DLC not owned and DLC appears corrupted (EU4)

[Falcanic]

Hi, I'm new to the forums here, and I just have a quick question.

I bought most of the major DLCs for EU4 (legitimately over steam) and under DLCs on the steam window it confirms my ownership of these DLCs. Additionally, the EU4 launcher also shows that I own these DLCs, yet in game it appears as "not owned" and some of the unit packs appear as "corrupted"

Help in a very clear fashion (for I am new here) would be greatly appreciated

 

[AndrewT]

We have seen a couple of other such reports since the new patch, it's not clear yet why this affects a very few people like that.

Add EU4.exe to the exceptions list of your antivirus app; ESPECIALLY if you have Windows Defender, add it to the Ransomware "Apps Allowed Through" list.

Then try running e4.exe as the Windows Admin user.

 

[Falcanic]

Add EU4.exe to the exceptions list of your antivirus app; ESPECIALLY if you have Windows Defender, add it to the Ransomware "Apps Allowed Through" list.

Then try running e4.exe as the Windows Admin user.

I added eu4.exe to the exceptions list, along with the EU4 folders in steam (Program Files (x86)) and in the paradox folder (In Documents) and ran EU4.exe as an administrator and it did not fix the issue :/

 

[Falcanic]

I see. Please do a full **clean** re-install:

- move any valued save games elsewhere
- "uninstall" in Steam-EU4
- manually delete both the Steam/SteamApps/common/EU4 AND Documents/Paradox/EU4 folders
- re-install game in Steam, run a Steam Verify when done.
- add EU4.exe to the exceptions list of your antivirus app; ESPECIALLY if you have Windows Defender, add it to the Ransomware "Apps Allowed Through" list.
- start the game with no mods active and test

In particular make sure there are no files or folders left under either the Steam EU4 or Documents EU4 locations, before installing again.

Thank you so much! I CAN CONFIRM that this series of steps did fix my DLC related issues!!