Gathering Storm not showing up as playable

[Polderjoch]

So when I try to pick a ruleset when creating a game, Gathering Storm isn't an option.

It also isn't in the Mods page, instead there are three files with Firaxis as author called
LOC_BLACKDEATH_MOD_TITLE
LOC_EXPANSION2_MOD_TITLE
LOC_WARMACHINE_MOD_TITLE

I assume that these are *supposed* to be the files for Gathering Storm but, yeah.
If I disable both BLACKDEATH and WARMACHINE, then Gathering Storm appears in the ruleset, but the *only* civs available, for me or AI, are the Civs I have switched on with mods, before saying that the game couldn't be created due to an error.


This happens no matter if I disable all mods, have them enabled, or what have you.
I'm doing a clean uninstall reinstall while manually deleting the folders under users and common, but since I'm currently traveling without good internet (the ETA for now is *11 days*) I'm just wanting to make sure I'm not wasting my time.

[donald23]

You might already be helped with a verify of game files.
But your approach is definitely the more thorough one.

[Prometheus]

Here you go, your exact problem, solved:

https://steamcommunity.com/app/289070/discussions/3/3247562523088453012/

[Polderjoch]

引用自 Prometheus：

Here you go, your exact problem, solved:

https://steamcommunity.com/app/289070/discussions/3/3247562523088453012/

I've followed what you and schleckson did in that thread exactly (just re-installed the game through some Wifi at a cafe), but I'm still coming up with the same issue of the GS ruleset not having any selectable leaders and crashing the moment I try to open up a game.


Speaking of, sshleckson's issue was that he couldn't progress past the launcher.
I, on the other hand, don't get a launcher at all, it jsut skips straight to the game after the steam version selector.

I also still have these files in the additional content as community created content rather than expansions.
LOC_BLACKDEATH_MOD_TITLE
LOC_EXPANSION2_MOD_TITLE
LOC_WARMACHINE_MOD_TITLE

[Prometheus]

引用自 Polderjoch：

Speaking of, sshleckson's issue was that he couldn't progress past the launcher.
I, on the other hand, don't get a launcher at all, it jsut skips straight to the game after the steam version selector.

But that is the launcher! If you can select between dx11 and dx12, you are getting it.

引用自 Polderjoch：

I also still have these files in the additional content as community created content rather than expansions.
LOC_BLACKDEATH_MOD_TITLE
LOC_EXPANSION2_MOD_TITLE
LOC_WARMACHINE_MOD_TITLE

Those ARE the expansion! This stems from not having proper read and write permissions to the assets. There are multiple ways this can happen. Currently the most common solutions are to set Windows Defender exceptions for the "Sid Meier's Civilization VI" folder, in both these locations:

[drive]:\Users\[user name]\Documents\my games\

[Steam Folder]\steamapps\common\

and additionally, disabling all other anti-virus, and running Steam in administrator mode (as in right click on executable, select "run in administrator mode").

If this does not work for you, we can go through the other ways in which you can have lost permission to read/write in those two folders, but those are detailed in the link I provided, as methods that did not work for schleckson.

[Tjens]

When the Rising Fall expansion fails to load you might want to check ingame and goto Additional Content in the main menu and enable them. This probably happens becouse you have loaded mods ingame previously. Or it might have something to do with the new patch, either way - you're good.

[Polderjoch]

https://ibb.co/Cn53brX
This is what appears when choosing to play Civ VI, no dedicated Launcher.

And yeah, I know those are the expansions, but they appear as community created content authored by Firaxis rather than shwoing up as official expansions ala Expansion: Rise and Fall.
https://ibb.co/K5qshQZ
Note the disrepancy.

I've already set these folders as Windows Defender excluded, and also tried the game with Windows Defender disabled (since I have no other anti-virus), and I've run both Steam and the game itself (through C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Sid Meier's Civilization VI\Base\Binaries\Win64Steam) in admin mode to no avail.

The folders are set to Read-only, but they keep reverting to Read-only automatically.
I am set as the Owner of the folders though, and I have full permissions over the folders and child directories.

[Polderjoch]

Wow nevermind, seems like all it took was starting the game in Admin mode without the Legacy launcher after re-installing it.

Thanks for the suggestions anyway though, even if it ended up being a lot simpler than that.

[Prometheus]

Good that you are up and running!

In the end what worked for you, is what schleckson said in post #34 worked for him. It's not the selected solution, so there is some lack of clarity there to be sure. I'll add that to my response if someone else posts with the same problems.