Fallout 4 SE crashes before loading the main menu

[Tysonstiger]

recently my hard drive kicked the bucket with most of my games on it Fallout 4 among them, so when I got a new one I started to reinstall all my mods and such. I got an ENB and Fallout 4 SE along with it. However every time I try to launch the game with the script extender I get a crash to the desktop before the main menu even loads. I don't have a very script heavy load order the only big one being the new Galac-Tac Retribution mod. I am out of ideas as to what could be causing it at this point.

[LarannKiar]

I'd check if all F4SE files are exist first. Especially .dll files and scripts. Do you have mods which require F4SE?

[Tysonstiger]

Yes a few not an extreme amount through again the biggest being Galac-Tac Retribution and the Looksmenu, and of my F4SE files are there.

[monesq]

have you tried starting the game with no mods? If you have, there has to be a conflict between mods that the game cannot handle. If you can properly use xEdit (you really need to know how to use it if yu plan on modding) you can check for mod conflicts, if you can't, there are two options: 1. There are tutorials on line showing how to use the cleaning issue and conflict feature in xEdit; 2. Since you do not have that many mods, and assuming that the mods you have installed also have all the requirements listed by the mod authors, I would disable any mod that you had not used before your hard drive gave up the ghost. Galac-Tac Retribution has 3 other mods that must be downloaded for the game to work, and since this is a new mod, I would start with that one as well as the mods that it requires you install. If it does not CTD, then you have your culprit. If it still results in a CTD, then I would disable 1/2 of your mods and see if it still crashes. If not, then somewhere in the 1/2 that you disabled you will have your culprit. I say 1/2 in that I usually run a lot of mods, but if you don't, disable them one at a time until you find the problem. This method, while not foolproof, will help whittle down the culprit. I say that it is not foolproof in that sometimes it could be the combination of two different mods that are causing the CTD (this is where knowing how to use xEdit really helps).

 

Alternatively, load the base game, plus maybe two or three of the mods and see if that works, and keep doing it.

BTW, have you properly set up your ENB? Sometimes mods have difficulty with ENB,not as often as with ReShade, but sometimes.

 

Sometimes, it is not a good idea to enable your mods right from the get go as they may impact the beginning of the game. Check out the mod author's requirements for each mod to see if they have a warning about that.

 

Good luck.