amusingCalico

Pretty much just as the title states. I am using New Vegas Redesigned 3 but for some reason Sunny and Watkins (these are the only two I've found so far that have this issue but i am sure there could be more) have an issue where they dont have the proper head. The textures arent messed up or anything like that they just literally have the wrong (and identical aside from hair color) head. It almost looks like they got stuck with some sort of default head. The strange part is when i load them up in GECK they look normal so I'm not exactly sure what the issue is. It also happens if I have new vegas redesigned 3 and all its dependencies disabled. https://imgur.com/a/N2I9Gv4 Edit: problem has been solved, seems it was an issue with a hair mod

Yeah that's what I was afraid of... i wanted to avoid reinstalling the game at all costs but its looking like im gonna have to

I stated above that I've disabled literally every single mod aside from pipboy readius bc that one is a bit of a pain to disable and the problem still happens.

It's odd because their neck still spurts as if theyve had their head blown up, the bits and pieces of brains fly around just fine, its just... it's like a second copy of their head shows up. And the weirdest part is its specifically exploding heads. Normal decapitation works fine. This should list every mod that I've downloaded. https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/dXvxdp3dvt/

Alright ill post the list up, one moment!

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Alright so Ive attempted to set up a mod list for fallout 4 again. Got it all set up great, no crashing, not much framerate drop, it ran great, looked great, except for one issue. Heads would not disappear after exploding. They would explode, you'd see all the bits and pieces fly out and blood spurt from the neck area.... but the head would still be there. The weird part is if i tried to shoot the "head" on the dead body my bullets would just pass right through it and hit the ground as if the head was not there. Stranger still I can cut off heads just fine, so it seems to be an issue specifically with exploding heads. I can also explode any other limb and it's fine. It's literally just the heads, doesnt matter if theyre wearing armor/headgear or not either. Ive disabled literally every mod I have and every esp i have except for the pip-pad since that one is a bit of a pain in the ass to remove with no luck, I tried verifying the integrity of the steam files with no luck. I am honestly at a loss here. The only mods i downloaded that I think could be related to heads are CBBE, 2k Face, A male body replacer, realistic headshots, and live dismemberment. But this still happens even with those disabled. The only thing I can possibly think is that somehow some of the vanilla files got changed but I havent the slightest idea what to look for. I'd really like to avoid having to reinstall the game since that's a long process. :sad: The link is to a gif showing an example of what I mean. https://gyazo.com/875c068c43969ade3c6ae9772b1a8a68 Edit: This is happening even on new games, so it is not a problem with existing save files. Edit 2: It's not just humans either, also happens with animals...

So I've spent about 3 days so far downloading various mods, making sure everything is compatible and making a few compatibility patches and testing to make sure said patches work and I've managed to shrink my load order to 131 plugins. I'm still fairly new to merging so the merges I made were fairly minor and i avoided merging anything that looked like it might be problematic. Now that I am approaching the 140 plugin limit my question is are there any more plugins in my load order that are safe to merge so that I can make room for more mods should I choose to download more in the future? https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/d54grGgTVt/ This is my current load order. In the various testing I've done I can maintain a solid 60 fps in a majority of situations with very very few drops below 50.

Thank you for the detailed response, i appreciate you taking the time to help me :) I guess it seems i just go overboard. there are so many mods I WANT to use, but i may just have to be patient in terms of when i start using them.

I am not playing on Linux, no. I know it LOOKS like im over the 255 limit but a lot of those are esps marked as esls

A majority of them are ESLs, im not over the 255 esp limit i can confirm

So I've got my fallout 4 modded pretty much exactly how id like it. It looks fantastic. the gameplay feels great and it runs well. I usually get around 60 fps, sometimes less if im in very crowded boston areas. It's all perfect but one thing. I seem to be experiencing totally random CTDs. There's no warning for it either. No slow down just before, no freezing or lagging, ill just be playing one moment and then the next im staring at my desktop. It doesnt seem to be anything too specific either. Sometimes its when i turn and look at something (but other times that wont crash it when i try loading the save again.) Sometimes its after meleeing a wall or something (again, not consistent, i can load the save again, melee the same wall/door and be fine) And sometimes when shooting raiders. But once again this is not consistent. So I'm not even sure if those are what is resulting in the crash. I've browsed various threads discussing similar issues and tried the various fixes I've found. From rebuiling my CBBE outfits, to removing a certain mesh from bandit clothes, to changing the available video memory in the enb ini and none of it seems to work. Below I will share my load order, as well as my computer's specs. I hope you all can help me out here because at this point I'm at a loss and it's rather frustrating because when I CAN play its a lot of fun and it feels great. But the crashes are just too frequent for me to ignore. I'm using Vortex if that matters. Load order https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/ggJVr8smy6/ PC Specs https://gyazo.com/2ddfae9421b960702d2cb741704b1993 https://gyazo.com/1fb3801c45bd33a93d74326d4f770ede If any solutions can be found i would be eternally grateful to you all

Alright so I have no idea what caused this and why i cannot for the life of me seem to fix it. But for some reason certain animals are missing textures. So far I can confirm that Snow cats, Wild Cats, Mudcrabs, and Foxes do not not have textures. I use bellyaches animal pack and ive tried enabling/disabling it with no luck, ive tried deleting it completely which didnt help, also tried reinstalling it from scratch with no luck. Ive got my load order here for anyone who knows better than me that is willing to take a look through to see what might possibly be causing the issue. I've also tried enabling/disabling every animal related mod i have, be it ai or texture changes. https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/3THVBBkjfk/

Is there a mod that makes it so you can see health bars when NOT in combat and of friendly NPCs? I want to be able to put my crosshair over an NPC or enemy and be able to see the healthbar without engaging in combat. After a good half hour of searching i could not manage to find anything that did what i wanted :( The closest I came is a floating healthbars mod but I'd rather not have a bunch of enemies with healthbars floating over their heads.