GeForceNow Region Packs updating everytime

[graceful veldt]

It’s me again. I have already described the problem a few days ago in CS2-questions.
I am playling via GeForceNow and since about one or two weeks the mods update everytime I start the game (what means I have to wait about 15 minutes before I can start playing otherwise the houses of the region packs will be white blocks) and I have to activate the mods manually in the mod menu because it says there is no active playset.
In addition everytime when I start the mod menu, I get a welcome to the mods Pop up, that shows everytime even though I checked „don‘t show again“.

Before the Chinese Pack all Region Packs were ready to go instantly and I need not to activate the mods. So something must have changed.
But what? And is there something I can do to prevent that? Some settings in the mod menu?
I mean, there will hardly be changes to the mods several times a day so that they have to be constantly updated.

[sharp bramble]

This is also happening to me.

[young parcel]

The same for me.

[verbal aurora]

GeForce is a cloud hosting platform. So I guess it have update or having difficulty finding your packs and things unless you give it a hand .
Shrugs

Maybe you guys can try to unsub from pdxmod playset and Download region packs ...

[round raven]

I have the same problem, been like this for weeks 🤦‍♂️

Hoping it will be fixed with an upcoming patch

[tame sandal]

did you file it as a bug

[wheat basin]

too many problem on geforceNOW

i already canceled my subrscription

[hardy sandal]

This will not be "fixed" because it's not a bug

Since the GFN machine's drive gets wiped after every session, the region packs have to be downloaded again every time you start playing

The only solution would be to designate them as DLCs so that they become part of the game itself instead of being (technically) mods

[pseudo surge]

i legit have to dig into DLC options and re-check everything. then get into the game. redownload all packs.

then go into mods and select said list as active.

then wait another 20 min before i can actually get into the game. takes like 30 min for me

[graceful veldt]

@hardy sandal Nope, sorry. It must be a bug.
It's only been like this since the China pack. Until then, I was able to start the game without having to update (not download, update!) all the region packs and manually select the active playset in the Mod settings.

Something has changed and I'm not going to be fobbed off with the explanation that it's because GeforceNow "forgets everything" after the end of the session and that's just normal because it's a streaming service. Then it would have been like this from the start and not just since the China pack.

I'm going to go through the procedure again and then, with a heavy heart, unsubscribe from all the region packs and log out of the mod area for the time being so that I don't have to wait at least 20 minutes every time before I can start playing.
Especially when the game crashes, which has been happening a lot lately, I have to reload everything from scratch. Unfortunately, this is not an acceptable situation.

DLC would be a solution, they work fine (at the moment).

@tame sandal Not yet. I don’t know how and where. Here on discord? Or is there an option ingame?

[hardy sandal]

Wdym by "update, not download"? I used GFN until the German pack came out I had to redownload the packs and then select the playset every time I started playing

[graceful veldt]

Like on the pictures in my OP it says update, not download from scratch.

Vielleicht „kurz“ auf Deutsch, da mich dein Profilbild annehmen lässt, dass du deutsch kannst; es fällt mir schwer, die richtigen Worte im englischen zu finden… 🙄

Es ist ja oben auf den Bildern zu sehen, dass die Mods aktualisiert werden.
Es ist also irgendwo hinterlegt, dass ich diese Regional-Packs mal abonniert und in der Folge geladen habe.
Es ist ja nicht so, dass ich jedes Mal die Mods komplett neu abonnieren müsste, weil GFN nichts davon weiß, dass ich die mal hatte. Sie müssen also nicht „heruntergeladen“ werden sondern werden aus irgendwelchen Gründen „aktualisiert“. Ja, letztlich läuft das im Ergebnis aufs Gleiche hinaus, wenn man es genau nimmt. GFN weiß aber anscheinend, dass ich die Mods „habe“.

Und wie gesagt, wenn das eine grundsätzliche Eigenheit von GFN wäre, hätte es von Anfang an so sein müssen. War es aber nicht. Frankreich, Deutschland, UK usw. waren nach dem erstmaligen Aktivieren bei jedem weiteren Start direkt verfügbar. Keine Wartezeit vorab, kein manuelles Aktivieren des aktiven Playsets nötig, kein „Willkommen bei den Mods“.
Das Problem besteht erst seit dem China-Pack. Irgendwas muss da passiert sein.

Sorry for switching the language. For those who do not understand German: I complained about the problem in German, that I already described above in English.

[sharp bramble]

Not only does it reupdate every time, GFN forgets that I have DLCs and I have to go into Steam from GFN to manually turn them on.

[brazen surge]

i have the same problem and its really annoying

[round raven]

Yep, totally agree.

Was fine before so it can be fine again. Fingers crossed it is adressed soon.

[round raven]

Update from a “GeForce Now ambassador”

Im so frustrated ffs

[hardy sandal]

What did I tell you

It's not a bug but intentional

[verbal aurora]

the grammer and english is a bit weird... it doesnt even have a period ...

I am not sure if they are an ambassador with that kinda english and grammer, if they are.. then thats an issue...

[round raven]

Yeah true, the authenticity of this is debatable. I hope this isn’t intentional

[graceful veldt]

And as I told, something has changed.

I have an idea. Since the savegames are in the Steamcloud, the mods could be too.
How to tell/ask Paradox for this option?

[hardy sandal]

All Region Packs combined are about 30 GB

I don't think they will do that because it'll fill up storage with stuff that's not intended for it but could be worth asking

Fragen kostet nix as we know

[sharp bramble]

Not sure how what I'm about to say is relevant, but their support team has an Indian name literally every time I chat with them.

[surreal wave]

Hey everyone, I’m having some slight issue here going on regarding with regional packs. so I have downloaded a regional pack ever since I downloaded the first USA regional pack the game has been like a bit laggy and it’s becoming an annoyance I’ve been tweaking the graphics here and there I have 32 GB of RAM so I don’t understand what’s going on here. Does anyone have any advice?

[verbal aurora]

What's your current graphic setting in game?

by laggy , you mean texture glitch.. gameplay pausing s sec before starting then repeating?

[surreal wave]

So I have a 4070 graphics card with 32gb of RAM and planning to upgrade it with 64 GB. here, but I have tweaked around with games graphical settings. So the gameplay is it. I starts up in game runs smoothly then pauses super quick then runs for a bit and it’s a repeated cycle. It’s not a mod that’s doing it because before I downloaded the first regional pack, the game runs smooth ever since I downloaded it. It’s been doing it ever since the quick pause, in cases sometimes crashes.

[sharp bramble]

It took 17 minutes from opening the game to playing it. This is unacceptable, but it's my only option. 😭

[sharp bramble]

Yeah after some digging this is the reason.

[verbal aurora]

I mean you just to think about it logically lol...

[round raven]

What tf are u talking about? How was this a simple logical thing? It used to work perfectly so it should in theory (logically) carry on in such a way.

Thats the logic.

[agile kindle]

wait you can run mods on GFN?

[sharp bramble]

Only assets

[agile kindle]

Ahh I got excited for a sec haha

I can barely run it on my home pc

I try to use airgpu but it kinda sucks, maybe shadowpc would work better but idk, big commitment to spend $50/month

rn I mostly play it at work on my lunch break because I have a godly work pc LMAO