scupperpunk

Thank you! If I ever figure it out, maybe I'll post my solution here, too.

I've been having a similar issue with Vortex trying to mod Fallout 3. It's interesting that you mentioned the script extender, because when I was first attacking this problem (and nothing was working), I uninstalled Vortex and re-installed it, and started getting all sorts of error messages, one of which was that Fallout Script Extender wasn't installed properly. Well, I fixed that, but even with it supposedly working, every time I went to enable my mods, Vortex went through this long process of "access denied" (I just clicked OK to give it access) messages, and then would hang up and freeze every time I reached the end of those messages, so that I'd have to reboot the whole computer to open it again. Finally, after one of these attempts, it enabled and deployed the mods (or said it did), and is now acting like everything is normal. Yet, when I go to play the game, the mods aren't applied. I've tested this by using one small mod that has an immediate effect -- it changes the value of one of the player items -- so that I can see whether it's been applied or not. No dice. I don't know if this might be anything similar to what you were having issues with, but I feel like I've tried everything at this point, and short of wiping all my games, Vortex, and Lutris and reinstalling everything, I'm not sure what to do. Any insight would be great at this point! Thanks for posting your fix. (I'm going to try disabling and then re-enabling now, but I did that before -- as well as a full mod purge -- and it didn't work. Who knows, though!)

i wish Obsidian would do a followup to NV...fallout 5: new vegas returns LOL. but maybe that's just crazy.