Unknown Mod Crash

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well i've been plaing soase V 1.191 for a while now and decided to try out some mods for it (Volumetric 1.0)

and like any other game it loads fine and plays fine but after i installed my mod and attempted to load it today my game freezes. so i think it's just the game loading the mod, pretty reasonable, BUT the game goes black-sceen and closes itself and windows simply says something went wrong and it had to terminate the program. it doesn't tell me what is wrong it just says something went ka-put and thats that. it's not the graphics crash from loading the options menu. all i do is click options then mods. after the mod menu is shown i click my mod and click load(enable). then BOOM game freezes and crashes a few seconds afterwards. everything is perfectly updated i spent the whole day making sure all video/sound and whatever other drivers that needed updating were updated. i dont have a minidump so dont ask for it. the game never says it made a minidump. so does anyone know how to help me fix this if not please recomend a similar mod if there is one.

 

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

If you'll notice on the mod thread, it says A. The most recent version of Volumetric Effects is 1.2, not 1.0 and B. Even 1.2 is only "COMPATIBLE WITH SoaSE 1.18/Entrenchment 1.41". You must always check that your mods are up to date for the given version you have. Sadly, there is no graphics mod that is up to date for the original Sins.

That said, if you get the 1.2 version there is a chance that it might work with 1.191. Further, if it doesn't you should be able to just delete the GameInfo folder and get parts of the mod to work correctly.

Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

oh awesome i'm glad this was as simple as this mod doesn't work and it's not my computer

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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting Locke366, reply 2
oh awesome i'm glad this was as simple as this mod doesn't work and it's not my computer
End of Locke366's quote

Yeah you have the process right, just need to find a mod that works. ;) For regular Sins you really don't have a lot of options, but Maelstrom is one of the better ones. SOA2 and Hammer Real Sins (Volumetric Effects built in) also look good (I haven't tried them though). While it doesn't always say what version they are for, this is one of the best places to find mods, besides this modding forum of course.

Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top

thanks for the link. the site is pretty awesome but i notice everything has entrenchment or a diplomacy sticker slapped near. will the mods work for the normal version of sins i dont have the expansions

Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting Locke366, reply 4
thanks for the link. the site is pretty awesome but i notice everything has entrenchment or a diplomacy sticker slapped near. will the mods work for the normal version of sins i dont have the expansions
End of Locke366's quote

No, but just because it has an Entrenchment/Diplomacy sticker doesn't mean they don't have a Vanilla Sins version avaliable (like Maelstrom). It usually has a link to the site of the mod itself, so just click on that and check there if a Vanilla version.

That said, most mods are for the expansions only as A. Its a pain to have to update several different versions of the mod and B. The expansions are much easier to mod, and you can do more things with them. Thus modders prefer to work with them by far.