moonraker481 Posted February 7, 2020 Share Posted February 7, 2020 Help with getting clean game the fisrt time you down loud it . My mods are not working right and vortex is not deleteing all the files and this was after I remove them in my mod mannger and deleteing game will not remove the file's . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StormWolf01 Posted February 7, 2020 Share Posted February 7, 2020 heyas MoonRaker. This is because Vortex makes copies of the mods that you download and install. It saves these files to it's own seperate folder, outside of the game folder.I do apologize, I don't know where that folder is by default. As I do Not use Vortex. One of the other great people around here can tell you where it's default location is, or how to find what it's set to be in Vortex's settings. I'm sorry that I'm not able to completely help you out here. :(-Storm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moonraker481 Posted February 8, 2020 Author Share Posted February 8, 2020 Do you think they would tale you were to go in sittings to stop it . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StormWolf01 Posted February 8, 2020 Share Posted February 8, 2020 Well, I'm not entirely 100% sure of this, because I don't use it. But I don't think there is a setting for it not to make backups. I could definitely be wrong about that tho. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moonraker481 Posted February 9, 2020 Author Share Posted February 9, 2020 Thanks this happen to me when I play skyrm se I was adding mods deleteing them and a lot of time I would start a new game and the mod no longer work ? I cant be the olny one that this happening to . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ketara00 Posted February 9, 2020 Share Posted February 9, 2020 Stormwolf is correct. The mods aren't just saved in the usual C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Fallout 4\Data location. They're also backed up separately in the C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Vortex\fallout4\mods folder. In addition to that, mod traces are sometimes left over even if you wipe those two folders and uninstall the game in various places that the game was installed, like C:\Users\Admin\Documents\My Games\Fallout4. So if you want a 100% guaranteed clean install, you essentially have to track all these niggly little bits down and delete them manually too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StormWolf01 Posted February 9, 2020 Share Posted February 9, 2020 Stormwolf is correct. The mods aren't just saved in the usual C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Fallout 4\Data location. They're also backed up separately in the C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Vortex\fallout4\mods folder. In addition to that, mod traces are sometimes left over even if you wipe those two folders and uninstall the game in various places that the game was installed, like C:\Users\Admin\Documents\My Games\Fallout4. So if you want a 100% guaranteed clean install, you essentially have to track all these niggly little bits down and delete them manually too.Oooooo! Good info! Thanks Ketara. Kudos given for sharing that. Also for the Booster Gold character in the background of your avatar :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ketara00 Posted February 9, 2020 Share Posted February 9, 2020 (edited) Stormwolf is correct. The mods aren't just saved in the usual C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Fallout 4\Data location. They're also backed up separately in the C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Vortex\fallout4\mods folder. In addition to that, mod traces are sometimes left over even if you wipe those two folders and uninstall the game in various places that the game was installed, like C:\Users\Admin\Documents\My Games\Fallout4. So if you want a 100% guaranteed clean install, you essentially have to track all these niggly little bits down and delete them manually too.Oooooo! Good info! Thanks Ketara. Kudos given for sharing that. Also for the Booster Gold character in the background of your avatar :D Blue and Gold baby! Also, I had a similar problem once when I tried to uninstall FROST. I ended up with snow textures being left behind even after I'd wiped the Vortex folder and done a fresh install of Fallout. Drove me mad trying to fix it. Eventually, I just wiped Vortex, wiped fallout, and spent forty minutes digging through directories looking for Fallout leftovers. I found a surprising number of folders hidden away in places, and lo and behold, one of them had the snow mesh in. I removed it, then redownloaded Fallout. Smooth as Darkseid's noggin. Edited February 9, 2020 by ketara00 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeyYou Posted February 9, 2020 Share Posted February 9, 2020 Wonder if Revo Uninstaller would pick up on all the leftover files....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StormWolf01 Posted February 9, 2020 Share Posted February 9, 2020 HeyYou, if you are uninstalling vortex it most likely would, especially if vortex has records of those files. It also helps that it has folders named after it.Appdata is definitely one of the system files that Revo checks, when more than just a regular uninstall is selected as an option. Ketara, gawd, it's been forever since I've read comics. What was the name of that little robot that Booster had? It kinda reminds me of the eye robots here in this game. Tho, better built.LOL well, the process sounds about as rough as Thanos' chin, from what you're describing of having to find the problem files. But yeah, some of those buggers are worse than ticks. They dig in so deep it's extremely hard to find them. Like, most of the gamers probly don't even know the appdata folder exists, much less know where to find it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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