This only occurs if the game is installed from steam, using the new steam folder structure
- launch GA from steam to complete the installation
- launch core spore from steam
- do not launch GA again
- install dark injection
If these specific steps are done, arenas_combined will be installed to the wrong folder
This is avoidable by never launching the base game at all, or by at least launching GA before installing the mod
It happens because launching core spore from steam will change the DataDir to the alternate copy of the game, as steam installs three separate entire copies of the game due to its new folder structure as of early 2026
Note that the data path is not consistent, there are various ways for it to be different, and this should work regardless of that
We can check for this:
- game installed from steam (NOT EA, otherwise this will break it)
- GA datadir is not sibling of corespore datadir
This only occurs if the game is installed from steam, using the new steam folder structure
If these specific steps are done, arenas_combined will be installed to the wrong folder
This is avoidable by never launching the base game at all, or by at least launching GA before installing the mod
It happens because launching core spore from steam will change the DataDir to the alternate copy of the game, as steam installs three separate entire copies of the game due to its new folder structure as of early 2026
Note that the data path is not consistent, there are various ways for it to be different, and this should work regardless of that
We can check for this: