I do understand, and you are right - 99% of the time it is a dumb mistake. I actually expected to be treated much worse by you lot than I was.

And it turns out my mistake was fairly routine. I had missed updating one of Twallan's mods, and that was causing the issue.

Oddly though, the game would load fine with the outdated Twallan mod installed, as long as awesome mod wasn't there. Put them in together, and boom.


Updated to Twallan's latest version of MC and woohooer, and the game is loading fine.

While I appreciate the fact that covering the basics is part of troubleshooting 101, it seems to be a common thread here that  if anyone reports an issue, the assumption is that the reporter is an inept buffoon that has no clue as to what he is doing.

That being said, I will go over the details.

 - my resource.cfg is in the mods folder, and is exactly as described on MTS
 - I know my other mods work, as I can see them all directly in the game when I don't have awesomemod installed - therefore my basic setup appears correct
 - when I first reinstalled awesome mod, I forgot to remove a core slider hack from the folder
 - I ran the game, and awesome mod detected the conflicting core mod and gave me warning - thus showing that awesome mod was loading
 - I removed the conflicting mod and ran it again, and everything goes fine until the very end of the load bar, at which point it stalls.
 - I have left it sitting there for 20 minutes to see what happens, and it never progresses.
 - if I remove awesome mod, the game loads just fine


I will now move out all of my .package mods and try the game with nothing but awesome mod, not even awesome.cfg, just to see what happens...

I shall clarify: I installed the awesome.cfg file in the packages directory along with awesome.package.

My resource.cfg (or whatever its called, I'm not at my home pc right now) is correctly in the Mods directory. I know that aspect of things works fine as all my other mods load fine in the game if awesome mod is not in the packages folder.

Yes, I am aware that thorough troubleshooting would require removing every mod I had and trying to run just awesome mod - I have not gotten around to doing that yet, I'll probably try it tonight just to rule everything else out.

The issue does not appear to be related to disk thrashing or file access, as I've tried running proc mon in the background while loading, and nothing unusual comes up.

In reference to the original poster's issue: game loads fine, but loading a new or save game stalls with a sliver to go on the load bar; I'm having exactly the same issue.

Patched to the latest, with WA and Ambitions Installed.

Everything installed under the Documents\..\Mods\Packages method

Reran Delphy's framework, everything looks good.

Load the game without Awesome Mod - works fine, loads right in to save game.
Add awesome mod and the cfg to the Packages folder:
 - game loads, but completely stalls with a sliver to go on opening a save game or a new game

No copies of the modded .dll anywhere, but I highly doubt that is a factor, as the base game loads.
Windows Vista 64, 4 GB RAM
No sign of any ScriptError reports
Running the game in a window, so no sign of hidden crash errors or alert windows.

Let me know if there is anything else I can provide that might help.