Hmm, guess I forgot to post somewhere that I already did a complete reinstall the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth time, half of those had no CC installed, and I still got various issues that made the game unplayable.  This time I just got lucky although I'm waiting for the whole thing to die once it enters 3rd generation.


Oh, you'd love to hear that from me don't you?  I only tell people to shut up by action, usually involving a fist to the balls of the guy who's pissing me off.  You'd better buy yourself a steel codpeice Jeromy.

Riiiiiight, so calling me a cwunt and telling me I'm full of shit and bile isn't being aggressive.

And don't think for one minute I overlooked what you've posted either Jeromy.  You've been egging to get a bad reaction out of me.  It must give you a boner to make people angry.

What the hell are you on about?  Sims works fine on my machine because I shelled out for a top model gaming machine.  It's just a fact that TS3 is a badly written piece of trash and puts all load on the CPU instead of the GPU, so an average computer not really designed for running power-hungry games on it running TS3 will feel the burn literally whilst a well specced computer may not notice that it's being overprocessed and can handle the abuse.  I aint sputing garbage or quoting what may have been written elsewhere, I am telling you facts and it aint just with TS3 it's with all Sim games and SimCity 4 is just as crap.

And let's face it, awesomemod can only do so much.  Yeah it'll clean up a lot of the crap that the game ends up just dumping here and there and make the game more playable, but it isn't a magic wand that's gonna fix every damned thing that's wrong with TS3 and the way it got designed.

You can go and live in your own fantasy world and deny that TS3 is so badly written that it can fry a standard home computer, or that if you get a whopping big supercomputer that suddenly the game will improve beyond its maximum performance.  I aint a hot-headed teenage moron who thinks he's ace at everything that many of you appear to be.  How about rather than trying to pretend you're ace at everything and sputing bullshit back at people who are trying to talk sense that you go do something you're really good at which is finding some photoshopped artwork from failblog and spamming topics with them.

It's frickin' Sims, if you're gonna get aggressive over a virtual dolly house then you need to get a life and some fresh air.

Problem was only solved when I did a registry cleanup, reinstalled TS3 and all its expansions ensuring each got updated, and then started with a fresh new 'hood with very few mods.  All I got now is awesomemod and Buzz's fixes for excavation sites and bad mood, and all legit downloads of TS3 store stuff.  So far been a few days, I'm well into my 2nd generation, had no issues except some sims being stuck in a loop that needed resetting as they were causing the game to lag every 3 seconds, and a few LN bugs with sims not able to use the elevators and no bartenders.  They were easily fixable though so nothing major yet.

Cheers, had no idea the launcher was that unreliable.  I'll go check out MTS, got faced this morning with "A serious error has occurred" on what is now a fresh new game on a fresh reinstall of last night and the only mods I have are AM and the 2 by Buzz to fix dig site and unhappy mood bugs.

Update: Nope, seems it's not the issue.  All of the expansions and the base game are all up to date according to the downloader, so guess I did it right by running the game once after each install.

TS3 1.19.44.010002
WA 2.14.4.010002
Amb 4.7.4.010001
LN 6.2.4.010001

No idea what's causing the error then.  Gonna start writing that email.   In the meantime giving a reinstall another shot, this time running ccleaner first to clear every single trace of crap off my harddrive and I'll use that patcher instead of running TS3 each time to patch it up.


It wasn't an attempt to make anyone feel sorry for me, I don't need pity.  Someone was hinting that there was maybe a problem with me and not the game itself, I was responding in my own way in saying other than all the things that are wrong with me there's nothing else.

Oh, you don't know half of it jeremy.

I know what a troll is, and considering you haven't really posted anything that contributes to figuring out what was going on with my install of TS3 and have instead only posted something short of insulting and with sarcasm that classifies you as a troll.  Now stop your "thread shitting" in my topic and go take your comments somewhere else.

