JimmyRJump

Speaking of boxes, I fit in my shoes and my shoes fit in their shoebox. Does that mean I fit in the shoebox, too?

Pugilism: boxing with a university degree.

The two-handed Clamour. Unsheathing makes so much noise everybody runs off to hide.

If you are using an SSD as internal drive, you probably need to update the firmware of the drive. Go to the manufacturer's website, search for your type/series of SSD and see if there's updated firmware available. If you're using a mechanical hard drive, perform a checkdisk on it and see if there's bad sectors. When there are, you get the option to repair them. If there's physical damage then this process won't help. The reason a hard drive fails is often temperatures that get too high. In fact, high temps don't matter that much if they remain constant. A lot of cooling off and heating up cause the edges of a drive to become like a cakewalk because, after having heated up and expanded, a disk never shrinks back to its original size when cooling off. In the end, the edge of the drive becomes like a motorcross circuit with ups and downs and grows larger than the enclosure and then starts rubbing against said enclosure. When that starts to happen, better transfer all the data on the drive to a new one asap. And always keep an eye on disk temperatures. Make sure your PC case has decent ventilation and don't place hard drives too close to one-another.

The word 'spa' for a 'health center' comes from the famous Belgian village of Spa-Francorchamps which has a source from which the Spa mineral water is gathered. Today the little town is known for the hosting of the Formula 1 Grand Prix of Belgium at the circuit of Francorchamps, usually on the calender in August and held since the inauguration of Formula 1 in 1950. At the sources of Spa a health insitute was built where the rich and famous from first Belgium and then from all over the world came to have a cure in the benevolent waters. The name got carried over to any place or features holding baths for relaxing and restoring.

The problem with all radiant quests where you have to go someplace to kill Raiders/Ghouls/Greenskins/whatever is that the quest is 'finished' once the 'boss' is killed. Even when there's fifteen Raiders, kill the leader and you get the notice the quest is done. Like jjb54 said, it is always best to make sure you kill every single resident at the location although eliminating the 'boss' is enough to further the quest. Or try to advance the quest through console commands. The radiant quest has I.D. MinRecruit07. Open the console and type setstage minrecruit07 200. That will give you a message to go talk to the settlers at Greentop Nursery to report your succes. If that's not enough, try setstage minrecruit07 450 to talk to Preston or setstage minrecruit07 500 to end the quest successfully altogether.

Check your virus checker. It's not working properly. No alerts from BitDefender at my end.

There is a bit of timeframe difference though Jimmy ... flu is for an entire year (we haven't had quite that long with this newest craze). Sure, but flu is seasonal and never lasts an entire year. Or it does, when you consider that Fall and Winter fall in different months in the Western and Eastern hemispheres. Summer in Europe is Winter in Australia and so on. Then there's the fact that all over the world, doctors can put 'Corona Virus' on the dearh certificate when there's even but a hint of a suspicion someone showed 'symptoms' of the virus before dying. That's why in Belgium, for instance, in homes for the elderly there's so 'many' deaths attributed to Corona. People who in normal circumstances would have died of 'natural causes' now all of a sudden died from Corona because they coughed a few times before dying.

It could be the "Amazing Follower Tweaks". It alters Cait since she can become a follower. When you didn't install the mod properly and there's a mesh missing then the game will go belly-up everytime it tries to render Cait. Missing textures will show purple-pink, missing meshes will crash the game. I once had the same thing happening upon entering the Old North Church because a mod I used that changed Desdemona had errors. Or it could be something as trivial as RAM issues. The Combat Zone is in a troublesome spot in Boston and there's lots going on inside. Maybe the game crashes on loading the interior because it runs out of memory. I'm also curious why the f4se is sitting in your modlist. It shouldn't be there. f4se needs to be installed manually and is added in the game's main install folder. And if that list is your load order then it's completely wrong. For instance, the Unofficial Patch needs to be loaded right after all the DLC plugins. Use LOOT to do the sorting.

Like I said: the textures are missing because the mod is most probably not properly installed. That happens only when a mod is installed manually because the files were added in the wrong place. I have Wasteland Garage but I don't use it because I had issues with it (can't recall what exactly). That mod can be installed with a mod manager, by the way, the mod manager download button is there. OP should use a mod manager like Nexus Mod Manager (stay away from Vortex if you want your sanity to stay intact). Link to NMM is in my sig below. If OP already uses a mod manager then he can import the downloaded files into it and install through the manager.

Ha! Go check the CDC website and compare the death toll for regular annual flu and deaths 'from' the COVID19 virus. They're almost exactly the same. It looks more and more like governments have found a new 'terror' to spook the folk and pass legislations that otherwise would get heavy duty protest...

Sure. Rammstein and Nightwish come to mind immediately when hearing "BBSO". Or maybe it's Bosby, Bills, Sash & Oung, cousins of Crosby, Stills Nash & Young...

Verrokken Belg, ja. Verkeerd uit bed gevallen vanmorgen :P Ik heb of had trouwens nog famillie in 'Olland. Milaanstraat in Eindhoven. Zus van m'n ma. Wordt ook Tante genoemd. Ome Willem reed met de 'kamion' voor Vos in Oss. Vloeibaar polyester en van die toestanden. Is ondertussen weeral dertig jaar geleden. Hasta la pasta (spaghetti op het menu).

