GS wont launch, launches rise and fall instead

[RCTmom]

checked the DLC tab in library, says gathering storm is installed.
Did a verify integrity, says all is good.
did a complete uninstall and reinstall...

still launches rise and fall every time.

[plaguepenguin]

Universal advice if the game isn't working properly is to try getting rid of all mods and seeing if that helps. If you have any mods going they might limit you to RaF, even if that was not the intention of the author of the mod.

[RCTmom]

No mods at all, clean install. Never even tried any

[plaguepenguin]

You mean that the opening menu is not GS, with the melting iceberg, but RaF? You get to use the RaF ruleset even if you have GS installed, but you only do that after you got to Single Player, then Create Game, and the ruleset option appears at the top (if I remember correctly) of the Create Game screen. But I can't see how the ruleset would get stuck on RaF and have that persist as a defualt the next time you started a new game. You might check the Create Game screen just to make sure that's not the behavior, that it is not persisting in the RaF ruleset into a new game start.

The only other thing I can think of besides a true bug, is some multiplayer setting. I don't have a lot of experience with MP, but entering a game requires all players to be using certain common settings, including ruleset, and I have had such an MP setting persist after I left the MP game and started another game. Of course, I don't see such a setting surviving a reinstall.

[RCTmom]

yes the title menu is rise and fall, in the steam library, clicking on the DLC tab shows gathering storm installed. However in game going to the mod tab, shows rise and fall expansion but NOT gathering storm. I cannot play anything at all to do with gathering storm even tho steam and the DLC tab say I have it.


EDIT:
when attempting to join a game it says "mod mismatch, missing or not installed"
My husband and I are attempting to play together, both on clean installs. Neither of us are using mods or any changes to the base setup

[plaguepenguin]

From the reference to the "mod mismatch..." message when you try to join a game, it's pretty clear that you are talking about multi-player. One possibility here is that earlier you joined a multi-player game that required RF, and that has made the RF rule set your default. I don't do multiplayer much, but I once had the system make a setting my new default after a multi-player session.

To correct the problem I had to go into the settings at game creation to change the rule set to what I wanted. Try creating a game in Single Player and check to see what the rule set is in the Create Game screen. Perhaps RF is your default now. If it is, change the rule set to GS and see if that solves the problem.

[tempest.of.emptiness]

引用自 RCTmom：

yes the title menu is rise and fall, in the steam library, clicking on the DLC tab shows gathering storm installed. However in game going to the mod tab, shows rise and fall expansion but NOT gathering storm. I cannot play anything at all to do with gathering storm even tho steam and the DLC tab say I have it.

In your Steam Library, find the section DLC and click on the button "Manage My X DLC" (where X is the number of DLC you own for Civ VI). Scroll through the list until you find Gathering Storm, and if there is not a check mark in the "Enable" column then add one. Then, exit Steam and restart it, go to your Downloads page and if there is a download for Civ VI, start it off. Once that completes, GS should be installed.

If instead there is already check mark there for GS, then GS may not have installed correctly.
Remove the check mark, exit and restart Steam, go to Downloads and complete any Civ VI downloads that are pending, then reboot your computer. Then proceed as above to re-enable GS and re-download it. This will hopefully reinstall GS correctly.

[RCTmom]

all of that has been tried and did not correct the issue, thank you both however for attempting to help :).

What did work finally was a comment I found from another post to delete the mods.sqlite from the doc folder. Crashed the first time after I did it, but the second time it ran a first time setup process and corrected the issue.