[2.1.5.1] New Launcher autoloads mods

[MFCamillus]

Win 7 64bit files revalidated by steam

If there are contents in the MOD folder the launcher automatically grabs (some of) them. Even after deselecting them they still load.

The only way that I found to load straight Vanilla was to remove the MOD folder completely from the main directory.

A little disturbing as it 'auto' selected 4 mods for me, I deselected them, but I am not certain whether ALL of them loaded or only SOME of them loaded (I know at least one loaded as the startdates and map were different). Checksum was of course different than expected - even without any mods selected. I could only get back to the standard checksum by removing the entire MOD folder.

 

[Servancour]

I currently have five different mods in my own MOD folder. None is being activated when using the new launcher (when unselected). You can always check which mods are active by starting the game, go to "Content" and select the "MOD" tab. Your mods should be listed there and stated if they are "Active" or "Inactive". Can you check which mods it is that is automatically loaded? Are these downloaded through Steam workshop or manually?

 

[zebez]

I have a similar problem when I start the game without steam. It autoloads mods. And in the settings.txt file in Documents\Paradox Interactive\Crusader Kings II\
It starts to duplicate the mods it loads if you don't uncheck anything in the launcher, If you uncheck the mods they still load but won't duplicate.

last_mods=
{
mod/Gameplay.mod mod/Interface.mod mod/Music.mod mod/Portrait.mod mod/Gameplay.mod mod/Interface.mod mod/Music.mod mod/Portrait.mod mod/Gameplay.mod mod/Interface.mod mod/Music.mod mod/Portrait.mod mod/Gameplay.mod mod/Interface.mod mod/Music.mod mod/Portrait.mod mod/Gameplay.mod mod/Interface.mod mod/Music.mod mod/Portrait.mod mod/Gameplay.mod mod/Interface.mod mod/Music.mod mod/Portrait.mod mod/Gameplay.mod mod/Interface.mod mod/Music.mod mod/Portrait.mod mod/Gameplay.mod mod/Interface.mod mod/Music.mod mod/Portrait.mod }

Edit: This is manually placed mods, not from the workshop. And the content tab is disabled ingame cause I run the game without steam when testing mods.

Edit 2: This happens when you run the game through steam too.

To reproduce:
1. Launch the game with some mods selected.
2. Quit the game
3. Launch again and unselect mods.
4. Mods are still loaded.

 

[Barón Rojo]

I had a similar problem that seems related to this. After starting the game various times with mods the launcher would take forever to start. After seeing this thread I went to the settings archive to see if it could be related with this. The file was now 155 mb big! So I deleted it and now the launcher starts normally. Seems like the launcher wrote something in the setting file each time that it started.

 

[MFCamillus]

Based on the other responses I played with it a little bit this AM and will confirm both Zebez and Baron Rojo's comments.

In 'settings.txt' it adds the mods selected every time that you start the game to the "last_mods" line. My launcher started bogging out quite a bit after a few runs. When I looked the mods were listed up to 20 times. After deleting the contents of "last_mods" the launcher time came back in line with the old launcher - and what they were with the new launcher when I first downloaded yesterday.

Also - after deleting the contents of "last_mods" it did blank my mod selections. I selected 1. Loaded fine. Went back in and tried to load Vanilla. Vanilla will not load - even with the mod unchecked it would load the mod.

It appears that: 1. It loads whatever is in "last_mods" no matter what. 2. if you have mods checked in the launcher it will add them to "last_mods" even if they are already listed there and will thus load them multiple times

Somehow "last_mods" needs to clear or it can bloat very badly.

I can give you some (rather lengthy) copies of this from the settings file if you wish. Before I went and manually deleted it the copy and recopy of mods that was listed had gotten to a page long just for that list.

 

[Groogy]

There will be another beta patch where this fix is included among other things.
Thanks for the help!

 

[Finarfin]

So I guess my settings.txt which is now 1.5 MB is why the game hangs so long at the Paradox logo when starting up? And it's just going to continue to get bigger?

Good detective work, MFCamillus!

 

[Shonai_Dweller]

So if I want to play vanilla now is the only workaround to delete the mods from the mod folder?

 

[MFCamillus]

No. Alternatively you could go into 'settings.txt' and delete the list of mods from the "last_mods" line (keeping the parentheses in place). That will also restore Vanilla.

 

[Shonai_Dweller]

That didn't work for me at first.
After editing settings.txt the mod would still load even though it was unselected in the menu.

However I just reinstalled the beta (switched to non-beta then back again) and now it seems to work OK (so long as I adjust settngs.txt each time). Strange.

 

[richvh]

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CK2 is appending the last selected mods to last_mods each time, instead of replacing the list.

 

[Jokolytic]

I just got this glitch as well.