I took a break from XCom2 for a year or so and I’m just getting back into it. I see they changed the launcher (and everyone complains it ruined everything). I used to play pretty heavily modded (250 ) with no issues, but since the new launcher, I can’t get it to launch with ANY mods except “new promotion screen by default” (which is outdated I believe?).

Running with task manager, I see at about 13 seconds after launching, memory use goes from about 800 straight to 4500 and immediately goes to “not responding”. I poked around on steam, but there were some…. Hostile discussions happening, so I feel like I’m more likely to find helpful and non-judgemental replies here.

So far, all I’ve done is: -experimented with various mod loads (no success). -Someone suggested deleting the config files so the game would reset them, which I’ve done -I’ve tried to find the debug/crash log to post in the AML GitHub for help, but the only one I’ve found (which might be wrong) seems to be getting choked on pinging between DLC-checks

I’m not sure what else to do besides buy a massive amount of RAM, but I’m not sure that I’m willing to cash in for another stick or two of RAM just for one game.

Does anyone have any helpful tidbits to offer? I have a small amount of computer know-how, but nothing technical.