No mods/modules working?

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I downloaded a bunch of modules and a couple small mods from nexus via the vortex manager and none of them are working or showing up as playable in game.

[Proleric]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1309774090

[Sticky Wicket]

It could be that some of the files are not in the right place.

Steam has it's own folder for things, but you need to make sure that any downloaded files are in your PC>Doccuments>Neverwinter Nights>....relevant folders.

Starting a new game. You may need to navigate the game menu to find the new modules.

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Originally posted by Proleric:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1309774090

Still not working. All the files were already in the right places from vortex installing them. I went ahead and overwrote them with the manual downloads anyway, but its still not working. I already had CEP and any other requirements installed as well.

[ACN_Milliorn]

If the module file is not patched to the current version you are playing that might be the reason.

[Proleric]

Sorry, that's not correct. Modules created on versions prior to EE still work.

This is the only report I've seen of modules not showing up in game when installed in the folders described in the guide. My suspicion remains that the files are in the wrong folders.

There is a known problem with Steam Workshop (solved by moving the files to the above mentioned folders) but that's not the issue here.

[Sticky Wicket]

Check your doccuments folder.

Generally speaking;

Modules should be in the modules folder (of course).

Mods depending on what they are will generally be in either hak folder or overide folder, or portraits will be in the portraits folder.

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Check the file extensions of the files you have downloaded if in doubt of what they are.

Modules files will be .mod and hak files will be .hak

[Shady Allie]

relevant or not;

I have windows 10.
I use the windows firewall/defender stuff built in the system.

One day after a windows 10 update, a lot of my games that use the my documents folder were broken.

research led me to find out that in the windows/settings under the security settings there is a thing called ransomware protection. this was enabled on my system after an update.

that enabled setting locks the my documents folder from being used by 3rd party exe

pretty much any steam game i had was broken if it used the my doc folder.

there are settings in the ransomeware security to either turn it off all together or to add what apps can write to that folder.

in essence, the my documents folder with the ransomeware protection turned on is not used anymore by apps. everything is copied out of that folder and used in a new location on your pc. somewhere out of the my documents folder that the games cant access because microsoft changed the paths.

[MacDuro [0x0]]

This hapens to me sometimes, don't know why but installed workshop modules sometimes just don't show when I initiate the game, usually reinitiating the game or steam works to make mods show again.

[Proleric]

Yes, like I said, that's a known problem with Steam Workshop, solved by moving the files to Documents...

...but the OP isn't using Steam Workshop. They just need to install the files in the correct folders manually, as per my guide.

[Firehawk]

I wouldn't use Vortex, manually installing modules for NWN is the safest route to take.

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Originally posted by Proleric:

Yes, like I said, that's a known problem with Steam Workshop, solved by moving the files to Documents...

...but the OP isn't using Steam Workshop. They just need to install the files in the correct folders manually, as per my guide.

I did, it didnt help.

[Sticky Wicket]

Other things to consider, some files are incompatible with CEP and haks such as new tiles and other have to be added to a module in the module properties in the toolset. Also CEP sometimes requires for related hak files to be in a certain load order.

Since you havn't been very forthcoming about what these files actually are It would help if you list the files here, give a description of what they are, and if they are dependant upon each other to function. I think you need to start giving some more information if you want help with this problem.

For a start, you said you have some modules, what are they? Are they in your doccuments>NeverwinterNights> modules folder and have the file extension .mod ? when you launch the game have you navigated to every possible place in the menu to find them? They will probably be under other modules. Do you have other modules in that folder that do show up?
If the modules are in the modules folder, then try and launch them from the toolset, do they open or do you get error message?

[Proleric]

Yes, more information would help.

@Sticky Wicket - re your opening paragraph, none of that applies here, surely? A .mod file containing a playable module will show up in the Other Modules list, regardless of whether CEP is installed or not. No module is incompatible with CEP. Missing haks are reported when you try to open the module.

[Sticky Wicket]

Originally posted by Proleric:

Yes, more information would help.

@Sticky Wicket - re your opening paragraph, none of that applies here, surely? A .mod file containing a playable module will show up in the Other Modules list, regardless of whether CEP is installed or not. No module is incompatible with CEP. Missing haks are reported when you try to open the module.

Yes and no. (edited my post: I was talking generically about mod files but have now changed it to hak files).

I'm simply tying to get the guy to explain what the exact nature of the problem is.

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Specifically I was originally trying to get the Demonheart and Gladiatrix series'. Ive since tried several other random ones and none of them have ever shown up in any of the game menus.