There is no mod or DLC windows.

[AndrewT]

Have you bought no DLCs?

 

[Aardvark Bellay]

Yup, if you got no DLCs or Mods (with the modname.mod file) installed, there are just two plain white boxes......
For unzipping you might like to use 7zip.
Other Zip/packing programs sometimes cause issues for whatever reason.

Also keep in mind that by default zip programs often create an extra new folder, so your *.mod file might have been one folder below the one you saw. Windows recognises them as media files btw.

 

[xXx orange]

Yup, if you got no DLCs or Mods (with the modname.mod file) installed, there are just two plain white boxes......
For unzipping you might like to use 7zip.
Other Zip/packing programs sometimes cause issues for whatever reason.

Also keep in mind that by default zip programs often create an extra new folder, so your *.mod file might have been one folder below the one you saw. Windows recognises them as media files btw.

Yea I used 7ZIP. I guess it just unzipped badly as there was no .mod file. I checked every folder. The installer version DID have a .mod file and many more files which the zip one didn't have. If those boxes hadn't been white then I guess this would of been a lot easier to solve (everyone including me thought that it was a problem to do with the game not the mod).

And to Andrew, no I haven't bought any DLC (because I thought they would not work, oh the irony). I guess owning one would of helped with this problem massively. We would of known it was the mods fault not the games or my PCs.
I plan to buy most of the DLC next time they go on sale. Except the Sunset Invasion. That just looks silly...

One last question kind of of topic I know. I seem to have some of the features that are in the DLC without buying them. Like factions. I guess they may of just been included in an update as I don't own anything else like the ability to play Islamic states.

 

[Aardvark Bellay]

Yea I used 7ZIP. I guess it just unzipped badly as there was no .mod file. I checked every folder. The installer version DID have a .mod file and many more files which the zip one didn't have. If those boxes hadn't been white then I guess this would of been a lot easier to solve (everyone including me thought that it was a problem to do with the game not the mod).

And to Andrew, no I haven't bought any DLC (because I thought they would not work, oh the irony). I guess owning one would of helped with this problem massively. We would of known it was the mods fault not the games or my PCs.
I plan to buy most of the DLC next time they go on sale. Except the Sunset Invasion. That just looks silly...

One last question kind of of topic I know. I seem to have some of the features that are in the DLC without buying them. Like factions. I guess they may of just been included in an update as I don't own anything else like the ability to play Islamic states.

Factions were part of the patch along the release of Legacy of Rome.
The very most mechanics get included in the patch so that the AI can use them as well and because the DLC policy is to not make them a constrained necessity so to speak, as with expansions in the past.
Also as factions are not byzantine specific.

Regarding 7zip, i suggest to use right click on the zip file and choosing the appropriate method.
I used the AGOT zip file and it did include the *.mod file.
Maybe a display problem.
Maybe explorer hides these when you extract them in a 'secure' place like program files or whatnot. Well depends on your settings for that, the explorer.

Whatever, it works now.

edit for information:
There are always Developer diaries for each DLC and patch and patch logs appearing in the forum.
For Developer diaries: http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum...Guides-etc&p=13436563&viewfull=1#post13436563
As an example the patch log for 1.07 (released with LoR): http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?639503-Patch-1.07-Change-Log

Welcome to the forum.
Cheers

 

[xXx orange]

Factions were part of the patch along the release of Legacy of Rome.
The very most mechanics get included in the patch so that the AI can use them as well and because the DLC policy is to not make them a constrained necessity so to speak, as with expansions in the past.
Also as factions are not byzantine specific.

Regarding 7zip, i suggest to use right click on the zip file and choosing the appropriate method.
I used the AGOT zip file and it did include the *.mod file.
Maybe a display problem.
Maybe explorer hides these when you extract them in a 'secure' place like program files or whatnot. Well depends on your settings for that, the explorer.

Whatever, it works now.

edit for information:
There are always Developer diaries for each DLC and patch and patch logs appearing in the forum.
For Developer diaries: http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum...Guides-etc&p=13436563&viewfull=1#post13436563
As an example the patch log for 1.07 (released with LoR): http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?639503-Patch-1.07-Change-Log

Welcome to the forum.
Cheers

I looked at my backup ZIP of the mod and found all of the missing files there. I guess when I was copying them over to the mod folder the copying was canceled by accident.

 

[Aardvark Bellay]

I looked at my backup ZIP of the mod and found all of the missing files there. I guess when I was copying them over to the mod folder the copying was canceled by accident.

I suspect you opened the zip file instead of unpacking it and tried to copy and paste from a still zipped/packed file.
Well, thou shall not do so !

Always unzip/-pack first. Never copy from still zipped files, as....stuff gets lost.
At least that would be a good explanation and yes it happened to me before as well. :laugh:

 

[xXx orange]

I suspect you opened the zip file instead of unpacking it and tried to copy and paste from a still zipped/packed file.
Well, thou shall not do so !

Always unzip/-pack first. Never copy from still zipped files, as....stuff gets lost.
At least that would be a good explanation and yes it happened to me before as well. :laugh:

I usually do open the zip and then extract the files. Most the time I don't bother with unzipping and then moving. I never thought there was a difference. In this case though for some strange reason I did unzip it and then move. The moving process (to the mod folder for CK2) must of canceled before the main files where copied over.

 

[Aardvark Bellay]

Yeah, well problem is solved. I just got lost a bit on speculating about the reason.