As the title states, this has to do with an odd thing that happens when you try running CC off your trusty thumb drive. When you do so, the order of the loaded mods- Not the vanilla content- is reversed. Normally the content list on the buy menu is alphabetical, but when you run it off a flash drive it becomes reverse alphabetical.


Any ideas why this is occuring?

Nope. I run my CC off of a flash drive, and the whole thing seems random.

Wait a second, you can actually do this?

Ah I guess this would be useful if CC took up a lot of space. I wish I could run Steam or something off of a flash drive.

So from a scale of Full of Bugs (3) to No Bugs (1) on where to run CC:

Program Files --> 3
Desktop --> 2
Flashdrive --> 1 (other than the order of loading)

Also, if it loads in randomly, does it mean that the whatever activities is used is also random?

Same except I keep on running out of space.

Vanilla folders are loaded in usual order, and then the mod folders are loaded in random order. The first activity file loaded is the one that gets used in game.

Also, I have a 2 GB flash drive, so I have plenty of space.

^^this then usually the first mod that was installed, and so on, I have gotten a specific mod to load right after the vanilla folders, so that I have my favorite mod at the top of the list.
Also damn you CC48 I have 1GB and I have to keep on deleting and then replacing them, but its so hard to choose.

Hahha 8GB win, anyway, i've barely needed to load cc into a flash drive. I should try it out and see what order it is in.

I used to run games off my flash drive, but they were a lots lower and tended to crash. I used an 8gb is that's relevant.

Vanilla folders are hardcoded into the game in order, so it makes sense that they'd show up in the right order. They also always load first.
I really have no idea why running CC off a flash drive screws with the loading order, but it's always done that for me. I imagine it has something to do with how CC finds the modules. There's a good chance that it uses a function that just returns the first file in a folder, then continues from there, and that the way it's ordered on a flash drive works differently than standard drives.

Wait, for some of you it's random?

Odd. My flash drive lets me run CC, but it keeps the mod list in reverse alphabetical order (i.e. the ZombBots are right under the Vanilla guys instead of the AAL, and the AAL is where the ZombBots should be if you were running CC on my desktop)