I'm having the same problem. By chance, do you own the retail box version (installed through steam) as well? A friend of mine bought his digital copy off Steam and has no problems running XCOM mods, but it never works for me. He plays in online mode, too. After I run modpatcher and then try to run the game through Steam in offline mode, a "Completing installation..." window comes up and stays locked at 0%. It doesn't run again until after I go back into online mode and when I do, the game runs at its default settings. Someone said they reinstalled steam, so I might try that. Here is my log.txt 17:49:33 Startup
17:49:33 steampath c:/program files (x86)/steam
17:49:33 steampath c:/program files (x86)/steam
17:49:33 checkcp return true
17:49:33 Backup found, use as base
17:49:33 steampath c:/program files (x86)/steam
17:49:33 steampath c:/program files (x86)/steam
17:49:33 xcom binarie found @ + comp
17:49:33 steampath c:/program files (x86)/steam
17:49:33 steampath c:/program files (x86)/steam
17:49:33 xcom binarie found @ + comp
17:49:33 path vars backup: c:/program files (x86)/steam\SteamApps\common\XCom-Enemy-Unknown\Binaries\Win32\XComGame.exe c:/program files (x86)/steam\SteamApps\common\XCom-Enemy-Unknown\Binaries\Win32\xcom-orginal.exe
17:49:33 steampath c:/program files (x86)/steam
17:49:33 steampath c:/program files (x86)/steam
17:49:33 xcom binarie found @ + comp
17:49:33 updateres var: c:/program files (x86)/steam\SteamApps\common\XCom-Enemy-Unknown\Binaries\Win32\XComGame.exe
17:49:33 getmodfile: DefaultGameCore.mod
17:49:34 done