[HELP] Can't play with addons offline Help

[AstroMich]

I do not understand how this is happening, and i don't think it is the mods that are doing this as i've disabled some, uninstalled some and the problem still persists.

to inform:

-I am playing on the x86-64 branch.

-Major installed mods include Modern Warfare Base and associated mods, VJ Base and associated mods, TFA Base and associated mods, large maps and some playermodels.

-As of the moment, 18 pages worth of mods are installed, with 12 pages active.

-About 59 GBs of mods exist in my drive.

-I once moved gmod into a drive, then placed it back to the primary drive when things were lagging too hard. I verified the files and did a uninstall/reinstall afterwards.

Hypothesis(es):

-Playing on said branch may have screwed things up.

-There might be some steam settings that influence offline play with mods.

-There might mods that cause gmod to not be able to play with mods offline (this is unsubstantiated).

please help me in this problem. please inform me if there are any formatting errors, or not enough information is presented. thank you.

[Jimmy In A Dinger]

Mods should work the same on & offline, the client & server interactions just both take part on the client. 86-64x - chromium is a dev branch but I've never had any issues with it personally. 59GB of mods is a lot tbf, probably somewhere in that 59GB is a deprecated not functioning mod and/or conflicts with other mods. a copy of the console would help people help you.

[AstroMich]

Originally posted by Dave PS:

Mods should work the same on & offline, the client & server interactions just both take part on the client. 86-64x - chromium is a dev branch but I've never had any issues with it personally. 59GB of mods is a lot tbf, probably somewhere in that 59GB is a deprecated not functioning mod and/or conflicts with other mods. a copy of the console would help people help you.

thank you for the reply. since posting this question, more baffling stuff occurred.

sometimes i get to play offline with mods, sometimes i cant. i'm not 100 percent sure why and how, but it seems that i have to let gmod 'fetch subscriptions' and finish it, thus allowing me to play offline with mods.

problem is, once i lose online connection while playing, i'll eventually lose the ability to play modded offline. this basically becomes guaranteed when i shut down my pc and try to play later.

this means that i still dont know what exactly causes this problem...

i'll report back when i finally fix it myself, but please provide insight into the matter if you may have any idea on what is causing this. thank you.

[AstroMich]

Originally posted by Dave PS:

Mods should work the same on & offline, the client & server interactions just both take part on the client. 86-64x - chromium is a dev branch but I've never had any issues with it personally. 59GB of mods is a lot tbf, probably somewhere in that 59GB is a deprecated not functioning mod and/or conflicts with other mods. a copy of the console would help people help you.

hmm...

checked the console after just opening up the game:

Attempting to load Chromium...
x86-64: gmod_mcore_test=1
Parent cvar in server.dll not allowed (p2p_enabled)
cc_lang: invalid language
JOY_AXIS_X: mapped to Turn (absolute)
JOY_AXIS_Y: mapped to Look (absolute)
JOY_AXIS_Z: unmapped
JOY_AXIS_R: mapped to Forward (absolute)
JOY_AXIS_U: mapped to Side (absolute)
JOY_AXIS_V: unmapped
Advanced Joystick settings initialized
Not playing a local game.
DEBUG: Clearing CSoundPatches after stopsound... (x2)
Error getting subcriptions list! Error: Generic failure
Addons have changes - remounting

would this help?

[Menfoice]

Sometimes I've ran into that. The solution for my case (it may works for you):

1. Launch GMOD online.
2. Wait all the addons to be mounted after the title screen appeared.
3. Then close GMOD.
4. Finally I reopen the game offline.

After that I check the addons' list from the title screen, just in case.