Missing Player Hair

[luthienanarion]

I've been playing around with FO3 and modding it to unrecognizable and back with no issues until yesterday, when I created another character.

 

Everything went smoothly with character generation, choosing sex, face, and hair options as normal. When I gained control after the opening sequences, I switched to 3rd-person view and my hair selection was undone, giving me the "Clean Cut" default hair. I opened the console and typed showracemenu to take another stab at it, and this time the different hair options looked exactly like the default, and I was stuck with the horrid Clean Cut look regardless of what style was actually chosen.

 

My first thought was that I was seeing the effects of a mod conflict, so I started disabling them one by one and reloading the character with the same lack of changes shown in showracemenu. I disabled all mods, cleaned out the Data folder of everything other than Bethesda's files, and started a new character to see if there was a larger problem. Everything looked normal, with all the base hair options intact in the "gene projection" screens, but the hair was still reset to Clean Cut after the birth scene. This issue went deeper than some mod or another.

 

My next thought was that my installation had become corrupt somehow (possibly due to tweaking game settings and mods), so I uninstalled Fallout 3 and removed all traces of it from the installation folder and the "My Games" folder in my user documents (Windows 7). I reinstalled the game from disc, patched to 1.7, installed the DLC from the GOTY disc, and ran the game from the fresh install without FOSE or any other extra settings or modifications. I started a new character (my old saves were deleted with the rest of the data) and the problem persisted.

 

I am at a loss about solving this issue. Though it isn't game-breaking by any means and the player's hair is often concealed within a helmet, I'm still bothered about how it suddenly appeared after many hours of play and persisted through a reinstall. The hair styles are intact, as they are present in the gene projection during the birth scene, but seem to bug afterward.

 

Any insight is appreciated.

[niccolo]

I had this problem once... but it wasn't on Windows 7. But, given you've been running it fine on 7... hmm. I would suggest googling it for help elsewhere as well, but I tried and just got pages of results for hair loss.

 

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But. Tell me. You say your hair is locked at "Clean Cut" after the birth sequence... do you mean it's a clean cut as a child? Or can you not change it when you exit the vault?

[sincone]

I've actually been having the exact same problem. I use FWE's alt. start most of the time and my hair will go back to the default after I appear in the shack. I've already tried reinstalling Fallout 3 but that didn't work. Like luthienanarion said, its not game breaking, but it is rather annoying. Some help would be appreciated.