My Mods Stopped Working?

[Emily235]

FIXED! Thanks for the help everyone! I'm a noob at mods, apparently~ :sweat:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I wasn't sure how to title this, and I'm not sure if this is something that I can be helped with here.

But recently I've been having some troubles with physx and not being able to play, and so without thinking I decided to repair my game through Origin. The game wasn't originally installed through Origin, but I had it on my computer so I figured I should use it.

The repair worked, and I can play the game now.

Except none of my mods are showing up in the Downloadable Content menu.

I looked in my Documents/BioWare/DragonAge folder, and all of my mods are still in there, exactly as they were before. The game just doesn't seem to realize they're there. I'm at a loss as to what to do, and I'm at a loss as to where to ask. Help please!

Edited December 9, 2015 by Emily235

[azdu87]

my mods wont work on fallout4 the game is playable and everything

[Emily235]

my mods wont work on fallout4 the game is playable and everything

You might have better luck somewhere that isn't the Dragon Age forum. Just an idea. :sweat:

[DwainDibley]

Within "Documents\BioWare\Dragon Age\Settings\" there are a couple of files " addins.xml " and, if you're using mod manager, the other will be " DAModmanager_Override.xml ". These two files, (especially addins.xml) tells the game what mods you have installed. When you did the repair, it apparently installed a new version of the addins.xml with a new one, deleting all references to your installed mods. If you don't have a backup of those files, then you'll probably have to reinstall all your mods from scratch.

[Emily235]

Within "Documents\BioWare\Dragon Age\Settings\" there are a couple of files " addins.xml " and, if you're using mod manager, the other will be " DAModmanager_Override.xml ". These two files, (especially addins.xml) tells the game what mods you have installed. When you did the repair, it apparently installed a new version of the addins.xml with a new one, deleting all references to your installed mods. If you don't have a backup of those files, then you'll probably have to reinstall all your mods from scratch.

 

 

Thanks for the response! That makes a lot of sense, but I'm not sure how that works with mods that you don't have to 'install'... a lot of the mods that I have just had to be dropped into the "Dragon Age\Packages\Core\override" folder. I'm not sure why those would stop working? Unless dropping them into that folder counts as installing- but I did do a test replacement for one of the mods in that folder and that had no results.

When I look at my '\Dragon Age\Settings\' folder, I have addins.xml, and I also have ten or so addins.xml.bak.[#] folders. I assume those are backups of some kind- should I just rename the most recent one to addins.xml and use that?

I have another folder, DAModder.xml, (no DAModmanager_Override.xml though...) and that has all of the mods that I've had to actually install recorded in it still.

 

Man, I thought I had all of this modding stuff that I need to figure out figured out. Apparently not.

Thanks again!

[Emily235]

Eh- bump?

[mcgoy]

As a GUESS, Origin did the equivalent of reinstalling.

 

So you probably need to reinstall the dazip files.

 

For the files that go in the override folder, I would check to confirm that all of the folder names are correct. I don't know why mods in the override folder wouldn't work if the folder structure is corrent.

[theskymoves]

If the override mods that aren't working are cosmetic mods, the reinstall may have replaced the chargenmorphcfg.xml. If not... I'm at a loss.

[DwainDibley]

Be a pal and tell everyone how you fixed it, in case it happens to someone else....thanks.. :thumbsup:

[TheWalker2002]

How did you fix it? im currently having the same problem