Cities: Skylines (Steam) - Every 2nd time I start the game, all mods disappear

[GeowolfNL]

Description
Every 2nd time I start the game, all mods disappear

What is your game version?
1.13.0-f8

What expansions do you have installed?
All of them

Please explain your issue is in as much detail as possible.
Every second time I start the game, the following happens:

- all assets activate (I usually don't always activate all subscribed assets
- my list of mods is empty (I use a few dozen)
- the building style "european-vanilla" is deactivated, the others are activated.

When I restart the game, the mods are visible again, but it takes me 10 minutes to reselect all the assets and mods that I want (de)activated.

After playing a city and closing the game, the next time I start it, the problem occurs again from the top.

Having to do this every time I play kinda takes the fun out of it. Is there anyone who knows what causes this behaviour?

 

[want_to_know]

Please Attach the ouputlog. One time when you start and it has no Mods - and the other time when you restart. So we get two versions and see maybe what the diffrent is.

 

[GeowolfNL]

Here are both files. I tried having a look myself, but I'm not really sure where to look in them, as there is so much text.

 

[want_to_know]

You could arrange your mods as follows:
Managing Your Mod Collection by Strictoaster | Mod Workshop | Cities: Skylines

That way you could workaround the Asset Selection - Yes no Fix of the Problem, but we can still work on it.
Did you made any Changes before this Problem occurred?

And why do you have this resolution?

... 3840x1080 ...

 

[Avanya]

When you see no mods, it's because the file userGameState.cgs isn't found. It's either getting corrupted or Windows thinks it's an empty file and deletes it. I'm not sure why this happens, but make sure that Cities.exe is whitelisted for your antivirus software, so at least it isn't an issue with the game saving info to the file.

Next time it happens, I suggest enabling/disabling everything like you want it, then shut the game down and make a backup of the file to keep somewhere else on your computer. Then start the game to see if everything stayed enabled. Now you can copy the file back into its folder instead of having to enable/disable everything each time. It isn't a fix, but it makes it a little less annoying to deal with. You will also need to make a new copy of the file every time you add a mod that needs to be enabled.

You can find the file here: C:\Users\YOURUSER\AppData\Local\Colossal Order\Cities_Skylines

 

[GeowolfNL]

I don't know what I did or what happened, but the problem seems to have disappeared overnight. Thanks for the tips though, I will use them if this occurs again.