So I get rid of the NRAAS and put in the defaults- the game would not work again.

I removed the Mods and Packages folders completely and re-downloaded a fresh version of those folders just with the no intro and no build sparkles and the game loaded with those mods! I got excited and tested to see what would happen if I put some NRAAS only in my folder and then, immediately, the game did not work. I thought 'I really want to get some custom skins because I really enjoyed having those.' So I did an experiment this morning while having been able to happily play the sims in the mean time. The thing is, even with NRAAS in the packages folder, this somehow made the game work- just that the mods such as NRAAS and defaults actually did not show up in the game. The way I got these mods to work without the game not loading at all and crashing my whole computer was by putting the resource file into the packages folder. I even got some non-mod packages to work, such as makeup. I have been tentatively re-downloading custom content since (Sims3 Packs) and the game has been working fine. I uninstalled all of my games and custom content and reinstalled them from scratch.

I tried multiple things to get it working, because nothing had changed and it had all been fine for ages! Suddenly though, when I tried to start my game, it would not load, just be stuck on the black screen before the title pops up. Up until I did this (I can only think of this as being the one change since) I had plenty of package mods like NRAAS and defaults that worked fine. Anyhow, I recently merged my CD installed Sims 3 games with Origin so that I could get expansions cheaper and have it easier to play without the discs. Okay, so, I have searched and searched to find the answer for this and if it is somewhere then I'd really appreciate the help finding it. Hey everyone, I'm not entirely sure if I'm posting on the right forum here, so I apologize if this isn't correct.

The sims 3 mods not working