Need Help Updating FO4

[sqigg]

A two-fold question;

I haven't played FO4 in a long time and decided to the other night. When I went to start the game with F4SE within NMM, it returned the error that it couldn't because my F4SE version didn't match my game version. It was working as of Oct 1, 2016 (my last save file) and I have never let Steam update my game, so everything should have been the same from Oct 1. Any thoughts ?

 

IF, I do let Steam update my game to the current version, what steps are necessary to ensure that FO4 will function properly and that I won't loose any of my mods or saves ? I have about 150 mods installed (some customized) . I remember the crap show last spring where players mods would no longer work b'c of game update.

 

EDIT: This makes no sense, but on Nov 29 I installed a GTX 1070 . I just did some further checking and it shows on the same date, my Fallout4.exe file was also changed (v.1.8.7) as was Fallout4launcher.exe (1.3.22) . I don't understand why changing the vid card updated those files since I haven't opened FO4 since October. Needless to say I went to the Silverlock site and I can't find a version of F4SE that matches up. Which one should I use ?

Edited March 9, 2017 by sqigg

[stihspid]

F4SE Link

Yah, F4SE has to match the FO4 version. But then the mods do too, so if you got some old mods installed, remove all that, and start over. After the later patches for the game came out, and it was more final it got much better. The mods around that time started to change dramatically. Like I've just been playing an installing an testing, then removing it all for 1.25 years with FO4, 10-20 different builds. After xEdit merge scripts came out we went above 255 mods, around 340 mods, Then later on maybe a little higher. Then xMerge came out from the Skyrim side and now I'm sitting on a 500+ mods hotfix hack job build of a 100Gb FO4 that is the most stable & awesome the game has been since it came out. Realy kind of astounding. You'll want to Tales from the Commonweath & Atomic Radio Easy to miss those, and the updates were killer. If you ever roll a female you'll want CBBE & Josie body then put CBBE boobfixed on that, and Cherry Physics to play with. Which is a fair amount to start with. Looks menu to save character face shapes an make ups for various reasons & then compendium that comes with it. Go thru weapons get your favorite weapons like any clothing items male/female you liked. Videos of the wasteland (Commonwealth) has a lot of TV you can watch in FO4.

Settlement transfer, like if you wanted to keep anything you built in the old one, well I mean if you have to start over to get it to run stable. Super Mutant Overhawl, Jesus, tough sons of guns sometimes, increased spawns, unleveled spawns, and pick another to set encounter zone unleveling. Though some just unlevel the whole game. Survival Options to set damage rates an some other settings particular to survival mode as well as an item to force full save games instead of partial autosaves which can have some problems, enable achievements while using mods, which is a seperate mod. You can detatch special points from being a perk requirement so it's only restricted by level, pretty nice. Take cover works with custom camera settings, so you can get down an take cover in combat as a tactic, you can adjust killmove frequency, and some of the DLC replaced some of the good kill moves. You would tweek the game & the camera settings for example with Fallout 4 Configuration Tool - By Bilago

There's a endless amount of stuff you can do, that would be only about 8000 times better than what you got. I guess you would update an test it, but blah blah blah LOUD NOISES

[Bernt]

I went from 1.4 to 1.87 a couple of months ago. That meant searching for - and installing- all of my favorite mods over again. Some of them had gone AWOL because of mod-theft. The authors had taken them down never to be seen again.

 

Fortunately I kept a stock of mods on my drive so I was able to - for the most- recreate my old load order. Onky a couple of mods were so outdated they didn't work. But overall - though it was time consuming- it was no big deal. Except having to start over with new characters. My old saves were rendered useless. However, I was pointed to LooksMenu for at least keeping the faces of my characters in case of a break down. I didn't know then - I do now. And I use it.

 

My advice: Download the mods manually alongside installing them via NMM.

[sqigg]

I went from 1.4 to 1.87 a couple of months ago. That meant searching for - and installing- all of my favorite mods over again. Some of them had gone AWOL because of mod-theft. The authors had taken them down never to be seen again.

My advice: Download the mods manually alongside installing them via NMM.

All of my mods that I have installed were initially manual downloads that I have stored on a backup drive, so that isn't a problem. I don't have any DLC installed, but ALL of my settlements that I spent a lot of time creating were all built with modded assets and I do have Spring Cleaning installed.

 

You say that your game version is 1.87 . Which version of FOSE are you using because I don't see any version on the Silverlock page that supports that version ?

[Bernt]

http://f4se.silverlock.org/archive/

 

The older versions are in here. However - I cannot find the one I use for 1.87. That is F4SE 0.2.8 according to the readme in my data folder. It is dated 9-11-2016.

You can try googling it though. I found it on reddit and gamepressure - among others- when I tried right now.