livelylaughter Posted November 10, 2020 Share Posted November 10, 2020 After a year away from Fallout 4, I re-installed it along with manually installing some mods, and everything was running great! Except, I was wondering if using the Vortex app might make the mods work better some how. So I started up Vortex, and it had me create a new location for the mods for some reason. But then when I started up Fallout 4 again, I received the error in the screen shot. Which doesn't make sense, because I've checked and all the mods are in the same Fallout 4 folder as they were initially when it was working. So I uninstalled Vortex thinking that might help. But when I started Fallout 4 back up, I still get the same error. I'm totally confused as to how to fix this without completely uninstalling and re-installing the game. Is there some file in my Fallout 4 directory or somewhere that I can edit to fix this issue? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HadToRegister Posted November 10, 2020 Share Posted November 10, 2020 So you had Mods manually installed, and left them installed and decided to use a mod manager without removing the manually installed mods first? When you installed the mods with Vortex, did you ENABLE them, then DEPLOY them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
livelylaughter Posted November 11, 2020 Author Share Posted November 11, 2020 As I said I had the game installed and the mods manually installed and working. Then started up Vortex because I thought it might help in some way, when I did that aside from it requiring me to create a separate destination for the mods, in addition to that I directed its path to where I had the mods installed. All it did was automatically (apparently) re-install and activate the mods, at least based on the auto responses it was giving me. Then I started up the game and when I tried loading my saved game, I received the error message about missing mods. The very mods that I had attempted using Vortex for and that I have manually installed. After uninstalling Vortex, but leaving the manually installed mods alone, the game still saw missing mods. So I tried re-manually installing the mods, but I still end up with the same error. With that said, it seems as though there must be some remnant of Vortex still in my computer, some file that's pointing Fallout 4 to a non-existent folder where the mods are not located (directing it to a phantom, so-to-speak). And I'm assuming that is what is keeping the game from recognizing that those mods are in fact installed correctly in the original Fallout 4 file directory where it is not currently looking. I just need guidance on where to locate the erroneous file or setting. So that I can get the game to look into its original directory where the mods are at. I hope that provides more context. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
livelylaughter Posted November 11, 2020 Author Share Posted November 11, 2020 I found what I was looking for on the Steam forum site, so now all my mods are working again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HadToRegister Posted November 11, 2020 Share Posted November 11, 2020 I found what I was looking for on the Steam forum site, so now all my mods are working again. How about telling everybody what you did so if they have the same problem they can fix it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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