Issues with NNM and launching a new game

[OpAphid]

Hey guys, been on here awhile, but mostly in the Skyrim and New Vegas sections of the website; I never could get Fallout 4 mods to work before the 1.5 patch despite doing that whole .ini thing.However, this is my first time trying to install mods for Fallout 4 and actually playing them.

 

I have downloaded and installed eight popular mods from the website through the NMM launcher, and my Fallout 4 works fine. It starts up through NMM, loads games, saves games, all of that with the mods activated. When I try to start a new game, however, it essentially puts me into a forever loading loop, taking away the menu and forcing me to watch the slideshow of Power Armour at the gas station. I've waited five minutes, I've waited ten minutes, it never works.

 

I thought that maybe a mod or two was incompatible with my game, so I simply loaded NMM up again, disabled all but one mod, and tried again, with the same result. On the off chance that I had accidentally disabled all but the mod that was actually giving me trouble, I disabled that one and then loaded another mod, with the same result.

 

Then, I disabled all mods, started the game through NMM, and tried to start a new game. The same result.

 

So I tried launching the game through Steam, which worked fine, and I was able to start a new game through there.

 

I suppose my two questions for this would be:

 

a) Is there any way to fix this so that I can start a new game through NMM?

 

b) And if not, can I start the game through Steam with mods enabled on NMM and still have the mods working with the game?