I have updated my game, the hot fix of March 18th, and my game still doesn't launch with cc installed. I still get the message "Failed to launch game" when cc is installed.
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I'm on PC. I had the original update then the hotfix. Gone through all suggestions. Including launching without lashes which doesn't work. My game launches without CC and mods no issues. It will launch inconsistently when I attempt to put mods or CC back in. I haven't been able to successfully do 50/50 method with all my mods/CC (70gb). It doesn't seem to have any kind of pattern. What will launch with some CC, then when I add more it won't. Even when I remove what I added it then still won't allow me to launch. Even though I was able launch before adding in more CC.
I'm on DX11, not using memory boost.
89Krittle Thank you for the memory boost info. That seems to be consistent with some other reports, at least as far as player settings are concerned. My testing has also concluded that it's not the CC files that are broken. I believe this is going to turn out to somehow be related to folders, but it's complicated -- I couldn't replicate it when I was working to clarify that this wasn't something modders needed to be the ones to fix.
Please try this set of steps:
- rename your user folder (the one Mods is inside of). I usually also drag it to my desktop.
- start the game and exit to create a new user folder
- Copy CC files over but don't copy the folders. Instead, make new folders manually.
I have tried regenerating a new mods folder and copying cc files both directly into the mods folder with the scripts AND into brand new folders. It’s still not working. Plus I’ve tried all of the fixes below.
I sort my cc/mods by creator not usually more than folder deep so when I add it back in I am not always sure it's just CC or mods, which is why I am unsure if it's both in my case. Last night (not long after my post) I removed a bunch of CC/mods and got my folder down to 23.2GB and tried to launch with mods and CC that had allowed me to launch the game previously. I still got the failed to launch error, I didn't count how many times as I saw reports of people who kept trying and got on eventually, then my game actually launched and I was able to play it but not with my whole folder only 23.2GB of its original contents. I haven't tried to load up yet this morning, but I will try what you have suggested and see if I can load and get the game to launch with everything or if I continue to have issues.
Okay so I tried this.
Tried to launch what loaded last night and it worked before doing as you suggested. I still did what you suggested after making sure the game loaded with the 23.2GB of mods/cc it did previously. So I had files I knew would load to test with (combination of mods and cc).
Able to launch with newly generated folder no modsable to launch when I copy in tray files
Able to load when I copy save files
loaded cc/mods only from ones that I was able to load up previously one folder at a time and launch the game after each folder. Creating the folders and copying in the files as advised. Failed to launch on the same creator twice and on the third time the game loaded. I have had success with this particular creator in other attempts. Which is why I was using the ones that loaded previously. But my folder size was only at 3.41GB this time when I had the failure to launch.
Edit: Closed game and added in the next creator. Failed to launch. Removed creator, still failed to launch. Removed the previous creator still failed to launch 4 times. Each time I deleted the resource file and refreshed the EA app. I waited 5mins now the games launched.
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