My game is forever stuck on "Loading Game Data" (Modding involved)

[⎝⧹CapellaVN⧸⎠]

Since posting in the 7DTD forums is RIDICULOUSLY PAINFUL I'll try to paste-post here with hopes someone might help me.

"I bought the game last week after years of not having it on Steam and played a good 22 hours of it. Yesterday, I decided to download a couple of mods: Bdubs car pack from nexus, and the bandit mod from here on the forums, and DMT - needed by the bandit mod - to compile them. Besides those, I did nothing to change the game in any way possible.

I spent some hours trying to compile the mods without errors (and without finding solutions online), which I only managed to do after I deleted "Localization.txt" from Bdub's car pack and compiled the mods one by one (Xyth NPC/Trader/Bandits and Car Pack). I don't know if it was that the reason, but my game is beyond broken now. If I run the game through DMT (which is without EAC) the game will give me that error. If I run it through Steam, I have to disable EAC in the launcher, otherwise it will give me a black screen with only the cursor on it.

Things I tried:

-Reinstalling Steam
-Reinstalling 7DTD
-Cleaning game data through the launcher
-Tried running without mods (even DMT)
-Completely removing "Mods" folder from 7DTD root
-Looked for 32 bit version for testing, but found none

I'm really hooked to the game, especially after I was finally able to buy it after all these years, so I would really appreciate if someone can help me fix this, and hopefully, play with those two mods on.

PS: I couldn't attach logs because of the forum limit."

Said logs are here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=15ywxCqlOhc9CohrBYfqNAlxbjIOzmGuo

[War3zuk]

With that many NRE's My only guess would be each of the new entities...... Uninstall the game, Delete hidden folders in appdata reinstall game verify files start game to make sure it runs without errors & start again.....

Ive never run DMT to modify the Csharp files so I cant comment on that assuming thats what DMT does....

As for Modlets I would suggest you stick to XML mods there are Car truck packs that work but you need to make sure you get the latest version as some will be for alpha 17.1 not 18.2 b5

as for Bandits ive never run them either Only StompyNzs bad company zombies which I added to my AIO mod.....

Oh its also worth mentioning that I had to alter most of the Vehicles myself so they didnt error on 18.2 as some I noticed couldnt be fixed without having access to the original model files which I dont have... although they may of all been updated since I last looked & if keeping with XML modlets if they do error you can always fix or remove what is broken

[⎝⧹CapellaVN⧸⎠]

Originally posted by мιℓfнυитєя:

With that many NRE's My only guess would be each of the new entities...... Uninstall the game, Delete hidden folders in appdata reinstall game verify files start game to make sure it runs without errors & start again.....

Ive never run DMT to modify the Csharp files so I cant comment on that assuming thats what DMT does....

As for Modlets I would suggest you stick to XML mods there are Car truck packs that work but you need to make sure you get the latest version as some will be for alpha 17.1 not 18.2 b5

as for Bandits ive never run them either Only StompyNzs bad company zombies which I added to my AIO mod.....

Oh its also worth mentioning that I had to alter most of the Vehicles myself so they didnt error on 18.2 as some I noticed couldnt be fixed without having access to the original model files which I dont have... although they may of all been updated since I last looked & if keeping with XML modlets if they do error you can always fix or remove what is broken

Thing is...I already cleaned the game and Steam and ran it without any mods, and it still gave me that eternal load screen...which is pretty odd. Do you know what that might be?

[War3zuk]

Have you removed all the folders in appdata ?

[⎝⧹CapellaVN⧸⎠]

Yup, done that. I backed up my generated worlds and save game tho...should I delete them?

[War3zuk]

Remove them out of the game & put aside somewhere as you need only vanilla files to rule out whats caused it & a corupted save is all too possible...

[⎝⧹CapellaVN⧸⎠]

I obliterated the 7DTD data folder...and it gave me black screen - since the launcher settings was deleted and EAC was turned back on...so...same error. Apparently the problem isn't on the game data folder. Is there something else I can try?

[⎝⧹CapellaVN⧸⎠]

Oh, I also uploaded that last log on the same gdrive link, just in case something changed.

[War3zuk]

its not possible if your installing the game fresh that youd get errors so assume its something else, Check RAM, HDD your connection to make sure your not getting bad files... I dont see how you can be getting errors with a fresh install.....

You could always download the Mod Launcher & install a fresh copy & see if that does the same...

[⎝⧹CapellaVN⧸⎠]

Right? I don't see why on earth this would happen to me. I even turned my antivirus off, so I don't have a single clue what could be the issue. I'll try some more stuff and see if I can play the game again before christmas. Thank you for your time, bro.