Hogwarts Legacy: How to Enable Unofficial Mods

Disclaimer: Make sure to have at least 70GB available before doing this.

1. Install the game as normal.
2. Open this URL in your browser:
   steam://open/console
3. Paste this in the Steam Console:
   download_depot 990080 990081 5173511114843368548
4. Wait for it to download (it won’t show you any status but it will say then it’s done).
5. When it’s done. Open the depot folder you just got (~Steam\steamapps\content\app_990080\depot_990081)
   and copy all files to the game folder
   (~Steam\steamapps\common\Hogwarts Legacy)
   and choose to overwrite all files.

1. Right-click on the game in Steam > Preferences > Updates > Choose to only update the game when launched.
2. Don’t launch the game from Steam, make a shortcut of the HogwartsLegacy.exe from ~\Steam\steamapps\common\Hogwarts Legacy\Phoenix\Binaries\Win64 and click on it to start the game instead.
3. Do not choose to validate game files.

1. You will not be able to use the in-game mod menu so all mods need to be downloaded from third-party modsites.
2. No Ray Reconstruction (Ray Tracing will work though.
3. Any patches made after July 2024 will be unpatched. (this also means all new bugs will be removed)