Getting CTDs after exiting the vault.

[hardenedavocado]

I recently got back into modding Fallout 4 again and after getting a good number of mods, the game now CTDs whenever I try leaving the vault's vicinity. Like if I try setting foot in Sanctuary, the game just crashes before even entering. Most of the mods I have are guns, so I'm not 100% what could even be the issue. I'm not getting any warnings about anything serious in MO2 either, so that only confuses me more.

My load order:

0 0 Fallout4.esm

1 1 DLCRobot.esm

2 2 DLCworkshop01.esm

3 3 DLCCoast.esm

4 4 DLCworkshop02.esm

5 5 DLCworkshop03.esm

6 6 DLCNukaWorld.esm

7 7 Unofficial Fallout 4 Patch.esp

254 FE 0 Quick_Modification_Weapon_by_tooun.esl

8 8 ArmorKeywords.esm

9 9 HUDFramework.esm

10 a LooksMenu.esp

11 b CBBE.esp

12 c 512StandaloneHairColors.esp

13 d KSHairdos.esp

14 e KSHairdos_oel.esp

15 f Fo4FI_FPS_fix.esp

16 10 Better Locational Damage.esp

17 11 RaceCustomizer.esp

18 12 AnimeRace_Nanako.esp

19 13 DYNAVISION.esp

20 14 CustomCamera.esp

21 15 XM2010_SniperRifle_by_tooun.esp

22 16 KrissVector.esp

23 17 clothingoverhaul.esp

24 18 M2_Flamethrower_2.0.esp

25 19 UltracitePA.esp

26 1a HandmadeAntiMaterielRifle.esp

27 1b F4NVServiceRifleRedux.esp

28 1c LAER.esp

29 1d WattzLaserGun.esp

30 1e ClassicSniper.esp

31 1f LeeEnfieldNo4MkI.esp

32 20 RU556.esp

33 21 SteyrAUGnv.esp

34 22 DualGun.esp

35 23 BullpupBozar.esp

36 24 HuntingShotgun.esp

37 25 Glock19x.esp

38 26 AK400.esp

39 27 HuntingRevolver.esp

40 28 GIAT_FAMAS.esp

41 29 L96A1.esp

42 2a wd_huntingrifle.esp

43 2b USP .45_by_tooun.esp

44 2c G36Complex.esp

45 2d M1A.esp

46 2e 9x39Project.esp

47 2f 3dscopes-9x39project.esp

48 30 3dscopes-aug.esp

49 31 3dscopes-bullpupbozar.esp

50 32 3dscopes-classicsniper.esp

51 33 3dscopes-hamr.esp

52 34 3dscopes-huntingrevolver.esp

53 35 3dscopes-laer.esp

54 36 3dscopes-leeenfield.esp

55 37 3dscopes-m1a.esp

56 38 Mosin.esp

57 39 3dscopes-mosin.esp

58 3a R91AssaultRifle.esp

59 3b 3dscopes-R91AR.esp

60 3c 3dscopes.esp

61 3d 3dscopes-robcorecon.esp

62 3e 3dscopes-servicerifle.esp

63 3f 3dscopes-wattz.esp

64 40 GaussRifleMk2.esp

65 41 3dscopes-xm73.esp

66 42 XM2010_SniperRifle_STS.esp

67 43 SigSauer127.esp

68 44 F4NVServiceRifleRedux127mmPatch.esp

69 45 WD_Pistol_Renimation_Pack.esp

70 46 WD_SMG.esp

71 47 InstitWeapPosit.esp

72 48 ClothingOverhaulSP_XB1_PC.esp

73 49 More Power Armour Mods.esp

74 4a Consistent Power Armor Overhaul.esp

75 4b tumbajamba Advanced Engineering.esp

76 4c GaussRifleMk2 - tAE - AWKCR.esp

77 4d EnclaveX02.esp

78 4e More Power Armour Mods - X-02.esp

79 4f Better Chems.esp

254 FE 1 NanakochanReplacer_ArmorKeywords_All.esp

254 FE 2 NanakochanReplacer_AllDLCs_All.esp

80 50 Better Locational Damage - DLC_Automatron.esp

81 51 Better Locational Damage - DLC_Far_Harbor.esp

82 52 Better Locational Damage - DLC_Nuka_World.esp

83 53 Better Locational Damage - DLC_WWorkshop.esp

84 54 Better Locational Damage - Ghoul Edition.esp

85 55 Better Perks.esp

86 56 BLD - Leveled Lists - DLC.esp

87 57 Brotherhood Power Armor Overhaul.esp

88 58 PAMAP.esp

89 59 More Power Armour Mods - Automatron.esp

90 5a PIP-Pad.esp

91 5b PIP-Pad_RaceCustomizer.esp

92 5c Hellfirenew.esp

93 5d Hellfirenew - MPAM Compatibility.esp

94 5e ChineseStealthSuit.esp

95 5f CSS Ballistic Weave.esp

96 60 M1014.esp

97 61 M1014- AWKCR Compatibility.esp

98 62 TheKite_CaitSet.esp

99 63 NanakochanReplacer_hair.esp

254 FE 3 NanakochanReplacer_Unofficial Fallout 4 Patch_All.esp

100 64 Pip-Boy Flashlight.esp

101 65 PIP-Pad_Pip-BoyFlashlight.esp

102 66 X-02 PipboyLight Patch.esp

103 67 StartMeUp.esp

[williaal2]

I suspect it will be the animerace causing issues. Though startmeup I've also found to be buggy. I suggest you remove 17,18 and 103 along with any associated mods and see whether you ctd.

[hardenedavocado]

