I cannot say why 7DS has not run for you, but Mad Scientist mod v1.4 does not work in 1.05.  In order to play it you must upgrade sins to 1.1 through 1.14.

theres a topic on this i do believe, why mods crash in 1.14, i advise searching for it.

IIRC it had to do with not updated map files. If there's a /galaxy/ folder in the mod, delete it and see if that works.

Ah cr*p... Well at least I provided some additional information for upcomming patches to IC...

StCobalt: I didn't take a look into this thread because the title didn't seem to deal with errors while starting a mod. But actually it was helpful. I was able to enable the output of errormessages before the crash. There are a lot of errors but for now I'll just post the first one:

Failed to Create D3DX Effect 'C:\Users\Lord Günther\AppData\Local\Ironclad Games\Sins of a Solar Empire\Mods\Mad Scientist Mod v1.4\PipelineEffect\SetupDefaultStates.fx'...
(1,1): error X1507: failed to open source file: 'C:\Users\Lord Günther\AppData\Local\Ironclad Games\Sins of a Solar Empire\Mods\Mad Scientist Mod v1.4\PipelineEffect\SetupDefaultStates.fx'

This mod makes me assume that there are files missing. The reason could be that I'm sill using a wrong patch. But the MadScientist mod used for this test should run on 1.14, if I didn't totally misunderstand Ordian. I case I did, I'll now look für a patch to 1.13 and try it again.

It's worth a try. But there were also error-messages which were not associated to pipeline effects...but one step after another...

edit: Ok that helped a little somehow. I still get a couple of errors like that one:

Text FileArchive missing Label.

File: C:\Users\Lord Günther\AppData\Local\Ironclad Games\Sins of a Solar Empire\Mods\Mad Scientist Mod v1.4\Window\GameOptionsDialog.window
Label: useQuickStartButton
Line Number:44
Line Contents:buildSpeedButton

 and that one

Failed to convert 'OnlyWhenAttackTargetIsInFiringSolution' to an enum value.

BUT

Anyhow the game didn't crash after I deleted the mod's pipline effects.

Ok I did that. Now I am encountering some new errors when the game has started. I'll keep analyzing...

Update:

Now I replaced every mentioned data-file. Still some errors keep showing up on activating the mod. All of them look like this:

Failed to convert 'OnlyWhenAttackTargetIsInFiringSolution' to an enum value.

In addition after the game has started there are some stings missing.

But what is the reason for all this?

Well I looked it up but couldn't find any debug folder.

And there is still the question why these problems show up on every single mod I try to start. The version of the game can not be the problem. Is there maybe a conflict because I don't use the English version of the game? I assume by the kind of errors I found that the problem is not hardware based.

Update: I got an answer from IC. They told me to update to 1.15. Of course that didn't help. So much for that

St.Cobalt: That would be nice. At the moment my SINS is updated to 1.15. I'm not sure if the lastes modtools are already up to date.

Edit: I just read that MadScientist 1.5 for v1.15 is under construction and already finished for entrenchment (which I don't own). Maybe that will do for the next test.

But if you could update a mod to 1.15 we will finally find out if the problem is related to the mod or not. Since I experienced the problem with everya single mod I tried out until now I fear this is not the case. Which make the problem worse for me, but better for every other mod user.

MfG

Gun2056

Of course a missing graphic effect is not a major problem. But missing strings and not working abilities I do consider as a mayor problem : ) And dont forget that I have these problems with every f**king single mod I tried. That's not fun anymore... but however. I'll be patient and wait until the updates for the new patch are ready.

In the mod enable section, did you see a button called apply changes??

I have sose 115 and entrenchment 1.01, downloaded mad entrenchment mod 1.5 and placed it in the entrenchment mod folder. exited the game then restarted it but didnt seem to "see" the mod as reported in other threads. I noticed the apply changes button in the mod enable section and clicked on it (mod was enabled first then click on apply changes). when it was done I exited the game, restarted sose entrenchment and behold the music was different and started a new game and the research stuff/changes from the mod were their as stated in the mod descriptions. Hope this helps.

awolf