Cortex Command mod installation is extremely simple. There is no official mod manager, but even without one mod installation and removal is very simple.

1. Once you have downloaded the .zip or .rar file containing the mod, open it.

Best place to download Cortex Command mods would be the official Data Realms forum, they have an entire "Mod releases" section there!

2. Inside of it, there should be a folder with .rte at the end of it. For instance, "Example.rte". Unpack the .rte folder into your main Cortex Command folder. It's the one with "Dummies.rte", "Coalition.rte" and such.


The main Cortex Command folder should be in your Steam folder. It should be something like:
C:\***********\Steam\steamapps\common\Cortex Command

3. Simply launch the game, if you didn't make anything silly, and the mod is not outdated and complatible with your Cortex Command version, it should load right after the Metagame.rte.

Uninstallation is as simple as installation, as long as your "Delete" button is intact.

Simply delete the .rte folder, or rename it so it wouldn't have ".rte" at the end of it if you just want to disable it for some time.

Be careful not to accidentally delete one of the core .rte files! This may and definetly will make the game unplayable!

If after mod installation the game fails to start and you get an error message, this might mean that:

1. The mod you installed is outdated, if you have no modding experience there is not much you can do to make it work, better uninstall it before it layed an egg!

2. Your mod is missing some dependencies. Ussually this means that either the mod is outdated and rellies on objects that no longer exist ingame, or that you have edited one of core folders, or that the mod depends on another mod. Check the error message, it should mention what file the game couldn't find! Most of modders inform that their mod depends on another mod in the forum thread they publish their mod on.

3. You might have deleted something in the mod folder. I'm not saying that you're stupid or clumsy, just that sometimes while checking how different mods work you might accidentally do something wrong! Reinstall the mod folder to fix this.