Mods not Updating (via Steam)

[wasme]

I posted this to the Steam forum but nobody there seems to know what's wrong.

After being away for a while I started playing Stellaris again. And found most of the mods I installed weren't compatible. Ok, that's expected. A lot of mods - smaller ones especially - don't get updated regularly (or, sometimes, at all) for new patches. But then I started inspecting some, like the 'Civilian Trade' mod, and the 'ZBeautiful Battles' mod. And the workshop pages for those (and some others listed as incompatible by the Stellaris launcher) describe them as updated for 1.8 (Windows version, 1.8.3)

I tried unsubscribing to them and then resubscribing and Steam still won't update these mods. I tried deleting the mod files in C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\workshop\content\281990 but Steam didn't seem to realize anything was wrong and Stellaris just reported that none of the mods were now compatible. (There seems to be no way to tell Steam to check to see if the mods are up-to-date.) I finally tried uninstalling the whole game and reinstalling it and it still didn't update the mods.

I finally checked the Linux version of the game and *it* saw the updated mods. (version 1.8.3) But I'm not gaming on Linux right now because reasons (using most of RAM on the linux box for other stuff right now). So 'just play the linux version' isn't a solution.

What's up? How do I force steam to update them, seeing as how it doesn't want to update them automatically? Or if they are updated (which might be the case) why is Stellaris mis-reporting them as incompatible?

 

[AndrewT]

Known causes for this issue:

- you need to enable Steam Cloud Sync in two places, for the Steam Client overall and for this game in particular

- if you are opted in to a Steam Client beta version, you'll need to opt out into the public version, currently October 30

- you need to run the game at least once using the PLAY button in Steam, before using any desktop or taskbar shortcuts. This enables the game to make the documents/paradox/stellaris/mod/ folder.

- make sure steam.exe and stellaris.exe are in the exceptions list for your antivirus app

Good luck!

 

[Messir Malaphar]

Hello.

I think have the same issue. I didnt know where to post this, so I decided to update this topic a little bit.

This is my issue: http://joxi.ru/DmByXyzuNYGyMr

The mods that are supposed to load up - are the portraits packs, and... well, I actually had a lot of them. I just had to unsub, since it was pointless anyway. There were some mods like color packs, icon packs, etc, stuff that is supposed to go smoothly with almost everything.

Can somebody help me out? Why am I having this issue? I sense that the solution is very basic and simple. Just point it for me plz.

 

[AndrewT]

It's always best to start your own thread, especially as your problem is not at all the same as the OP's problem.

Try unsubscribing from all mods and delete your documents/paradox/stellaris/mod/ folder. Assuming it's OK then, re-subscribe one by one.

 

[Messir Malaphar]

May be it happened because I subbed to some mods BEFORE finishing the download of my Stellaris copy?