Need Clean Start - Complete Game Uninstall or Disable/Uninstall Mods?

[jptx65]

Hey guys,

 

I'm new to Fallout on the PC. I've played quite a bit on Xbox, but I wanted to see how much better I could make it look on my new PC. Anyway, I downloaded Nexus Mod Manager and downloaded quite a few mods for it. I followed a lot of the videos Gopher has posted on YouTube to try to make sure I did things correctly. It turns out I definitely had some issues, so I decided to uninstall the game. I then reinstalled the game only to find out that all of the mods are still in NMM, and they all still showed the green check mark. I wanted to start over from scratch and slowly add mods to the game, but uninstalling and reinstalling didn't take care of that problem. What is the best approach? Should I disable or uninstall all mods? Is it possible that I've already overwritten any base game files through NMM? Or am I safe if I've used NMM?

 

Just as a side note, I installed quite a few mods for settlement building, settler & NPC appearance, clothing and armor. In my Xbox play through, I noticed I kept getting settlers and settlements that all looked too much alike. Anyway, I noticed an issue right away when the Presets were buggy when doing the character appearance at the start of the game. Then When I rant to the Vault for the bomb, the elevator would go down right after the bomb went off. It then cuts to a inside the vault and the elevator would be down, but my characters would be floating as if the elevator. Then I had an issue where Kellogg wouldn't even appear when I was in cryo. So then I decided I'd uninstall all mods and go step by step.

 

What's the best way to start fresh? What should I do? Uninstall all mods though NMM from all profiles? Just disable all of them? Is there something else I need to do manually? I could use some help here, and anything would be much appreciated.

[jptx65]

Nevermind guys, I got most of this stuff figured out. I uninstalled about 3 times, and that's pretty much worthless. I disabled a large number of mods. I kept a lot of the visuals and texture mods, but disabled all settlement crafting and player home mods. I'm not sure if that's it, or if it was my load order. The game doesn't appear to be buggy, and it looks amazing on the computer when compared to the Xbox. I do have one single issue, but I'll make a new thread for that.