Help, PipOs error 26

[Greeos]

i got a PipOS error 26 in Weapons on Pip Boy. I cant unequip. It also made my punches dont register as a hit. All the mods i used was installed via Vortex. Please Help

[Greeos]

I also tried purging the mods via Vortex, and uninstalling new vegas aswell. It doesnt fixed anything.

[dubiousintent]

If you attempted to "re-install" the game and still have the same problem, odds are you didn't actually remove all the old files as part of that process.

* First, do not accept the default install location of "C:\Program Files(x86)". See the "Installing Games on Windows Vista+" wiki article for why that doesn't work, and how to move it elsewhere.

* Then see the 'Restoring to "Vanilla"' entries in the 'First Timer Advice' section 'Mod Managers' section of the wiki "FNV General Mod Use Advice" article.

The "PipOS Error -26 [File Not Found]" is indicating you are missing a file used by the Pip menu, which is a "User Interface (UI)" problem indicating you have changed XML files. This is often caused by an "install order" problem with more than one mod replacing or editing the same XML file. Please see the wiki "HUD-UI-Menu issues" article. (This takes some interpretation as applies to your situation. There are too many permutations for an "if A then B" type of guide. If you haven't encountered XML files before then the "TL;DR" section is not going to help by itself.)

"Disabling" mods is not enough to restore things to "vanilla" if they overwrote any files. UI mods definitely do this, and can make "edits" to other existing XML files. You have to "verify local files" to restore the originals, and still may need to delete the "loose files" so those vanilla versions get used from the BSA files. Then correct the sequence in which you install those UI affecting mods. Please see the 'Restoring to "Vanilla"' entry of the wiki "FNV General Mod Use Advice" article.

If you still need assistance, please provide ALL the information requested in the wiki "How to ask for help" article. Don't forget to identify things that do not appear in the "load order", such as the version of Windows, if you are using a "Steam" or "GOG" and/or "regional language version" of the game (even if you are playing it in English); using the FNV4GB Patch, NVSE and it's related plugins; replacements for textures (specifically their larger image sizes: 1024x1024, etc.), animations, or "bodies", etc.; and "post-processors" like ENB or SweetFX. It saves us playing "20 questions" and gets you a more specific answer more quickly. (The usual turn-around on post and reply in an older game forum is 24 hours.) Screenshots of the "load order" don't usually work so well because they tend to cut off or fail to display needed information and are hard to "piece together" into a complete and coherent picture.

* See "How to markup images (etc) in forum posts and comments" article for how to use "Spoiler tags". "LOOT" already includes those tags in the "load order" it copies to your clipboard, so you can just paste it's list into your post.

 

I recommend anyone read the entire "FNV General Mod Use Advice" article to understand the differences between this game and others you may have experience with; especially if this is your first attempt to play a modded FNV or it's been more than a year since you last set it up. It is designed for someone who has never played a modded PC game before, so it tries to avoid making any assumptions, is kept "up-to-date", and covers years of "lessons learned". It is NOT a list of various mods to install that happen to work on the author's machine. It addresses fundamentals underlying how to get the basic game and mods to work together. At least 90% of everything I post in the "Technical Support" sub-forum is already in that article.

-Dubious-