Origins Broke My DAO Mod list, again.

Disable automatic game updates in the Origin preferences and this should no longer happen.

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@ninjadeadbeard wrote:
I want to be able to get my save back

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Are you saying this damages your save files? Normally the save files should run fine once you've re-enabled all the missing mods. Even if you don't, you can sometimes manage to load your save after clicking the 'force load' button.

I'm saying that when I try to reload the game, it thinks my mods are missing and asks if I want to 'force load'. Which is bad since my mods will all be lost when I do so (this has happened before). In fact, it makes the game very unstable. Uninstalling and reinstalling the mods doesn't help. I'm going to have to restart the same playthrough, again.

UPDATE:

Tried to Force Load. Resuming from the last save crashes the game, but loading from before that seems okay, except the mods are gone even after reinstalling them.

@ninjadeadbeard ;  First, The Nexus Mod Manager never supported DAO at all.  The Nexus' new "Vortex" manager purported to, originally, but it doesn't really.  And they've recently stopped claiming it does.

Second, it's really not EA's problem that you've got a non-standard installation environment, much less that your totally unofficial and unsupported mods don't work in it.

But leaving all that aside, uninstall the Steam copy and see if that doesn't fix things. 😇

And unless you explicitly told one of the installs to do something unusual, an "uninstall" (Steam or Origin) doesn't touch your "Saves" folder, and both versions use the same one!  So you won't lose those regardless of which version you keep.

[EDIT:  Personally, I recommend using the DAO ModManager (DAMM) to handle mods.]

@ThandalNLyman I mean, I’ve never had a problem using NMM before this. Also, it’s not EA’s problem, but for an older game this really is one of the few places I can get answers due to the sort of players hanging abouts. 

And Un/Reinstalling one or both versions doesn’t seem to change anything. I’m resigned to my fate at this point. Thank you for the response. 

@ninjadeadbeard; For issues with mods, you're more likely to get help on a site dedicated to modding, (like "Nexus Mods") than here