No fallout4.ini file

[madcat39]

Hi

 

When i install the nexus software it says i dont have a ini file. I have tried to do some mods, and there is no ini file in my fallout4 folder. I don't know what to do now. Game runs fine but i can't mod it.

 

What do i do to fix this? I have tried to add a Fallout4.ini folder but i can't type in there to put stuff one of the mods i am trying to do wants in there. I'm stumped at this point.

Edited November 15, 2017 by madcat39

[JimmyRJump]

Initiation or ini files should be in the Docmuments/My Games/Fallout4 folder. The file is created upon very first start-up of the game.

 

The file is write protected by default. Right-click it and choose "properties" from the pop-up menu and then untick the "Read Only" box at the bottom of the "General" tab in the tabs menu. Then make these changes to the file (open with Notepad or get Notepad++) under the [Archive] header, right under the last line:

 

bInvalidateOlderFiles=1

sResourceDataDirsFinal=

 

Save and again make the ini file "Read Only". Then mod you heart out.

[madcat39]

Thanks for your reply. I uninstalled and reinstalled the game, played through the beginning to sanctuary and saved. in my fallout folder i have

 

saves folder

Fallout4

Fallout4Prefs

 

nexus says i have no ini file. i dont see one either, so still stumped.

[JimmyRJump]

Thanks for your reply. I uninstalled and reinstalled the game, played through the beginning to sanctuary and saved. in my fallout folder i have

 

saves folder

Fallout4

Fallout4Prefs

 

nexus says i have no ini file. i dont see one either, so still stumped.

You don't have extensions set to visible. The middle one is the Fallout4.ini, the bottom one is the prefs.ini :wink:

 

Open the Fallout4 file and do as explained in my first reply...

[JimmyRJump]

In case you don't know what an extension is: it's whatever comes after the "dot" at the end of a file's name. Like .mp3, .exe, .ini, .whatever. By default, Windows hides these extensions because Microsoft is afraid some folk might accidentally delete or change the extension when renaming a file. As if again adding the extension is beyond anyone's capabilities...

 

To set extensions to visible, open explorer and at the top of the window hit "Tools" in the toolbar (I'm still on Win7, so it might be different for later versions) and then hit "Folder Options" in the roll-out menu.

 

In the new menu, open the "View" tab and search for the "Hide extensions for known file types" line and untick the box in front of it.

 

Now, all extensions are visible. To set them back to invisible, do the same thing as before but now tick the box in front of "Hide extensions for known file types"...

[Majic7]

Look in your documents folder. That's where my ini's are. On W10. As Jimmy said, Documents is a system folder it's not in the game folder.

[JimmyRJump]

Look in your documents folder. That's where my ini's are. On W10. As Jimmy said, Documents is a system folder it's not in the game folder.

Madcat was in the right folder, but the extensions don't show, as I mentioned. That's why he thinks there's no Fallout4.ini file...

[madcat39]

Yeah, i needed the info to show my extentions. Thanks again, got the ultrawidescreen mod going and more to come!

[JimmyRJump]

Yeah, i needed the info to show my extentions. Thanks again, got the ultrawidescreen mod going and more to come!

Way to go, hombre :thumbsup:

[Brandoman]

Well after installing a new drive, new windows 10, fresh copy of Fallout 4, fresh copy of NMM, I am getting this message. I went and created "Fallout4Custom.ini" which I indeed changed the extension from .txt to .ini and this is still not working. I launch NMM as administrator and it STILL is telling me it can't find the ini file. I didn't have this problem previously. I don't know what to do now lol. Oh and I made sure it wasn't marked "read only" as well. Please... HELP! :D

 

 

Edit: Okay so originally all file extensions were showing after a fresh Windows install on a brand new hard drive. Weird right!? Very weird. Every time I have had a fresh windows install, file extensions were set to "hidden" by default and I would always have to go in and change this setting to show file extensions. Not this time! ...so I thought "maybe if I switch it to hide file extensions, hit apply, then switch it back off, then apply, it might somehow suddenly work" ...and what do ya know! IT DID! Soooo strange, but am glad it worked. I hope anyone else who might run into this very odd and uncommon bug reads this and it also helps them!

 

FYI: I bought a brand new M.2 SSD, installed it as my new hard drive (old drive was made secondary) installed a fresh activated copy of Windows 10 and started fresh with everything. I don't know if this had something to do with file extensions being shown out of the box or not but figured I would post this extra info in case someone is in the same situation and/or had this very same thing happen to them after installing new drive.

 

I also made sure the entire "My Documents" folder wasn't set to "Read-Only." as well. Even if you set the ini files to be "non-read only" it will not work unless you set the entire "my documents" folder to "non-read only"

 

Time to continue my new playthrough! Kay bye!