Loading almost any mod with Vortex in Patch 8 causes "failed to load the main menu" error

[MichaelHaneline]

After updating to Patch 8, almost every mod I try to load with Vortex causes this error (this is just one example trying the half tief mod, but it's done the same for 20 other mods).

The game will then not load at all until I delete the modsettings.lsex file, at which point the game will load if I don't have the mod still installed, or will give me the same error again if it is.
Every forum thread I've found on this error lists deleting either modsettings.lsex or the entire player profile to fix it, and while that will let me play the game again, the problem remains that I'm not able to use nexus mods (in game mod manager works fine).
I have done a clean install of the game, I have deleted and reinstalled Vortex, I have made sure that no mods are loading in the in-game manager to prevent conflicts, but so far I can't figure out a fix to this problem.
If anyone has any ideas, I'm all ears.
Thank you in advance.

[redred]

Same issue, are they trying to get rid of the Nexus, because this is not just looking like an issue with a single mod, but all mods.

[Em18]

I had the same problem. The following fix worked for me:

1) Navigate to your player profile, on windows it is something like "%LOCALAPPDATA%\Larian Studios\Baldur's Gate 3\PlayerProfiles\Public".

2) Open the "modsettings.lsx" file with notepad (or something equivalent). In the example below, I've only got one mod enabled "CBR_Hugs" (I get the same error as you right now)

3) Edit the file and add the lines I have highlighted below:

4) Save the file and launch the game. It should now load to the main menu.

NOTE: Every time you change the mods via Nexus Mod Manager (NMM) you will need to repeat these steps. I think the BG3 NMM extension needs to be updated to always include "GustavX" in the "modsettings.lsx" file. Unfortunately I do not know how to do that automatically.

 

[MichaelHaneline]

9 hours ago, redred said:

Same issue, are they trying to get rid of the Nexus, because this is not just looking like an issue with a single mod, but all mods.

Alright, it appears that it is specifically Vortex that has been borked by Patch 8. BG3MM appears to work fine so far.

[MrFuriousXWanderer]

I actually just started Mudding BG3 and came across this luckily it was easy to fix

C:\Users\<you pc username>\AppData\Local\Larian Studios\Baldur's Gate 3\PlayerProfiles\Public
delete the file  'modsettings.lsx'

[Moonpie404]

 

9 hours ago, MrFuriousXWanderer said:

I actually just started Mudding BG3 and came across this luckily it was easy to fix

C:\Users\<you pc username>\AppData\Local\Larian Studios\Baldur's Gate 3\PlayerProfiles\Public
delete the file  'modsettings.lsx'

This didn't work for me, unfortunately.

Edited Friday at 09:53 PM by Moonpie404
Fixing the quote

[Moonpie404]

Oh, it turns out I am dumb.

There are 2 modsettings.lsx files in very similarly named folders(Baldur's Gate 3\PlayerProfiles\Public = correct; Baldur's Gate 3\Public = incorrect), and I was deleting the wrong one. After I deleted the one in the correct folder and ran the game via vortex, the modsettings file was remade but still throwing the same error. I needed to add the following lines to modsettings.lsx in order for the game to stop giving me the error message:

<node id="ModuleShortDesc">
<attribute id="Folder" type="LSString" value="GustavDev"/>
<attribute id="MD5" type="LSString" value=""/>
<attribute id="Name" type="LSString" value="GustavDev"/>
<attribute id="UUID" type="FixedString" value="28ac9ce2-2aba-8cda-b3b5-6e922f71b6b8"/>
<attribute id="Version64" type="int64" value="36028797018963968"/>
</node>

 

I placed this in front of all the other entries for the mods. However, it seems this snippet gets deleted whenever modifications are made using vortex to the mod list. I hope it gets fixed soon.