JKDC Posted October 21, 2012 Share Posted October 21, 2012 Why does Steam reset my Xcom mods? Every time I mod the exe with any of the big balance mods Steam does a "completing installation" and resets everything. If I make it read only I can't run the game at all. I checked the exe with HxD to make sure it modded the file. If I mod one or two things myself it works okay like second wave or sectoid health. Is nobody else having this problem? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oubliette Posted October 21, 2012 Share Posted October 21, 2012 Tell steam to stop auto updating your game and keep a copy of your modded exe file saved in a safe place just in case it still does. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JKDC Posted October 21, 2012 Author Share Posted October 21, 2012 (edited) I set it to not update and tried it again and it still did it. But I then did some other things in Steam and it works now. Strange. All I did was set a new download region without restarting steam and then copied the modded exe to the saves directory and now it works. Thanks for your input. Edited October 21, 2012 by JKDC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Perraine Posted October 21, 2012 Share Posted October 21, 2012 I found starting the game from a desktop shortcut, rather than from within the steam UI avoided this problem ... Might work for you ... The only other problem I've incurred, is every time I modify the .exe, Zone Alarm pops up sayin the x-com .exe is behaving suspiciously ... Obviously the "modpatcher" creates a new (different hash ?) on the .exe so Zone Alarm thinks it's a different file EVERY DAMN TIME ... But I can live with it, as alt-tab'ing doesn't seem to bother x-com all that much ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dreadylein Posted October 21, 2012 Share Posted October 21, 2012 @perraine sorry not much i can do about that i guess :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SinisterSlay Posted October 22, 2012 Share Posted October 22, 2012 I am having the same problem, but with every mod. Steam keeps replacing the EXE with an unmodded one.How can I fix this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlyingHigh10000000 Posted October 22, 2012 Share Posted October 22, 2012 (edited) Having the same problem over here. Using a desktop shortcut instead didn't fix the problem. So far I've tried: Turning off automatic updatesDesktop shortcut Yet it seems no matter what, Steam insists on "completing installation" and ends up replacing my modified exe with the original one, making it impossible to do any sort of modification. Makes me wonder what idiot decided it would be a good idea for steam to force what it thinks is the "correct" version of the game onto a customer, no matter what the customer actually wants. Edited October 22, 2012 by FlyingHigh10000000 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackAlpha Posted October 22, 2012 Share Posted October 22, 2012 (edited) I'm guessing something is messed up in the Steam config files. It shouldn't do this unless something is wrong with the files or Steam itself. Try to: 1. Uninstall the game.2. Restart Steam. 3. Install the game.4. Restart Steam.5. Run the game, start a mission, quit game.6. Restart Steam.7. Install mod.8. Restart Steam.9. Run the game. See what happens. Edited October 22, 2012 by BlackAlpha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SinisterSlay Posted October 22, 2012 Share Posted October 22, 2012 I found if I hack it myself, it works. But I also noticed other hacked EXE's are a different size after modpatcher finishes with them, but when I reshack them, the size remains the same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlyingHigh10000000 Posted October 23, 2012 Share Posted October 23, 2012 Got it working by deleting both the backup and modded exe, verifying the game cache, then running the game once, before using Modpatcher. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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