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Installing Mods
This article explains how to install a mod. Please check the Supported Games list to make sure the game you want to mod is supported.
This step needs to be done only once.
Before installing your first mod, make sure that your game's path is ready. Open the game's directory (most of the time it is C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\<GAME NAME>) and create a new folder called mods. This folder should be put in the same directory that contains the \data\ folder and the game's EXE file.
Download the latest version of the mod manager and unpack it into your game's directory. The release zip will contain all the files necessary for mod installation. The ones you should focus on when installing a mod are RyuModManagerCLI.exe and ModLoadOrder.txt
Note: If ModLoadOrder.txt does not exist in the release zip, you can create a new empty txt file.
Unpack the mod into your \mods\ folder in the game's directory. If done correctly, your mods folder should have something similar to the following example:
\mods\ExampleMod\<mod files>
where \mods\ is in the same directory as the game's executable file. The mod's files will be inside a single folder, in this case called ExampleMod. If the archive you unpacked contained a lot of files/folders in its root, put them all inside a single folder in \mods\ and rename that folder to have the name of the mod.
Open the ModLoadOrder.txt file which was provided with the mod manager. Add your mod's name to the file on a single line. Here, the "mod's name" is the name of the folder that you put inside \mods\. The line should only contain the mod folder's name.
Example: ModLoadOrder.txt with 3 mods inside. Each of these mods has a folder with its name inside the \mods\ directory.
ExampleMod
ExampleMod2
MyNewMod
The line where you add the mod's name inside ModLoadOrder.txt determines the load order of its files. The LAST mod in the list has the HIGHEST priority. So in case of some file conflicts between mods, the mod with the highest priority will have its files guaranteed to be loaded.
In the above example, MyNewMod has the highest priority, and ExampleMod has the lowest priority.
This step is really simple. Just run RyuModManagerCLI.exe by double-clicking on it, and wait for the mods to be processed by the mod manager.
If you have done all of the previous steps correctly, you will be able to see the new mod applied when the game is launched.
This step needs to be done again whenever a new mod is installed/uninstalled, or whenever the ModLoadOrder.txt file is modified. Simply run RyuModManagerCLI.exe once before launching the game after making one of these changes, and the mods will be applied.