Witcher 3 Mods Not Showing Up
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General discussion(218 posts)(218 posts)Is there anyone out there that has been able to sort this out? It would make me very happy if I could just click on play and the game loaded.....................(I can but dream!)
By the way, my pc uses Windows 7 and I've updated graphic drivers.
Is there anyone out there that has been able to sort this out? It would make me very happy if I could just click on play and the game loaded.....................(I can but dream!)
By the way, my pc uses Windows 7 and I've updated graphic drivers.
- Install game
- patch game
- Install free DLC
- patch DLC
- Install Hearts of Stone
- Patch Hearts of Stone
- Install Blood and Wine
- patch Blood and Wine
After this, the problems I had with the game went away. Not sure what the cause of the problem was, but that fixed it. If you can't get the game to work your best bet is to contact GOG support at the link at the bottom of the page for 'Contact Us' and they should get back to you within 24-48 business hours Polish time zone.
Some game breaking bugs were allegedly fixed in more recent patches. I finished the game quite a while ago (but not the expansions) and never encountered any game breaking bugs, but I did encounter two side-quest breaking bugs which I don't know if they ever got fixed or not but they did not hold back finishing the game and were rather minor.
GOG support is the best way to handle problems with getting games to run if you exhaust options on your own though, they're pretty great about it. Doesn't mean they can resolve an issue guaranteed or anything but they generally are quite knowledgeable and every single problem I've encountered with games so far that I didn't find a solution to myself in forums or on the web, they managed to sort out with a few suggestions to try.
Hope this helps.
Is there anyone out there that has been able to sort this out? It would make me very happy if I could just click on play and the game loaded.....................(I can but dream!)
By the way, my pc uses Windows 7 and I've updated graphic drivers.
- Install game
- patch game
- Install free DLC
- patch DLC
- Install Hearts of Stone
- Patch Hearts of Stone
- Install Blood and Wine
- patch Blood and Wine
After this, the problems I had with the game went away. Not sure what the cause of the problem was, but that fixed it. If you can't get the game to work your best bet is to contact GOG support at the link at the bottom of the page for 'Contact Us' and they should get back to you within 24-48 business hours Polish time zone.
Some game breaking bugs were allegedly fixed in more recent patches. I finished the game quite a while ago (but not the expansions) and never encountered any game breaking bugs, but I did encounter two side-quest breaking bugs which I don't know if they ever got fixed or not but they did not hold back finishing the game and were rather minor.
GOG support is the best way to handle problems with getting games to run if you exhaust options on your own though, they're pretty great about it. Doesn't mean they can resolve an issue guaranteed or anything but they generally are quite knowledgeable and every single problem I've encountered with games so far that I didn't find a solution to myself in forums or on the web, they managed to sort out with a few suggestions to try.
Hope this helps. Thanks for this, I am currently reinstalling/ updating the game; I've backed up all my savegames so uninstalled everything. I'll see if it'll start and take it from there. I have been in touch with GOG support but they recommnended contacting CDPR as the problem wasn't resolved through them. Whoever I've been in contact with from CDPR has been to put it lightly, a bit hopeless so if I still continue to have the same problem I'll try and take it further. I've invested quite a lot of time with this and it would be good to sort it!
Ravenjay
Just as a comparison, I played Skyrim all the way through from December 2014 until about March 2015 and according to Steam I put in 645 hours. Of that probably 575-600 was actual game play with the rest idle time eating with the game paused etc. Skyrim was an amazing fun game experience, one of the best I've had to date. Having said that, the game was also the buggiest game I have ever played. I got fairly far into the game before I encountered any bugs that I actually noticed up front but eventually I did, and then started hitting them every few days another one completely unreleated, and another and another. Many of them were minor in nature and not game breaking per se but annoying still. But eventually I started hitting terrible game breaking bugs and had to hit Google to search for help with them. With every single bug I encountered, I found tonnes of posts online about it with people seeking help for the same or similar issue, and most of them ultimately lead me to one of two huge Skyrim wikis that documented most of the game including known bugs with various quests etc. and if any solution to the problem was known they posted how to work around or fix it.
