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Okay! Thanks. I'll do that. If no reply by the end of the day Friday, I'll post again here, and if we still don't have any luck, I'll try calling on Monday. :)
Thanks for your help! :)

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Found another bug: the roman culture doesn't have a cultural building available in castles.
Also, a lot of the heresies aren't at all accurate. For example, Druze irl is monogamist; in CK2, it's polygamist.

I've patched these with some custom modding on my computer, but thought I'd go ahead and mention them here as well, since I've already reported some other bugs here and Paradox is hopefully going to be reading this over.
 
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Hello,
same problem here. I played the game witch patch 1.10 i think, started as muslim ruler. I've got almost all DLC's. Everything went fine by the time. Now, after some weeks not playing, with patch 1.111, it doesn't detect any of the DLC's, in "dlc".
So, I tried to reinstall CK2. Now the folder is called "DLC", but againt, the game loads but fails to detect the DLC's.
Great.
If I found a solution, I'll tell you. Let us know if you find something.
 
I've not gotten a response yet. :\
Should I give it another week? Resubmit the help ticket? Do something else?

EDIT: I just saw your post :p Don't worry; I promise I'll post any solutions I find. :) So far the only one that sort of works is just extracting the DLC zip folders into the main directory. This won't work for expansions like TOG, but it works for graphical changes (like the portraits and improved army appearances). Also, the 'dlc' folder should ALWAYS be lowercase, and the folder for mods in the user directory should be 'mod'. Don't bother with symlinks; the game doesn't seem to like them.
Your mention of things working on 1.10 makes me wonder if this isn't a regression. I'm going to try installing that patch at some point, if I can find it.
Agustinalarcon, if you don't mind, would you be willing to mention here (https://paradox.zendesk.com/requests/25912) that you have this issue as well? It might help draw Paradox's attention to it.
 
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Hello again
Ok, don't know exactly how, but all seems to be working again :confused:
What did I do ? No clue. I was a bit tired and I was doing two or three things at the same time.. Just to let you know, it works for me with "dlc" and not "DLC".
I would like to help you by telling you how I managed to get it working, but I really don't know. I think it may be after trying to launch the game within Steam with "-forcedlc". But now it's no longer necessary.
I'm launching the game now via the Qt Launcher and all works perfectly.
Good luck... and if I can do something or test somthing to help you.. let me know.
 
Thank you! :)
I'll give the QT launcher another go, I suppose. Paradox finally got back to me, but they seem to have confused mods and DLC. Still, I'm going to try following their advice and load my DLC's as if they were mods.

UPDATE: No luck with the QT launcher.
UPDATE: No luck with the advice from Paradox.
UPDATE: It also doesn't work without a launcher.
 
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Same thing here, I came to post about it and then found your thread. At least Im not alone in this.

Back when I was using mint linux and CK2 was on an earlier version, all DLCs I own where active and worked normally.

Then I switched to Chakra linux (arch-based), on the same computer. I also bought Old Gods DLC and in the meantime CK2 got a bunch of new patches, so I cant tell what change really caused the issue.

In any case, I cant get DLCs to work anymore, they do show up on steam normally, but wont be active within the game.

Some things I tried:

- renaming "dlc" directory: mine was already lowercased, but I renamed it to something else and back to "dlc" (it does not makes any sense, but Ive seen people reporting that it worked for then);

- "verify cache" in steam;

- uninstalled and installed the game again, a few times, always manually deleting the paradox directory in Documents;

- chmod -R 777 in all game folders;

- running the game as root;

Nothing makes any difference: CK2 loads normally, but no DLCs are activated. Dont know what else to try.

It is nice that paradox are porting their games to linux, but it would be even nicer if they offered some support for we to get it working.
 
These are community support forums. To get support from Paradox themselves you need to log a ticket at paradox.zendesk.com , as the OP has. The more people that do that, the more likely something will happen on it, I suspect.
 
Ellas_Maluco, I'm glad I'm not alone, either :s
Please link to my ticket in your ticket (https://paradox.zendesk.com/requests/25912), and give me the url to yours so I can link to it in my ticket. We'll make them blatantly connected.

EDIT: and here's another ticket which reports the same thing, but with poor English: https://paradox.zendesk.com/entries...rt-after-reinstall-steam?page=1#post_24030163

EDIT: Also, AndrewT, is there any chance you could remind Youcke that he's still assigned to me, or perhaps even elevate our support tickets?

EDIT: Oh, and Elias, a few DLC's will work if you extract them into the game's main directory. Not big ones like The Old Gods, but the little graphical changes will work. It's sort of a hacksy solution, but it at least works a little.

