Mod Organizer Is Waiting On An Application To Close Before Exiting Jun 2026

Disable the in-game overlays in Discord Settings or GeForce Experience. 3. Adjust MO2's "Locked" Settings

The error message usually means one of three things: Disable the in-game overlays in Discord Settings or

: Sometimes the game or a tool has "closed" its window, but a background process is still active in your system's memory. Crash on Startup and MO2 will exit instantly.

When you try to close MO2, it performs a safety check. It asks: "Are any applications that I launched still running in the background?" Disable the in-game overlays in Discord Settings or

Mod Organizer is trying to protect your setup from corruption. When you see that message, 90% of the time a mod tool is still running in the background. Close it properly, and MO2 will exit instantly.