Fortunately for me, most of the game breaking bugs I encountered were fixable via going into the game's console and typing in a number of obscure commands or similar, possibly having to do some dinking around to get back to where I was or whatever. It really broke the immersion in the game and often got me frustrated or angry, but the game was awesome so my frustration waned as I went back to enjoying the game until the next major bug. One of the worst bugs I encountered was at the mage school in Winterhold or whatever it's called, where a battle between the mages and a dragon attacking the school resulted in the archmage that I needed to talk to to complete a quest getting killed and his body somehow magically getting thrown into the inside of the building walls at a location not reachable by the player so I could not talk to him nor even interact with his dead body. It was a rare bug that some people hit and others didn't, and I was one that hit it. Massive frustration. The only fix was to go back to an ancient 1-2 week old save game and lose dozens if not over a hundred hours of gameplay to redo the part that screws up and hope it didn't screw up again. It screwed up one more time for me, and another reload of a save I got past it, but what an ordeal. Then I had to make up all the quests and progress of the lost week or so's worth of gameplay. I was soooo pissed! :)
Anyhow, that kind of thing continued over and over again on almost a daily basis until I finished the game although most of them were fixed or worked around with console commands. Things like having to go kill a bandit chief in a quest to complete it, when I had already found and killed him before I had obtained the quest and the game didn't register he was dead. Had to go find where he was supposed to be, find his dead body, then issue a command in the game console to bring him back to life and instantly kill him to register the death. I could go on for hours and hours of all the Skyrim bugs I remember encountering, it was a nightmare. But... despite that, the game was amazing and I did eventually complete it. My final save games are still plagued with unfinished optional quests that had quest breaking bugs and other problems though, so I played the after game for a while and then retired the game without finishing every single optional quest.
I mention all of that only to contrast it with The Witcher 3. The Witcher 3 was a much larger game world and game IMHO according to all accounts, size of the maps etc. however in my own personal experience playing the original game patch version and the patches that came out while I was on my playthrough from release day up until about 6 weeks later I did encounter a handful of bugs, but most of them were silly graphical errors, floating heads and bodies in Novigrad, some Roach glitches and other odd things that were annoying but not game breaking. A very few number of crash to desktops, and my whole playthrough I only encountered one game breaking bug which was following Triss through the Novigrad sewers at one point she blocks the doorway you're both supposed to go through, telling you to 'come on, lets go' or something like that but you can't because she's blocking the friggen way. I reloaded a savegame that was like 10-15minutes old and redid the sewers and didn't encounter the problem the next time. I'm not sure if I encountered any other cock-blocks in the game at all that were main-quest game breaking or not. I did encounter a few other side quest breaking bugs, but they were just the game not properly registering the quest I completed. One was something not registering me reaching a point in a lake on Undvik or something, that's still unregistered in my final save game I think unless a later patch fixed it (never checked). Don't remember the others. Most of the games bugs were minor in nature and about 1/20th as annoying as the multitude of bugs in Skyrim.
None of that will help your problem of course if you're experiencing a game breaker, but if anything I hope it gives some consolation that game breaking bugs in The Witcher 3 are seemingly very rare from many folks experiences and CDPR seems to have been quick to address many of them in the various patches they've released. Hopefully they continue to support the game into the future as well as they have to date and the issue you're having gets resolved though. I wouldn't want to hit it myself in my next playthrough.
Best of luck with finding a solution!
Just as a comparison, I played Skyrim all the way through from December 2014 until about March 2015 and according to Steam I put in 645 hours. Of that probably 575-600 was actual game play with the rest idle time eating with the game paused etc. Skyrim was an amazing fun game experience, one of the best I've had to date. Having said that, the game was also the buggiest game I have ever played. I got fairly far into the game before I encountered any bugs that I actually noticed up front but eventually I did, and then started hitting them every few days another one completely unreleated, and another and another. Many of them were minor in nature and not game breaking per se but annoying still. But eventually I started hitting terrible game breaking bugs and had to hit Google to search for help with them. With every single bug I encountered, I found tonnes of posts online about it with people seeking help for the same or similar issue, and most of them ultimately lead me to one of two huge Skyrim wikis that documented most of the game including known bugs with various quests etc. and if any solution to the problem was known they posted how to work around or fix it.
Fortunately for me, most of the game breaking bugs I encountered were fixable via going into the game's console and typing in a number of obscure commands or similar, possibly having to do some dinking around to get back to where I was or whatever. It really broke the immersion in the game and often got me frustrated or angry, but the game was awesome so my frustration waned as I went back to enjoying the game until the next major bug. One of the worst bugs I encountered was at the mage school in Winterhold or whatever it's called, where a battle between the mages and a dragon attacking the school resulted in the archmage that I needed to talk to to complete a quest getting killed and his body somehow magically getting thrown into the inside of the building walls at a location not reachable by the player so I could not talk to him nor even interact with his dead body. It was a rare bug that some people hit and others didn't, and I was one that hit it. Massive frustration. The only fix was to go back to an ancient 1-2 week old save game and lose dozens if not over a hundred hours of gameplay to redo the part that screws up and hope it didn't screw up again. It screwed up one more time for me, and another reload of a save I got past it, but what an ordeal. Then I had to make up all the quests and progress of the lost week or so's worth of gameplay. I was soooo pissed! :)
Anyhow, that kind of thing continued over and over again on almost a daily basis until I finished the game although most of them were fixed or worked around with console commands. Things like having to go kill a bandit chief in a quest to complete it, when I had already found and killed him before I had obtained the quest and the game didn't register he was dead. Had to go find where he was supposed to be, find his dead body, then issue a command in the game console to bring him back to life and instantly kill him to register the death. I could go on for hours and hours of all the Skyrim bugs I remember encountering, it was a nightmare. But... despite that, the game was amazing and I did eventually complete it. My final save games are still plagued with unfinished optional quests that had quest breaking bugs and other problems though, so I played the after game for a while and then retired the game without finishing every single optional quest.
