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Holman4672
5 years ago
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Frosty Mod Engine "One or more symbolic links could not be created"

Hi all, So recently re-installed MAE and went to install some mods this time around on the Frosty Mod Engine. However, when going to launch the game through the mod launcher it initially throws up a...
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    Holman4672
    5 years ago

    @veniino So unfortunately for me the issue turned out to be that the drive the game and mod launcher were installed on, is formatted in the exFAT type of format, which doesn't support the symbolic links that the frosty mod engine creates. And seeing as I don't want to delete all my other stuff on the drive just to play MEA, I am out of luck. Might be a similar issue for you?

Holman4672's avatar
Holman4672
5 years ago

@veniino So unfortunately for me the issue turned out to be that the drive the game and mod launcher were installed on, is formatted in the exFAT type of format, which doesn't support the symbolic links that the frosty mod engine creates. And seeing as I don't want to delete all my other stuff on the drive just to play MEA, I am out of luck. Might be a similar issue for you?

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Stargazer_ID
5 years ago

I'm having a similar issue with Mirror's Edge Catalyst, except there is no error message after hitting 'Launch', just nothing happens afterward. That game application appears in the Processes of Task Manager for a second, then disappears. My drives the mod manager and game are on are NTFS also, so it can't just be an exFAT issue. I don't know if you ever found a fix for this problem, but looking around, a number of people had FMM break and not launch any games for them after the Windows 10 2004 update. I don't know if this is a related to the exact same problem you are having, but just putting it out there. Have seen fixes for the same problem with FIFA19 with remote dll's, but haven't seen them for other games.

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    Xx4l3x4nd3rxX
    2 years ago

    delete mod data from the game golder also delete the cache from mod manager and delete frosty from %localappdata% and then try to add the mods again,if the issue persists then maybe a datapathfix should be added.

    • 2kAmbitions's avatar
      2kAmbitions
      8 months ago
      im having this issue after returning to mass effect how would i do a datapathfix like u mentioned?

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