中文说明

This is a mod loader for Elden Ring. It is inspred by ModEngine, and is designed to be simple and easy to use.

• ModEngine is great, but it is not maintained anymore.
• me3 is in development, but not so active.
• I just need a simple codebase which generates minimal overhead (less than 100KB at present).
• I may add new features eventually.

• Load dlls on game start
• Load mods like ModEngine

Check CHANGELOG.md for details.

• You can download the latest release from the release page, and choose one of the following methods to install the loader:
  1. Start the loader individually (recommended)
     1. Extract YAERModLoader.exe, YAERModLoader.dll and YAERModLoader.ini to ANY folder.
     2. Modify YAERModLoader.ini to fit your needs.
     3. Run YAERModLoader.exe to start the game.
     4. This is recommended because you can start the loader only when you need it and it won't pollute your game folder.
  2. Load the loader with game automatically
     1. Extract YAERModLoader.dll and YAERModLoader.ini to the game folder (where eldenring.exe is, You do not need YAERModLoader.exe here).
     2. Rename YAERModLoader.dll to either dxgi.dll, dinput8.dll or winhttp.dll.
     3. Modify YAERModLoader.ini to fit your needs.
     4. Run the game w/o EAC:
        • Create a text file steam_appid.txt in the same folder as eldenring.exe, put 1245620 in it, save and close, then start the game with eldenring.exe.
• You can also remove YAERModLoader.ini and put ModEngine2's config_eldenring.toml in the same folder as YAERModLoader.dll to use old config file as well.
• You can add parameters to YAERModLoader.exe to change some behaviors:
  • -c or --config: Specify the path of the config file.
  • -p or --game-path: Specify the path of the game, you can set it to full-path of eldenring.exe, or its Game folder, or even the upper-level folder(normally ELDEN RING).
  • -d or --modengine-dll or --modloader-dll: Specify the path of the replacement dll for loading. Note: --modengine-dll is just a compatibility option for ModEngine2.
  • -s or --suspend: Start game in suspended mode, only for debugging purpose.

• ModEngine: The original mod loader for Souls games.
• Detours: I stripped this library to a subset of its functions, to do dll injections only.
• minhook: Used to hook functions in the game.
• uthash: The library used to handle hash tables.
• inih: The library used to parse ini files.
• toml-c: The library used to parse toml files, for ModEngine config file compatibility.
• wingetopt: The library used to parse command line arguments.
• libofdf: The library used to parse Valve's VDF files, for locating game folder.
• LZMA SDK: The library used to embed dll as compressed data, the SDK is in public domain.
• exe LOGO from logowik