Moksha8088 Posted November 17, 2016 Share Posted November 17, 2016 Help please. I can't get the Bethesda screen to start. Starting with NMM, F4SE, Fallout 4 launcher, or Steam all result in nothing. The game will not even begin. Verified the integrity of the files. What the heck is going on and how do I fix it? Skyrim and Skyrim SE both start without incidence from NMM, but not Fallout 4. Everything is up to date. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moksha8088 Posted November 17, 2016 Author Share Posted November 17, 2016 Nothing happens after clicking play. Both Steam and NMM will close like normal, but nothing else will happen. There is a failure to launch. Nothing comes up on the screen. There is no Fallout 4 executable present in task manager. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bernt Posted November 17, 2016 Share Posted November 17, 2016 Stupid question really - mine that is :smile: - but have you tried just restarting your computer?I had the same issue pending the latest update of Win 10. I was trying everything until finally I just shut down and went for a cup of coffee trying to cool down a bit.A couple of hours later I turned on my rig and hit the SE launcher. The game just started as if nothing had ever happened :wallbash: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clegislator Posted November 17, 2016 Share Posted November 17, 2016 I had this problem too.After trying for hours I found dat If u recover ur fallout4custom.ini (delete "[Archive]bInvalidateOlderFiles=1sResourceDataDirsFinal=" that Nexus wiki told u to do) and any other .ini file will finally fix this problem. I dont know why and that cause every mod being no effect :(((( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moksha8088 Posted November 17, 2016 Author Share Posted November 17, 2016 Bernt, the restarting is always in my very limited bag of tools. :smile: clegislator, I am having a hard time understanding what you described. However, I temporarily moved the three ini files to the desktop, but that did not help. Moved them back. Still in need of a Fallout 4 guru. I have never needed to reinstall a steam game or use their backup procedure. Seems like a desperate move, but would this help? What is needed to do such a procedure? I want to fix things before I go through the pain of Fallout 4 withdrawal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
damanding Posted November 17, 2016 Share Posted November 17, 2016 I think what Clegislator was trying to suggest is that you might want to delete the ini files, run the Fallout 4 launcher to regenerate them, and then re-add the line necessary to run mods. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moksha8088 Posted November 17, 2016 Author Share Posted November 17, 2016 Damanding, after I had removed those ini files to the desktop, I tried launching F4. Nothing happened. Fallout4.exe is not to be found in the task manager window. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
damanding Posted November 17, 2016 Share Posted November 17, 2016 Did it re-create those files for you though? Or did you end up moving the ones on your desktop back? Probably a good time to do a steam verify files check too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moksha8088 Posted November 17, 2016 Author Share Posted November 17, 2016 The steam verify is the first thing I did. Did it twice, today and yesterday. The F4 ini and the F4pref files were both recreated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
damanding Posted November 18, 2016 Share Posted November 18, 2016 This is the thread I was thinking of when driving home! Mixed it up with other support threads lol. I think I'm posting in too many of these! >.< Anyway an idea that came to me on my drive home from work today is that I seem to recall another user having a similar issue and it turned out to be their anti-virus application preventing the fallout executable from launching. It was a new issue too, either due to changes in fallout or changes in the AV program. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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