Mods refuse to launch

[bdan]

how the hell you gonna advertise mods then just either wont launch or launch and most not working

[Coach McGuirk]

A few weeks ago, I was unable to load my modded save. Was disabling mods on my modded save until I only had one active, and still the game wouldn't start... but it would if I disabled ALL mods. Unmodded games worked fine, but I couldn't even start a new file with even a single one of my mods active.

I believe I have just fixed this, it may not stay fixed but I'd like to report what just seems to have worked. So my in-game mod menu was showing everything installed, but my Mods folder (for in-game mods) was lacking a bunch of folders. Don't know what happened but I decided to start fresh and it seems to be working so far.

1. Delete "Mods" folder (for in-game mods, NOT for Nexus mods). As far as I know, this can't be set/changed, and the game just throws it in your current user's Documents folder. I've deleted this many times and it has had no ill effects except having to re-download mods.
   Mine was at:
   C:\Users\Joey\Documents\Hogwarts Legacy\Mods
   
2. Uninstall all of your in-game mods one by one and reinstall. I recommend adding what you want to keep to "favorites". I uninstalled everything at once and am reinstalling one at a time just to make sure this keeps working.
   
   I'm thinking the game's ability to verify what's installed and what isn't broke, and so it stopped reporting when it couldn't detect installed mods... Now as to why my Mods folder seems to have randomly deleted a bunch of my mods, I can't answer that, but I decided starting fresh was the easiest solution. We'll see if the issue happens again.