Scrawnypwner Posted October 21, 2016 Share Posted October 21, 2016 When i start up NMM it tells me Fallout 4 has a missing ini file. Exact quote:"You have no Fallout 4 INI file. Please run Fallout 4 to initialize the file before installing any mods or turning on Archive Invalidation." after i hit ok it starts up as normal but i cannot use my mods in game. i deleted all my old saves thinking it was the issue. i made a new save just after character creation. the files i have are: Fallout4Fallout4Custom.iniFallout4Prefs.ini am i truly missing a file? if so how do i get it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharlikran Posted October 22, 2016 Share Posted October 22, 2016 Make sure you have installed you version of Fallout 4 with Steam. Also make sure steam placed the files where it want's them. Many times when I see issues like this people have moved their install to a hard drive with more space or out of Program Files, which no Bethesda game should be installed into in the first place. You can move it but you need to assign a new library folder. If you move it Steam can't properly configure your system for Fallout 4. All tools, NMM, LOOT, Wrye Flash, FO4Edit, and even BOSS when it was a thing, all depend on the games ability to configure your system. How that happens is when you run the official Fallout 4 launcher. For older games like Fallout New Vegas you installed it with a CD but you still have to run the Official launcher and not with NVSE. So when NMM tells you to run the game that's the easy non confusing way to say it. What they really mean is for you to run that and not F4SE because it bypasses the games configuration step. If it's still not working after you do that, go to Steam (because there is no disk version) and right click the name of the game, choose properties, and go to Local Files, then click Verify Integrity of Game Cache. That will get all the missing files from Bethesda, then run the Fallout 4 Launcher again. What happens? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DRam37 Posted October 24, 2016 Share Posted October 24, 2016 Another possibility, and someone else will need to confirm this, is that they are misnamed. I recently (Oct 2016) installed Fallout 4 and went about prepping files for mods to discover that some of the files have been changed since the mod tutorials were developed. Besides not having a Fallout4Custom.ini (be careful to create it as a configuration settings file type, not a .txt with ".ini" in the name), my included .ini file is "Fallout4_Default". Perhaps if the op were to rename their "Fallout4Custom.ini" to "Fallout4_Default" then it would be resolved? I do also have Fallout4Prefs.ini in another folder: "steamapps > common > Fallout 4 > Fallout4". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharlikran Posted October 26, 2016 Share Posted October 26, 2016 (edited) No, when all the files exist in the Game folder such as Fallout4_Default.ini, High.ini, and so on, when you run the launcher it makes the INI files in the Documents folder under MyGames where it is supposed to be. Each and every time there is a new patch or if a user verifies their game cache in steam the INI files are reset and have to be built again. To do so you run the Fallout 4 Launcher. There is no need to copy, rename, or muck about with any files. When you place the Fallout4Custom.ini file in the Document MyGames folder all that does is prevent Steam from deleting it. So what I said is still correct. Game must be installed into the location the user wants it with Steam. It can't be moved manually. Run the Fallout 4 launcher and it will build all the INI files and you are good to go. Edited October 26, 2016 by Sharlikran Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnsinsight Posted November 7, 2016 Share Posted November 7, 2016 WHere is the fallout 4 launcher? I click windows key, type fallout, open it from there, but it still uses the steam as the launcher... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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