Fallout 4 will not start at menu.

[Aoikani]

At last update and when I began to update mods that needed it, I discovered I can not start my game for a fresh new game. As a result, I began troubleshooting and took the following steps: Verified file integrity, not once, not twice, but numerous times. I updated F4SE, Vortex, and all mods I used but still couldn't start a new game. I downloaded Nvidia's newest driver update which was only 2 days old when I updated it. I verfied my mods are checked, used Wrye's standalone, LOOT, checked for mod conflicts with TESedit and still could not get anything to run.

After failing to find the problem and scouring google for help, I deleted all mods and re-installed Vortex, F4SE and all saves. Verified all files again and began with MCM + CBBE. The game would not progress past the start menu. I checked my .ini's, deleted them and started a basic game without F4SE and created new .ini's then made sure I had the following added to my Fallout4Custom.ini.

[Archive]

bInvalidateOlderFiles=1
sResourceDataDirsFinal=

I could not start a new game or load the clean save that was not loaded with F4SE with the 2 mods I had. I checked the mods and deleted/re-nstalled them. Still the game will not start a fresh new game, with mods or no mods. I've never had problems before like this and I can run the game at FULL ULTRA settings with no stutter or mods to reduce stutter. I heard about an Nvidia bug that prevents loading past the start menu and read about another scenario of a hidden window behind the start menu, but I can't verify these. What is the problem?

 

[sOLVED] :

Vortex installed F4SE to the wrong directory, in which I corrected by installing it to the Fallout4 directory [prior to the Data folder]

Edited August 23, 2019 by Aoikani