Brave Heroes Needed: Mods not working with launcher, basic troubleshooting failed

[kingjames1459]

Hello,
I am running into an issue where my mods are downloaded and installed, but will not "launch" when selected. A few notes:

This only happened AFTER I bought the new DLC. I was running both 1.10 and 1.9 before this morning and my mods were working.
I have uninstalled HOI4, deleted all mods, cleared folders, and done a FRESH INSTALL of all relevant items.
I am not a computer science wiz kid, but it appears that the DLC caused me a few *ahem* issues.

Any advise for how to proceed is greatly appreciated. I need some Brave Heroes of the Production Front ASAP.

Thanks.

 

[Mousetick]

I was running both 1.10 and 1.9 before this morning and my mods were working.

Not sure how you can run two different versions at the same time, but let's go with that anyway.
When you say "my" mods I assume you mean the mods that you subscribed to in the Steam workshop, not your own mods you made yourself?

I have uninstalled HOI4, deleted all mods, cleared folders, and done a FRESH INSTALL of all relevant items.

So what exactly is "not working" after all this cleaning? If you have deleted all mods, it would be expected that they no longer "work" with the Launcher.
Please be descriptive and specific. Explain what you want to happen, and what you have done to make it happen.

Please post a screenshot or text listing of the contents of your Documents > Paradox Interactive > Hearts of Iron IV > mod folder.
Please post a screenshot or text listing of the contents of your Program Files (x86) > Steam > steamapps > workshop> content > 394360 folder.
Please post screenshot of the relevant Launcher screens: Main window, Mods section, and 'Manage Playset' panel in condensed list view (condensed list view is the top right-most icon in the Manage Playset panel).
Please post the contents of this file: Documents > Paradox Interactive > Hearts of Iron IV > dlc_load.json.

 

[kingjames1459]

Not sure how you can run two different versions at the same time, but let's go with that anyway.
When you say "my" mods I assume you mean the mods that you subscribed to in the Steam workshop, not your own mods you made yourself?

I am playing EAW and Kaiserreich, one is in 1.10 and the other is 1.9 so I switch between the versions.

 

[kingjames1459]

So to be specific:
I select a mod. The game loads. The mod itself does not load. It runs as a completely normal game. I have tried a dozen mods, some in 1.10 and some in 1.9. None work, all run the game as normal (i.e. without mods).

 

[Mousetick]

Thanks for all the screenshots, exactly like I asked. Very useful.

As far as I can see you are subscribed to 25 mods in the workshop, but only 16 are present in HOI 4's mod folder. Notably absent is Kaiserreich (ugc_1521695605), which would explain why the game doesn't load it - because it's not there. Does the first screenshot show all the contents of the mod folder, or did you crop it?

To confirm what's going on, can you post the contents of Documents > Paradox Interactive > Hearts of Iron IV > logs > error.log (after a fresh start, up to the main menu).

 

[kingjames1459]

That is all of them, just to confirm:

I see what you are saying... it is just not there.

Aha, I think you figured it out. Should I just uninstall, reinstall of my mods again?

 

[Mousetick]

Did you change the playset in the launcher before posting the contents of error.log?

The contents of dlc_load.json above show only Kaiserreich was enabled, but error.log shows the game trying and failing to load several other mods. That doesn't make sense.

 

[kingjames1459]

No, I did not change the playset.
I have not tried to load any other mods since Kaiserreich at noon.

 

[kingjames1459]

Tried to do it again just now

 

[kingjames1459]

The only thing that I have selected is Kaiserreich.

 

[Mousetick]

Wow that's some crazy fubar stuff there. I don't understand. The game is trying to load a bunch of mods, but not Kaiserreich. The contents of dlc_load.json tell the game what to load, which is Kaiserreich. And on top of that Kaiserreich is visible and enabled in the launcher but missing from the HOI 4 mod folder.

Are you using any kind of cloud sync software (other than Steam cloud feature), such as Microsoft OneDrive, Google Drive or DropBox?
Are you using any kind of backup software that takes snapshots of your disks at regular intervals?
How long has it been since you restarted Steam? your computer?

 

[kingjames1459]

I turned my computer off last night and turned it on at about 6am this morning.

I use Google Drive, but that is for work.

Steam was restarted this morning when my mods stopped working after the DLC was installed. I figured it might just be a whoopsie on steams part.

So solutions: uninstall and reinstall everything again? Just nuke it all to the ground. Go through and purge every folder? Sacrifice a pig to Jupiter?

 

[Mousetick]

Can you confirm you are not currently subscribed to 'The New Order: Last Days of Europe' mod (2173766180)?

Can you try something quick?
- Make sure HOI 4 and the Launcher are not running.
- Move your Documents > Paradox Interactive > Hearts of Iron IV folder aside (e.g. to the Desktop, or rename it).
- Start the game again, verify the Launcher is bare (default playset, no mods added or enabled), check the contents of dlc_load.json. Continue to launch HOI 4, and check the contents of error.log. Are there still the same 'Could not find files for mod' errors?
You can put the Hearts of Iron IV folder back to how/where it was after that.

 

[kingjames1459]

I am subscribed to TNO: Last Days of Europe. It shows up in the launcher. It is not located in C:\Users\james\Documents\Paradox Interactive\Hearts of Iron IV\mod

I just tried what you had asked. I
- Make sure HOI 4 and the Launcher are not running.
- Move your Documents > Paradox Interactive > Hearts of Iron IV folder aside (e.g. to the Desktop, or rename it).
- Start the game again,

But when I loaded up the game this is what I found:

What did I do wrong?

 

[kingjames1459]

I continued your steps after turning everything off. Error log is super empty.

This is what I found in dlc_load
{"enabled_mods":[]}

 

[kingjames1459]

Kaiserreich is working again... like Lazarus you have brought HOI4 back from the dead!

 

[kingjames1459]

My game has not run this well in ages... I do not know what was going on but I have double the fps now while playing and on menus. You, good sir, are a gentleman and a scholar. If there was a way I could thank you more, I would.

Praise the sun!

 

[Mousetick]

Ok... well that's good. I assume you still have your previous Hearts of Iron IV folder moved to the side and you didn't put it back? In that case it's probably better to leave it. Except you may want to move your save games back if you need them.

Make sure it still works when you restart the launcher and game, and you can enable/disable mods. Some users who reported similar problems to yours say they managed to solve it once but then the game became borked again on subsequent launches.

 

[kingjames1459]

It still works after doing a full shutdown of the game and launcher. I can only hope that the problem does not rematerialize.