Obv I'm doing it wrong and being dumb or it would work but heres the problem:

My game crashes all the time, in a weird 'slows everything down to a crawl' so I have to reboot the machine manually. I'm guessing its bad cc so I removed everything in the game apart from the store stuff I downloaded from this thread  http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,15100.0.html

I used the compresseriser redeux tool, I decrapified and compressed them all. Was that wrong? anything else I can do?

Route issues-aplenty, also...

house with 3 sims and a dog. When I change from my dog to another sim the picture of them, justa above their wants and lifetime wishes doesn't change to that sim but remains the dog forever! My sim is not a dog! Not a dog at all!!

Also all thier needs and actions seem to be 'shared' like when I change to another sim, the dog picture and wants remain but they keep another sims inventory and wants and actions and...is this making any sense or are pictures needed?

I did look there. For someone who doesn't know what theyre doing its a bit confusing, but then I also found Delphy's framework installer, and ran that so I should be gppd, but it still goes 'non responsive' in live mode. The music from the in game stero still plays...

I suppose that is why mr. Assume makes an appearance because I do have a niggling doubt that I have done all of that correctly so was hoping someone might have psychic powers enough to point me in the right direction (except the tight pants, I got that in the bag)

Pretty sure I'm all patched up, the startup thing doesn't say I need to install anything new.

The instructions on how to install the framework says  "Unzip in your main TS3 install directory" I may have gotten that wrong, but I gave it my best shot. What is the main install directory? Is it in documents, or program files?

 

Just installed Awesomemod for the first time, aaaaaaand I can't play the game anymore.

So I assume I've done everything right, followed the instructions etc.

What happens is: It loads fine, everything is peaches and cream, then as soon as I go into live mode it just crashes. I can still move the cursor around, but my windows task manager says that it is ‘not responding'. I can create characters fine, do things in the town, but when I go into live, crashes.

Oh, I'm also kind of a n00b, so please speak slowly and clearly for those of us who are of very little brain.

I have the core (obviously) Ambitions, World Adventures and Nightlife. I use windows XP