Question about modding and switching back to vanilla

[Doc56767]

So I enjoy modding my game. I am gonna play a new game with some friends and it is going to be vanilla (their computer couldn't handle the mods.) Now I was having this problem last night where I disabled all my mods on vortex but my friend wasn't able to join my game. I knew I edited some other files within the steam folders so I was wondering if I made a duplicate folder of the normal base game stuff that I edited and a vanilla folder could I just exchange the two folders when I launch the game for modded and vanilla?

I don't want to have an entire second download of this game just because its so large. The folders I was planning on grabbing is the bin, mods, and maybe some others if I notice they are edited. Will this work? Am I over complicating things? I need advice.

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by Doc56767:

Question about modding and switching back to vanilla
So I enjoy modding my game. I am gonna play a new game with some friends and it is going to be vanilla (their computer couldn't handle the mods.) Now I was having this problem last night where I disabled all my mods on vortex but my friend wasn't able to join my game. I knew I edited some other files within the steam folders so I was wondering if I made a duplicate folder of the normal base game stuff that I edited and a vanilla folder could I just exchange the two folders when I launch the game for modded and vanilla?

I don't want to have an entire second download of this game just because its so large. The folders I was planning on grabbing is the bin, mods, and maybe some others if I notice they are edited. Will this work? Am I over complicating things? I need advice.

That will work provided you take care of the local AppData files as well.

It is also the approach I recommend to beginners for modding
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3029018792

[Doc56767]

Originally posted by アンジェル:

Originally posted by Doc56767:

Question about modding and switching back to vanilla
So I enjoy modding my game. I am gonna play a new game with some friends and it is going to be vanilla (their computer couldn't handle the mods.) Now I was having this problem last night where I disabled all my mods on vortex but my friend wasn't able to join my game. I knew I edited some other files within the steam folders so I was wondering if I made a duplicate folder of the normal base game stuff that I edited and a vanilla folder could I just exchange the two folders when I launch the game for modded and vanilla?

I don't want to have an entire second download of this game just because its so large. The folders I was planning on grabbing is the bin, mods, and maybe some others if I notice they are edited. Will this work? Am I over complicating things? I need advice.

That will work provided you take care of the local AppData files as well.

It is also the approach I recommend to beginners for modding
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3029018792

Thank you I appreciate that. I'll make sure to check that out when I get home. I will grab that stuff too thank you.

[Ironwu]

You are in the minefield now.

Some Mods will inject DLLs into the game in order to implement the changes. What that means is that the core of the game has been changed and just copying the binaries around wont fix anything. Nor will 'disabling' the Mod, the changed code is still there and active, even if not being used.

Making a new game character will also do nothing as the Mods are still there and active.

Good Luck

[Doc56767]

Originally posted by Maronchan:

- Make a copy of C:\Users\blablablabla\AppData\Local\Larian Studios\Baldur's Gate 3 to another place of your choice.
- Delete everything inside the original Larian Studios folder.
- For mods that are drag and drop into the Data folder of the game, move the folders "Generated", "Mods", and "Public" to the same place where you made a backup of your profile folder.
- Verify your files.
- Start your game (you'll have to reconfigure you game though, since it's tied to your profile)

You should be good to go.

I'll also check this out and do this. Thank you I have messed with these files in the past when doing modding and fixing things for my unmodded play throughs with friends but I just didn't wanna deal with having to edit these things every time and not knowing what I was actually doing. I appreciate this.

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by Ironwu:

You are in the minefield now.

Some Mods will inject DLLs into the game in order to implement the changes. What that means is that the core of the game has been changed and just copying the binaries around wont fix anything. Nor will 'disabling' the Mod, the changed code is still there and active, even if not being used.

Making a new game character will also do nothing as the Mods are still there and active.

Good Luck

What are you talking about???

[Doc56767]

Originally posted by Ironwu:

You are in the minefield now.

Some Mods will inject DLLs into the game in order to implement the changes. What that means is that the core of the game has been changed and just copying the binaries around wont fix anything. Nor will 'disabling' the Mod, the changed code is still there and active, even if not being used.

Making a new game character will also do nothing as the Mods are still there and active.

Good Luck

In the past all I needed to do was the disable and enable functions for my game to join vanilla games. I just got tired of changing certain things when doing this so I was making sure I could do something like this could work and fix things. I was stupid in the past and didn't properly install the script extender but everything else was working just fine and only added in the middle of act 3 because of issues I was having. I did have all my mods working before this and it was as easy as being able to enable and disable to join vanilla games. I'll keep this in mind if I have the problem still eventually after adding in my mods again and update this if my problem consists. Thank you though.