EDIT: oh, and Elias, one more thing: assuming you to be Greek with English as a second language (I assume Greek based on your name), I thought I'd help you out with a minor grammatical issue. In the sentence "if they offered some support for we to get it working", 'we' should be 'us', since it is in a prepositional phrase started by 'for'. So, the best way to write this piece would be: "if they offered some support for us to get it working". I'm not sure if modern Greek has a lot of case, but just remember that unless a word is the subject (nominative) or genitive, it should be in the objective (accusative / dative / etc) case. 'we' is nominative, and 'us' is objective. Prepositional phrases always use the objective in English.
I hope this helps! :) I am an avid learner of other languages myself, so I totally understand those random mistakes. :)
 
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Maiya78 said:
EDIT: Also, AndrewT, is there any chance you could remind Youcke that he's still assigned to me, or perhaps even elevate our support tickets?
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I'm not a Paradox employee, just a lowly forum moderator volunteer. I have no more access to people like him, or the support ticket system, than you do, sorry.
 
Maiya78 said:
Ellas_Maluco, I'm glad I'm not alone, either :s
Please link to my ticket in your ticket (https://paradox.zendesk.com/requests/25912), and give me the url to yours so I can link to it in my ticket. We'll make them blatantly connected.

EDIT: and here's another ticket which reports the same thing, but with poor English: https://paradox.zendesk.com/entries...rt-after-reinstall-steam?page=1#post_24030163

EDIT: Also, AndrewT, is there any chance you could remind Youcke that he's still assigned to me, or perhaps even elevate our support tickets?

EDIT: Oh, and Elias, a few DLC's will work if you extract them into the game's main directory. Not big ones like The Old Gods, but the little graphical changes will work. It's sort of a hacksy solution, but it at least works a little.

EDIT: oh, and Elias, one more thing: assuming you to be Greek with English as a second language (I assume Greek based on your name), I thought I'd help you out with a minor grammatical issue. In the sentence "if they offered some support for we to get it working", 'we' should be 'us', since it is in a prepositional phrase started by 'for'. So, the best way to write this piece would be: "if they offered some support for us to get it working". I'm not sure if modern Greek has a lot of case, but just remember that unless a word is the subject (nominative) or genitive, it should be in the objective (accusative / dative / etc) case. 'we' is nominative, and 'us' is objective. Prepositional phrases always use the objective in English.
I hope this helps! :) I am an avid learner of other languages myself, so I totally understand those random mistakes. :)
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Here is mine: https://paradox.zendesk.com/requests/26904

Ive read above about that trick you used to get some DLCs working, but I dont own (or care about) any of the graphical changes DLCs, What I really want is to play ToG, which I bought but never even tried yet.

And thank you for the english tips (you are right that english is not my primary language, but Im actually brazilian) :)
 
AndrewT said:
I'm not a Paradox employee, just a lowly forum moderator volunteer. I have no more access to people like him, or the support ticket system, than you do, sorry.
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Oh, okay. :)
It was worth a go :p

Since it doesn't seem like Paradox is interested in helping us solve this issue, if it's no trouble, could you continue to offer assistance in the meantime? :3
 
Elias_Maluco said:
Back when I was using mint linux and CK2 was on an earlier version, all DLCs I own where active and worked normally.
Then I switched to Chakra linux (arch-based), on the same computer. ... In any case, I cant get DLCs to work anymore, they do show up on steam normally, but wont be active within the game.
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Elias, do you think this might be a problem specific to Arch Linux? I know we basically just use a repackaged version of the Ubuntu Steam binary. If I get a chance, I'll install a Ubuntu derivative onto my other computer and install CK2 onto it. If it works, I'll try copying the dir's over to my Arch box and see what that does. Perhaps it's a Steam issue instead of a CK2 issue.

Then again, it might be that it's a regression in a newer version. Both you and Agustina reported DLC's to have worked on an earlier version. When I get the chance, I'll give the version Agustina mentioned a go; if it works, it will certainly help narrow down the problem.
 
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Maiya78 said:
Elias, do you think this might be a problem specific to Arch Linux? I know we basically just use a repackaged version of the Ubuntu Steam binary. If I get a chance, I'll install a Ubuntu derivative onto my other computer and install CK2 onto it. If it works, I'll try copying the dir's over to my Arch box and see what that does. Perhaps it's a Steam issue instead of a CK2 issue.

Then again, it might be that it's a regression in a newer version. Both you and Agustina reported DLC's to have worked on an earlier version. When I get the chance, I'll give the version Agustina mentioned a go; if it works, it will certainly help narrow down the problem.
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It is possible, since I didnt had this issue in Mint (debian-based). Please report back if you make any progress.
 
Elias_Maluco said:
I got a response to my ticket: they say I should post it in the forums (here)
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Well that's no good, let see if I can find out what's going on there. Can I get the full text of their reply please?

Meanwhile, it is looking like this is an issue with the specific Linux distro Arch, is that right? I can report a bug on that basis, but given that Ubuntu is the only specifically supported platform I don't like the chances of it going anywhere ...
 
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