Yes, I have checked many times over for this exact question. I've found things around the same realm, but never this exact question. And I've followed every troubleshooting step I've found. I started just running through the newest posts (10 pages?), then gave up and advanced search-ed. Still, no luck. I am a lurker and despise posting new posts, but I am desparate for a chunk of awesome in my game.
I have 3booter/fps limiter, I have Delphy's monkey, I have all of the framework (and in the correct places, too!) I think that answers all of the regular 'install these first' hints.
I have The Sims 3 base game, WA, and HEL installed. Yes, that's right, no Ambitions. So The New Way is an obsolete theory for me. The game is patched to the latest (3.5.
and I have triple-checked for a new patch, I'm good.
I have taken out all of my other CC (not just the mods, but every drop of CC), except for Awesomemod.
I play on Windows 7, with my game installed to C:\Program Files (x86)\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3
The game and expansions are legit copies, so is completely clean. No torrenting.
I think that's all the details I can provide about my game. So onto the question!Without awesomemod (and with my huge pile of CC in) my game works perfectly fine, all the mods in perfect working order. No crashes or bugs, just the occasional lag moment. Taking out all CC and putting the newest version of awesomemod in (I've redownloaded it many times in the past two days, just to quadruple-check). Starting the game using 3booter (desktop shortcut), it pulls up the loading screen like normal, but will not budge on the loading bar. There is not a drop of green, just a grey bar. The first three times, I waited patiently for an hour until my computer went into automatic stand-by, and it was still just straight grey.
I can't be happy without my awesome, but I'm at a stand-still. Even if I could live without the changes, I need that silly slider extender! Oh, I do not have the enablescripterror in my files anywhere, either (did a search!)