Go to the main ini in your documents/mygame/fallout 4 and edit the line with sResourceDataDirsFinal=STRINGS\, TEXTURES\, MUSIC\, SOUND\, INTERFACE\, MESHES\, PROGRAMS\, MATERIALS\, LODSETTINGS\, VIS\, MISC\, SCRIPTS\, SHADERSFX\ Now go to your pref ini in the same my game/fallout 4 folder and go all the way down until you see [Launcher]. Under that, place the code bEnableFileSelection=1 After that, make sure you save the ini that way and mark them as read only. Now this is the step I messed up. In order to install mods you have to create folders in the data folder. Mine go as follows (interface, meshes, sound and textures). Video and strings should already be there. Next follow the mod instructions carefully. I downloaded the black and white pip boy mod for example. it gave me a folder that said textures, but I already made a texture folder so I opened the texture folder the mod gave me and another folder popped up I moved that folder to my texture folder under data and it worked. Ive been looking for answers all day yesterday and I finally found out. hope this helps!