Steam Workshop doesn't work

[gunfx]

Hi, I was wondering if I'm the only one where the steam workshop doesn't seem to work. I can access it normally, if I subscribe it will download and then I can activate or deactivate it. Everything seems normal until here. But when setting up a game I just can't see new maps or new civs, and ingame mods like the R.E.D. Modpack don't seem to take effect either. I wonder what causes this problem and how I can fix it.
I have Gods and Kings and the mods seem to be at the newest version (one even got an update today). Is it just not activated in Europe yet or what?

 

[gunnergoz]

I'm having problems with the "get mods" button not working for me in the game, so I cannot access the Steam Workshop from within the game as yet; however, my mods do show up and work OK.

You might want to check and see that the game recognizes where your files are kept. I seems to me that the game is not seeing where your mods are located on your hard drive.

 

[timtofly]

Or as has been mentioned any characters in any related file path that have special "markings" added to the character will probably trip up anything related to Civ V.

 

[molnibalage]

I cannot find ANY download button... I can browse between mod, but I cannot download anything. What is the process...?

 

[dilophosaur]

I have the same problem. No solution

 

[bc1]

Steam workshop is so flaky (nicest thing to say about it, utter piece of cr*p is more accurate) it only works under certain undetermined conditions when the stars are aligned just so...

 

[bc1]

And it's not only for Civ that Steam WorkSh*t does not work: http://steamcommunity.com/app/236850/discussions/0/864978762491075218/ (I also can't get it to work on EU4)

 

[TemplarLord]

My issue was much the same, I wasn't getting any mods in the Mods list inside the game after clearly subscribing to them on Steam. Turned out that my old cache files were somehow corrupting the mods.

C:\Users\<USERNAME>\Documents\My Games\Sid Meier's Civilization 5\cache

Substitute <username> with your Windows user account and try deleting everything inside the cache folder. Backup the folder if you feel it's neccessary.

 

[bc1]

Thanks but already tried that... I've given up now.

Wasted another 45 minutes deleting cache, deleting moduserdata, stopping / restarting steam, the best I ever got was mod "Transferring", but of course it never even started

 

[TemplarLord]

Yeah Steam is pretty much a ****** mod organizer. What does your MODS folder look like? Are there folders in it, like;

R.E.D. Modpack (v 27)
Throne Room (v 3)

Or is it completely empty? If you'd like I can upload a small mod for you to drop in the MODS folder and see if that would activate?

Also, I tried downloading, well 'subscribing' to another mod and seeing where exactly would Steam download the mod. To my surprise it wasn't in cache/downloads; but when I started playing Civ5 again last month I clearly remember Steam downloading some files to that directory. Even the time stamp, 26.11.2013 11:45 indicates this is correct.

Even though Steam doesn't touch that folder, the mod downloads and is present in the game. After exiting the game a folder for the mod is created under the MODS folder. Question is where does it drop the files beforehand? If you had that I imagine you could move them to the MODS folder yourself.

 

[timtofly]

It probably creates a temp cache file and then deletes it.