Authors: george/kingbore

Dark Souls 3 was updated in 2022 and again in early 2023, breaking mod engine and many mods. An easy way to 100% fix this is by downpatching your DS3 EXE to an older version.

You can follow this youtube tutorial here, which provides a google drive link to the old exe.

Follow these directions to download the old version of DS3 directly through steam:

1. Open windows run (windows key + R).
2. Paste

   steam://open/console

   and click OK. This will open a new menu in steam.

3. In steam, paste

   download_depot 374320 374321 4471176929659548333

   into the text box at the bottom and hit the enter key.

4. Once it finishes, it will tell you where the downpatched DarkSoulsIII.exe was saved. Go there.
5. Find your DS3 installation (right click DS3 in steam library → manage → browse local files).
6. Copy and paste the downpatched DarkSoulsIII.exe to your DS3 installation and overwrite the original exe.

Verify game files through steam to restore DarkSoulsIII.exe.