Fallout 4 NMM mods not appearing in game

[jackhealy]

Hi everyone! I'm relatively new to the modding scene and I'm thoroughly confused about one particular problem I'm having with modding Fallout 4. To recap, I made all of the necessary changes to the FalloutPrefs.ini and FalloutCustom.ini files to enable modding, I scanned Fallout 4 in NMM and let it set up the categories and started downloading mods and installing them.

 

The first problem I ran into was the "The 'old' Fallout4.ini is causing long load times. Please make sure there is nothing after '(=)' in sResourceDataDirsFinal=". I removed the /STRINGS part after the '=' and the problem didn't come back up again. So I thought I was in the clear.

 

I installed the 'Start Me Up Alternate Start' mod and the 'Full Dialogue Interface' mod only and the game was launching just fine, no crashes, no freezing, no long load times. And when I wanted to start a new game, it said 'Mods are installed. Achievement will be disabled. Continue?' and went into the game.

 

This is where I encountered the problem. After I created my character, the mod author of Start Me Up said that a menu will pop up after I stepped out of the bathroom. But nothing appeared. I waited for the Vault-Tec guy to show up and see if the Dialogue Interface worked and nope! Nothing. I'm almost positive it isn't my load order because there's only two mods I have installed right now and their supposed to work with each other. I already verified the game integrity through Steam and still nothing. The game knows the mods are installed and it sees them there, but it's not activating them.

 

I know this is infuriating to see, but I really do need help here. Has anyone else had this problem?

Edited October 29, 2017 by jackhealy

[willyb9]

probably a dumb question but are you sure you're using the FDI version of Start Me Up?