UncleRoe Posted January 1, 2013 Share Posted January 1, 2013 So i've been using the nexus for a few years and i've downloaded tons of mods for fallout 3,skyrim and new vegas. I had uninstalled NV about a year ago and just got back into it. Downloaded about 5 mods,manually installed them. they all seem to be in the proper location but i've only been able to get one of them to stay active. This is my small list of mods i added last night. Was hoping to play them but everytime i close the data files tab on my launcher my mods uncheck FalloutNV.esmGeonoxT3Armors.espLings.EsmLingsPrettyThings.espMoonshadowRace.esp I had to download lings mods from a moddb website link because his mods are down on the nexus unfortunately. Not sure if that has anything to do with it. The only active mods are the NV ESM itself and MoonshadowRace.esp. everything else remains unchecked very very stubbornly. Tried FOMM.. a different issue i think.. but it's constantly crashing when i try editing the load order.. funny enough..when i launch the game through FOMM i have no issues.. ANyways. any help i can get i will accept. Everytime i get back into modding the game i miss something. this one i can't figure out on my own. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimboUK Posted January 1, 2013 Share Posted January 1, 2013 Use NMM http://newvegas.nexusmods.com/mods/modmanager/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UncleRoe Posted January 1, 2013 Author Share Posted January 1, 2013 Use NMM http://newvegas.nexusmods.com/mods/modmanager/ Still getting crashes even with NMM but at least it sends me a handy tracelog to figure out my issues The first part appears in caps and reads " BOSS_API_ERROR_FILE_WRITE_FAIL: C:\users\Me\appdata\local\falloutNV\plugins.text" cannot be written to!" I can only guess the game is having troublle reading my mods.. also i noticed that my fallout NV esm and my moonshadow race mod are the only files that have a load order number.. everything else is blank and it just so happens the blank ones are the ones not loading up.. no idea how to fix this either Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimboUK Posted January 1, 2013 Share Posted January 1, 2013 That's very odd, is your game up to date? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UncleRoe Posted January 1, 2013 Author Share Posted January 1, 2013 That's very odd, is your game up to date? Yeah i think so. I installed through steam and have auto update on so i don't think that's the issue. Could it be install location? I remember hearing awhile back that certain mods had issues with fallout if it was installed on the C: drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimboUK Posted January 1, 2013 Share Posted January 1, 2013 Sorry for the late reply, I got captured to do the weekly shop. Having it installed in your program files can cause issues with Windows User Account Control, you can easily move it https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=7418-YUBN-8129 C:\Steam would be fine. Also try running NMM as admin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UncleRoe Posted January 1, 2013 Author Share Posted January 1, 2013 Sorry for the late reply, I got captured to do the weekly shop. Having it installed in your program files can cause issues with Windows User Account Control, you can easily move it https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=7418-YUBN-8129 C:\Steam would be fine. Also try running NMM as admin. Still no luck today. i even went as far as buying alllllll the DLC to make sure my game was up to date.. now i can't even play those files because they won't check off. lol. I guess the next thing to do would be fresh reinstall. Never had this kind of trouble with fallout before. Hoping this works. Thanks for trying to help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimboUK Posted January 1, 2013 Share Posted January 1, 2013 I would completely remove FOMM and just use NNM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luthienanarion Posted January 2, 2013 Share Posted January 2, 2013 BOSS_API_ERROR_FILE_WRITE_FAIL: C:\users\Me\appdata\local\falloutNV\plugins.txt Unset the read-only flag on that file or delete it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UncleRoe Posted January 3, 2013 Author Share Posted January 3, 2013 (edited) BOSS_API_ERROR_FILE_WRITE_FAIL: C:\users\Me\appdata\local\falloutNV\plugins.txt Unset the read-only flag on that file or delete it. That actually might work. i just uninstalled again and it's being reinstalled as we speak but last time i installed it i didn't add any mods. Just the DLC and it won't even read that. But it makes sense because i've had game files turn "read only" before.. sometimes without notice or reason. i've had to do that to my minecraft saves at least 3 times..so you might be right here.hopefully. wish i had checked this 40 mins ago or i wouldn't have to wait for the reinstall. lol. i'll update this thread when i get my answer. thanks. EDIT: Well it's reinstalled and i checked my appdata folder.. for some reason it installs by default as hidden and read only... so the game completely misses it.. currently converting my entire folder.. 8 gigs of stuff. bout 40 minutes total of fixing.. but i have high hopes this will fix it Edited January 5, 2013 by Uncle Roe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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