Anyways... TS3 uninstalled and reinstalled very slowly doing the updates inbetween each pack to ensure it's fully updated (not sure that makes any difference or if it's gonna make it worse but will see.)  Fingers crossed I won't be starting over the same family tomorrow, otherwise EA's gonna get a very angry email from yours truely.


Whoops, that's my error.  I was probably a little sleepy when I read the topic and got the day and year mixed up and thought the 08 meant 2008.  Not used to seeing a date format with the year in front.

It could still be using some CC somewhere which is interfering with its graphics, maybe a skin tone or a non-official face slider.  I think I had something similar back in TS2 with customised skin tones which caused deformed babies.

On a side note that baby looks like the one I ran over in my car last week...

A better machine will only take you so far.  You'll get nice graphics, fairly nice speed, but the game itself is poorly written using inefficient and half-assed coding hence why it is so slow, glitchy, laggy, runs your fan to max and uses a helluva lot of CPU power, and if you use mods and packs then that adds more load to the game.

Actually I thought it was originally either Treeag's mods or some of the Sims3Packs I had installed, didn't think it was AM's fault at all until I uninstalled all the packs in a fit of rage and deleted all the other mods first.  Just surprised me the world worked after AM but it was just a coincidence it worked that 1 time, never doubted AM since it's the only mod I know that gets a regular update and maintenance.

Trying a full reinstall of the game incase pigs might fly.  Not sure about installing any other content though, might just this time stick to AM and whatever I legitimately own.

btw no problems with PEBCAK... that is all except for frequent 24/7 migraines, plantar facitis in my left foot, IBS, stomach ulceration, ADHD, POD, anxiety, depression, and a tendancy to want to cut off peoples' heads with a blunt butter knife and see how far up their asses I can squeeze it.  Some people think I'm insane, like my psychiatrist, but Mr Sock Puppet doesn't think so.

In pure agitation I uninstalled every single pack I had and left in the mods thinking it was the packs.  Guess what?  "A serious error has occurred..."  So I took out all mods except awesomemod... "A serious error has occurred..."  I've practically stripped everything off it including official content, including awesomemod (yay, CD required again), cleared out all the backup and download folders, and you know what?

"A serious error has occurred..."

What a crock of shit.

Don't know where I'd find the patch information as there's nothing anywhere that says what version it is.  It's the latest one via the launcher, that's all I can tell you unless it's hidden in some secret file somewhere.

System specifications (at least this is what I assume you want from dxdiag):
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System Information
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Time of this report: 2/13/2011, 13:39:06
       Machine name: ********
   Operating System: Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit (6.1, Build 7600) (7600.win7_gdr.101026-1503)
           Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
System Manufacturer: System manufacturer
       System Model: System Product Name
               BIOS: BIOS Date: 07/16/10 16:19:59 Ver: 08.00.15
          Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU         950  @ 3.07GHz (8 CPUs), ~3.1GHz
             Memory: 4096MB RAM
Available OS Memory: 4088MB RAM
          Page File: 2638MB used, 5533MB available
        Windows Dir: C:\Windows
    DirectX Version: DirectX 11
DX Setup Parameters: Not found
   User DPI Setting: Using System DPI
 System DPI Setting: 96 DPI (100 percent)
    DWM DPI Scaling: Disabled
     DxDiag Version: 6.01.7600.16385 32bit Unicode

Update: On a side note I tried making a fresh new world after uninstalling all the mods, and when I reloaded it hey presto it worked!  Might've been a coincidence, but then did further experiments by deleting the world, adding awesomemod, starting a new world, going back to main menu and then reloading the world again.  Guess what?

"A serious error has occurred..."

Hmm... Awesomemod broken?

Nope not Awesomemod's fault, it was a coincidence.  Tested again fresh new world, no mods at all, and the frickin error triggers once I reenter the world.  EA's shit is broke.  I've had enough, gonna go play a REAL game and make coffee mats out of the TS3 CDs.

