TheBarkoftheTree

(Turns out my save was broken. So I'll need to be more careful about what saves I keep in the future.) I found this bug after going to Vault 95 to do Cait's quest. These black spots started appearing on my character. I thought it was just the grass but no. They were on my character and obstructed my pipboy. They stopped appearing after I entered the vault, But after completing Cait's quest they came back on my power armor. And there are black lines all over the inventory while in the armor. And the spots seem to appear the farther away I get. The closer I get the less appear. I can't really show screenshots due to steam overlay not wanting to work for some reason. If anybody can help I'd be grateful. (In case it helps I have power armor materials and paints installed. With the proper patches for it to work alongside Consistant Power Armor Overhaul.)

I'm having a bit of an odd issue and I'm hoping someone can help. When ever I enter Fort Dawnguard the game goes tot he loading screen and crashes. I've disabled any Manaquin mods and nothing is messing with Vampires. This is happening after I did the quest to find the location of Auriel's Bow and did one quest for Gunmar and Sorine I was ready to hand those two quest in but I CTD every time I try and enter the fort. This did not happen before and it doesn't seem to affect Dragonborn or Hearthfire. (There also seems to be a crash in the valley before the fort but that happened once and I can't recreate it.) EDIT: Okay so i seems that eariler saves can enter the fort without issue. Meaning one of the quest I did caused the load door to bug. (I can only assume at this point. I'm gonna have to experiment.)

I've been dealing with this thing for far too long. It happens at random after I complete a mission. I have a very light mod load out so what is going on here? (What happens is that after a mission completes at random I end up at the bottom of the avenger and am stuck there until I reboot steam thus rebooting the game.) I have all the settings at their lowest and the game runs really well (100FPS Avg.) So it can't be a memory or preformance issue. Mods: Evac all, Long War 2, Stop wasting my time, Free Camera Rotation, LW2 Playable aliens, Freeman's Mind Voice Pack, Pinkie Pie Voice Pack, Hack Plus, Squad Cohesion, The MOCX Initiatve, LW2 Teir III Grenades, Extract Corpses. (In case I didn't make it clear enough what you are seeing is the bottom of the avenger. This appears instead of the overview screen and and due to scroling being locked I'm stuck there. The only way to fix it is to reboot steam. Like a full restart offline then go online so the mods can enable. And no playablr aliens isn't causing it. I got this before I installed it.)

That qouet fits perfectly. I'll read up on it and become better at modding fallout 3 until it's smellcrut 5. (Okay maybe not tha far but still.)

And that's everything I need. I'll take your advice to heart and read the f*#@ out of everything. I'll also make sure to back up my ini's and use back up drives. Most of the other habits are things I do already. I'll also try to avoid FOSE mods. As for the mod manager I'll need to look into that. Also Nothing saved to the data folder. GOTCHA! Again I can't thank you enough.

Because, doing so will Enhance an accurate install of the game and not have ANY software sitting in that data folder at all from the snafu from before. Just don't patch the game or install mods that do things to the on screen menus, get it running and established first. If it is the steam game, it will be all up to date already. If it is a retail game, all software required for it...should already be installed into the OS, all you need are fresh data files. " No Junk" to mess up the works. Again thank you. So it's just a matter of clearing out the old and reinstalling? If so then I'll do it! (Or I just need to rename the folder and reinstall. But the first seems more likely.)

archive invalidated has no code with in it to cause a crash to desk top, all it does is tell the games engine to ignore default archive reinforcements. The bsa archives that come with the game, any data what's so ever sitting in the games Data folder will always load no matter what unless, archive invalidated is not active, then the game engine will ignore Loose files...to a point. some mods, xml types, UI mods will cause lots of problems, those are loose files that DO load no matter what...with or with out archiveinvalidated. Now, if you have installed any mods at all that edit the ini files? then there is the issue, that's where it lays, because removing the mods and still have issues means a control file has been edited. INI files, xml files are control files. On screen menus are xml types. IF you have used Nmm to install mods, I suspect you have installed a lot of junk into that data folder and it's a mess by now, so no matter what you choose to do, that mess will remain. rename the current game folder and reinstall the game. This time, make sure the data is better controlled. Thank you SO much! I think what screwed the pooch was all the cheat mods. I'll get to reinstalling and making sure that I control the data better. But one more question. Why rename the game folder?

After I installed this mod(ArchiveInvalidation Invalidated). My Fallout 3 will not stop crashing. All it does is go to the loading screen and crash. Can I fix this? If not what should I do? I even disabled every mod but it still crashes. (I'm new to modding so sorry of the solution is obvious. Also no hate to the mod creator just listing the mod for extra help.)