My game was running fine a few weeks ago.  No new custom content uploaded for at least half a year. 

I updated the patch to the latest and downloaded Awesomemod.  I don't have any other mods loaded.

My game takes about 20 minutes to load.  When it finally loads, it defaults to edit mode, not play mode and I am unable to toggle between the two.  I can get the grey bar across the top but it will not take any instructions. 

And then it comes up with ' Flagrant System Error' and a whole bunch of code. 

Any thoughts?

A little vitreolic Zazazu, aren't we?  Who stood on your corns?   

Another update.  WoohooOnly is another mod which was causing my sims not to interact with each other. 

Just a heads up for anyone who had the same problem as I did which was disappearing traits.  The following package file tree-ag hiddentraits which you can get from MTS is not compatible with Pes' latest Awesomemod.  I do not have WA installed at the moment.

If anyone is having a problem with games crashing, or things not working in your game, there is a very high chance that it something is conflicting with AM.  It is probably not something like hair or makeup or clothes, but a core mod.  You need to:

1. Save the contents of your packages folder to a folder on your desktop.
2. If you have a launcher, disable any custom content by selecting installed content and then selecting the whole lot and ticking the run without custom content. DO NOT SAVE YOUR GAME WHEN IN THAT MODE
3 Load up your game.  It should be fine and playable. If not, there is a problem with custom content in the launcher and you will have to delete each one by one and load up your game again and again.
4. If everything is fine with your custom content, start putting back .package file stuff slowly -  I started with 1kb up to 10kb in size.
5. Load up your game.  If it's fine, then put the next lot 11kb to say 50kb
6. Keep doing that until you do hit a glitch and then you will be able to isolate the file that is the problem.

This is time-consuming but it is worth it in the end as your game will run fine.  Remember to take out the core mods first.  They are most likely to be the problem as they will conflict with AM which is a huge and absolutely essential, I think, core mod.

You know I thought it looked wrong  . Thanks LVR.  Eww, lazors on bewbs, kinky. 

Witch, I'm so worried in case you get nuked by the grammer police, it's lasers. Maybe you do need to go back to Hogwarts to learn how to spell.

superherofae, please don't put yourself down like that.  You are not retarded and you are not stupid, despite what anyone here may call you.  You are in a learning curve.  My only suggestion is that you install the framework manually and follow coconnor's tutorial thread to the letter.  My learning curve has not gone full circle yet.

I think this is the most you have spoken to anyone in quite a long time - hit a nerve? You are clearly obsessed with stupidity - it's called a superiority complex.  If it makes you happy to think that I am stupid, well go right ahead, but it doesn't make it so.   Hee, hee, you make me laugh out loud.  Thanks for that - I need a good giggle.  Ciao for now, bambino.  Mwah.

Couldn't resist the dig, could ya, Pes?  Ha,ha.

Well, given that my IQ is around 125, I must have really big feet which fit perfectly into my shoes.

Oh, and by the way, did you really think I would be dumb enough to get rid of all my downloads painstakingly acquired over months?  Just backed them up to flashdrive and then put them back -everything working fine.  So there goes that theory of yours.  Sorry, I ruined your day - not.   That was pretty sadistic of you to suggest doing that and trashing my C drive, but I guess you just can't help it, can you?  I would seek help for that, but I guess sadism is a kind of psychopathy, so it's incurable.  Never mind, you and the rest of your accolytes can feed off each others' vindictiveness and nastiness - should keep you going for a while.

It never ceases to amaze me how so many people get sucked into fawning upon you in the hope that you will drop a pearl of your oh-so-snarky, sarcastic and sometimes unintelligible wisdom upon their own perception of their lowliness in comparison to you.  Come on people, this man is not a God, he breathes, shits and whatever, just like you do.  However, to give him his due, his mod has helped a lot of people, including me, to enjoy their game, but he is so puffed up with his own knowledge and importance that one pin prick would send him phtting off into the atmosphere.  That would be a shame because then AM would die and so would our enjoyment of the game. 

Pes, not ashamed to admit that I don't know anything like as much as you and some others on here about .blah files and the like but that doesn't make me stupid, just uninformed, but the more I come on here, the more I learn.  I learnt that there are lots of people like me who don't know the difference between a .ini and a .sys file and are on this site trying to make sense of what is borking their game.  I learnt that there are genuinely nice people who are wiling to help and there are some who just float around on their broomsticks just looking for people to pounce on and gobble them all up and spit them out. 

Anyone reading this, which one are you?  I will take a bet with myself that not many, if any, will answer that question.

Anyway peace until the next match .  No hard feelings.    

Actually, I did follow directions.  

After I had destroyed my hard drive, uninstalled WA and base, reinstalled base, I discovered that my savedsims file had magically re-appeared and had not disappeared into the ether and that my in-game sims which were the ones I was testing do not have traits but the savedsims in bin in CAS do.   The lesson to be learnt here is not to uninstall until all other options have been tested because it takes a shitload of time to reinstall with all patches.  I must destroy the offending sim/sims in game and hopefully begin again with installation of framework, and and and.......

I know it gives some of you great joy to see my discomfort as I admittedly am out of my comfort zone when dealing with .blah files and where they need to go.  It is pretty confusing as to whether you should have more than one config.sys file as Sims 3 is housed in not one but two places - My documents and on the C drive.  Reading through copious threads does not help when you have a specific problem which does not address it.  Patience with people who are on a learning curve could be practised a bit more on this site, but that is like asking for the moon.  

I, and I am sure, you, Pes hope I will not require your help again.  But the chances of that are slim, so I respectfully ask you to try for one moment to put yourself in the shoes of a newbie and maybe you will appreciate the frustration with not being able to solve the problem and having to rely on others who are so much more clued up to point you in the right direction.    

