Reverting Fallout New Vegas to Vanilla (need help)

[MrManovar6]

NOTE: Nexus User "dubiousintent" responds to all posts labeled "New Vegas Technical Support", so if you're seeing this, I'm sorry that I have to bother you again, but hopefully this shall be that last time. And if anyone else sees this and knows how to revert the game to vanilla, you're welcome to help. Hopefully the details I provided will narrow it down just enough.

Anyway, long story short, I need to uninstall my game and start it from scratch because of too many conflicts caused by mods that required manual download (ae. ones that require moving files to your Fallout data folder). I DON'T CARE about saved game files, beause there are none. My in-game progress is not an issue here.

Most of my mods I've installed through Nexus Mod Manager, and before I 'broke' the game, they were mostly fixer-uppers like Mission Mojave and Stutter Remover.

The only things that I installed manually were Script Extender, and the following to which I'll go ahead and provide links:

- FNV 4GB Patcher (https://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/62552)

- ENB dev (http://enbdev.com/download_mod_falloutnv.htm) In it, I seleted v0.322

- Enhanced Shaders ENB (https://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/49882/?) Of their 4 Files, I selected the one labeled "Neutral"

 

I already have unisntalled my game from the Steam library (Before I did, every single mod I got on NMM, I've deactivated them as well), but for some reason my Steam wouldn't have the option of "delete local game files" which is probably why the files leftovers by these "manual-install" mods I just listed are still in the data folder that no longer has the game (C/Program Files (x86)/steam/steamapps/common/Fallout New Vegas)

I've attached a screenshot of the folder to this topic.

So how can I make sure they don't return to the game directory when I install the game again? Can I just delete them normally? When I do install the game again, will some of it's factory files, like Fallout.ini still be affected by the changes made by those mods?

I hope all those details make it easier for you to describe what should I do. Again, all I want is to completely delete all previous modding content so I can install it properly this time.

Edited February 7, 2018 by MrManovar6

[JimboUK]

The only way to be sure is to manually delete the entire New Vegas folder and have Steam redownload it. I would have suggested keeping the vanilla BSAs but by using "delete local game files" they'll have already been removed.

[MrManovar6]

The only way to be sure is to manually delete the entire New Vegas folder and have Steam redownload it. I would have suggested keeping the vanilla BSAs but by using "delete local game files" they'll have already been removed.

I could do that and hope it works, but what's a BSA?

[dubiousintent]

BSA = "Bethesda Software Archive". It's just a "ZIP" file that the game uses to store it's "assets" such as mesh and texture files. They are installed by Steam as part of the game, so clearing them out is necessary to remove all traces when uninstalling.

 

(See the thread BSAs and You for details about BSAs, but bear in mind such files in previous games, like Oblivion, FallOut3 and Fallout New Vegas, don't have strict order like in Skyrim. If the same resource is contained in several BSA archives, the game won't use it from the last BSA on 100% of occasions. It may grab the resource from a random one of the BSAs containing the same file.)

 

-Dubious-