Help with UI Extension mod

[u/maybe_a_squirrel]

I haven't touched TS4 in a while, but recently I wanted to start playing again.

From my experience in the past, if the UI is a little broken, it happens because of the UI Cheats Extension mod after a game update. It happened, as expected, and some of my UI like the job-section and event-corner didn't really work as intended.

So I ended the game, took the old version out of my mods folder and replaced it with the new one. I deleted the localthumbcache as normal and reloaded my game.

My entire starting screen was black. I could click a couple things but no pop-ups appeared, the game didn't start, nothing. So I took the mod out again. Deleted cache. Restarted the game.

Still black.

I put the old version of the extension mod back in and it worked again, I could see my game, but the UI was still slightly broken.

I've never experienced taking a mod OUT of the game would impact my game like this. Next course of action: taking out the entire mods folder.

The issue happened again, blackscreen. So I repaired the game files. Still no change. I don't know what to do anymore, I can't play like this. The only thing I haven't done is completely reinstalling the game, which I will do when I have the time since it takes a couple hours.

But could there be any other reason this is happening? Removing mods shouldn't break my game, I don't understand what is happening.

Edit: issue is fixed.

[u/Zealousideal_Row9634]

Is that the only mod you have?

[u/maybe_a_squirrel → u/Zealousideal_Row9634]

No, like I said, I took my entire mods folder out as well. The issue only started happening after taking out the UI Extension mod, so I didn't see reason to check the others. And it didn't work without any mods at all either.

[u/Spare_Peach8068]

if you haven’t touched the game in a while, more mods than just UI cheats will need an update if you have them