Steam – How to load all addons, even if I am not subscribed to it (but have it downloaded already)

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In Garry's Mod, there are addons; some of which are legacy (.zip files that you can download off garrysmod.com) or workshop files (anything with .gma).

I've downloaded some addons, most of which are from the workshop. On my main account, all the addons work fine and they work as per normal… However, when I switch over to my alternate (on the same computer, but different account), all my downloaded addons seems to have stopped working.

Is there any way to force GMod to load all the addons in the garrysmod/garrysmod/addons/… folder? Even if you didn't subscribe to it?
… Or subscribe automatically to them all?

Best Answer

The unsubscribed addons will load as long as you're in offline mode on Steam. When you're in offline mode, Steam does this wonderful thing it should always do, and forgets which addons you are subscribed to, or not; and loads every single file you have in your addons folder.

WARNING: if you have 200+ addons with a lot of custom content, you will want to remove some addons before you try and launch in offline mode because like I said Gmod will load everything you've ever subscribed or unsubscribed to and haven't physically deleted from the addons folder yourself.

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This seems to happen whenever the Steam workshop goes down. The only solutions I know of are either switch to offline mode or wait for it to come back online.

Garry’s Mod – Missing Map map/

Posting this question/answer here, since the solution doesn't appear to exist anywhere else (outside of my own steam forums post):

Apparently Garry's Mod uses Internet Explorer somehow for its "FastDL" downloading. If Internet Explorer can't connect to the internet for whatever reason, then Garry's Mod won't download anything.

In my case, IE was set to offline-mode. Setting it to online fixed the issue.

Other things you can try:

Make sure Options --> Multiplayer --> Download Custom Content is set to Allow All Custom Files From Server
Try adding the following lines to the bottom of your garry's mod config file, located at Steam\steamapps\<username>\garrysmod\garrysmod\cfg\config.cfg:
```
cl_allowdownload 1
cl_downloadfilter all
download_debug 0
sv_downloadurl ""
```
Verify the integrity of the game files. Within Steam: Library --> Garry's Mod --> Right Click --> Properties --> Local Files --> "Verify Integrity of Game Cache"
Try disabling your firewall/antivirus, or possibly other non-essential programs/services running.
Try deleting your maps, lua, addons, and cache folders in the garrysmod folder, located at Steam\steamapps\<username>\garrysmod\garrysmod. Then verify your cache again.
As a last resort, uninstall Garry's Mod completely and delete the garrysmod folder (which you'll have to do by hand, because there will be leftover files), then reinstall.

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