I mention all of that only to contrast it with The Witcher 3. The Witcher 3 was a much larger game world and game IMHO according to all accounts, size of the maps etc. however in my own personal experience playing the original game patch version and the patches that came out while I was on my playthrough from release day up until about 6 weeks later I did encounter a handful of bugs, but most of them were silly graphical errors, floating heads and bodies in Novigrad, some Roach glitches and other odd things that were annoying but not game breaking. A very few number of crash to desktops, and my whole playthrough I only encountered one game breaking bug which was following Triss through the Novigrad sewers at one point she blocks the doorway you're both supposed to go through, telling you to 'come on, lets go' or something like that but you can't because she's blocking the friggen way. I reloaded a savegame that was like 10-15minutes old and redid the sewers and didn't encounter the problem the next time. I'm not sure if I encountered any other cock-blocks in the game at all that were main-quest game breaking or not. I did encounter a few other side quest breaking bugs, but they were just the game not properly registering the quest I completed. One was something not registering me reaching a point in a lake on Undvik or something, that's still unregistered in my final save game I think unless a later patch fixed it (never checked). Don't remember the others. Most of the games bugs were minor in nature and about 1/20th as annoying as the multitude of bugs in Skyrim.
None of that will help your problem of course if you're experiencing a game breaker, but if anything I hope it gives some consolation that game breaking bugs in The Witcher 3 are seemingly very rare from many folks experiences and CDPR seems to have been quick to address many of them in the various patches they've released. Hopefully they continue to support the game into the future as well as they have to date and the issue you're having gets resolved though. I wouldn't want to hit it myself in my next playthrough.
Best of luck with finding a solution! Thanks for your reply, I myself have played Skyrim and I have to smile here as I didn't encounter any bugs that were serious enough to spoil the game which I finished some time back now. I'm actually playing ESO online which is fun but not as detailed and realistic as The Witcher 3 which is awesome. I'm also playing DragonAge Inquisition which is immersive and fun and thank goodness I've got these to fall back on now I can't play Witcher! I will continue to search for solutions with the hope that I'll be able to finish it one day - and do the DLC's which sound good.
All the best!
The Witcher is one of the most well-known RPG series of all time. All 3 games have been loved by the gaming community for great reasons: Amazing characters and story, great gameplay and believable world. And the latest entry, The Witcher 3, is no different.
When it came out, The Witcher 3 took the gaming industry by storm. An amazing story, living characters, an astonishing and huge world, fun quests and great gameplay combined to form one of the best video games to date. Even though it was close to being perfect, we cannot say that there weren’t small areas that were open to improvement. And as always, modding communities are here just for that, to tweak the game and to create a lot of crazy, unneeded-but-fun mods. So we decided to put together some of the best The Witcher 3 mods for you. You can also check games like Witcher 3.
How to Install The Witcher 3 Mods
If you do not want to deal with Nexus Mod Manager, you are in luck since installing The Witcher 3 mods manually is really easy.
1. Find the installation path of your game. For Steam users, it should be C:Program Files(x86)SteamsteamappscommonThe Witcher 3.
2. In there, create a new folder and name it “mods”.
3. Place your mod’s file inside the newly created “mods” folder. Be sure it is just one big folder instead of multiple different folders.
Nexus Mod Manager
First and foremost, you need Nexus Mod Manager if you are planning on modding The Witcher 3. Since all of the mods are in Nexus, this tool makes it a lot easier to download, install, update and manage your mods. Some mods can be incompatible with each other or may require certain installing orders, and this software makes it all easier.
Download it here.
13 Best The Witcher 3 Mods You Must Install Now
1. Debug Console Enabler
Like the first one, this is one is another must. It enables you to use the debug console to use hundreds of different console commands to fix stuff and do various different tasks like changing settings, freezing time or spawning enemies to take cool videos or screenshots.
Download it here.
2. Enemies of Rivia
While The Witcher 3 has a great combat, it can get repetitive after hundreds of hours of gameplay -like every game- and even on the hardest difficulty, you can master it pretty quickly. This mod makes each encounter much more exciting and challenging: enemies are smarter and faster and do different attacks as they level up instead of just hitting harder. Perfect for a second playthrough and can even be great for your first time if you love challenging combat.