I've actually tried disabling the animerace stuff before and it was still crashing. I was actually playing the game just fine with that, startmeup, CBBE, and the 2 FPS mods in my load order. It's probably one of the mods I added afterwards. And in case anyone says anything, I'm gonna say ahead of time that the rest weren't added mid-playthrough and I started a new game because I know how finicky these games are with that stuff.

 

Update: I did the drawn out task of disabling mods to see what was the issue. For whatever reason, even with only 4 mods enabled (those being startmeup, CBBE, F04FI_FPS_Fix, and the unofficial patch during my last test) the game will still crash when I try to reach Sanctuary. So now I'm under the impression that somehow the game screwed up super hard and only wants to be played vanilla while I was installing stuff. With that in mind, does that mean I may have to reinstall the game entirely?

Edited June 29, 2020 by hardenedavocado

[williaal2]

yes. id probably clean install, and cross fingers.

[williaal2]

I've actually tried disabling the animerace stuff before and it was still crashing. I was actually playing the game just fine with that, startmeup, CBBE, and the 2 FPS mods in my load order. It's probably one of the mods I added afterwards. And in case anyone says anything, I'm gonna say ahead of time that the rest weren't added mid-playthrough and I started a new game because I know how finicky these games are with that stuff.

 

Update: I did the drawn out task of disabling mods to see what was the issue. For whatever reason, even with only 4 mods enabled (those being startmeup, CBBE, F04FI_FPS_Fix, and the unofficial patch during my last test) the game will still crash when I try to reach Sanctuary. So now I'm under the impression that somehow the game screwed up super hard and only wants to be played vanilla while I was installing stuff. With that in mind, does that mean I may have to reinstall the game entirely?

 

id also suggest trying it without the fps fix mod.

[xrayy]

only 100 mods ? i serached for a ctd cause within 500 mods. with mo no problem to find. just make a copy of your user profile. i would check suspictible mods first - the better locational damage esps and racecustomizer.

my system is to cut the mod list always into two parts. a good and a bad one. i test one part (deactivating all mods in this part) if the ctd still exists it is the good part the other bad part has to be divided again into two parts an so on. after a few iterations, not more than seven or eight, the buggy mod is clearly identified.

this kind of testing works always if a mod is the cause for ctd, even if you have mo clue which mod could be the bad one.

[Wererommel]

If it still crashes when you remove the mods, it's probably either a corrupted save (simple, start over) or else the graphics settings (boot from Steam and change them there).

[hardenedavocado]

I don't think corrupted saves are the issue. As I said before, I've done tests with fresh saves each time and without any mods, the game worked fine. But when I would enable only 4 mods, that's when the CTDs would hit the moment I would try to walk into Sanctuary. I'm also not entirely sure how the graphics settings would make things unstable as they're all see to the lowest settings the launcher would allow and I haven't touched the ini files aside from editing the custom ini to enable mods. I think this has happened before, but I'm not sure because it's been a while since I've touched the game at all.

[TheGreatFalro]

What graphics card do you have? Having Weapon Debris on causes this on all Nvidia RTX cards and the GTX 16xx series.

[hardenedavocado]

It's an AMD Radeon RX 560 Series with 2GB of VRAM. My CPU's a AMD FX-^300 six-core processor and my system only has 8GB of ram. Super low end machine, but with the FPS mod I had, I can get the game running just fine on low settings. I should point out that I wasn't installing the versions with high-res textures either. I went for the 2k ones instead since I had the feeling that would mess with the game with my toaster. I guess I was sorta right since the game crapped out even with lower res weapon textures.