Just to add to the complaining. 20 hours invested into a city and its all gone :)

[Ex in the Vatican]

Thank you paradox. I wasted 20 hours of my life for everything to be broken. Mods arent working. The content manage is empty every other launch and infinite loading screens. I ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ love this.

[Ex in the Vatican]

Also before I get a ton of people in here with their "fixes" and "It WoRkS FoR mE"

I have read through all the discussion posts since the update and am following most of them

I have tried every proposed fix and nothing works. I have every DLC except the stupid music packs.

EVERYTHING is up to date. All drivers, the game, windows, I have updated every mod. Ran compatibility report and other mods to make sure everything is working, check the stupid broken mods spreadsheet religiously and tried every fresh install method known to man.

No save games work, no amount of reinstalling ♥♥♥♥ works, every time I hit play its a roll of the dice to see if my mods exist or not. ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ THANK YOU Paradox. Well done again

20 hours invested into 1 city and I have nothing to show for it.

May as well just go be miserable and play vanilla.

[snowflitzer]

I am sorry to hear you struggle but need to clean your game and then start with the basics.

1) make sure you use this mod
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2881031511

2) how much RAM do you have?
3) do you have a page file?

4) Is your windows and graphic driver updated?

5) use this mod (LSM)
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2858591409

6) use this mod (LOM)
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2620852727

7) read the mod pages and include any dependencies

8) start the game and then read the report from the combability mod and fix all mods it tells you. Remove (unsubscribe!) the ones it tells you.

If you done all that we start from there. If you have any question, please ask.

P.S.
Mods to UNSUBSCRIBE for 1.16.1 Update
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2949169733

Mods to SUBSCRIBE for 1.16.1 Update
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2949315540

you might need a page file
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2114415052

set it up 3-4x your RAM, make sure you have the space on the disk available.

[Sir Jia Xing]

This is why i never use mods, only assets. Also, i think that whenever you see, nay, wherever there is a "What would you like to see in C:S 2?" post on the internet, you should voice your opinion on each and everyone of those posts about the mods you have to install in order to add features that are implementable in the game, but the devs decide to never include in the game.

[RDPCG]

Originally posted by snowflitzer:

I am sorry to hear you struggle but need to clean your game and then start with the basics.

1) make sure you use this mod
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2881031511

2) how much RAM do you have?
3) do you have a page file?

4) Is your windows and graphic driver updated?

5) use this mod (LSM)
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2858591409

6) use this mod (LOM)
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2620852727

7) read the mod pages and include any dependencies

8) start the game and then read the report from the combability mod and fix all mods it tells you. Remove (unsubscribe!) the ones it tells you.

If you done all that we start from there. If you have any question, please ask.

P.S.
Mods to UNSUBSCRIBE for 1.16.1 Update
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2949169733

Mods to SUBSCRIBE for 1.16.1 Update
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2949315540

you might need a page file
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2114415052

set it up 3-4x your RAM, make sure you have the space on the disk available.

Honestly, if the game worked fine for OP prior to the update - as in, OP had sufficient ram, and disk space, I doubt that would be the culprit now.

[snowflitzer]

You never know as if he bought all the new CCP he has exceeded the memory. Check your LSM usage figure on the right side.

I have most DLC and CCP, just not the latestet.
I have 16GB RAM and 64GB page file to run my game.

I cannot start it without LSM

[CO_Avanya]

We just pushed a fix a few hours ago which resolves the issue with the empty content manager and mods disabling. The update will be applied the next time you start the game and mods will stay enabled.

If you have the 0/0 mods issue, then please restart the game so it can generate a fresh userGameState file and you can start enabling your mods.

[Ex in the Vatican]

Originally posted by snowflitzer:

I am sorry to hear you struggle but need to clean your game and then start with the basics.

1) make sure you use this mod
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2881031511

2) how much RAM do you have?
3) do you have a page file?

4) Is your windows and graphic driver updated?

5) use this mod (LSM)
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2858591409

6) use this mod (LOM)
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2620852727

7) read the mod pages and include any dependencies

8) start the game and then read the report from the combability mod and fix all mods it tells you. Remove (unsubscribe!) the ones it tells you.

If you done all that we start from there. If you have any question, please ask.

P.S.
Mods to UNSUBSCRIBE for 1.16.1 Update
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2949169733

Mods to SUBSCRIBE for 1.16.1 Update
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2949315540

you might need a page file
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2114415052

set it up 3-4x your RAM, make sure you have the space on the disk available.

I’ve already done all these steps and still have the issues listed above. I have 48 GB of RAM and I have increased my page size too

[uec397]

Have you validated the game files? It is the one thing that was causing me issues after the patch. I have over 60 mods and 1600 assets and it works perfectly after validation.

[Ex in the Vatican]

Originally posted by uec397:

Have you validated the game files? It is the one thing that was causing me issues after the patch. I have over 60 mods and 1600 assets and it works perfectly after validation.

Validated everything. I’m at a clean install now. I’ll have to somehow get all the mods and assets back to try to revive my save file.

[wraithrider]

Originally posted by Ex in the Vatican:

Thank you paradox. I wasted 20 hours of my life for everything to be broken. Mods arent working. The content manage is empty every other launch and infinite loading screens. I ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ love this.

I have the same problem. My mods load into the main menu but are always disabled, then they don't load on the next attempt, rinse and repeat. Then there's the fact my saved cities won't load - period. Trying to load on a new, fresh map and that is proving difficult as well.

[CO_Avanya]

Originally posted by wraithrider:

Originally posted by Ex in the Vatican:

Thank you paradox. I wasted 20 hours of my life for everything to be broken. Mods arent working. The content manage is empty every other launch and infinite loading screens. I ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ love this.

I have the same problem. My mods load into the main menu but are always disabled, then they don't load on the next attempt, rinse and repeat. Then there's the fact my saved cities won't load - period. Trying to load on a new, fresh map and that is proving difficult as well.

We updated the game with a fix for this issue earlier today, it should no longer be happening. If you still have the mods resetting, then please verify game files through Steam to make sure it has updated.

[wraithrider]

CO_Avanya, verified the files and there were no issues but now everything seems to be working perfectly. More than likely the update fix finally kicked in for me. Thanks.

[Ex in the Vatican]

Originally posted by CO_Avanya:

Originally posted by wraithrider:

I have the same problem. My mods load into the main menu but are always disabled, then they don't load on the next attempt, rinse and repeat. Then there's the fact my saved cities won't load - period. Trying to load on a new, fresh map and that is proving difficult as well.

We updated the game with a fix for this issue earlier today, it should no longer be happening. If you still have the mods resetting, then please verify game files through Steam to make sure it has updated.

I have a new issue. Files are successfully validated and game is up to date. Now once I hit play in the launcher it loads for 2ish minutes and then immediately closes with no error message,

[Ex in the Vatican]

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, I have no idea what exactly I did, but after 18 hours of trouble shooting. Yes 18 hours. 9 hours after work yesterday and 9 hours after work today, I got my game and save file working.

While this is a good outcome ultimately I do not think this is a reasonable effect of the game simply being updated. And while I have respect for the actual game developers themselves, There must be a better way.

It's fairly unreasonable to expect me to literally spend all my free time over 2 days just to make the game work after an update. Especially with the amount of time (1786 hours in CS) and money I have invested into this game let alone company with all my combined purchases.

There has to be a better way to push updates that don't change things so fundamentally that nothing works after each update. Like how much behind the scenes has to actually change that is ♥♥♥♥♥ everything up with every update?

There needs to be change. There should have been change 6 years ago. But something HAS to change.