Ta-da!  And nope it seems saving then exiting doesn't fix it after all.  My own question is not answered as I thought it was, and what's more I'm even getting it after a fresh new world only seconds old.

Don't start with the "search moar" crap Madame Mim.  I did well before I started this topic and found very little in relation other than a year old topic which had similarities to what I have but just like this topic didn't get any answers just lots of people trolling.  If you had this particular situation mentioned before in the past several hundred times that there's at least a dozen answers only a page away then I'd understand you getting hissy with me, otherwise you're just being a troll and not really helping with my situation.

I was hoping if someone here would have stumbled across this in the past and would say something in the grounds of "oh yeah, I had this issue once and it was caused by bla bla bla", especially considering I'm using a lot of mods and packs that aren't approved by EA that were downloaded or linked from this forum.  I have every single store item downloaded in Sims3Pack formats by mistyk, the shiftable objects mods, the awesomemod, the Treeag put away all books/fridge items/scraps and book of talent mods, Buzz's dig site fixer and mood fix all latest versions and the most recent patches for Ambitions/WA/LN.  I don't know what else I'm supposed to do or what else I'm to provide or how to provide it.  I aint psychic to know what exact information people want and I'm not a techie junkie either.

TS3 managed to swell the battery in mine to almost exploding point and wore the fan out, and that was with an FPS limiter and minimum graphics settings.  It's hell if you play it on OSX because the game runs in a Windows emulator which makes it even worse.  Even with a Windows partition I found it still laggy and the fan was always running at max.  There are tools you can download to control the fan in Windows but with TS3 you don't wanna do that or it'll fry your laptop.  So unless you wanna keep shelling out for a new laptop fan and battery (unibody fans are hellishly expensive although you can buy cheap knockoff £15 ones from China instead of Apple's own £50 ones, the batteries however you don't wanna risk getting a cheap knockoff one as they're known to explode and the proper ones cost like hundreds of pounds that you might aswell just buy a new laptop if you can't do without a battery) just don't bother running it on a Macbook Pro.  Get a proper gaming PC with some good hardware and you can at least run the graphics at max and not have it look like crap and run like crap, and if it does cause the fan to blow at least you can replace them for £5.

If you bought the packs from the store then you only need to start the game and look in the buy mode to find them, they don't magically appear in the game already.  You'll need plenty of simoleans to buy them though if you wanna place them in the game, just use the motherlode cheat if you need simoleans.

If you downloaded the packs from here chances are they need decrapifying first.  There's a bunch of guides on these forums on how to decrapify stuff, just do a search.  It aint as hard as it sounds.

Not until you mentioned him/her, not like it matters to me since I don't know who Claeric is.

Admittedly I would say that using a slightly lower res for the game than your desktop size is more better than trying to go full out massive window with tiny ui.  I have a 1600x1480 monitor, but I don't need the game to render at that size as I end up seeing small lot with loads of yard and neighbours that I have to zoom in just to see what my own sims are doing instead of squinting at ant-sized pixels.

If I remember right 10 years ago was when they released The Sex Sims Online, no?  I remember it being released some time around there, even had my own dutch-style cafe home with giant bongs bubble blowers for about a year before I realised it was a boring peice of ass full of meta-lots and watching sims craft gnomes at real time speed was about as entertaining as watching paint dry.

Celestra, as in Battlestar Galactica Celestra?  I love that show!  Just as long as you aren't related to that other "Celestra", which I don't think you are since your typing is different compared to hers which may or may not be a good thing.  Depends on the grammatically-correct punters in these forums.

Anyways back to the OP, actually that's something I'd be interested in knowing how to do aswell although I'm not sure if it is possible or if it'll mean having to rewrite default world files permanently.  I'd suggest searching through all your folders including the ones in Program Files, making backups of files you're likely gonna end up overwriting, and do a bit of copy/paste job until something works out.  My guesswork thinks you'd have to rewrite the .world files that are in ...The Sims 3 Adventures\GameData\Shared\NonPackaged\Worlds and maybe even use the Create a World application to modify them, but don't quote me on that as your guess is as good as mine.

