Codsworth has dark texture for unknown reason

[kkjackson41]

I recently decided to start a new playthrough so i downloaded some mods but whenever i start a new game codsworth has very awkward dark textures, at first i went through some mods to see if they affect his textures, after some time i found that disabling the high resolution dlc fixes it. But after again starting a new game again his textures are dark again. I know this a very small detail but its really just bugs me so if anyone knows why it might happening please respond.

 

Screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/qJKJU

[JimmyRJump]

Looks like the car outside suffers the same glitch, so it's probably something that affects more than just Codsworth.

 

Which mods are you using?

 

I'd also get rid of the High Resolution DLC and use mods instead. Most mods do a better job than the DLC and take far less space and resources. Look at Hein84's Vivid series for a major increase in looks without any impact on RAM use, on the contrary.

[kkjackson41]

  On 10/23/2017 at 5:21 PM, JimmyRJump said:

Looks like the car outside suffers the same glitch, so it's probably something that affects more than just Codsworth.

 

Which mods are you using?

 

I'd also get rid of the High Resolution DLC and use mods instead. Most mods do a better job than the DLC and take far less space and resources. Look at Hein84's Vivid series for a major increase in looks without any impact on RAM use, on the contrary.

 

The texture mods im using are:

Vivid fallout - All in one

Brotherhood of steel kit

Fallout 4 HD reworked project revised

Protectron HD 4k

High resolution texture pack - valius

Enhanced Lights and Fx

[Deleted3258978User]

I'm not 100% positive, but it's probably due to two texture mods affecting him (or in this case, the high res DLC + mod), so both are trying to work at the same time which causes this. If I had to guess which two are both working on Codsworth, it's probably the high res DLC and Fallout 4 HD reworked project revised, but I can't be positive since I personally don't use either. I just kinda glanced through the mod pages and that's my best guess.

 

If I were you, I'd take the advice of JimmyRJump and just get rid of the high res DLC. Mods do a better job for not just quality but performance as well, and if this Codsworth texture glitch bothers you so much (though personally I think he looks kinda cool darker like that), and disabling the high res DLC fixes it, well then the answer is right there. Besides, most of your mods are probably overwriting certain parts of the high res DLC anyway, so it's not like there'd be much loss, especially when there are tons of texture mods out there that will give you the quality you want.

[JimmyRJump]

  On 10/23/2017 at 7:27 PM, pafool said:

I'm not 100% positive, but it's probably due to two texture mods affecting him (or in this case, the high res DLC + mod), so both are trying to work at the same time which causes this. If I had to guess which two are both working on Codsworth, it's probably the high res DLC and Fallout 4 HD reworked project revised, but I can't be positive since I personally don't use either. I just kinda glanced through the mod pages and that's my best guess.

 

If I were you, I'd take the advice of JimmyRJump and just get rid of the high res DLC. Mods do a better job for not just quality but performance as well, and if this Codsworth texture glitch bothers you so much (though personally I think he looks kinda cool darker like that), and disabling the high res DLC fixes it, well then the answer is right there. Besides, most of your mods are probably overwriting certain parts of the high res DLC anyway, so it's not like there'd be much loss, especially when there are tons of texture mods out there that will give you the quality you want.

Graphic mods shouldn't clash with one another, since the last mod installed would overwrite previously installed mods. Since most texture mods don't have a plug-in, you can't change load order and must either take a wild guess which mod was installed last or re-activate the lot one by one and have a look at the game after each re-activation.

 

But I somehow have the feeling that the dark grey problem is more a settings issue than a mod issue. It's been over six months since I've played FO4 and haven't got a clue what my settings were. If the GPU is an NVidia one, better have a look at those settings first (saying this because I'm using an AMD GPU and I was made to understand that NVidia has more graphical settings than AMD's software does).

[kkjackson41]

Problem is i already tried turning off all those mods and it still doesn't work

[JimmyRJump]

  On 10/23/2017 at 7:46 PM, kkjackson41 said:

Problem is i already tried turning off all those mods and it still doesn't work

Which more or less confirms my suspicions that it's a settings issue...

[SharraShimada]

The dark robots bug is as old as FO4 itself. Some mod messes up the model, and even uninstalling wont revert the effect.

You may try https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/27366/?

Other solution could be letting steam verify the game files.

[kkjackson41]

I managed to fix it now using the vanilla reflection maps mod thanks for trying to help :) as for the car, it seems to be already black ingame

[JimmyRJump]

  On 10/23/2017 at 11:41 PM, SharraShimada said:

The dark robots bug is as old as FO4 itself. Some mod messes up the model, and even uninstalling wont revert the effect.

You may try https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/27366/?

Other solution could be letting steam verify the game files.

I had over eleven-thousand hours in FO4 with over eighteen-hundred mods tried, including "Texture Optimization Project" (which I dropped because of better options available). Last run I did had 447 mods with 255 plug-ins. Never ran into this kind of problem.

 

And for a glitch "as old as the game" you refer to a mod that is a week old and has 150 downloads?

 

 

  On 10/24/2017 at 1:22 AM, kkjackson41 said:

I managed to fix it now using the vanilla reflection maps mod thanks for trying to help :smile: as for the car, it seems to be already black ingame

 

Good to hear you have it fixed KK :smile: