Has anyone else had a lot of problems with the new launcher recently, even several months after its release?

[Jordedude1234]

I've had problems with the launcher overwriting the mod files for manually installed mods, meaning I have to completely reinstall it. I've had the launcher just get stuck logging in forever, so I have to end task on it, and reopen it. Not to mention just "logging in" in the first place can easily take up to a minute before I can even start messing around with my mods. And the 5 second animated ad that plays in a loop over and over underneath the play button.

The new launcher also still has a way to go in terms of accessibility, while bring with it many painful bugs that get in the way of playing the game.

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[Darth.]

You should also be able to enter the number you want the mod at rather than having to constantly click and drag which is a pain. Organizing, re-ordering your mods and mod-lists is a pain in the ass.

If possible I'd also like an icon or something to show which mods are ironman compatible and which not. Like you said, there's a lot of free space.

 

[cetvrtak]

I've had problems with the launcher overwriting the mod files for manually installed mods, meaning I have to completely reinstall it. I've had the launcher just get stuck logging in forever, so I have to end task on it, and reopen it. Not to mention just "logging in" in the first place can easily take up to a minute before I can even start messing around with my mods. And the 5 second animated ad that plays in a loop over and over underneath the play button.

The new launcher also still has a way to go in terms of accessibility, while bring with it many painful bugs that get in the way of playing the game.

Spoiler: Suggested Improvement

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Can't you just uninstall the Launcher and install an earlier version?

 

[MrReaper182]

I now no longer have to wait 2 minutes waiting for the launcher to show up on my screen like I did the old one since the release of the new one.

 

[Alyosha]

I’ve had errors mentioning problems loading mods even though I have no mods enabled. I’ve uninstalled the PDox launcher twice to solve the issue.

 

[grotaclas]

I've had problems with the launcher overwriting the mod files for manually installed mods

Are you talking about the .mod file in "Documents/Paradox Interactive/Europa Universalis IV/mod"? AFAIK these get generated from the descriptor.mod in the folder of the mod. So I think it is normal that they get overwritten if the information in both files differ.

If possible I'd also like an icon or something to show which mods are ironman compatible and which not. Like you said, there's a lot of free space.

I assume you are talking about achievement compatibility, because all mods are compatible with ironman mode(I think this was different in old game versions). The information if a mod is compatible with achievements is not available to the launcher. The launcher would have to do a full calculation of the checksum with each mod to see if they are compatible and that would slow down the launcher start much more. And there could be mods which change the checksum if they are enabled alone, but which can be made achievement compatible by a submod.

I’ve had errors mentioning problems loading mods even though I have no mods enabled. I’ve uninstalled the PDox launcher twice to solve the issue.

Did you get the message "Saving mod load order failed. Please verify that the launcher has access to your Documents folder."? AFAIK this happens if the launcher can't write the files dlc_load.json and launcher-v2.sqlite in the folder "Documents/Paradox Interactive/Europa Universalis IV/". dlc_load.json is also needed to tell the game which DLC should be activated and if these files can't be written, it is likely that the launcher can't write pdx_settings.txt and settings.txt and that would prevent you from changing any of the game settings in the launcher. The reason for this problem is probably a ransomware protection software which prevents the launcher from writing to anything in the Documents folder. Uninstalling the launcher probably only helped because it gave you the old version which didn't have the error message and just failed silently. To fix this it is best if you post in the eu4 tech support forum or use the paradox support website to contact the official support.

 

[Darth.]

The launcher would have to do a full calculation of the checksum with each mod to see if they are compatible and that would slow down the launcher start much more.

Fair, but is it possible to get an option to toggle such a check on? For example: If I'm willing to have my launcher take longer to start up for Stellaris but not for EU4 and vice-versa, just because I'm tired of clicking "Go to Steam Workshop" to see what the mod makers have said about achievement compatibility w.r.t their mod while scrolling through my mod-list.

 

[Jordedude1234]

Are you talking about the .mod file in "Documents/Paradox Interactive/Europa Universalis IV/mod"? AFAIK these get generated from the descriptor.mod in the folder of the mod. So I think it is normal that they get overwritten if the information in both files differ.

I mean the .mod text file that comes with the actual mod itself. The one that tells the game where your installed mod is (in the exact same folder). I've had that one get overwritten in a way that makes it not work after months of working just fine. I had to delete and reinstall the mod fresh because it somehow messed up the contents of the text file.

 

[love sweden]

The launcher was one of the biggest tragedys for EU4 and it took months for it to go from unberable to tolerable while still being inferioir to the old one. I even recently had a launcher issue come up wherre I needed to delete all files related to the launcher and reinstall EU4 to be able to acess the game even.

 

[Imperator_Thrawn]

Probably my biggest gripe with the launcher right now other than its existence is that each time I start the game, there's an ~50% chance that it'll just refuse to let me see my mods or playsets and give me an error message, so I just have to close and reopen the game until it decides I can play.

 

[Jordedude1234]

I wonder what the consensus is on the bugginess of the launcher recently. It seems like the launcher was improving after the horrible launch, until recently I've had more bugs with it. Seems to be better for me now personally, but I've heard quite a lot of complaints about the launcher recently.