Your reading skills suck, don't they? Because that post you quote clearly says 'I did not have the slider hack mod before' meaning Awesome was run by itself - obviously since I also said I had it running for over a year.

Framework.zip opened and installed into the Sims 3 folder. Game folder put into Sims 3 folder. Resource.cfg put into Mods folder. Only have one directory so no need to install in Expansion directories.

And again, the Framework has been working for over a year without fail and is working fine with a different core mod, so it's not framework fail. Beating the same drum and insisting it is what it's not is a sure way to fail to solve the problem.

And I redownloaded it multiple times - 6 at least. So they're all corrupted or it's not corrupted.

I've moved on though. I've deleted all my Awesome worlds and cobbled together some Twallan mods to do the things I had Awesome doing before. I'm missing Awesome Story, but whatever.

I installed a slider hack core mod and it functioned just fine.

Framework fail is not the problem.

And no, I did not have the slider hack mod before; I installed it so I could still make sims while Awesome isn't working for me.

Downloaded a new copy of Awesome mod and same result.

My framework is still installed properly. All my other mods work just fine and Awesome was working fine until I updated.

Upon starting the game it will hang with the start bar at the very beginning; the bar doesn't even begin to load. I get the EA screen and the start video then that's it. No crash though, just sticks. 

I have been running with the same framework for over a year so I think if it were installed incorrectly I'd know before now.

As for patch fail, I use the MTS updater because none of the updates have ever installed properly through the game launcher. Unless something is wrong with that, I'm up-to-date, and I'm running an up-to-date Awesome mod.

Okay, I'm having this problem as well and I do not have patch fail or framework fail. I have been running Awesome Mod for over a year without problems and suddenly when Showtime came out, Awesome causes the game not to load.

I tried loading with Awesome only and it is the problem. Awesome was up-to-date at the time.

I have tried to search moar, but searching moar only gave me patch fail and framework fail, neither of which are to blame.