You can call me all the names you want, but that does not make me so, it just makes me less informed but willing to learn.

Yes, Pes, guilty as charged.  I am glad that it amuses you to see someone else's severe distress.  Just what kind of person are you?  Rhetorical.

Installing from scratch.  Pretty devestated as I have lost weeks of work by not backing up saved sims and saved games folder.  Happy now?  I am sure I have made your day. 
Witch, you must be whizzing around on your broomstick with glee.  Yes, the stupidity of it is stunning, isn't it?   

Okay, I get it.  You are trying to teach me a lesson.  I am down on my knees, please help. 

Okay, okay.  Thank you.  Still don't know what XML is  

Another question:  I have typed the exact wording from showconfig results into grey bar at top of game and put a space and then true or false depending on what I am trying to change and I get an error message that it doesn't recognise the wording.  Am I only able to change the settings from the internet link in AM thread?

edit:  I have only two things in my mods folder in sims3 base and that is the latest awesomemod and the config tool.  My config.sys has three lines of code as per the framework. Nothing in my downloads folder.  Still no traits.   Really pissed off because I took you at your word and have gotten rid of all my downloads.  Now what?

Re-edit.  Even took out Awesomemod - still no traits.  This is puzzling.  Just base game and WA up to 2.33 patch

Come on guys - help me here, please. 

Pes, thank you again for answering me.  Please forgive me, if again I sound stupid.  When you say XML crap, do you mean core mods?  It is only by asking what appear to be stupid questions to you, that I will learn and so become more computer-literate and less likely to piss off the people who do know what they are doing. 

Am I safe to leave in clothing, make-up, hair and all that crap or is it only core mods that will be a problem? 

Coconnor, I am really not sure what I have done to offend you that you have given me such a vitreolic post.  Yes, I am worth it.  I am a person who is experiencing difficulties with WA and AM.  I am not particularly computer-literate, so I do need a bit of hand-holding.  If I did offend you, I apologise.  I am not really sure what you are talking about with crossing of paths.  Do I know you from some other site? What is BBS?  The only other site sims site I am a member of is MTS.

Without getting into who insulted whom first, your defence of Witch is admirable, but something tells me she is more than able to defend herself and is quite enjoying this little mini feud. Witch - truce?

I don't want a knight in shining armour, I just want to play my game and be able to leave everyone here in peace.  

Thanks Pes for answering me.  When you say 'old mods' do you mean old awesomemod because I only have the latest updated version.

Thank you Baarogue, that was really helpful information. 

Oh so, you must be from Hogwarts where all the 'good' witches hang out. NOT.  And if you are so fucking sick of seeing my 'incompetence all over MATY' (actually 2 threads) then get off the forum, or maybe you could offer a word of advice instead of what you do best, name calling and general nasty behaviour.

Coconnor, thank you for your sticky of instructions, I have sorted out the problem and the show config is showing up with the updates. 

I now have a whole new set of problems, no traits, no lifetime wishes.  Any constructive advice is welcome from anyone. 

As helpful as ever, I see, Witch.  True to name, true to character.


Really fucking confused about the instructions above.  

Okay, in spite of instructions above, I installed an updated awesomemod + configuration tool in Sims 3 directory and also in packages file.  Now my config tool is updated, yay.  But much worse, now my lots and roads are blue.  This sucks big time.  Is it awesomemod causing the problem or something else?

I knew that and no I'm not talking about resource.cfg but the awesomemod config tool which allows the configurations of awesomemod to be saved. I have saved my config tool settings to where Pes says in the same directory as the awesomemod which is currently in Sims 3 directory.  So in spite of reading stickies still don't know where I should have these files to update the config file.  I have WA installed so working with 2.3 patch.  As that was your last hint, Silent Dreamer, maybe somebody else could help me. 

Ermm,  according to the coconnor who made the tutorial for framework to get awesomemod to work, the cfg file is supposed to be in the Sims 3 directory, exactly where I have latest version of awesomemod.  Maybe you can give me another hint!!!!

Gee thanks Pes, your magnanimity is overwhelming .  I still haven't got an answer to my show config displaying default settings.  I have saved and put the config file in Sims 3 (not mods/packages).  How do I fix this?

Erm, GP, would you mind enlightening us cretins on how you managed to effect this 'bug free' status?  Step-by-step would be nice.

I am having the same problem as poster above whose husband will NOT under any circumstance interact with his pregnant wife.  Pre WA, it was fine.   This is very frustrating. Any suggestions?

Can anyone tell me if this interaction was okay pre WA?  I loaded base game and WA a day apart and did not check the interactions. 

Here is a screenshot of my aweconfig file which looks okay to me, but I am having the same problem as ambivalentme.  Don't know why my settings are at default.

In my old awesomemod before patches were invented, there was a great feature which allowed you to drag the needs sliders and they were instantly full.  With the new AM, this does not happen.  Has it been removed as a feature or is my game just not doing it?

Secondly, when I go into showconfig, my settings which I saved to cookies and then downloaded to the Sims3 program file show up as incorrect. E.g. I set the sliders in CAS to 4 and they it is showing up in showconfig as 2 and that the sliders are not enabled when I enabled them.  How can I fix this?

Thank you.

Erm, Pes, I needed to do the whole set up the framework story which some kind person directed me too.

Thank you coconnor for your great tutorial on that.  My game is now loading and awesome awesomemod is working perfectly. 

Happy bunny.

By framework do you mean, the config file and what's in there? Then I guess I don't.  Which thread do I need to go to for that info?  

Edit: Okay I found the thread.  I will follow the instructions to the T.  Thanks for the tip Nienor.

Edit2:  Followed the instructions and game is now up and running.  Thank you so much for directing me to that thread Nienor.  I was ready to throw the game out of the window.