Steam Mods and addons not working.

[pete312]

Hi,

I am trying to get addons and mods working (although im not sure what the difference is), but i cant seem to get the game to recognize them.  steam saves the game into C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Kerbal Space Program\ and although i have put a few addons in the GameData dir, the only one it loads at startup is this one C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Kerbal Space Program\GameData\Squad

Here is a directory listing of the GameData on my machine but none of the addons will load at startup. Does anyone know what Im doing wrong here?

Directory of C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Kerbal Space Program\GameData

08/21/2017  05:31 PM    <DIR>          .
08/21/2017  05:31 PM    <DIR>          ..
08/21/2017  05:30 PM    <DIR>          CommunityCategoryKit
08/19/2017  11:27 AM    <DIR>          KAS
08/18/2017  07:55 AM    <DIR>          KerbalEngineer
08/21/2017  05:30 PM    <DIR>          KIS
08/19/2017  11:12 AM    <DIR>          MechJeb2
05/26/2017  11:28 AM            75,264 ModuleManager.2.8.0.dll
08/21/2017  05:31 PM         1,815,624 ModuleManager.ConfigCache
08/21/2017  05:31 PM            71,212 ModuleManager.ConfigSHA
08/21/2017  05:31 PM             8,882 ModuleManager.Physics
08/21/2017  05:31 PM            28,994 ModuleManager.TechTree
08/21/2017  05:10 PM    <DIR>          MyFlag
07/09/2017  03:44 PM    <DIR>          Squad
               5 File(s)      1,999,976 bytes
               9 Dir(s)  75,813,904,384 bytes free

 

Many thanks

Pete
 

Edited August 24, 2017 by pete312

[monstah]

Hi, and welcome!

Thread moved to Support sub-forum, where it's more likely to get help

[Foxster]

I think all of those mods are available via CKAN, which will install and update the mods for you. 

 

[Jas0n]

Did you put the zip files in the Gamedata folder? If you did make sure you unzip them. But it might have to do with your game being in program files.

[pete312]

14 hours ago, Foxster said:

I think all of those mods are available via CKAN, which will install and update the mods for you. 

 

Thanks.  This method worked.  Still not sure why it dosnt work the manual way..  

Pete

[pete312]

14 hours ago, Jas0n said:

Did you put the zip files in the Gamedata folder? If you did make sure you unzip them. But it might have to do with your game being in program files.

Yes Jas0n. I did put them in folder. the files above dir command shows they are unziped. However Foxsters method worked.

 

Thanks

Pete