{HELP} Steam unsubscribed mods still showing in launcher?

[tactfulgamer]

I am baffled by this and wanted to know if anyone here understands why this is occuring?

When I unsubscribe from my Skyrim mods, they leave with no residue behind. Unfortunately, not the case here.


One of the mods (not sure which) as I'm trying to unscribe one by one to find which mod is creating these extra [brackets] overlayed above my other mods, making it difficult to uncheck or check mods situated directly underneath these transparent bracket overlays, for if, I accidently click on the free floating bracket, it activates and makes all my other mods disappear. Forcing me to shut down the launcher and open it again.

Also, one of these mods is crashing my game in my (what I assume is) early mid game - Star Date: 2231.07.01 --- My save from this date just freezes and crashes my system after 6 seconds in or so.

My Laptop Specs:
MSI GT80S 6QF
Dual Geforce 980 SLI (8G DDR 5)
1TB 7200RPM+ 512SSD (Super Raid)
Ram: DDR4 32GB (8GB *4)
18.4 Screen 1080p
Windows 10 64bit

Somebody help please. Thank you.

 

[InfiniteGremlin]

I haven't had this problem, but you could probably fix it by removing them manually. Go to your Documents folder and look for the "Paradox Interactive/Stellaris/mods" and "Paradox Interactive/Stellaris/workshop" folders. The mods you download from the workshop are kept in the /workshop folder. The .mod files that control if they show up in the launcher are in the /mods folder. (They're just text files, you can open them with Notepad or whatever.)

Make a folder somewhere and move all of the .mod files from the /mods folder, and then add them back one-by-one to see which is causing the issue.

 

[Kepos]

The transparent overlay brackets are caused from more then 4 mods using a specific code-frame. Should be fixed in one of the next patches, I guess. So it isn't caused by any mod itself and you can't find out which one...except you check coding.

As for launcher...well, it isn't the fastest tool ever. Had similar problems and was forced to shut down and start the launcher several times to find out about.
Crashed game is uncommon. I had this, when using different mods then the game is using. You have to be sure which mods you've used for your game. Best is to start with a small ammount of mods, so you could remind.

Had this problem with EUIV mod games quite the same. I'd vote to get a overlay on savegame files to show which mods are used and preferable to choose them to check them in from there.

 

[daz96050]

You can remove them from the launcher simply by removing the folder and the associated ".mod" file that goes with it

 

[dskod1]

If you delete both your mod folder and your workshop folder, in ".../documents/paradox interactive/stellaris" folder, Steam will re download only the mods you are subscribed to.

 

[tactfulgamer]

Very helpful all of you. Thank you. I usually mod with mod organizer and Nexus mod manager for my Witcher 3 and Skyrim games.

So when it's comes to me manually checking files - still learning on that front. Your suggestions on what to do manually really helps for future awareness.

Regarding my problem:
It took until the next day for the unsubscribed mods to remove themselves from the launcher as well as the phantom bracket overlays.

No more crashes either

Problem was solved. Culprit turned out to be the predator mod

Will slowly one by one add in the rest I had removed to see how it goes.

Too bad I liked the predator showing up as a race.

 

[themrwho]

Very helpful all of you. Thank you. I usually mod with mod organizer and Nexus mod manager for my Witcher 3 and Skyrim games.

So when it's comes to me manually checking files - still learning on that front. Your suggestions on what to do manually really helps for future awareness.

Regarding my problem:
It took until the next day for the unsubscribed mods to remove themselves from the launcher as well as the phantom bracket overlays.

No more crashes either

Problem was solved. Culprit turned out to be the predator mod

Will slowly one by one add in the rest I had removed to see how it goes.

Too bad I liked the predator showing up as a race.

Once you "Unsubscribe" from a mod in your Steam, to force Steam Workshop to immediately re-sync your local files on your computer, you can go to Steam > Preferences > Downloads > Download region, and change it to some other region.
Keeping Country the same, simply changing the Download Region city usually does the trick for me (however in one instance I had to change the country as well as changing city did not do the job).
Then Steam will prompt you MUST RESTART FOR THIS CHANGE - SHALL WE RESTART NOW?, click YES.

After the restart, launch Stellaris from inside Steam to have the Stellaris Launcher on your screen (do not click on PLAY).
At that moment, Steam Workshop background synchronization process should kick in & immediately start re-syncing.
Do not click PLAY, just leave the Launcher on screen and allow it to work 10-20 seconds and you should be all in sync with your Steam profile.

Hope this helps.


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On another note, since you mention Mod Organizer (MO) I can't help but talk about it because I love it!
As you probably know MO is not designed as a general purpose mod management utility, in fact it is designed specifically only 4 Bethesda Studios games (Oblivion, Fallout 3, Fallout NV and Skyrim).
It doesn't support anything else.
But since I am in love with it (love at first launch by the way) I want to use it for any game that uses mods. I use it for KSP, Orbiter, Stellaris.
So yes, if you are able and willing to jump a lot of hoops, it is possible to use Mod Organizer with Stellaris and almost any game.

If anyone is interested, I can post more (nerd level) information how to make MO work with other games.