Game is Vanilla but marked modified

[Eggy_SE1]

1.5 English (326172) The Young Gun
I play my game unmodded but keep getting marked as modified during play and am unable to do new ventures (have done 2 and lost a ship on the 3rd). Its getting very frustrating as I have to keep rolling back to an unmarked save after several hours of play. I have no idea why or when the game decides it is modified as I only realise it has happened when I go to start a venture.
Save games kept.

[Anhk-Khaelgorn]

Have you installed any mods before?
If yes, check if any of them are enabled. Or try to remove/replace 'extensions' directory from game root folder.

[Eggy_SE1]

No Mods installed at any point.
Has happened again whilst claiming ships in Second Contact II Flashpoint. Autosave occured, checked didn't show as modified carried on, after claiming Minataur Sentinal BVR 478 another Autosave, checked, showed modified, went back to previous Autosave, showed modified. Not sure how that happened but am going to try to narrow it down.

[HBK]

I can confirm that an unmodded game marked my save as "modified" at some point.

I didn’t install any mod at all (the game basically just came out ...), and of course I didn’t try to tamper with save files.

It’s no big deal on my end, as I don’t care about ventures, but it’s a nasty bug for those who do.

[magictrip]

It's a wild guess, but it's not your antivirus or similar software opening your file and doing some checks on it? If that is the case you may try to exclude that folder from the Antivirus.

[FlynTie]

Add -logfile x4-game.log to your commandline parameters and launch the game. Once you are in the main menu tab out of the game and go to your documents folder, open the file called x4-game.log and see if there any entries in it that say "File I/O: Could not find file: ...."

If that's the case verify your game files either through steam or GoG Galaxy.

[Eggy_SE1]

Add -logfile x4-game.log to your commandline parameters and launch the game. Once you are in the main menu tab out of the game and go to your documents folder, open the file called x4-game.log and see if there any entries in it that say "File I/O: Could not find file: ...."

If that's the case verify your game files either through steam or GoG Galaxy.

Thanks for that, interesting the amount of listed errors, 1 file failed to validate. May resolve another issue that was not bothering me! Fingers crossed.

[nathan0]

Version: 1.50 (326472)
Scenario: The Young Gun
Simulated Time: 30D 20H 46Min

Platform: Steam
OS: Windows 10 Pro 1803 (17134.407)

Completely Vanilla game and save files. Original installation since release. No use of any mods and I have not touched any of the save files themselves. I have done multiple file integrity checks in steam (including after a steam restart and machine reboot), but none of the files fail the check.

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Logfile started, time Fri Dec 28 00:02:54 2018
[General] 0.00 'GeForce GTX 960' NVidia-driver v417.35.0 (Vulkan 1.1.84) check=1
[General] 7.86 ======================================
[=ERROR=] 7.86 File I/O: Could not find file '.\ui\addons\ego_eventmonitor\ui.xml'
[General] 7.86 ======================================
[General] 7.86 ======================================
[=ERROR=] 7.86 XLib::XMLInputOpenCallback(): Failed to open the file: ui/addons/ego_eventmonitor/ui.xml
[General] 7.86 ======================================
[General] 7.86 ======================================
[=ERROR=] 7.86 AddonManager::LoadAddonInfos(): Failed to load addon info file 'ui/addons/ego_eventmonitor/ui.xml.(xml|xml.gz)': 'Error loading from XML file 'ui/addons/ego_eventmonitor/ui.xml'. Check the log for further information.'
[General] 7.86 ======================================
[General] 2666761.28 ======================================
[=ERROR=] 2666761.28 Error in MD cue md.Cover.ControlEntityAdded<inst:3909e>: Error evaluating <event_control_entity_added> event object: Component 0x0 does not exist any more
* Expression: $Object
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[=ERROR=] 2666761.28 Error in MD cue md.Cover.ControlEntityAdded<inst:39107>: Error evaluating <event_control_entity_added> event object: Component 0x0 does not exist any more
* Expression: $Object
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[=ERROR=] 2666761.28 Error in MD cue md.Cover.ControlEntityAdded<inst:39115>: Error evaluating <event_control_entity_added> event object: Component 0x0 does not exist any more
* Expression: $Object
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[=ERROR=] 2666761.28 Error in MD cue md.Cover.ControlEntityAdded<inst:3915b>: Error evaluating <event_control_entity_added> event object: Component 0x0 does not exist any more
* Expression: $Object
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[=ERROR=] 2666761.28 Error in MD cue md.Cover.ControlEntityAdded<inst:39169>: Error evaluating <event_control_entity_added> event object: Component 0x0 does not exist any more
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[=ERROR=] 2666761.28 Error in MD cue md.Cover.ControlEntityAdded<inst:391a1>: Error evaluating <event_control_entity_added> event object: Component 0x0 does not exist any more
* Expression: $Object
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[=ERROR=] 2666761.28 Error in MD cue md.Cover.ControlEntityAdded<inst:39211>: Error evaluating <event_control_entity_added> event object: Component 0x0 does not exist any more
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[=ERROR=] 2666761.28 Error in MD cue md.Cover.ControlEntityAdded<inst:3925e>: Error evaluating <event_control_entity_added> event object: Component 0x0 does not exist any more
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[=ERROR=] 2666761.28 Error in MD cue md.Cover.ControlEntityAdded<inst:39265>: Error evaluating <event_control_entity_added> event object: Component 0x0 does not exist any more
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[=ERROR=] 2666761.28 Error in MD cue md.Cover.ControlEntityLost<inst:3909f>: Error evaluating <event_control_entity_removed> event object: Component 0x0 does not exist any more
* Expression: $Object
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[=ERROR=] 2666761.28 Error in MD cue md.Cover.ControlEntityLost<inst:39108>: Error evaluating <event_control_entity_removed> event object: Component 0x0 does not exist any more
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[HBK]

