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Setting up my new computer for FO4 fully modded


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So my new gaming laptop came in yesterday. yayy 🙂

I thought it would not be too difficult to set it up to match my  340 + mods FO4 on my desktop (haha!)

I had nearly all my mods loaded on a thumbdrive and was loading them up into Vortex (poor internet connection in hotel, thumbdrive was much faster, albeit still took hours) to load them on my USB 3.0)

I knew there was a risk and set up profiles first with 20 mods enabled ( the basics plus) then 40 then 80 then 140, but I tested it out down the way.

And after about 60 mods I would get constant CTD trying to start up game regardless whether new game or  a loaded start..

Also this took forever. My internet connection is not good here in the hotel otherwise I would upload my stuff to collections and download it new.

But I need really good internet for that since I have a LOT of mods including some large ones, and even then downloading my own mods as a collection does not guarantee the absence of problems.

Anyway... thats just me venting 😄 I will figure out my CTDs,  back to the real point of this post.

In my desktop setup i have both bodyslide and F4SE tabs attached to the top left in Vortex ready to use. ( see pic) .

Yet for some reason I cant accomplish the same thing on my new machine, its been 18 months since I originally set up my modded FO4 and I didnt really know what I was doing back then and tried  a lot of random things and some worked. Not so sure I now know what I am doing, since I cannot reproduce this.

Any tips on how to attach my bodyslide and FSE tabs to the top of Vortex? I seen it like that so long I thought it was default as soon as you installed those 2 mods but clearly it isnt 🤪

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Update.

Fixed the CTDs via trial and error.

NAC-X for some reason, does not show up in the MCM even though the .esps are enabled. I am trying to remember do i build a holotape for it first?

None of my AAF mods are enabled right now, those are the hardest to make work and now i just want to make sure the machine works.

Speaking of which I get the weird "you are looking through a tunnel goggle " effect that is usually the hallmark of a weak machine running on too high settings. An older rig of mine did that when I ran NAC-X (which is a bit resource hungry and sometimes it was a but much for my old rig)

And yes I have most settings on ultra but this laptop has a  i9 14900, an Gen 4 SSD, 64GB of DDR5 RAM and a RTX 4090 (ok yes, I know I laptop 4090  is not quite even a desktop 4080 but still i should have ZERO issues with these specs)

EDIT: Did not notice that issue in another 30 min of gameplay, even though i made a point to go to visually demanding areas, seemed to be so far in vault and right after exit

EDIT2: I am using the GOG version on this computer.

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Update:

Everything running fine.

Set up one profile working and tested just with my "essential" 200 mods plus another 2nd one with a dozen of so AAF mods (havent tested that one yet)

Still feel I am missing some "nice to haves" since my normal mods list is 300+ but I can play like this.

The laptop runs great, during testing I took my charcter to a location that gives my desktop (i9 10900KF, 64 GB DDR4 RAM, SSD, RTX 4070) some slowdown ( a giant hotel mod without internal cells to "save" on system load on spectacle Island) and it seems unaffected.

But then again I dont have Luxors HD pack installed yet and I am sure it will give the machine  abit extra to chew on.

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