NMM Mods not Activating In-Game

[DjSatansfury]

Hi all,

 

First post, so be gentle!

 

First time at installing mods, and try as I might I cannot get any of them to activate in-game. I'll quickly list what I've tried:

 

Launching Fallout 4 from the button within NMM.

All mods installed using NMM 0.63.14

Fallout 4 with all DLC (and High Texture Pack) version 1.10.20.0.0

Updated the Fallout4Custom.ini with the [Archive] strings.

Removed "Read Me" from the plugin.txt in AppData

Run NMM as Administrator.

Started New Game instead of loading an existing save.

 

Run NMM in trace mode - no obvious errors.

Uninstalled NMM from Program Files (default location) and reinstalled to G:\Games\Nexus Mod Manager incase of UAC.

 

I'm honestly at a bit of a loss as to what to try next. Any ideas?

 

 

[meisterdb21]

I'm currently going through a similar problem, i checked my .ini, uninstalled and reinstalled both fo4 and my nmm mods to no luck in game, i very small few (like 5 out of 250) make it through.

[vixsyn]

Do either of you have xEdit installed? If so, is xEdit finding your plugins ok?

 

This might be a bit out there but possibly worth a shot.

 

You said you removed "Read Me" from the plugin.txt in AppData - have you tried deleting the FO4 folder there and allowing it to regenerate (make a backup first of course). Also remove anything relating to your mod manager and then try again.

 

I mention this because there have been a couple of occasions where I've moved something or there has been an update that has confused my MO and this needs to be done. You're not using MO but, for the purposes of this problem, the programs are not that different.

 

If this doesn't work, then the next thing you may want to check is regedit - NMM or FO4 may have left something in the registry that isn't lining up well with your current version of the game. When you're in regedit you want to look, for example, in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE and then SOFTWARE. Find NMM there and under the "Data" column check that the path is pointing to the correct drive - it may be, especially in your case, DJ, that it's still trying to find the information in the Program Files location that you uninstalled from. Once you've found and checked this, if it's wrong then you'll likely want to perform a search to correct all of the wrong entries - either go to the top of the window and go Edit>Find, or press ctrl+F and type in part of the path you're trying to find, i.e. nexus mod manager\Fallout4, and correct the path for each instance.

 

Finally, go to where NMM is installed and if it has a settings/config file (like nmm.ini or similar - as I said I use MO so I'm not sure if NMM does), open this up and make sure the path is correct there as well. You may think you set this up via the client but it's worth doing a manual check just in case.

 

If you're not sure how to run regedit it's pretty simple - go to start, type regedit in the search box and it should come up on the list.

 

This might not be any help but hey, it's something, and it's previously worked for me.

[DjSatansfury]

Thanks for the reply.

 

Tried removing the FO4 appdata folder. Nothing (apart from wiping out my graphics settings). Nothing in the registry that I can find. All pointing to correct locs. Same with anything in NMM.

 

I'm starting to wonder if my Fallout 4 install has gone awry somewhere (it's been the same install since release). Tried downloading the Bethesda.net mods, but the mods menu doesn't appear at all on the main screen, unless they've removed the functionality. Verified the files on Steam, but it reckons it is OK.

 

Back to chin stroking!

[vixsyn]

You only moved your NMM from Program Files, right? Assume FO4 is installed on G also? Or am I assuming badly?

[DjSatansfury]

I uninstalled and reinstalled onto G:/Games.

 

I've just uninstalled Fallout. I'll reinstall once it's downloaded again (...all 86GB :sad: )

[vixsyn]

Honestly you could probably skip the high-res DLC, there are plenty of alternatives on Nexus and that DLC is considered to be poorly optimised.

[DjSatansfury]

Probably. Didn't think in hindsight.

 

Anyway reinstalled. Thought I'd give Mod Organiser a go. Still nothing. Suggests its an issue with Fallout 4 install rather than anything else, but what could it be?

 

:ermm:

[DjSatansfury]

Wiped out the .ini files and lo behold everything is appearing in the main menu now. Hoorah.

 

Shall report back when I get anything working :)

[DjSatansfury]

Yep did that did the job. Working in MO and NMM now :)

Got another issue now though with textures hah.