Can Someone Explain What Just Happened?

[ChefJackButler]

I regularly do hard restarts of my modded games, by which I mean I deleted all the mods, deleted the game from my harddrive, re-downloaded the game from steam, and then reinstalled all the mods. I haven't ever had any problem doing tihs before, and it helps the game and it guarantees I'm working from the most up-to-date versions of everything possible.

âThis time, though, I run through this process, start everything up -- and F4SE is apparently sitting this play-through out. LOOT is telling me my F4SE is up-to-date (I've got F4SE 0.6.0 and Fallout 4 1.10.26.0, which are supposedly compatible.) But when I run the game, LooksMenu doesn't function. The mod I downloaded to keep achievements going despite using mods isn't working. Nothing that needs F4SE is working, in fact. But everything is telling me that F4Se is doing just fine, and I can't find any mods that are conflicting, much less that are conflicting in such a way that would turn off F4SE.

âCan anyone explain to me what just happened?

âOh, and while I'm conversant in a lot of computer lingo and tech talk, I'm a chef, not a programmer... so if you answer this inquiry and I suddenly ask you what seems like a newb question, its not that I'm a newb, its that I'm not a programmer. I don't expect you guys to know how to correctly shirr an egg or whip up hollandaise sauce, after all.

âThanks ahead for your assistance.

[Acacophony]

Hi there,

 

have you gone ahead and reinstalled F4SE anyway just in case? You may have the right version, but a corrupted file or something. Sometimes things just don't install properly and it's not anyone's fault.

 

If you haven't done so already, I would also recommend going back through the mods you downloaded and checking on two things:

1) That you actually do have the most recent version + any hotfixes or updates the author put on the page that is dated after the main file

2) That the mods you downloaded that are dependent on F4SE have been updated since the most recent F4SE update (I think it was September 23rd)

[ChefJackButler]

Hi there,

 

have you gone ahead and reinstalled F4SE anyway just in case? You may have the right version, but a corrupted file or something. Sometimes things just don't install properly and it's not anyone's fault.

 

If you haven't done so already, I would also recommend going back through the mods you downloaded and checking on two things:

1) That you actually do have the most recent version + any hotfixes or updates the author put on the page that is dated after the main file

2) That the mods you downloaded that are dependent on F4SE have been updated since the most recent F4SE update (I think it was September 23rd)

 

I deleted and re-installed F4SE three times so far, just in case. Nothing. Same result every time. And if I'm using an old version, I can't find any indicators for it. ​As for the mods, all of them have been updated to the latest version of F4SE as far as I can tell. Note the "as far as I can tell" part, because I might be missing something someone else would notice.

[ChefJackButler]

Without me doing a damned thing, the problem fixed itself somehow. I literally did nothing other than just turning on Fallout and suddenly it was all working as if nothing happened. I have no idea what just happened.