I've been running modded for a while and it's inevitably been causing my SSD to somehow unformat itself. At first, I thought the issue was the loose REF files, as installing ANY of those causes my SSD to brick within 30 minutes. If it happens while I'm playing, I start to notice that all textures around me stop loading, music stops playing, and monsters occasionally flicker (picture attached shows the unloaded textures).
I tried only running PAK based mods, which seems to work for longer, but after around 6 hours of playtime the same error happens.
At this point, when I run the game, an error pops up saying that my main sub pak 000 file (the 23GB one) is corrupted. The only fix I've been able to find is booting into BIOS, hard resetting my SSD from there (it isn't recognized in Windows), and then restarting and entirely reformatting the drive.
I'll list the basic things I've tried, since I know they will inevitably be brought up:
- Updating ALL drivers
- Restarting PC
- Verifying files on Steam (says SSD write error)
- Uninstalling and reinstalling (can't install due to SSD write error)
- Not running modded (works fine, but I want mods)
- Trying alternative mods
- Trying mods one by one
The one thing I want to try but can't is testing the game on another drive. All my other drives have valuable data so I really don't want to risk losing them. I have also played other games that were on the SSD, even after the first time this error popped up, and I had no issues. I believe this problem is entirely located within modded MH Wilds.
If anyone has more knowledge on modding and what could be causing this, I'd love to hear any advice.
EDIT: I found out this was somehow being caused by Fluffy Mod Manager. Not really sure why, but installing mods without it has fixed all of my issues.
Nevermind. Fluffy Mod Manager was just accelerating the process. Crash still occurred, Capcom's error reporter gets about 15% of the way through the bar before also crashing, and my SSD is bricked again. Yay.