Download it here.
3. AutoLoot
As its name suggests, AutoLoot does the looting for you after each fight and you can customize what you want to loot from your enemies’ bodies with filters. It also does not steal while auto-looting, so you do not have to worry.
Download it here.
4. More Shadows
The Witcher 3 has great graphics and lighting but for optimization sake, developers did not add shadows to every light source. This mod adds shadows to every light source you can imagine: torches on walls, torches that guards carry, large braziers in cities, candles, lamps and also tweaks shadow fade and autohide distances for all adjusted light sources. If you have a strong PC, this is one of the best mods to improve immersion.
Download it here.
5. More Blood
The Witcher 3 is an adult game from every perspective: brutal combat, grown-up characters and adult themes in its characters’ relationships. What it lacks is more blood. If you like gore like me in your melee combat, More Blood adds different blood trails for different enemy types and now Geralt can be covered in blood. Like the creator of this mod says it, “Tarantino Directors Cut”. Combine this with mod below, and you are in for a more cinematic combat.
Download it here.
6. Critical Slow Motion Combat Mod
This mod slows time every time Geralt lands a critical strike on an enemy, adding a more cinematic feeling to combat and making each critical hit feel more satisfying. Not a huge change, but definitely makes combat more fun.
Download it here.
7. HD Reworked
This mod reworks the textures and models to higher resolutions and brightness. It improves a lot of environmental textures like stones, rocks, bricks, roofs, walls etc. and adds new reflections and effects on water. It does not change the art style but even though it is optimized well to not cause any unnecessary VRAM losses, it can still add quite a bit of extra load on your computer so be sure that you have a strong PC.
Download it here.
8. The Witcher 3 Enhanced Edition
This is one of the biggest mods for this game. It completely reforms the combat in many areas with the aim of increasing realism and immersion while not ruining the fun. It removes auto-targeting, so you can attack your enemies from all angles and Gerald attacks where you point him to. Dodging does not make you invulnerable anymore, there are 2 new attacks, being the kick and a new heavy attack, you can jump in combat etc. You can check the full list on the mod page below. It is perfect for a new playthrough.
Download it here.
9. Ghost Mode
This overhaul mod changes and rebalances a lot of stuff without taking away from the vanilla experience. The list is extremely long so you can check it on the mod page but some of the important changes are: quests levels and rewards are reworked, a lot of textual inconsistencies and typos are fixed, new damage formula and combat changes, reworked economy and ranged combat, difficulties are reworked etc. You can use it with an existing save file but it changes so much that it deserves its own playthrough.
Download it here.
Witcher 3 Mods Not Showing Up In Game
10. FCR3
Developed by a senior gameplay designer at CD Projekt Red, this mod doesn’t aim for any deep and intrusive changes like Ghost Mode or Enhanced Edition, instead, it is meant to maintain original feeling of the game, sometimes going closer to the original intention behind the designs. It focuses mainly on fixing immersion breakers, buffing underperforming skills and items, cosmetic changes and bug fixing. It rebalances some stuff and makes the world more dangerous. If you want small changes that won’t change your gameplay but will improve your experience, FCR3 is your mod.
Download it here.
11. Increased Draw Distance
Another mod that describes what it does on its name perfectly. This mod increases your draw distance (duh). Since the world is huge and sometimes you can find yourself in wide open areas, the default maximum draw distance can seem a little bit underwhelming. Of course, this was done to optimize the game better, but if you have a monster PC, you can install this mod to see a lot more details in the faraway lands.
Download it here.
12. Realistic Weather
This mod changes the way different weather conditions look like and adds extra weathers to all of the regions. It adds more snow weather to Skellige, adds foggy weathers to every region of the game, changes the way rain and storm look like and some other minor tweaks. It requires Blood and Wine expansion to work, but if you do not have that awesome DLC already, you should go and buy it before even attempting to mod the vanilla game.
Download it here.
13. Fantasy Graphics
This is one of my personal mods; it doesn’t change a lot but it certainly adds a new layer of atmosphere by small tweaks. It rebalances the colors and removes the blue tint from the game and saturates most colors. Bloom effects are more expressive and interior lighting is better. All of these combine to create a more fantasy-like look which suits the game better in my opinion.
Download it here.
Conclusion:
There you have it, some of the best The Witcher 3 mods to improve graphics, visual effects, balancing, combat and a few that completely overhauls the game. While the overhauls require new playthroughs and deliver a fresh experience, the others can be implemented to your existing save files to tweak minor stuff without any problems. Whatever you would like to change, there is probably a mod for it since the modding community for TW3 is quite big. If you enjoyed one of the mods listed here or think that we missed a great one, let us know below!