Will EA desktop be compatible with Frosty Mod Manager in the future? Seems not working at the moment.Thank you in advance

I've been needing to learn how to do actual programming other than batch and html and stuff so I decided to learn some basic C# and made a simple program to replace the batch file: https://github.com/Dulana57/FrostyFix It includes MEA and BF1 aswell as both Battlefronts. Also has support to search for a game directory yourself so theoretically it should work with any other game that frosty supports

I got it working with Mass Effect: Andromeda! Pastebin here: https://pastebin.com/9Nw7ekL9

@CarbonCarl If that would be true, then it wouldn't have stopped working out of nowhere. For me, it seems like a problem with the Steam to Origin complement. Game developers should be more mindful with their game's modding community since it what makes the game live longer than it could. I only bought Mass Effect Andromeda because I played with mods once, at my friend's house, and i found some them indispensable, some which fixes things EA left unattended. Bethesda for an instance, created a whole new edition fully optimized for mods, for a game that got into the history of video gaming. Anyway, just thought i'd share the thought.

@JoeyAGamerSorry for the late reply.EA doesn't actually support any mods for any of their games, they allow mods on some games but don't support them.I agree that it would be nice to implement something for mods exactly like you mentioned with Bethesda etc, that way you would get fully compatible mods at all times.Right now if a game is updated then it's down to the mod developer to update their mods so it continues to work as intended. But it's not down to EA to notify them and offer any support.But yes, mod support would be great.

EA Desktop doesn't support running games with CMD line args (which is a larger issue that not only affects modding games on the platform), so the only way is to set the modded datapath for the game in env variables.Myself and a couple other modders made a batch file to enable/disable the env variable: https://pastebin.com/raw/JfudJp8Z (you can open any text editor such as notepad, paste this, and name it "anything".bat. By default it will be saved as a .txt file)

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Tommysonic5
New Traveler
5 years ago
I got it working with Mass Effect: Andromeda! Pastebin here: https://pastebin.com/9Nw7ekL9
JabbaHamst3r
5 years ago
Wow thanks for the fast reply, but sadly it's not working for me.
- Andromeda - installed via EA Desktop
- Frosty MM - installed
- Your .bat is saved in my MEA folder
- i run FMM as admin, check the mods and load order and click play on the modmanger.
Everything works, the game starts, Mod folder in my Game folder pops up, ...but no mods in game.

What are your steps to get it to work?
Thanks.
Tommysonic5
New Traveler
5 years ago
@JabbaHamst3r wrote:
Wow thanks for the fast reply, but sadly it's not working for me.
- Andromeda - installed via EA Desktop
- Frosty MM - installed
- Your .bat is saved in my MEA folder
- i run FMM as admin, check the mods and load order and click play on the modmanger.
Everything works, the game starts, Mod folder in my Game folder pops up, ...but no mods in game.

What are your steps to get it to work?
Thanks.
Hey! So I just followed the steps from the pastebin, they are still there. If you can see the ModData folder in ME:A folder then FMM already got admin rights and set up the mod folder, so it should work fine after running the BAT file. It doesn't matter where you put the BAT file and you should only run it each time you want to enable/disable mods or switch games, so I have it on my desktop. But after running the BAT and using the new option I added (4), waiting for the box to close itself, I restarted my PC as suggested in the pastebin. Then went straight to FMM and launched from there. Did you run the BAT with option 4?
JabbaHamst3r
5 years ago
It works! Thanks!!!! 🙌
MrKn4rz
5 years ago
Thank you so much!
Dyviniaa
5 years ago
I've been needing to learn how to do actual programming other than batch and html and stuff so I decided to learn some basic C# and made a simple program to replace the batch file: https://github.com/Dulana57/FrostyFix
It includes MEA and BF1 aswell as both Battlefronts. Also has support to search for a game directory yourself so theoretically it should work with any other game that frosty supports
LFMEIDA
5 years ago
works for FIFA 20?
sjr1214
5 years ago
hi, is this .bat safe or idk man i am kinda weary about doing * like this lol im just worried about my pc
Contraspontanus
5 years ago
Yeah, not having CMD line args has completely broken Dragon Age: Inquision. Without command lines, big portions of the game are locked to 30 FPS.
oAmarilha
New Novice
5 years ago
@LFMEIDA So far I have no news about this too, I can't add mods with this steps for FIFA 20, I was asking in other posts about this and for a while no one knows about FIFA too.

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