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AwesomeMod was updated for Origin/1.69 a year or two ago. Honestly, other than the pop-ups telling you about FATAL ERROR or something dramatic like that, I don't think it makes much of a difference, since as far as we know neither the Steam version nor the Origin version alter the game files at all. Only those who play the disc version (1.67) can use it safely. Of course, most people can't use Awesome anymore since it was never updated for the Steam (1.67) or Origin version versions of the game.

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Asynchronous autosaving without gameflow interruption would be awesome (no pun intended), but I highly doubt it would be feasible when saving can take upwards of a minute.ДЄwesome Mod has a true autosave but you can set it so it only saves when you pause the game. Yes, the 'soaknsave' does not happen in the background and will stop gameflow to save without a prompt, which is why I said it's a pretty rudimentary system and obviously never intended to see the light of day. Is it sad that I completely forgot about '64-bit and Metal'? I never realized MacOS doesn't use 1.69 I've updated the post accordingly. An in-your-face autosave every few minutes would drive players crazy if it takes their game longer than a few seconds or minutes to save, unless it's been your experience that this runs in the background somehow and doesn't really interfere with gameplay. It's really just a nag mechanism, a fancy alarm clock, with the rotations of save file name suggestions thrown in. It should also be noted, for those not familiar with it, that NRaas Saver does not intentionally do autosaves. According to an EA staff member on that team, who isn't allowed to reveal any details yet, as of a week ago or so the work on that project is still in progress.

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This may all change if/when EA ever finishes up with the 64-bit and Metal update they have been working on for coming up on a year now.

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There is no Patch 1.69 for Mac, so players on that platform have never been tied to Origin (for Mac) or the Launcher and their game can still be started up with a shortcut/alias to TS3w.exe (with the 'w' since these players would still be on 1.67).

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Even if I had the technical skills to make such a modification, to do so would effectively be facilitating piracy, which is not allowed on this site.ДЇor whatever it may be worth, despite all of the flaws inherent in the Mac version of TS3 this isn't one of them. Obviously, this tweak does not allow the game to run without Origin. I won't spoil the rest of the available flags right now you'll have to find them yourself in the code. For example, the launch option '-soaknsave:300' will enable a built-in autosaving feature that will save the current game to 'soaktest0' through 'soaktest9' every five minutes! It's obviously incredibly rudimentary compared to NRaas Saver, but still an interesting artifact nonetheless. It appears that quitting the game and restarting Origin resolves this issue.ДЄn interesting side-effect of this is that, because Origin is launching the game executable directly rather than using the launcher or the TS3W wrapper, you can use the 'Advanced Launch Options' in Origin to set normally-inaccessible program flags intended for debugging.

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I've noticed that with this change, you may occasionally get the 'You have an unofficial modification' message, even if all of your core mods are up-to-date.

Repairing the game through Origin should also hypothetically restore everything to original functionality, although I have not tested it. If you need to open the launcher again for whatever reason, simply delete the modified Sims3Launcher.exe and restore your original copy/backup. Ensure all shortcuts to the game target Sims3Launcher.exe, if they don't already (you can also launch the game directly from Origin)Дon't ask me how it works, I honestly have no idea.Rename the newly-copied executable to Sims3Launcher.exe.Remove Sims3Launcher.exe from the folder.Make a copy/backup of Sims3Launcher.exe.Navigate to your game installation folder (Typically C:/Program Files (x86)/Origin Games/The Sims 3/Game/Bin).As a workaround, I was planning on modifying the launcher to automatically launch the game without displaying the UI, but I recently discovered an even better (and, more importantly, faster) method that bypasses the launcher entirely! As all of you unfortunate enough to be forced onto game version 1.69 know, there is no way to bypass the launcher like you could in 1.67 starting the game requires you to wait approximately fifteen years for the launcher to load before you can even begin loading the game proper.

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