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I am Turkish however the localization files should not be the problem with every single mod that people make on the steam workshop because there are Turkish mod developers whose mods I have used and experienced the exact same problems. I think problem may also be caused by having the game downloaded into a secondary drive, in my case I have C and D drives C is a low capacity SSD where windows is loaded and D is an HDD where I keep my games for the obvious reason. If I had this problem when the game was loaded on the D drive I would think that the game can not access the mod files in the Documents which is in the drive where the Windows files are so the SSD for me. However before I started having these problems the game was already moved to the C drive because I thought it would make it load faster, at first I thought it was caused because I had moved the game to the C drive from D drive where my actual steam files are located(I installed steam in the D drive so that I could load games there) so when I first bought it it was in D with no problems then I moved HOI4 and EU4 over to C to make them load faster, there was no problems for quite some time, then this problem started happening out of nowhere so I moved the games back to D drive after deleting everything related to steam from C but the problem kept happening, my guess is that Paradox Launcher was programmed so bad to the point where it gets broken beyond repair whenever you move the game files around in your computer because I have also read that moving the game where the windows files and therefore the documents are located fixes this issue although it has not fixed my game when I moved the files back to C. I am guessing that something broke when I moved the game files around earlier that is why the only thing that can solve my problem is to do a clean windows reinstallation.
Hiç kendi başına her yere descriptor.mod file kopyalamayı ya da editlemeyi falan denedin mi? Ben eskiden mod oluştur dediğimde direk hata veriyordu ama sonra launcher-settings.json'daki %USER_DOCUMENTS%'yi Documents a çevirince mod oluşturabildim lakin bu sefer de modumun descriptor file i yok hatası veriyordu. Belki o launcher-settings'te başka bir yere bağlarsan bir şeyler bulabilirsin. Ben denedim değişmedi maalesef ama belki sen bir şey bulursun.
 
Hiç kendi başına her yere descriptor.mod file kopyalamayı ya da editlemeyi falan denedin mi? Ben eskiden mod oluştur dediğimde direk hata veriyordu ama sonra launcher-settings.json'daki %USER_DOCUMENTS%'yi Documents a çevirince mod oluşturabildim lakin bu sefer de modumun descriptor file i yok hatası veriyordu. Belki o launcher-settings'te başka bir yere bağlarsan bir şeyler bulabilirsin. Ben denedim değişmedi maalesef ama belki sen bir şey bulursun.
Hiçbir şey işe yaramıyor, ya bunların launcher ı düzeltecek bi güncelleme yapmasını beklemek lazım ya da bilgisayarı komple formatlayıp windows da dahil her şeyi temiz kurmak lazım
 
English only in these forums please!
 
Having the exact same problem. In all paradox games that i own on steam. The launcher writes error message you can ignore (game still works fine) but you can not load mods, or mods don't show up in the list. Or mods are missing a descriptor file and usual silly stuff. Basically you can not play a single mod with this launcher anymore.

As far as i know someone else made the launcher and not paradox itself? Could also just be a rumor but this srsly needs a fix or a new launcher. Cause to tell you the truth the old launcher never produced this many issues ever.

Also happy new year to all of you :)
 
Having the exact same problem. In all paradox games that i own on steam. The launcher writes error message you can ignore (game still works fine) but you can not load mods, or mods don't show up in the list. Or mods are missing a descriptor file and usual silly stuff. Basically you can not play a single mod with this launcher anymore.

As far as i know someone else made the launcher and not paradox itself? Could also just be a rumor but this srsly needs a fix or a new launcher. Cause to tell you the truth the old launcher never produced this many issues ever.

Also happy new year to all of you :)
The launcher is written and maintained by Paradox staff, I can't imagine where you heard otherwise.

What launcher version do you see? Current is 2021.10.1
 
The launcher is written and maintained by Paradox staff, I can't imagine where you heard otherwise. What launcher version do you see? Current is 2021.10.1
The launcher is written and maintained by Paradox staff, I can't imagine where you heard otherwise.

What launcher version do you see? Current is 2021.10.1

As i said probably a rumor. Steam board i think. But don't quote me on that.

Yes thats the version i use. I have no idea what causes that error or mod files missing stuff when you get them from the workshop.
 
Yes thats the version i use. I have no idea what causes that error or mod files missing stuff when you get them from the workshop.
Please try the following:

- unsubscribe from all mods in BOTH the Steam Workshop and the Paradox mod site mods.paradoxplaza.com
- delete the folder Documents/Paradox Interactive/EU4/mod/
- delete the file Documents/Paradox Interactive/Eu4/mods_registry.json (if present)
- delete the file Documents/Paradox Interactive/Eu4/launcher-v2.sqlite (if present)
- run the game up and check the launcher is okay with no mod or other errors
- subscribe to a few mods

- run the game up and see if those mods are now available to you.

I hope that does it for you!
 
