What step am i missing to load a weapon mod without crashing at main menu?

[Paul88]

I’ve been trying to get a custom weapon mod to load properly, but it keeps crashing my game right at the main menu. I’ve checked that all the dependencies are installed and my game version is correct, so I’m not sure what step I’m missing in the installation process.

[MarkET]

I’ve chased a crash at the menu before. Even when everything said compatible, one weapon mod would pull in something the core game couldn’t stitch together and the menu would freeze. It wasn’t obvious what file was at fault, just that it happened after the mod loaded.

[JerryYS]

I did a test with only that mod enabled on a clean profile and the crash still happened, so I started removing assets in the mod folder one by one and found a texture file that wasn’t present in the pack but was referenced by the mod.

[Harper_S]

Once I found a conflicting script in two weapon mods that tried to patch the same thing, and the game would crash at startup. Removing one of the mods solved it for me, even though both seemed fine separately.

[PatrickT]

Maybe the real issue isn’t the mod at all but the launcher caching an old build. Have you tried resetting the launcher cache or forcing a re-download of the mod to see if the problem sticks?