Mods are broken

[Kallybra]

As I understand after the last update some people started encountering various issues including me...

I have many mods, steam says that they are installed, they are indeed located in the mods folder, but Garry's mod fails to locate them and they don't appear in the addons page, thus they won't load.
After the reinstall they're fine, but it's impossible to tell at a glance what's missing as I have 800~ addons.
I love this game<3

[Random Sentry]

I'm having a similar issue as well, I thought it was one of the mods causing some issues on my computer, but the game keeps on updating, however I heard it might be security problems

[Kallybra]

Also I'm not sure if it's my thing, but my game started crashing so much more often including my friend. I know that it probably is more related to the mods I have, but I didn't download nothing big as of recently and I've never had that much crashing(like 1 crash in 2 weeks, now it's 5 in a day). Dunno about others.

[Videogames]

Yeah mod loading is broken due to clown coding, I also noticed that the game's memory usage has literally doubled overnight (on x64 branch, if that matters) so that may be related to what is causing instability issues as well.

I've noticed some slightly more resource intensive maps won't even load anymore and will give 'engine error' even when they're the only thing installed so that's been fun. (keeping in mind that the game was running fine a week ago)

[Random Sentry]

Also, whenever the game updates, it for some reasons, subscribes to add-ons that I unsubscribed from.
And I can't even find them in the workshop items tab, in fact, it only shows my sfm subscribed items.

[WalterBlanco87]

for me, after the patch, addons "bleed out", "fully dynamic blood", "ReAgdoll" etc, started displaying lua errors and when i killed vj base npcs, their bodies would spawn along with a clone of the npc who would still be alive and invincible for some reason.

all of this happened after the patch

[Kallybra]

What a wholesome bouqet of bugs the newest patch has brought us xd

[Super_ultra_man_of_trains]

I just opened up Gmod for the first time in a long while yesterday and tried to re download some mods that were showing as not subscribed and instead all it did was delete everything I've ever subbed to

[Proper Cut]

Originally posted by theonewhoknocks:

for me, after the patch, addons "bleed out", "fully dynamic blood", "ReAgdoll" etc, started displaying lua errors and when i killed vj base npcs, their bodies would spawn along with a clone of the npc who would still be alive and invincible for some reason.

all of this happened after the patch

Been getting the same thing, although this occurs with Zippy's Gore, Player Speed Changer V2, and Shmovement except that one seems to turn off instead of show lua errors

[Patchouli Knowledge]

Same here, been having non-stop crashes like straight to desktop with no errors, issues like a few addons duplicating themselves or not loading everytime i load Gmod ever since that last update. (though no major in-game bugs or errors)
Tried uninstalling/verifying game files, cleaning the cache folder, removing some useless addons (and manually deleting all addons, to re-download all of them), allocating more memory to the game since yeah can confirm the game memory's usage is now far more overkill then before the update (and that's on both 32 and 64 bit branches)

[wiimeiser]

I was having problems with addons enabling/disabling, being duplicated, not appearing, etc., but after unsubscribing from everything I haven't had any such issues. I suggest turning your subscribed items into one or more collections (there's a button to do it all in one go) and unsubscribing from everything.

[Furry Slurry]

Having the same crap like you guys its the damn update, it must be the security update

[Patchouli Knowledge]

Originally posted by wiimeiser:

I was having problems with addons enabling/disabling, being duplicated, not appearing, etc., but after unsubscribing from everything I haven't had any such issues. I suggest turning your subscribed items into one or more collections (there's a button to do it all in one go) and unsubscribing from everything.

Well it actually worked, thanks a lot! (but yeah still scared to install/uninstall newer addons for the time being, so its better to stick with what you already have until they bring a better fix)
Though the game still has memory issues since the last "security updates", so I can only play the 64 bit branch now to avoid the constant crashing (should have updated my original post to mention that, but yeah the game is far more stable on that build for now)

[Furry Slurry]

Originally posted by Patchouli Knowledge:

Originally posted by wiimeiser:

I was having problems with addons enabling/disabling, being duplicated, not appearing, etc., but after unsubscribing from everything I haven't had any such issues. I suggest turning your subscribed items into one or more collections (there's a button to do it all in one go) and unsubscribing from everything.

Well it actually worked, thanks a lot! :praisesun:
Though the game still has memory issues since the last "security updates", so I can only play the 64 bit branch now to avoid the constant crashing (should have updated my original post to mention that, but yeah the game is far more stable on that build for now)

im going to wait until they fix the damn issue https://github.com/Facepunch/garrysmod-issues/issues/5663 i allready posted a github issue

[Furry Slurry]

Originally posted by wiimeiser:

I was having problems with addons enabling/disabling, being duplicated, not appearing, etc., but after unsubscribing from everything I haven't had any such issues. I suggest turning your subscribed items into one or more collections (there's a button to do it all in one go) and unsubscribing from everything.

Also how you do the button in all go?

[Patchouli Knowledge]

Originally posted by FurrySlurry (the sergal king):

Originally posted by wiimeiser:

I was having problems with addons enabling/disabling, being duplicated, not appearing, etc., but after unsubscribing from everything I haven't had any such issues. I suggest turning your subscribed items into one or more collections (there's a button to do it all in one go) and unsubscribing from everything.

Also how you do the button in all go?

Go to the Gmod workshop page, select "Your Files" on the right -> Subscribed Items. Then "Save To Collection" (make it a new one, it can hold up to 1000 addons max),
if you don't see the "Subscribe to All" button, go to "Edit basic collection information" and make sure you select "Items that work together". (Also worth mentioning, but even after unsubscribing from all addons, all the ones in workshop\content\4000 did vanish, but the ones from the Addons folder had to be deleted manually)