Is it possible to get a modded savegame running again?

[xforce11]

Hi I recently had to reinstall windows and therefore lost (almost) everything. I wanted to install Fallout 4 again and use my old savegames where I used many mods.

I downloaded and installed the mods but my savegame can't load anymore (it crashes when loading a savegame, the game itself loads up totally normal) but I can start a new game normally.

So, is there a way to get old savegames running or is this impossible? I saved most mods when I downloaded them so there shouldn't be any different mod versions that I did not had before.

Can anyone maybe help me in some way?

Edited April 11, 2016 by xforce11

[xforce11]

Well, I am sorry I found out what the cause for the crash was.

 

For anyone who has the same problem and did not found a solution yet, here is my way how I got my savegames to work again: The "load-order" in the plugins.txt has to be exactly the same like it was before, otherwise the game seems to crash.

 

For example:

 

Old load-order (which is used by the old savefiles)

Mod 1.esp

Mod 2.esp

Mod 3.esp

 

For old savegames the plugins.txt and it's load-order must look like this again to work. But not like this:

New wrong load order

Mod 2.esp

Mod 3.esp

Mod 1.esp

 

I am not completely sure if that was the problem but that was the only thing I changed after seeing the game crashing all the time when I installed all the mods.

Edited April 11, 2016 by xforce11

[ddavies10693]

Yes instant CTD means load order issues probably 75% of the time. Download LOOT on the nexus and learn it, love it, live it. Its an absolute necessity when modding pretty much any Bethesda game.

[Isatanica]

Yes instant CTD means load order issues probably 75% of the time. Download LOOT on the nexus and learn it, love it, live it. Its an absolute necessity when modding pretty much any Bethesda game.

^This, But do keep in mind that even LOOT could sometimes be wrong when it comes to Load order, sometimes you have to manually adjust the load order. 2 things are important LOOT and whenever you download a mod check what Author says about the load order.

Edited April 13, 2016 by Isatanica

[ddavies10693]

Yeah that goes without saying. While Loot can fix a large number of problems, nothing will be as good as actual knowledge and common sense

[Sorpaijen]

Not ~exactly~ the same situation for me, but.... I have an older character (my first) with 200+ hours invested, but I have played 400+ hours since then, and added and removed mods left and right. My current game and presumably new games would load just fine, but those older games cause Fallout 4 to crash when I "confirm" loading them.

 

I seem to recall reading that if Fallout detects a large number of missing ESPs, it'll crash. Thing is, I do not know which ESPs are missing because it never gives me the pop-up where it lists the missing ESPs and as I said, I've added and removed a LOT of mods over the hundreds of hours since I last played my Original character.

 

Is there some way to ~force~ the older save-game to load, so I can then SAVE it with the current mod set-up?

 

EDIT: May have found the solution ----

 

http://forums.nexusmods.com/index.php?/topic/3823935-ctd-after-loading-save/page-2

 

Now to find this save-game editor program.... aaaaand it's under nexus moderator review. :P

Edited April 16, 2016 by Sorpaijen