I need help with mods PLEASE!!!

[Americazian]

I downloaded mods off of steam, then enabled them and clicked next. Then I clicked single player, set up game and then I got to the set up part. I looked for the civilization I enabled and it wasn't there. I've tried several times, with several different mods, and maps and civilizations never show up in the setup part. Does anyone know how to fix this????

 

[Lord Tirian]

Then I clicked single player, set up game and then I got to the set up part.

Click "Mods" in the main menu, make sure all mods you want to use are enabled and then continue from there. Beneath the single player button, you should then see the list of enabled mods - are all the civilizations you want there?

 

[Americazian]

Click "Mods" in the main menu, make sure all mods you want to use are enabled and then continue from there. Beneath the single player button, you should then see the list of enabled mods - are all the civilizations you want there?

Yes, all the civilizations I want are under the single player option. I click the single player button, then set up, and then I click on e list of civilizations and my enabled civ isn't listed, same goes for all the maps I enable. They aren't there either.

 

[Nutty]

One or more are probably outdated. Do they show up in the Advanced menu at least?

 

[Americazian]

One or more are probably outdated. Do they show up in the Advanced menu at least?

I'm sure they aren't outdated, some of them were recently added within the past few days. I'm pretty sure they do show up in the advanced menu.

 

[LeeS]

It sounds to me like one of the mods is seriously buggy or didn't download properly to your MODS folder. The only real solution to find which one(s) is(are) the culprit(s) is you'll have to unenable them one at a time. I'd start with the most recently downloaded ones. Older mods that you've used before are probably less likely to be the culprit mod, but one of them could be.

I once had a bunch of mods get trashed right after one of those mystery steam software updates.

I may be all wet, but I would try disabling the most recent mods you've downloaded from steam one at a time to see if you can find which mod is causing the problem. It is also possible that two mods are conflicting with each other for some reason and causing bizarre troubles when both are enabled.

 

[Americazian]

It sounds to me like one of the mods is seriously buggy or didn't download properly to your MODS folder.

I appreciate your insight and helpfulness, but I don't think it's because the mod is buggy or didn't download properly. I'm able to use unit mods that give me different units, but map mods or civilization mods don't work, I've tried enabling 10 and each time I enabled a civ mod or map mod they never show up when it time to select a civilization or map.

 

[Crashade]

I appreciate your insight and helpfulness, but I don't think it's because the mod is buggy or didn't download properly. I'm able to use unit mods that give me different units, but map mods or civilization mods don't work, I've tried enabling 10 and each time I enabled a civ mod or map mod they never show up when it time to select a civilization or map.

Did you try enabling them one at a time?

 

[Americazian]

Did you try enabling them one at a time?

Yes, I have, and still nothing.

 

[LeeS]

I'd like to give you more ideas or advice, but boyo I'm stumped. The only other thing I can think of is whether you've inadvertantly shut off getting automatic game updates from steam, and the mods you are trying to enable are all dependant on the latest version of the game.

When I get to the main menu where I can select to go into the MODS menu, my version of the game says it is "1.0.3.144" at the bottom of the desktop screen.

If yours is showing an earlier version number than that it might be the cause of your trouble. If so, make sure you haven't accidently told steam not to automatically send you updates to the game. The other thing to do would be to verify the integrity of your game 'cache' through stream. What that actually does is looks at your game files and makes sure they aren't outdated or altered in some way. If in the past you've used one of those mods that tell you to 'replace the original game file' with 'this version of the game file from the mod', the verify integrity of the game cache will restore the original Firaxis-made version of any such files. Copy any such altered files somewhere safe in "My Documents/" before you do a verify integrity of game cache.

If you don't know how to do the verify thingie, and want to try it, drop a note back here and I'll outline the steps needed. (I think I may already have a set of instructions up on Mediafire somewhere, but I can't remember for sure).

 

[Americazian]

I'd like to give you more ideas or advice, but boyo I'm stumped. The only other thing I can think of is whether you've inadvertantly shut off getting automatic game updates from steam, and the mods you are trying to enable are all dependant on the latest version of the game.

When I get to the main menu where I can select to go into the MODS menu, my version of the game says it is "1.0.3.144" at the bottom of the desktop screen.

If yours is showing an earlier version number than that it might be the cause of your trouble. If so, make sure you haven't accidently told steam not to automatically send you updates to the game. The other thing to do would be to verify the integrity of your game 'cache' through stream. What that actually does is looks at your game files and makes sure they aren't outdated or altered in some way. If in the past you've used one of those mods that tell you to 'replace the original game file' with 'this version of the game file from the mod', the verify integrity of the game cache will restore the original Firaxis-made version of any such files. Copy any such altered files somewhere safe in "My Documents/" before you do a verify integrity of game cache.

If you don't know how to do the verify thingie, and want to try it, drop a note back here and I'll outline the steps needed. (I think I may already have a set of instructions up on Mediafire somewhere, but I can't remember for sure).

Thank you, I will look into updating the game if it isn't updated already. Never thought of checking that. And yes, I'd like to get an outline of the steps for the verify thingie, if that's not too much trouble.

 

[LeeS]

link here to procedure for Verify Game Cache