notdavey Posted July 8, 2016 Share Posted July 8, 2016 I am currently running FO4 v1.2.37.0. Yeah I know - very old. I had an issue with my video card when the 1.3 patch was released and had to downgrade to this version to get it to work or lose 100+ hours of play. Now months have gone by, I've upgraded my video card, added 75+ mods with fairly little problems, but now I am having some issues with newer MODs and need to upgrade to the latest version (mainly to add SKE to [hopefully] fix issues my workshop menus). I also play with Steam offline due to the older version. My questions is if I go online and upgrade/ update - is there any way to go back to my current version and just deal with some bugs? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthWolf Posted July 9, 2016 Share Posted July 9, 2016 What video card are you using? If you have an AMD card and you're having the nefarious compass bug, try using this. Fixed it for me. But to answer your question, there is a way to roll back changes to your game, but not through Steam. You'll have to do it yourself by making backups of the files. Please read the entire post before walking through the steps as I have some warnings later on: 1. Go to your installation directory. If you're not sure where that is, in Steam you can right click on the game, select properties from the dropdown menu, go to the "Local Files" tab, and select "Browse Local Files...".2. Select "Fallout4.exe" and "Fallout4Launcher.exe" and copy them into an appropriate directory. For example, I would make a directory under the Fallout 4 directory called "__Backup 1.2.37.0".3. Allow Steam to update your game.4. Test to see if there are any issues with the patch.5. If there are problems, copy "Fallout4.exe" and "Fallout4Launcher.exe" from your Fallout 4 directory to another backup folder. Again, as an example, I would make a folder under the Fallout 4 directory called "__Backup 1.5.416" or something similar (using the patch version I just downloaded as part of the name).6. Copy the old files ("Fallout4.exe" and "Fallout4Launcher.exe" in the "__Backup 1.2.37.0" folder in my example) to your Fallout 4 directory and overwrite the "Fallout4.exe" and "Fallout4Launcher.exe" you just made backups of.7. Enjoy 1.2.37.0 again and hope somebody actually patches the problems you're having out. Just some warnings: 1. I can't test this so I can't guarantee this will work. If you want to pick a practical "better-safe-than-sorry" route you can copy all of the files in the Fallout 4 directory (not the folders) and create backups which should minimize the chances of this not working. If you want to be absolutely certain this can be reversed you could just create a copy of your entire Fallout 4 directory. 2. If you roll back the patch Steam won't actually know and will stop trying to update your game (most likely) until Bethesda releases the next patch. If you want to re-enable the latest patch you can do so using your backed up files or by going to the game properties in Steam, going to the "Local Files" tab, and hitting "Verify Integrity of Game Cache...". It's probably better to just use the backups of your files unless you've hit a snag because this process can take a while. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pra Posted July 9, 2016 Share Posted July 9, 2016 Hypothetically, if one forgot do make a backup of version 1.5 and now wants to downgrade, what could one do to aquire the two exe files of said version? ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pra Posted July 10, 2016 Share Posted July 10, 2016 (edited) Thank you! I'll try it out, I don't think it can get much worse at this point. I should even still have savegames from that time. I just hope I won't lose too much progress. But 1.6 seems to be a horrible mess anyway. edit: the downgrade worked. The only problem I discovered was caused by Full Dialogue Interface. I couldn't find a version of it compatible with 1.5, it just prevented me from talking with anyone. Using Configurable New Dialog for the time being. Such mods altering the string files must be uninstalled before doing the downgrade, since the downgrade patch modifies them as well. Edited July 10, 2016 by pra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
notdavey Posted July 11, 2016 Author Share Posted July 11, 2016 I have an EVGA GeForce GTX 750Ti SC 2GB GDDR5 Graphics Card. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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