Thank you very much, I'll look into that. I wasn't aware it had changed, so I'm still using someone's installer... Delphy's? The monkey one. Yeah, I think it's largely down to people calling the same issue different things which makes it very hard to compare. Grrr semantics!
Thanks!

Hey you guys are a bit unfair. I did a lot of searching, both on Google and in this forum and I'm sorry if I didn't find something that had been posted already. I assumed it would have been but nobody's problem seemed to be exactly the same as mine. I wish you'd play a bit nicer, you're quite often a bit aggressive towards us newbies. We are trying not to be idiots!
Anyway, thanks Chandria for the suggestions, unfortunately it didn't work. Although I don't know what the configuration tool is, so I'm about to go and look that up!
Ta.

Hi there,
First of all, am I right in thinking that the AwesomeMod is now up to date with the recent patches? I thought I'd read that it was, but then I don't always understand all the technical lingo  If it isn't, then my question's irrelevant because I have the latest patch.
But if it is...:
I have WA and Ambitions as well as the latest patch. The only cc I have installed is hair, no mods or anything. I load the game and it goes as far as the first loading screen (the Ambitions one), but the bar doesn't fill at all and for some reason the sound cuts out too, though the sound works for everything up until that point. It works fine when I uninstall AwesomeMod.

Sorry if this has been covered before, I did try and find a similar post!
Thanks 

Thanks, I assumed that was it, but I thought I'd seen someone say it worked with all versions of TS3.
Anyway, thanks very much!

Hi,
I know you guys must be fed up with people reporting crashes, but honest, I have had a good look on the forum! This is my problem:

I installed an update yesterday (or possibly two-it seemed to go through the whole thing twice). The next time I come to play the game, I run the launcher but then I get a message:
"It looks like you have installed an unofficial game modification that does not match your current version of The Sims 3..." and the option to quit or continue. If I continue I get the following message during the first loading bar:
"WARNING: Non-critical core mismatch! A core file not part of AwesomeMod does not match expected values. This could be the result of a version mismatch or a third-party hack." and the option to quite or ignore.
I quit, 'cause I'm a bit scared of what might happen.

So is something out-of-date? Help v much appreciated, sorry if this is tedious and repetitive!