Suddenly not reading Vortex Mods

[quinn-zel]

I've been playing with mods for most of the year and, aside from a few mishaps, they've been working fine. But today, I was playing, quick saved, and loaded, and suddenly the mods I had installed weren't being read at all. Literally between saving the game and loading it again, not even closing it out.
I've tried updating my drivers, enabling and disabling the mods via vortex, purging and deploying them... nothing helps. I've got no idea what to do now, and I really dont want to have to start over for a third time because of this.

[Noble Nobbler]

Does vortex use a junction? Perhaps that got blown away at some point.

Most mods for bg that involve anything other than assets do this by hooking into other dlls and making calls to their own code as part of a "detour". It's a really clever way of customizing any executable (also, dangerous) but it relies on keeping those "modified" dlls intact.

For example, my wasd and camera mods require modified a modified SDL2.dll and bink2w64.dll. If you had those "fixed" by, say, the Larian launcher at some point, then none of your native mods will work.

If you're relying on something like vortex and it suddenly seems to stop working, I'm afraid you'll have to dig deeper. Try manually installing the mods (follow the readme!) if you want to be sure everything is as it should be.

[BoxMageOfOld]

wanted to necro this for anyone who runs into this issue, i always store backed up versions of my mods. I removed a mod yesterday and couldn't figure this out... turns out somehow the SDL2.dll was deleted from my folder! so i went into a mod of mine that has a copy stored (wasd movement) and copy pasted it, now game runs fine just in case someone who is newer to modding their game or gets confused can have an easy solution.

Found this post after searching for a hot minute, so going to hope this bumps it up.