Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Modding I tried a mod, now game is destroyed

So I installed the game and played a while on the first day and everything was fine. But I really didn't want to do the story for the first time with regular characters. I wanted to use IRL characters; characters that were rolled and couldn't be reproduced with the point system. So when I saw the Full Release Mod Fixer on Nexus, I decided to try it with the chooseyourstats mod. Suddenly the game performance got so bad it was unplayable. Five to fifteen second delays after every click and the choppiest video you've ever seen. So I took out the mods.

I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling, verifying the files, and erasing the mods folder entirely. I noticed the slow HDD option under video options and I turned my video down to low settings. Nothing seems to work. The game is now permanently unplayable. The video is now so slow, that the audio on the intro cut scene goes completely out of sink.

Aside from the obvious "why is there not a console command mode?" so I could make these changes in game and without mods... does anyone know how I can get the game to function normally again?

HELP !!!!

Have you tried removing the save files of your previous character(back them up somewhere the game can't reach them) and then delete them in-game and see if that fixes it? It sounds like the mod was messing with your character stats so save files may have been affected and could be the reason why issues persist after mod removal and clean reinstall.

First, try theese steps here - https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1086940/view/3655285941429712390

Also try checking the "Documents\Larian Studios" to see if it has any files from the mods, mine is empty, so try deleting everything in it if it has anything (do a backup if in doubt).

I hope this helps.

Thanks... I erased the cache files and switched to using Vulkan. Everything works fine now, even with the mods.

So the hotfix of the 4.0 hotfix (I didn't play on the short-lived 4.0 original) is going and I have the same problems again, though not as severe. Very laggy, even with the performance turned down. Nothing seems to be fixing it. I've noticed that the Mod Fixer files that everyone is supposed to use are showing up on the left side of the BG3ModManager list coloured in brown. When it's running properly they don't show at all. Any idea what's going on and what I can do? I've tried the recommended fixes, but no luck so far.

First: The Choose Your Stats mod works just fine. I used it in EA and I use it now.
Second: Full Release Mod Fixer also works fine and it does show up in the BG3MM. It shows at the bottom of the left hand pane in the 'Overrides' section and it should have a brown background.
Third: You need to make sure your game works properly before installing mods. This applies to any game.
Fourth: Learn how to use your mod manager - what it does, what the various parts are and what the colours mean. This also applies to any game.

First: Never said "choose your stats" didn't work. It's customary when asking for help on the internet to provide baseline info so people who want to help don't have to ask a lot of questions first.
Second: As above, except that at one point the mod fixer from early access didn't show up at all on the list.
Third: I did.
Fourth: Always good to know who the trolls are.

For the rest of the community, I followed a hunch and erased the empty Baldur's Gate 3 folder in Documents. Problem solved.

Your thread title mentions "a mod" (singular) and your OP mentions two mods (plural) by name so the inference is that you are blaming at least one mod.
1. My point about CYS was that it works and we can rule out the mod as a suspect.
2. Ditto with FRMF.
3. I meant removing all mods and making sure the vanilla game works. This is especially important with BG3 as hotfixes continue to cause problems and most people are foolish enough to have automated updates on the go.
4. You are the one with the problem and you are the one who stated incorrect expectations about how FRMF should appear or not in your mod manager.

Everything I wrote is standard trouble-shooting procedure when modding games but somehow this makes me a troll. Grow up, son.

"For the rest of the community, I followed a hunch and erased the empty Baldur's Gate 3 folder in Documents. Problem solved."
Neither CYS or FRMF put any files in the Documents folder. As to how exactly an empty folder can influence anything is beyond me (a retired IT tech). But you stick with your hunches and I will stick with tried and tested methods and logic.