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Game won't launch. Please help!
CharlieOllie1108
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A few days ago I purchased three packs for my birthday, but didn't install them into my game just yet. After doing so, I tried launching the game and it threw an error up saying:
"Unable to start:
Cannot start because game data is missing or damaged. If you have Mods installed please remove them and try again. If not, please repair or reinstall the game via Origin."
I do have mods that I try to keep updated. I removed them and then tried to launch the game again with success. I just would very much like to play with my mods and never had any issues with them before.
I also deleted the broken/conflicted cc and did another scan to make sure no viruses were present as well as any other broken cc I may have missed during the cc purge. None was found. I also updated my drives and did a repair (or two) on the game just in case. I tried to cover all my bases on what the problem may be.
I put the mods folder back where it was and launched the game again to no avail. I don't know what the culprit is on why all of a sudden my game won't launch properly. I don't know if it's the latest update, not installing the packs I purchased that is conflicting with the update, or what.
If anyone has any ideas on what the issue is and how to fix it properly, please let me know. I would greatly appreciate it!
Thank you so much in advance!!
"Unable to start:
Cannot start because game data is missing or damaged. If you have Mods installed please remove them and try again. If not, please repair or reinstall the game via Origin."
I do have mods that I try to keep updated. I removed them and then tried to launch the game again with success. I just would very much like to play with my mods and never had any issues with them before.
I also deleted the broken/conflicted cc and did another scan to make sure no viruses were present as well as any other broken cc I may have missed during the cc purge. None was found. I also updated my drives and did a repair (or two) on the game just in case. I tried to cover all my bases on what the problem may be.
I put the mods folder back where it was and launched the game again to no avail. I don't know what the culprit is on why all of a sudden my game won't launch properly. I don't know if it's the latest update, not installing the packs I purchased that is conflicting with the update, or what.
If anyone has any ideas on what the issue is and how to fix it properly, please let me know. I would greatly appreciate it!
Thank you so much in advance!!
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If it's not the mods, you can always try doing a reset of your folder in case if the problem is in there.
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I didn't weed them out one by one...yet. I ended up using ModConflict mod that scans everything and highlights the broken ones. I can try to go through them one by one so I can safely say I tried everything.
I honestly didn't know you can reset the folder like that. I'll try that as well.
It's just odd that all of this happened right after I bought the packs. Just could be a weird happenstance.
Thank you so much again for the advice!
The only actual mods I have/had were mostly fan made ones like Pufferhead Stuff Pack, Stellar Stuff Pack, and Witches & Warlocks Mod. I removed the latter one before I purchased Realm of Magic. The rest is just hair, skin, clothes, etc. cc.
Oh thank you!
I was able to fix the issue. I scanned and tested each CC/Mod two by two and found the files (two out of a little over a thousand files) that were causing the issue. Yay! Thank you all for the help and suggestions!!