Non- Steam mods crash game

[Beardsteamer]

Yup, that's pretty much it.
I have X4.
It's on my Steam account.
Workshop subscriptions work just fine.
Anything else will stop the game loading. I don't even get the loud Egosoft moment.
Yes, I've done what the mod authors tell me to.

So, as I know you lot are Eminent Geniuses, please tell me how I can run both Steam and , say Nexus- or Egosoft-site-derived options?
I have peanut butter cookies!

[euclid]

Hi Beardsteamer,

How did you install the mod(s) and which mod(s) are you trying to install?

Here is how it suppose to be:
1# Create an extensions folder either in the X4 document folder (where your saved games are) or, if that did not work, in the X4 main root folder.
2# Extract the mod(s) into that folder.
3# Start X4 and activae the mod(s) in the initial menu.

Cheers Euclid

[Beardsteamer]

Well!
That was fast, and informative.

I obtained some mods from the Steam Workshop, by clicking "subscribe".
I obtained some from here, and from Nexus, by manually downloading them, opening the .zip or .rar and putting the folder in the "extensions" folder, in the "Program (x86)>Steam>steamapps>common>X4 Foundations" line.

I just did a search in My Documents, and found an X4 folder there. I'll make an additional "extensions" folder, and try tater trader.

This may take a while. I started having PTSD symptoms about the time they announced X:Rebirth. (The two events are not related). It makes things a bit fuzzy, and time consuming. I'll get back when I've tried that, just...don't haud yer wisht if something else comes up!

Thanks
Beardsteamer

[Beardsteamer]

It worked!

For the first time, in my history with X4, masses of isolated discoveries were unified and correlated by a single guided principle, that of rigid deduction from explicitly stated assumptions.

Yeah, you are Euclid!

[Rastuasi]

Tatertrader breaks if put into the document folder version of extensions. Truthfully no mod should go there, but rather into the game's folder

[Beardsteamer]

That's good to know.
I've collected a couple that just won't come out to play, if I've put them in the Steam extensions folder.
Moving them to the one in Documents lets them do their thing happily.
I don't pretend to understand, I just smile indulgently and get on with baiting the Khaak.