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Thanks for the guide. Fallout just updated for me cause I was an idiot and decided to peek in the CC and grab a free pipboy skin. Got the latest update with it and I'm not in the mood to wait for the script extender to update, no matter how fast those guys usually are, so yhea very handy and helpful little guide. Way easier to get to the steam console via the run command though.

Do you have any mods like Scrap Everything or have you set bUseCombinedObjects=0 in your fallout4.ini? If so that is not helping. Unfortunately you do need it for some scrapping mods but it does affect your fps, and it will absolutely help murder it in downtown Boston. Unfortunately the others are right that the engine is kind of a disaster and 45fps in downtown boston is pretty good, but you should be able to squeeze out a bit more than than in other areas.

Congrats, soon enough you'll spend more time in the creation kit going "WHY BETHESDA WHY?!?!?!????????????!!!!!!!!" thank actually playing the game. *goes back to trying to rid her settlements of all those annoying as hell directional decals*

The i3 series of cpu's really isn't good for gaming, it was never really meant for that. If at all possible try to at least get up to the i5 series. You may also want to consider a bit more RAM as 8 is on the low side these days.

I really prefer it with some life to it too. I think the biggest mistake was to set Fallout 4 during the fall. I know they were going for that dreary, depressing vibe but a green, leafy wasteland is much more fun to explore (or one in full fall colors for that matter) and the ruins of the city gets a much starker contrast when compared to the overgrown wilds that surrounds it. Either way those are just my thoughts on the matter, I know everyone have different tastes but to me the vanilla commonwealth is just visually unappealing. (At least New Vegas had an excuse... that landscape isn't very green even when hasn't been nuked to hell....)

0.6.4 is the latest F4SE version. You can download it from the website you already linked to as that is Script Extenders official link. Just Click the link "7z archive" to download it, read the readme that's packed into it and follow the installation instructions in there (as in only copy the files you actually need. The archive does come with a few more things packed in with it but unless you're a mod author yourself you don't actually need those files).

Thanks willyb9, that post is pretty much exactly what I needed! And I do generally try to keep on top of mod descriptions and try to avoid obvious conflicts (I learned my lesson the hard way in Skyrim. Corrupted my save file with my own stupidity) but I also know that load order can cause just as many headaches as mod conflicts. Again, many thinks dude! :)

I've been out of the loop for a good year and a half (what can I say? The holidays makes me crave a post-nuclear wasteland something fierce) and as usual I've ended up installing way, way too many mods. The thing is I've forgotten how to set up my load order right, and I KNOW there used to be a post/guide floating about on how to organize things manually (basically just a breakdown of what type of mod goes where) but I can't seem to find it again and I was wondering if anyone knew what I was talking about and maybe had a link? PS: No I don't want to use LOOT exclusively. It's a decent tool but I still need to know what goes where so I can double check it in case it messes up.

Give Amazing Follower Tweaks a look https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/6656/? it can help with the companions at least (it does a whole bunch of things but it's quite flexible if you don't want all of what it offers)

Could be. If CC is well received I wouldn't be surprised if future titles will also be supported by it. Personally I just hope they take some time to update and stabilize the Havok engine (assuming they continue to use it, but that seems likely) before their next big project release no matter what it is, because as hilarious as some of the bugs are having the same bugs over and over again is losing it's charm. So you know, I'd rather see them actually polishing up the features they do have before introducing more things to the mix. But I'm sure we'll find out what's going on at some point (I am sad that they delayed TES6 though).

Often this glitch can be fixed by fast travelling (assuming the game will let you). Glad you got it sorted though cause being stuck in combat is pretty frustrating.

Yep I was dumb. Seems like I missed a couple of files when cleaning the folders out. Got rid of them and no more post its. Feel free to stamp "Doofus" on my forehead cause this is such a painful rookie mistake it hurts.

This started after I installed, then uninstalled JK's Whiterun and Riverwood overhauls. I've since then extracted all Ivy related textures and meshes and dropped into the appropriate folders to try to fix this. I've tried deleting all related textures and meshes to fix this. I've verified the file integrity through steam and I've started an entirely fresh game to try to fix this. Still nothing. So does anyone have any idea what's going on and how to fix it, cause I'm stumped. It's not game breaking but it's a bit odd looking. It also only affects Ivy hanging of off fences.

Honestly I don't think CC will affect mods (or free, user-made content) in any significant way. People who want to make things for free and share it with others will continue to do so. My concern is more about how the CC mirrors 'free' mobile games (mostly mobile games) in that you buy credits to buy items to make your gaming experience easier. Which is okay in itself I suppose (even if the credits thing is, as has been pointed out a scummy tactic), but most of those games will hit a point where it's pretty much impossible to progress without buying some of these items. Or the game just gets exceedingly repetitive and grindy without buying those items (or game modes, or alternative quests). Which makes me concerned about the development choices Bethesda might make in the future, because I'd hate to see them turn into the next EA Games that sells you a barebones (at best) game and then sells you the rest in half a dozen or so DLC's that by all rights and reason should have been in the original game. Or they just don't offer you any weapons and armors that are actually effective in late game, etc. And lets not kid ourselves here, this IS the company that pretty much invented the DLC we're talking about. Sure things have changed since the infamous horse armor days, but if any company is going to implement new and novel ways to get money from players with as little effort as possible it will be these guys. So no, I'm not worried about Fallout 4 or Skyrim SE, but I am concerned about what the next installments in either series may look like and how much they may cater towards CC content. I'd also be slightly concerned about the Creation Kits future... but the less tools a developer tends to give a modding community the more hell-bent said community seems to be on modding their game anyway, so I'm sure that even without an official CK release the modding community will find a way.

Well it seems like SSE Fixes and the dllplugin loader required to use it was the culprit for me. Got rid of those and the map now works fine. It means more random fps drops but I'll take it.