Doing a Fresh Install of Fallout 4 - Reinstall Mods

[Sandatharius]

I have a fair number of mods installed in Fallout 4. I ran into some issues with the game and would like to do a fresh install of the game. How should I handle Vortex with this? I don't want to install quite a few of the mods again. Should I uninstall them in Vortex before the new install of the game? Any way to purge all mods and then reinstall them after I have the game back again?

[FlamingCheeseMonkey]

I have a fair number of mods installed in Fallout 4. I ran into some issues with the game and would like to do a fresh install of the game. How should I handle Vortex with this? I don't want to install quite a few of the mods again. Should I uninstall them in Vortex before the new install of the game? Any way to purge all mods and then reinstall them after I have the game back again?

 

If you go to the "Mods" section of Vortex, you just need to click the "Purge Mods" button to remove the generated links from the game folder. You can then do a fresh install of the game. Afterwords, as long as the game is in the same location and you've ran it once, you should be able to hit "Deploy Mods" and run the game with all your mods installed just as it was before (you may also need to click on "Fix" when it brings up the BSA Redirection thing again).

[HadToRegister]

Just to add to this.

I recently did this with Oblivion, I own both a Steam copy and a GOG copy.

I was converting and repackaging Oblivion mods to work in Vortex, and ran across a mod I was planning on using, but you had to set STEAM to run as an administrator, well, I didn't want to do that and mess up all my other games for one mod, so I installed the GOG version I also have.

For comparison, the difference in paths...

D:\Games\Steam\steamapps\common\Oblivion

D:\Games\Gog Games\Oblivion

I purged my oblivion mods, then changed the location of my Oblivion game folder from the Steam path I showed, to the GOG path I showed, inside Vortex (Something you shouldn't have to do since it's Fallout 4, unless you move your Steam folder somewhere new), hit DEPLOY, and was pleasantly surprised that my "eh, what the hell, let's try this out" experiment worked.
Because I loaded up GOG Oblivion, and also checked the DATA folder, and lo and behold, all my mods were there.

Vortex had faithfully restored all my mods and load order to the new directory

[Sandatharius]

Thank you for the replies.....much appreciated!

 

Further to the discussion....a little background: I ran into a situation where one of my mods (no clue at all WHICH mod) changed the names of some NPCs (not all) with RUSSIAN names. For example, Trashcan Carla in Sanctuary and a few other NPCs I've run into all had Russian names. I didn't use any Russian versions of any mods....I know that for sure, so I don't know what happened.

 

So, I would like to have ALL mods removed from Vortex, and reinstall them one at a time until I find out which one was causing it. In actual likelihood, I may end up installing entirely different ones, especially the body mod, as I was not happy with the results with the one I'm using. So, I think I'd like to start right at the beginning with no mods installed as if I'm starting all over again with Vortex. Sorry....I'm a bit of a duffer when it comes to some of the mod managing stuff......

 

Is there a specific way I should go about this?

[HadToRegister]

Thank you for the replies.....much appreciated!

 

Further to the discussion....a little background: I ran into a situation where one of my mods (no clue at all WHICH mod) changed the names of some NPCs (not all) with RUSSIAN names. For example, Trashcan Carla in Sanctuary and a few other NPCs I've run into all had Russian names. I didn't use any Russian versions of any mods....I know that for sure, so I don't know what happened.

 

So, I would like to have ALL mods removed from Vortex, and reinstall them one at a time until I find out which one was causing it. In actual likelihood, I may end up installing entirely different ones, especially the body mod, as I was not happy with the results with the one I'm using. So, I think I'd like to start right at the beginning with no mods installed as if I'm starting all over again with Vortex. Sorry....I'm a bit of a duffer when it comes to some of the mod managing stuff......

 

Is there a specific way I should go about this?

 

 

YEa, uninstall all your mods.

 

If you want to be absolutely 100% sure your game directory is completely devoid of any mods, then uninstall the game and reinstall it too.