayOnLinux. I don't have any problem with .package files - just copy them into the Mods directory as usually. But after downloading a ton of store stuff I realized I have not got a clue of how to handle Sims3Pack files. I can't use the launcher. I can still run XP in a virtual machine - should I use Delphy's extractor to extract all the packages and then just handle them like my mods, or is there a better way?

Awesome, thanks so much. I turned off the "Enable Advanced Rendering" and things look so much better now. I had hesitated to turn that off before because I thought the game needed full use of 2.0 shaders.

I haven't played in ages because I switched from Windows to Ubuntu. I have all the expansions and stuff packs. I have an Nvidia GeForce GTS 250 with 1024MB. All my graphics settings are on High. The game runs perfectly on Ubuntu using Wine & PlayOnLinux, with one exception. Light colored objects under a light have a glow effect that is driving me crazy. I don't know what setting in the game or the Nvidia tool, if any, I can adjust to get rid of it. Here's what it looks like (click for larger image):



Any ideas? I'm at my wit's end.

My SS members no longer wear their uniforms on campus or during abductions, but they are all wearing them at the SS lot.  When a sim is abducted, it's a cop that does the chicken dance and cuffs them.  Any ideas on how to get them back in uniform?  All EPs and SPs are installed.

Thank you!

I was hoping to find out without breaking anything.

I installed MG with an unpatched AL.  It did some sort of AL update.  Do I need to install any patches?

If it's the one posted here, I did the build/buy enabler.  Unfortunately, I'm not a modder and don't remember what to do to change the hack.  If anyone feels like taking it on, go for it.

The build/buy mode enabler that I made for BV works with Freetime, and build & buy mode are enabled at the hobby clubs.  You can get it from this thread - http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,9923.0.html.

I had Natasha Una and Julien Cooke get married.  His asp meter went totally platinum and then was stuck that way (wouldn't drop to gold).  I didn't notice anything was wrong until he reprogrammed himself and turned into a grilled cheese Sim.  Later, after they'd both went permaplat, I saved and quit.  When I played them again, their meters were both green and had to be fixed with SimPE.  But the bugginess wasn't over.  Once Natasha was preggers, she got stuck in a bathtub.  I had to force an error on the tub to get her out, and she promptly died next to the tub.  Julien was able to successfully plead for her life, and once she was back, they both had memories of Natasha graduating. Graduating from what, the tub?  The other side?

Disclaimer:  my game is full of questionable stuff, so I may be doing this to myself.

Muchas gracias, El Presidente!