Currently running Version 1.50 of course, but I noticed this tag appearance around 1.31~1.32.

Game start was "The Young Gun".

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Logfile started, time Fri Dec 28 09:54:11 2018
[General] 0.00 'GeForce RTX 2070' NVidia-driver v417.35.0 (Vulkan 1.1.84) check=1
[General] 0.00 ======================================
[=ERROR=] 0.00 [Movie.LoadFormat] File videos/logo_egosoft.mkv: avformat_open_input = -2 'No such file or directory'
[General] 0.00 ======================================
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[=ERROR=] 0.00 [Movie.LoadFormat] File videos/logo_egosoft.mkv: avformat_open_input = -2 'No such file or directory'
[General] 0.00 ======================================
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[=ERROR=] 0.00 [Video.Start] Failed to start movie -2
[General] 0.00 ======================================
[General] 3.67 ======================================
[=ERROR=] 3.67 File I/O: Could not find file '.\ui\addons\ego_eventmonitor\ui.xml'
[General] 3.67 ======================================
[General] 3.67 ======================================
[=ERROR=] 3.67 XLib::XMLInputOpenCallback(): Failed to open the file: ui/addons/ego_eventmonitor/ui.xml
[General] 3.67 ======================================
[General] 3.67 ======================================
[=ERROR=] 3.67 AddonManager::LoadAddonInfos(): Failed to load addon info file 'ui/addons/ego_eventmonitor/ui.xml.(xml|xml.gz)': 'Error loading from XML file 'ui/addons/ego_eventmonitor/ui.xml'. Check the log for further information.'
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Egosoft logo removal is obviously my fault (or is it really? ear bleeding isn't exactly a pleasant experience). If that's what's giving the modified tag, then I have no words ...

Second one definitely isn't MY fault. I didn't want to mod the game (yet) and have no idea where it came from.

Also, as I already mentioned, saves weren't tempered with.

Oh and of course no beta testing.

I don't really care for ventures, and was probably going to mod the game at some point. But hey, seeing an Ego game telling me "you cheated!" when it glitched in the first place is pretty rich.

And as I'm a good little tester, I new gamed the basic argon start "The Young Gun". The menu tells me "Not Modified" (well, it doesn't tell me "Modified" at least).

I saved and loaded that all new game and the game still tells me it's NOT "Modified", which is consistent with the save file:

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<modified modified="0"/>

So what's indicated in that log (ui.xml thingy) doesn't seem to cause the issue.

I guess the hash was just miscalculated at some point ...

Best regards, cheers, and don't drink too much!

PS: I really hope Egosoft will do something about this. I'm having a blast with their damned game!

[afarina1]

Exact thing happened to me. No mods ever, suddenly modified and cant do ventures.

