Okay so I've had WA installed since right after it came from digital download. I haven't actually played it or anything, until today. I have been reading all about the blue lots and cc run-ins, and installed the latest of Awesome. So I launched the game with a good deal of knowledge of all that was probably going to happen. I didn't take out any cc or hacks (except for the reported ones that don't work, such as a Lemoncandy plant) in hopes I might get lucky. The orange load screen came up and the cursor spun for almost 10 minutes with no change and the load bar didn't even have any progress. So, I quit and took out all my cc except for the latest Awesome and the latest NRAAS computer(and deleted the appropiate caches) and relaunched. Still the same outcome. But this time I monitored the CPU and noticed that from the time I clicked "play" till the time it got to the standstill orange load screen the CPU stayed around 44%. Which is not like my machine, which usually stays up high at, at least 85% or so when loading the game. The CPU light also barely lit up, which it usually is almost a solid blue blinking light. And I didn't hear much processing going on in side, such as the disk spinning.
So. I uninstalled and reinstalled WA and relaunched. This time I let it try and load for 30 minutes. 30 minutes. To no avail. Same outcome. Spinning cursor, no load bar progress but I did notice the CPU light was blinking rapidly for a while but stopped near the last 30 minutes :/.
What the heck? I don't really know what to try now. I'm almost to the point where I don't even want to play now. I can deal with maybe trying to deal with blue lots, but I can't even get to the menu screen!
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