- It seems like mods for some reason dont work. Invisible models, lack of content, loading screen freeze or other wierd reasons seems to be the issue that my modded game doesn't work properly. Can you tell how to fix it especially since I'm on windows 10 or 11?
OneDrive seems to interfere with the user content folder. Try to first relocate your document folder and user content for Age of Wonders 3. This is an unofficial solution that is specifically made for AoW 4 and initially credited by TriumphBas. This is confirmed to work as I done this myself.
Go to OneDrive -> Settings
1. Remove the Documents folder from the Backup list
2. Navigate to the OneDrive/Documents folder, go to Properties -> Location tab
3. Change the location of the Documents folder to a local folder on the harddrive.
4. Move the files from the OneDrive folder to the new Documents folder
5. Optional: Unlink your PC from OneDrive and reinstall it.
6. Unsubscribe and Resubscribe to the mods you'd like to enable.
7. Launch the game again, make sure to add the mods and update the Aow3 launcher.
The mods get put in your documents folder, however, that documents folder can be an OneDrive folder which isn't an absolute location, meaning the game has trouble finding and loading in the mod content when enabled.
- My game is crashing alot and I'm using alot of mods.
Certainly mods do interfere with memory and a 32 bit engine is abit fragile to add on more workload. That is that more mods using up more memory.
Other possible solutions and reasons for crashes is random and unknown but rare fortunatly. However, it seems that some user experience alot more crashes with Vsync enable on Windows 10/11, it may depend graphic cards or processor. Consider turning Vsync off and experiment with graphics settings.
- Are there any incompatibilities with other mods?
All mods created for this game may interfere with eachother on different levels. Most incompatibilities comes from the same sources of edits. Graphical mods like new colours may conflict with mods that alter banners and similiar. While big mods like Wasteland Expansion has very little impact due to having control over the content, but may still conflict with other mods using the same "Levelgenerator.rpk" like a new dwelling mod adding their custom dwellings to the rmg settings. Mods that adds only custom uits to various races are considered safe without conflicts to only being under the rule that it adds stuff rather then edit stuff already "vanilla". In general there are no rules which mods to use over one or another. It boils down to fun and trials of errors.
To make an example of what incompatibilities are:
- Mod A edits the Human Knight and add Armor Piercing
- Mod B also edits the Human Knight and have added 3+ fire damage.
The AoW III launcher will decide between these two mods and randomly take one of the edits when playable. The only deciding factor is priority of either mod. If Mod A is priority 0 and Mod B is priority 1. The launcher will always take Mod B over Mod A due to being higher priority.
To make an example of what compatibilities are:
- Mod A edits the Human Knight and add Armor Piercing
- Mod B has not edited Human Knight but edited the Human Archer instead and changed it's model.
- Mod C has modified the Human Race in the RaceLogic.Rpk and rewritten racial description telling us they are Gremlins.
- Mod D has added 400 new units and added them to the unit spawn list by adding new list with identical names.
- Mod E only added 30 new leaders to different leaders.
All of these mods have priority 0 and the game launcher will include all of these changes since they are not in conflict each other despite having alot of new stuff and changes.
- I want to my own mods? Help
Consider going to the steam forums and locate the modding guids. Its general the best source since the closing of the offical forums that were before.