[XGamer]

Never had this issue before, but now that I installed it on a new system, the first time I started the game it said modified right off the get go in the start menu. Exited the game, verified integrity with steam, started the game tag is gone. Load Save, continue to play and everything seemed fine. Saved a few, loaded again and didn't see the modified tag. When I wanted to go check on ventures it claims to be modified and also has the modified tag in the start menu until you restart, which will remove the modified line from the start menu. Interestingly enough every save game saved on the new system has <modified modified="1"/> in the save file, whereas those created on the previous one have it at 0.

So for some reason it appears as though X4 either doesn't like newer (more powerful) systems or Windows 10 (who does...).
In any case I expect Egosoft to fix this and return my game to an unmodified state. I did not modify anything ever in X4 and randomly got my save marked as (sort of) modified. And no, I'm not going to settle for having to continue from an older save!

[Kotoa]

I'm having the same issue, basically installed the game played 12 hours of gameplay and not touched a single game file.
I've barely experienced the base game yet, no need to modify anything, but my game is showing modified.
I noticed a couple of days ago but it suddently occured to me that it may affect online features... Hope they sort this out or it'd be extremely frustrating to start over, not sure I would.

[afarina1]

Hopefully this is becoming wide spread enough that they will be forced to fix it.

[Tristavius]

Used a single mod on my 1.0 Young Gun save game (to change the module colors during scanning).

Still have 'Modified' on my new 1.32 Explorer Game despite the mods not being installed, having never been used on this save, and the old saves no longer existing. I also very much doubt the mod in question changes saves.

[Belgarath]

Currently running Version 1.50 of course, but I noticed this tag appearance around 1.31~1.32.

Game start was "The Young Gun".

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Egosoft logo removal is obviously my fault (or is it really? ear bleeding isn't exactly a pleasant experience). If that's what's giving the modified tag, then I have no words ...

Second one definitely isn't MY fault. I didn't want to mod the game (yet) and have no idea where it came from.

Also, as I already mentioned, saves weren't tempered with.

Oh and of course no beta testing.

I don't really care for ventures, and was probably going to mod the game at some point. But hey, seeing an Ego game telling me "you cheated!" when it glitched in the first place is pretty rich.

And as I'm a good little tester, I new gamed the basic argon start "The Young Gun". The menu tells me "Not Modified" (well, it doesn't tell me "Modified" at least).

I saved and loaded that all new game and the game still tells me it's NOT "Modified", which is consistent with the save file:

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<modified modified="0"/>

So what's indicated in that log (ui.xml thingy) doesn't seem to cause the issue.

I guess the hash was just miscalculated at some point ...

Best regards, cheers, and don't drink too much!

PS: I really hope Egosoft will do something about this. I'm having a blast with their damned game!

There's no need to delete the intro movie. Just add the command line parameter of -skipintro to the Shortcut/Steam Launch Options. It turns that ear-blasting thing off.

[mike2k4u]

Hey

i have encountered the modified issue myself
no mods no beta not tempered with save games

what i did was: by mistake pressing keys like ctrl or shift or both during loading or saving of the game (dont remember exactly was it saving or loading atm)
to resolve it what i did is load older save and it "fixed" it for me for now

hope it helps

[afarina1]

Used a single mod on my 1.0 Young Gun save game (to change the module colors during scanning).

Still have 'Modified' on my new 1.32 Explorer Game despite the mods not being installed, having never been used on this save, and the old saves no longer existing. I also very much doubt the mod in question changes saves.

You modified it at some point so it will always be modified no matter what.

The problem others such as myself are having is that we have NEVER modded or messed with any game files and somehow our saves are now marked modified.

Rolling back is really a no go either.

[HBK]

There's no need to delete the intro movie. Just add the command line parameter of -skipintro to the Shortcut/Steam Launch Options. It turns that ear-blasting thing off.

Ok thanks. Did that. Works like a charm!

[HBK]

To clarify, when I first got the "modified" tag on my save files (or rather, when I noticed it), I ran a Steam integrity check and the only file found modified was the Egosoft logo video (which I removed willingly from day one), a modification which I already tested NOT to mark save files as modified. Also, the game start menu did not indicate the game as "modified".

[Solok]

Version 1.50 (326172)
I have no mods (don't even know how to mod yet, only had the game a couple weeks), just changed the display mode from Fullscreen to Windowed and now my game shows as being (modified).
I changed back to Fullscreen and also Borderless Windowed but my game still shows (modified).