If there are any mods or playsets left there, remove them go to, log in with the paradox account which you use for the game and make sure that you are not subscribed to any eu4 mod there.unsubscribe from all paradox mods in the launcher.You can also try a clean reinstall as described in my guide on reddit about common startup problems with version 1.29, but do the following additional steps at the beginning: If you have avast, you have to add the launcher and eu4 to the allowed list in the ransomware shield.If you have bitdefender, add the launcher and eu4 to the list of ransomware exceptions and "give it access" to "protected files".
If you have Windows Defender(also called Microsoft Defender), add the launcher and eu4 to the Ransomware "Apps Allowed Through" list( here are instructions for that).yet the launcher never recognised the newly created mod folders even though I restarted the game severeal times in the case that It wasnt loading the newly added files yet nothing worked, It unfortunately never recognised the newly created local mod files.ĭo I understand you correctly that the local mod which you created in the launcher doesn't even show up in the "All installed mods" list in the launcher? That's really weird.ĭo you use any antivirus or ransomware protection software? Then you might have to add the launcher to the exception list of the ransomware protection component.
by unzipping the zip file inside the folder, than I tried to create a local mod folder for the mod I downloaded from the Internet and it never recognized the newly created local mod file, than I thought i needed a workshop mod so I downloaded the Steallaris UI mod, I decided to give it a go the normal way and sure enough it broke as I expected after the first reboot, anyway, I took the files from the steam workshop folder "D:/Steam/steamapps/workshop/content/236850/" and pasted them into the new local mod folder which I created in "Documents/Paradox Interactive/Europa Universalis IV/mod".
I actually never tried creating a local mod because I never understood how exactly to do it, another thing is that, if I create a new file for the mods i want to use, would I have to do the same thing every single time I download a new mod? If you can explain how exactly I can create a local mod file I will try it even if I have to do it for every single mod I subscribe to, at least then I can use mods.įirstly, I deleted "Documents/Paradox Interactive/Europa Universalis IV/launcher-v2.sqlite" and "Documents/Paradox Interactive/Europa Universalis IV/mods_registry.json" didn't exist I tried deleting the dlc json file and it unfortunately made no difference, I tried creating a local mod folder however the launcher never really detected them, first I tried downloading the files of graphical map mod and I loaded the files directly into "Documents/Paradox Interactive/Europa Universalis IV/mod". Yes, whenever I try a new fix about this problem, I always cleanly delete all the mod files after unsubscribing from them, I delete the mod files in the documents and in the steam workshop folder, then I resubscribe to the mods and like I've said before, whenever I do this, all the mods work perfectly fine for 1 time and when I close the game and turn it back on, I get the error, I am trying to understand what may be causing the launcher to start not seeing the descriptor file after a single reboot, maybe the launcher somehow expects the descriptor file to be moved to somewhere else after the first reboot after the installation of the mod? I really can't get my head around this If anyone has had this problem before and solved it I really appreciate it if you can share how you solved it. I think this could be related to one of the latest launcher updates but I am not so sure. PS: I played hoi4 for 800 hours and it functioned perfectly fine with a couple of mod errors here and there which could be solved by clean reinstallation of the mods, same goes for EU4, I have played it for 300 hours and this problem started occuring only lately, it was fine when i first bought it for 150 200 hours or so. Whenever I download a mod, from steam workshop or from Paradox website, the mods just work without a problem however, once I restart the game mods start not working and giving the ''Mod Descriptor File Missing'' error, I get this error on HOI4 and EU4, I also tried the clean reinstallation of the games at least 3 times now, I tried seperately deleting and reinstalling the launchers of the games, I have tried almost everything that can be found online but nothing has worked