Mods Issue: Dragon Age Inquisition

[IyasuQueen]

Hey, guys. Never posted here before, almost forgot there was a forum.

 

I have a little problem.

 

So, I decided I wanted to play DAI again. I downloaded some mods, made sure I had the latest version of Frosty, and booted up the game. Everything was fine until I noticed some enemies did not spawn like they normally do on the snowy little bank where Cassandra usually says something along the lines of, "Up there, on the hill!" I thought, huh, that was weird, but didn't think it wasn't a big deal and kept going.

 

Then, I noticed Cassandra was not following me up the steps toward the area in the prologue where you're supposed to meet Varric and Solas. You know that fight scene? I thought, okay, maybe she's lost and she'll pop back up once I trigger the scene, and took the steps by myself. But when arrived, there was... nothing there. No fighting NPCs, no building in the background. The event did not trigger at all. I found that I could actually move past that area and wander around until I was out of bounds and the game booted me back to an area farther away.

 

Has this ever happened to anyone? I tried deactivating all of my mods, refreshing the game in Origin, and then applying them one by one to see what the problem was. The thing is, it's just so difficult to tell which one is causing the problem because the issues don't start until I'm fairly well into the prologue. I'll list my mods here. Hopefully someone might recognize something that typically causes issues. I've used several of these mods together in the past with no problems, but a few of them are new to me--mostly cosmetic. One mod that I've never used before is the Misc. hair mod.

 

Edit: I'm beginning to wonder if it has anything to do with the Solas hair mod. I found it on the mod creator's blog. Since this particular cut scene would be the first encounter I would have with Solas, it's possible it's causing my game to crash.

 

Edit: I've disabled those mods (I missed one) and the buildings returned, but the cut scene did not trigger and there were no NPCs fighting in the area. Cassandra said nothing when I went up the steps, and there were no enemies on the bank.

 

Edit: So, I went back and disabled that mod I missed. It was from the same creator, just a different mod for Solas. After disabling it, things started triggering as normal, monsters were on the bank, and I'm guessing the cut scene will trigger too. Off to find a new mod.

Edited September 2, 2020 by IyasuQueen

[Pickysaurus]

Dragon Age Inquisition is not currently supported by Vortex (this is the Vortex support forum).

 

I will move your thread to the DAI forums.

[Dmitrias]

For future reference, daimod retextures can go kinda wonk (VERY wonk sometimes and mess up the game a lot) if you load them through frosty mod manager instead of dai mod manager. I've had the same happen with textures before. Had saves corrupted by it completely. x_x Some daimod retextures can be okay, others not so much. So try to load fbmod retextures through frosty where you can.

 

(saying this as I read the whole post and did not see which mod was specified to be causing the issue so I thought I'd just make a general comment on what could cause issues like that)

 

oh, actually went back and read that "Solas" part - yeah, Solas outfit textures do noooooot play well with frosty, if you were loading any of those. at all. unfortunately. D:

Edited September 2, 2020 by Dmitrias

[IyasuQueen]

Dragon Age Inquisition is not currently supported by Vortex (this is the Vortex support forum).

 

I will move your thread to the DAI forums.

 

Thanks Picky, you're right. Sorry about that.

 

 

For future reference, daimod retextures can go kinda wonk (VERY wonk sometimes and mess up the game a lot) if you load them through frosty mod manager instead of dai mod manager. I've had the same happen with textures before. Had saves corrupted by it completely. x_x Some daimod retextures can be okay, others not so much. So try to load fbmod retextures through frosty where you can.

 

(saying this as I read the whole post and did not see which mod was specified to be causing the issue so I thought I'd just make a general comment on what could cause issues like that)

 

oh, actually went back and read that "Solas" part - yeah, Solas outfit textures do noooooot play well with frosty, if you were loading any of those. at all. unfortunately. D:

Yup, I've learned my lesson on that. Everything else is running smoothly! I found a new Solas mod, so I can play the game again. Thanks for the tips!