Please try the following:

- unsubscribe from all mods in BOTH the Steam Workshop and the Paradox mod site mods.paradoxplaza.com
- delete the folder Documents/Paradox Interactive/EU4/mod/
- delete the file Documents/Paradox Interactive/Eu4/mods_registry.json (if present)
- delete the file Documents/Paradox Interactive/Eu4/launcher-v2.sqlite (if present)
- run the game up and check the launcher is okay with no mod or other errors
- subscribe to a few mods

- run the game up and see if those mods are now available to you.

I hope that does it for you!

Thanks the game works now but the moment i install a mod the mods either do not show up or the game crashes when i try to start the game inside the mod. I guess i wait for a future update to play mods again.
 
Thanks the game works now but the moment i install a mod the mods either do not show up or the game crashes when i try to start the game inside the mod. I guess i wait for a future update to play mods again.
What antivirus app do you use? Add EU4.exe to the exceptions list of your antivirus app; ESPECIALLY if you have Windows Defender, add it to the Ransomware "Apps Allowed Through" list.
You should add steam.exe and C:/users/<UserName>/AppData/Local/Programs/Paradox Interactive/launcher-v2.2021.10.1/paradox launcher.exe to that list.
 
I had the same problem. I fixed it by manually uninstalling Paradox Launcher in Windows programs. Then launching from Steam downloaded a clean Launcher which was a bit different from previous one.
 
I had the same problem. I fixed it by manually uninstalling Paradox Launcher in Windows programs. Then launching from Steam downloaded a clean Launcher which was a bit different from previous one.
I have to do that every single time when trying to play the game. Be it EU4 or HOI4 no clue why.
As i say, this is always an antivirus app getting in the way. Avast in particular hates recent versions of our launcher; not earlier ones which is why the older launcher you get after a reinstall runs okay.
 
As i say, this is always an antivirus app getting in the way. Avast in particular hates recent versions of our launcher; not earlier ones which is why the older launcher you get after a reinstall runs okay.

Thats an issue then as i have no clue how to tell Avast to stop doing that atm. But when i get home i will try to figure it out. May i ask why some Anti Virus software behaves that way?
 
Thats an issue then as i have no clue how to tell Avast to stop doing that atm. But when i get home i will try to figure it out. May i ask why some Anti Virus software behaves that way?
You can ask, but I can't answer :) That would be up to Avast to explain why they get false positives with our software all the time.
 
anyone found a fix? i have the same issue in all my pdx games this launcher sucks
If you have the database error, I've posted the fix many times here. But here it is again:

We now have reports of this with Avast antivirus only, except just 1 report on AVG. Putting C:/users/<UserName>/AppData/Local/Programs/Paradox Interactive/launcher-v2.2021.10.1/paradox launcher.exe in all its exceptions lists, then deleting that sqlite folder one more time, seems to be fixing it reliably.

I also have one report that opting into the beta of the next launcher version 2022.1 helped.
 
no i dont have any database errors only issue i have is that my mods cannot be turned on it says "descriptor file is missing" or something
That's different then. Please try the following:

- unsubscribe from all mods in BOTH the Steam Workshop and the Paradox mod site mods.paradoxplaza.com
- delete the folder Documents/Paradox Interactive/EU4/mod/
- delete the file Documents/Paradox Interactive/EU4/mods_registry.json (if present)
- delete the file Documents/Paradox Interactive/Eu4/launcher-v2.sqlite (if present)
- run the game up and check the launcher is okay with no mod or other errors
- subscribe to a few mods

- run the game up and see if those mods are now available to you.

I hope that does it for you!
 
I have this exact same problem and done everything that offered as solution to me yet I can't play with mods. Only solution that I found was to deleting whole crusader kings 3 file in documents/paradox games for game to recreate it but this also deletes your save obviously. And before someone asking I already tried deleting launcher-v2.sqlite and mods_registry.json or cache and launcher cache files separately and it does not work. This again also solves problem for only once, after restart launcher does not see mods' descriptor files again. And lastly I have this problem for all paradox games not just Crusader Kings 3 , that and this problem getting mentioned only in this post is why I made my comment here.
 
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Only solution that I found was to deleting whole crusader kings 3 file in documents/paradox games for game to recreate it but this also deletes your save obviously.
You could just delete everything in there except the /save games/ folder. Or use Steam cloud saves.


Please try the following:

- unsubscribe from all mods in BOTH the Steam Workshop and the Paradox mod site mods.paradoxplaza.com
- delete the folder Documents/Paradox Interactive/Eu4/mod/
- delete the file Documents/Paradox Interactive/Eu4/mods_registry.json (if present)
- delete the file Documents/Paradox Interactive/Eu4/launcher-v2.sqlite (if present)
- run the game up and check the launcher is okay with no mod or other errors
- subscribe to a few mods

- run the game up and see if those mods are now available to you.

I hope that does it for you!