Damn it, Bethesda! Another update?

[pra]

 

You have to ensure that you've run the steam client application (i.e. the regular steam icon that you run to get to your library) in your current session before launching the game. Otherwise, even if you use the F4SE launcher, it'll trigger the steam launcher and update.

 

I made a small bat file to prevent this:

@ECHO OFF

SET steamExeName="Steam.exe"
SET f4seName="f4se_loader.exe"

tasklist /FI "IMAGENAME eq %steamExeName%" 2>NUL | find /I /N %steamExeName%>NUL
if "%ERRORLEVEL%"=="0" (
    %f4seName%
) else (
    msg "%username%" Steam is not running! Start Steam first!
)

Save it as something like startf4se.bat in your Fallout 4 directory (right next to f4se_loader.exe, and use it to start the game.

 

It has worked for me so far.

[kevkiev]

Wow, that's pretty clever. I'm only used to running bat files when I'm in-game. How do you do that before even starting it up?

 

If I'm understanding that script correctly, it won't start Steam but will let you know if you're trying to run F4SE without having run Steam first? That would be quite handy, since the last few times I've updated have all been because I forgot I hadn't run steam or hadn't had enough caffeine yet and groggily mistook the f4se shortcut for my email icon or something. (I've since installed a very noticeable shortcut icon for F4SE to hopefully avoid that last snag.)

[pra]

Windows bat != Fallout bat. Windows has had *.bat files at least since 1995 (probably earlier). It's a simple script language made by Microsoft. You paste that into notepad, then save it as something.bat. Then you can just doubleclick something.bat at it will run the script.

 

And yes, it won't start Steam, it will only warn you. This is because I have no idea how to wait for an exe to fully start, and I didn't want to make it too complex.

[SKKmods]

Windows has had *.bat files at least since 1995 (probably earlier).

 

Windows 2.0 1987, shell a .BAT file via command.com in a .PIF /old

 

hth

[Moksha8088]

Batch files have been around since Dos.

[pra]

Makes sense. But in any way, batch files are way older than Fallout 4. And what I posted is one of such ancient batch files, not a Fallout 4 batch.