Sphere of Influence DLC not activating

[diecicatorce]

I bought Sphere of Influence and all the other DLCs in that bundle some weeks back.
Both Steam and the launcher show ALL DLCs bought, installed and enabled, but when the game opens, both Sphere of Influence and Melodies for the Masses are unavailable as if I didn't buy either of them, locking me out of the Great Game and all other content after having paid for it. All the other DLCs are working fine.
Tried disabling and re-enabling them, problem persists. Tried checking game files, problem still persists. Please help.

 

[AndrewT]

Firstly make sure you are in the current patch 1.7.1 as that DLC will not work in earlier game versions.

If that is not the issue,
Please do a full clean re-install:

- move any valued save games elsewhere
- "uninstall" in Steam-Vic3
- manually delete both the Steam/SteamApps/common/Victoria3 AND Documents/Paradox Interactive/Victoria3 folders
- re-install game in Steam, run a Steam Verify when done.
- add Victoria3.exe to the exceptions list of your antivirus app; ESPECIALLY if you have Windows Defender, add it to the Ransomware "Apps Allowed Through" list.
- start the game with no mods active and test

In particular make sure there are no files or folders left under either the Steam Victoria3 or Documents Victoria3 locations, before installing again.

Good luck!

 

[diecicatorce]

Hi, I opened a ticket yesterday describing the issue and they told me to restart Steam and check file integrity but it didn't work. I saw another post with a similar issue from like a year ago and followed the steps of uninstalling, deleting folders in steamapps/common, documents and appdata, then reinstalling. Took all night because internet is very slow. Didn't have to change anything in Windows Defender. Now everything works as it should, thank you for your time