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Game crashes after startup - Steam Overlay pops up and game crashes


town3r

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Hey guys!

 

Curious to see if anyone else is having this issue.

 

Fresh install of the game ran correctly.

 

Tried installing a few mods after modifying the .ini files and it now crashes after startup.

 

It will load up and you'll see click to continue and the Steam Overlay will pop up but then the game crashes to the desktop w/ no error message.

 

I disabled all mods and it still happens. Uninstalled the mods and it still happens.

 

Only Verifying game files fixes the issue and it replaces 3 files.

 

I'm able to run the game after replacing the 3 files.

 

It will load correctly if I modify the .ini files (Fallout4.ini & Fallout4Prefs.ini) but don't run NMM.

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I was having same issue, it seems to be related to the Plugin.txt file located in your steamapps\common\Fallout 4\Data folder.

 

Solution:

Add the following to the first two lines of your plugin.txt file

# This file is used by Fallout4 to keep track of your downloaded content.
# Please do not modify this file.

so it looks like:

# This file is used by Fallout4 to keep track of your downloaded content.
# Please do not modify this file.
Fallout4.esm
 

followed by all your mods,

 

Full explanation below, which was how i got to this, hopefully NMM fixes soon:

 

Nexus Mod Manager forces this file to be read only.

But if you remove Read Only the game will not crash, but its over-written to:

# This file is used by Fallout4 to keep track of your downloaded content.
# Please do not modify this file.
Fallout4.esm
Effectively disabling all your mods.
But if you manually add the addons by typing them, then make it ready only it works fine.
My theory.

Next Mod manager changes the Plugin Text File to be:
Fallout4.esm
FogOut.esp
DarkerNights.esp
NoObjectLimit.esp
Busty.esp
Craftable Armor Size.esp
Safe SSEx.esp
extendedLightsWS - No shadows.esp
ShellRain.esp
PreWarSafes.esp
LegendaryRarity10.esp
LegendaryAllDifficulties3x.esp
pbs_deadly_turrets.esp
OCDecorator.esp
MoreSpawns_Medium.esp
Crafting Workbench.esp
MoreAmmo.esp

And makes the file read-only

But Fallout needs the file to be:

# This file is used by Fallout4 to keep track of your downloaded content.
# Please do not modify this file.
Fallout4.esm
FogOut.esp
DarkerNights.esp
NoObjectLimit.esp
Busty.esp
Craftable Armor Size.esp
Safe SSEx.esp
extendedLightsWS - No shadows.esp
ShellRain.esp
PreWarSafes.esp
LegendaryRarity10.esp
LegendaryAllDifficulties3x.esp
pbs_deadly_turrets.esp
OCDecorator.esp
MoreSpawns_Medium.esp
Crafting Workbench.esp
Crafting Workbenches - Ammo.esp
Crafting Workbenches - Ammo Special.esp
Crafting Workbenches - Pre War and Manufactured.esp
BetterNightVision.esp
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I think i figured it out.....rookie mistake

 

I originally had Fallout, NMM, & Mods installed on HDD A but uninstalled Fallout and later reinstalled in on HDD B.

 

Uninstalling & Reinstalling as well as moving the Mods over to HDD B seems to have solved the issue!

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