Same problem here.  I'm removing awesomemod from my packages folder too to see if it'll start loading, I'll update you on this if it makes a difference or not.

Edit: Yep removing awesomemod has allowed me to finally log in and judging from what's being posted on the bugs topic other members are experiencing the same issue, so must be an issue with the latest release version.  Best bet is to refer to the bugs topic and await an update.

I know people will still ask questions if they got a mind made of swiss cheese, I lost my patience with those types long ago.  Was hoping this simple explanation would at least help those who are more inbetween and kinda know what they're doing but are still a little stuck and new to using mods.  They're the newbies, not the noobs.  Big difference.

I noticed that the documentation on how to install Awesomemod was a little vague in some areas and using outdated information and could be what is confusing a lot of newbies who are wondering why it isn't working for them.  This should help guide newbies who want a simple guide without the hassle of searching through other websites to find out what else they're missing.

You'll need these following files:

• resource.cfg for all game modifications;
• the framework which can be downloaded from the FRAMEWORK - Necessary To Install Hack And Hacked Object(s) page;
• the awesomemod itself which can be downloaded from the AWESOMEMOD! SHINY! WIP - Download & Announcements page.

1. Go to My Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3 folder and unzip the framework.zip into that folder.
2. Go to My Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3\Mods folder and place the resource.cfg file for all game modifications there.
3. Go to My Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3\Mods\Packages folder and unzip the awesome.zip into that folder.

That's all there really is to it, nice and simple.

I've spotted that one guy has commented on what sounds like the same issues I have at http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,18226.msg524619.html#msg524619 however since the topic is 3 years old I got a big warning about regurgitating old stuff.

This is something that I've read around on other forums of people complaining about, although nobody seems to know of a fix for this issue or are giving random suggestions that work for some and not for others.  I was hoping someone here might know something a little more solid to what causes this and how to work around it.  I didn't start getting this error until I started downloading packs and a few packages for multiple storage of items and I'm wondering if that may have caused some file corruption or if using some of the testingcheatsenabled codes might've messed something up.

So what happens is this - it's usually random but I've noticed it tends to happen some time after I've hit the 2nd generation in my family and when there's been a few glitches prop up such as a ghost hunter not getting credit for banishing ghosts or an NPC telling me they're heading out and it's time I left too even though none of my family is at their home.  After I've saved/quitted and then try to play the world again I get EA's very own blue screen with the error "A serious error has occurred while loading Twinbrook.  Please restart the application" (or sort of similar to that) inside a speech bubble and get sent back to the select a world screen.

Now like the guy from the age-old topic posted I can keep attempting to load the world and eventually it may load up, sometimes it works ok but other times I've noticed my family has befriended a duplicate of themselves and can even invite them over to visit!  If the latter happens then a world of weird errors can occur such as if there are any family members not at home when it occurs then shortly afterwards they disappear from the family altogether including their portraits and their duplicate cannot be interacted with despite being a friend of the family, and if I try and invite the duplicates before anything happens and delete them then next time I log into the world I enter an empty home with no ui.

If anyone has any insight on what causes this and how to fix it without having to reinstall everything and start over I'd love to hear your feedback.

Update: Well seems nobody else here has any insight on the cause, however someone elsewhere mentioned about only saving then quitting instead of doing save and quit prevents the error from propping up next time you log in.  It does seem to work, but since it's a random occurrance I cannot confirm that this will 100% prevent the error from making a surprise appearance in the near future.  It's something to keep in mind for anyone else suffering with the dreaded serious error of doom.  Doesn't work after all.

All we need now is a body resizing mod to make the women short and stocky (sorry if there is one, was too lazy to look.)  Bearded female dwarfs anyone?

Holy crap, had no idea that's all it was.  Thanks, just cleared myself 2GB on this crappy tiny partition by deleting all that shit.