I'm living off of the Belgian equivalent of welfare and was offered a Mastercard by my bank (Belfius). I told 'em I wasn't elligible for a credit card because of my 'status' and they told me they'd see what they could do. A week later the card was in my letterbox. I don't care what your computer situation is (I mean that it doesn't matter, not that I "don't give a flying fekkaroo"), you need to be careful as when the moderators are in a bad day, they'd ban you for account sharing. That's the bottom line. I hope it doesn't come that far. *EDIT* A gotver... Je ben verdorie een Noorderbuurling :D Groetjes uit Antwerpen... Doei :wink:

I'v read your other post and the problem is you want to participate in a formula one race with a Toyota Corolla from 1972. Your laptop cannot handle the game. You have a piss-poor CPU and a GPU that wasn't built for gaming with 1GB of VRAM and you've got 4GB of system RAM. There's nothing that will help besides getting a decent computer. I mean, I am poor but trying to game with your laptop would have me getting a rope and searching for a high tree. Or sell the rope and the tree, do a striptease show for my neighbor for a month and use the profits to get something better in the PC department. End of line.

A rule you need to observe is that you don't touch your ini files unless it is necessary for some or other reason. Start tinkering at random and you'll spend more time here asking for help than actually playing. Second rule is to first know what GPU you have and how it performs before trying to use any kind of augmented textures. A good series of mods that give better performance while also making the game look beter is Hein84's Vivid series. That Radeon 6350M is an eyewatering poor laptop GPU and not exactly built for gaming. Besides that, it is meanwhile several years old. Never ever use a laptop for gaming. That's my opinion anyway. The 6xxx series is from 2009/2010 and had the 6970 as top card. Mid-tier was the 68xx series and entrance tier was the 67xx series. You have the 63xx series and a laptop variant to boot. Laptop GPUs are clocked lower than their desktop counterparts for heat generation purposes and as such are slower than the desktop cards. Besides being slow, the 6350M has only 1GB of RAM. With FO4 using up and over 8GB in spikes, you're in for a rough ride. Especially when wanting to add mods to the game. I understand that not everybody has the money to spend on decent hardware (I know because I'm one of them, I mean I'm poor) but there's limits to what you want to do with certain gear. Start saving every penny you have to get some decent hardware amigo. Check if that laptop's GPU can be changed (some laptops have a 'fix' GPU that cannot be swapped) and get something that has at least 68 or 69 as first two digits. Also consider that your laptop isn't worth spending money on for gaming. Harsh, maybe, sure, but that's how it is.

It means you have a mod that changes the texture of the tires but that mod isn't properly installed (the folder is probably in the wrong place) so that the game doesn't find the textures and hence doesn't show them. All missing textures show as pink-ish purple in the game.

Be most welcome, Evelyn. Be aware that sharing accounts can be a reason for a ban on the Nexus, so maybe make accounts for both your son and boyfriend, just to stay on the safe side ;) And a premium membership doesn't need a PayPal account. I bet you can pay with any valid credit card.

You have to know that every mid-tier AMD GPU is cheaper and faster than what NVidia has. I'd go for an RX580 8GB or an RX 5600 instead of that 1660. And of course a GTX840M will lag a game. It's a low-tier GPU and a laptop from Bloatware to boot. Laptop GPUs are clocked lower than their desktop counterparts for heat generation purposes and Alienware are just good in advertising their products without there being any substance to it. A GTX840M isn't a gaming GPU. Fallout 4 is a game that doesn't like overclocked hardware. Anyway, get a gpu with as much RAM as you can get/afford (8GB at least) and a decent amount of system RAM. Like 2x8GB minimum. RAM speed doesn't matter that much. The few frames per second you'll gain with higher speed RAM isn't worth the investment. Be aware that Fallout 4 is a game that performs bad on PC because of its below standard optimisation when it comes to rendering textures (it uses a streaming variation instead of direct rendering) and you will experience fps drops in certain areas, no matter the size of your GPU and/or amount of RAM. I myself use an R7 2700X with a Vega64 GPU and 2x16GB of RAM@2800MHz. I get an average of 50fps (fps is locked at 61fps) and a use of between 5 and 8GB on the GPU and around 5 to 7GB of system RAM use. I run 664 mods (with 456 plugins) and use quite a lot of 2k textures and a few 4k textures. I play in 1080p. Get a good power supply from a known brand like Silverstone, Antec, Corsair or CoolerMaster. A PSU is the most important component in a desktop computer because it powers all the costly hardware inside. You want to enjoy your computer, not sit around a pile of ash lamenting to the gods of electricity about your misfortune.

Make sure nothing is interfering with the game, like an anti-virus solution or its firewall. Also, if the game is installed on a mechanical hard drive, perform a disk-check to see if there's faulty sectors on the drive. Check BethINI to sort and restore your ini files to get rid of left-behind entries from mods that you have deleted from the game. Copy/paste your load order between spoiler tags instead of adding a downloadable file.

Change the settings in the launcher. Under "options" set the game to open windowed and borderless. That way you can intervene with the 'Ctrl' key or the 'Ctrl+Alt+Del' combination (calls-up the Task Manager where you can kill the game's process).

To what question? If the question is why your game doesn't work then you're the only one who can answer the question. You 'started meddling with some mods' and now the game doesn't work? So, guess where the problem lies. Start with 'unmeddling', try the game and add mods as you go along but only a couple at a time so that you can keep track of which mod may cause problems. If you add dozens of mods in one go and things don't work then the main problem lies with you and there's nothing we can do about that. So, there's your answer right there.

Hey, I'm not even a self-respecting-anything fan and I stayed away from Fallout 76. It was a nice idea, though.

A reason for an infinite black screen is when the RAM stops being flushed and no new textures can get buffered. The ambient sound and music continue, but the screen stays black. It can happen even on high-end machines, usually when there's a problem with meshes that somehow cannot be loaded. The meshes aren't missing (otherwise the game would crash), they just stop being loaded into the RAM. I haven't heard of a solution to it other than quitting the game and restarting it and hope it won't happen again.