Saved games messed up after deleting Mod

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Hi all - I am new to ATS and have set up a game profile and I have done a few quick jobs. I have also been adding and removing a few mods. The issue I am having is that my saved games show that a mod has been changed and I have to delete all the autosaved scenarios to be able to continue. This of course causes me to have to start all over again. Obviously I am missing something here?? How do you change mods without this happening and being able to pick up where I left off? Thanks for any help!!

[AyMazingATS]

Just because you are missing a mod doesn't mean you have to start over. Depending on the mod that you removed you still may be able to load that profile. The red exclamation point is just a warning that a mod that is a part of the save has been removed.

Removing mods however without selling off the assets is a sure fire way to corrupt a profile.

If you are ever going to remove a mod go into the profile and sell off all of the assets of said mod. Engines, accessories, tires, garages...whatever. Then resave the game. Hop back into mod manager, deactivate mod and load profile again. If all is working, resave profile.

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Originally posted by AyMazingATS:

Just because you are missing a mod doesn't mean you have to start over. Depending on the mod that you removed you still may be able to load that profile. The red exclamation point is just a warning that a mod that is a part of the save has been removed.

Removing mods however without selling off the assets is a sure fire way to corrupt a profile.

If you are ever going to remove a mod go into the profile and sell off all of the assets of said mod. Engines, accessories, tires, garages...whatever. Then resave the game. Hop back into mod manager, deactivate mod and load profile again. If all is working, resave profile.

Thank you for the quick reply! In this case, I had the Realistic Graphics Mod and then removed it. I do not have any specific truck mods at this time, mostly the AI & graphics type of mods. So in the case of these types of mods, is the game really unusable after removing? I would hate to lose all my progress if I ever have to remove one.

[AyMazingATS]

You will be fine to continue to load the profile after deactivating RGM. That mod is only visual in nature.

Again, it depends on the mod if the profile will crash if the mod was removed without selling off the assets of the mod.

The most recent, and a very extreme example to where I know of this happening is when a person made the SCS log trailer ownable when it was first introduced. SCS did not have it set as ownable. It was on the workshop. Lots of people subbed to it. When SCS made their internal version ownable this person deleted their mod. The game would not load without the mod present. Even deactivating the mod from mod manager caused a crash.

Only way to know is to try and click continue when it comes up with the missing mod dependency window. If your profile loads...you are good.

If it crashes...well that will take some investigation as to why you are crashing.