Cannot start new game

[charwo]

When I try and start a new game a new game doesn't start, I get a black screen with the health bars and some red thing in between. When I took all FNC content out of load order, the new game option wouldn't work at all, it wouldn't even take me to the black screen. What do I do?

Here's my load order
FalloutNV.esm
DeadMoney.esm
HonestHearts.esm
OldWorldBlues.esm
LonesomeRoad.esm
GunRunnersArsenal.esm
ClassicPack.esm
MercenaryPack.esm
TribalPack.esm
CaravanPack.esm
NewCalifornia.esm
NVInteriors_Core.esm
ZionTrail.esm
Factions Reloaded - Merge.esm
Decrucifixion.esm
ELECTRO-CITY - CompletedWorkorders.esm
NVInteriors_ComboEdition.esm
AWorldOfPain(Preview).esm
TLD_Travelers.esm
CFWNV.esm
Tales from the Burning Sands.esm
AAM.esm
enclavebunker.esm
SaxxonsQuestPack.esm
SomeguySeries.esm
STUN.esm
ELECTRO-CITY - Highways and Byways.esm
CoitoErgoSum.esm
Niner.esm
Bonds Big Horn Saloon.esp
AWOPDeadMoney.esm
NVWillow.esp
3DNPC_FNV.esm
3DNPC_FNVGeneric.esm
3DNPC_BlueNote.esm
SaltLakeStories.esm
KhanInitiation.esp
Companion Core.esm
RobCo Certified.esm
UmDrivingBaseV.esp
Clean-Deluxe FNV.esm
ACNV.esm
GRARG.esm
SpeedyResources.esm
AWSW.esm
Th3OverseerCore.esm
Pip-Phone.esm
SolidProject.esm
JustLootMenu.esp
Breakdown and Craft Ammo Materials.esp
CASM with MCM.esp
Easy Unlocking and Easy Hacking.esp
BetterGamePerformanceV4.esp
Harold's Wasteland.esp
Clean-Deluxe FNV Merge - All DLC.esp
Clean-Deluxe FNV.esp
Vurt's WFO.esp
FNC Essential Allies.esp
UnlimitedTraits.esp
Simply Uncut - New Vegas.esp
Legion Quests Expanded.esp
ACNV.esp
WesternMusicOverhaul Merged.esp
Eliza.esp
NVWesternMusicOverhaul.esp
Lucky38Overhaul.esp
AxeMan.esp
More Perks.esp
FiveAcesGunShop.esp
WeaponModsExpanded.esp
WMX-DLCMerged.esp
NVWesternMusicOverhaul Old World Blues.esp
Bonds Prospector Saloon.esp
CNR_Beta.esp
DepthsOfDepravity.esp
ZionTrail-NV.esp
NVWesternMusicOverhaul Honest Hearts.esp
NVWesternMusicOverhaul Lonesome Road.esp
CourierCacheWSE.esp
Headhunting.esp
NorthRoad.esp
AWOPDeadMoneyVendorPatch.esp
NVWesternMusicOverhaul Dead Money.esp
ProjectRealityMkIv5HDR.esp
Express Delivery.esp
NewVegasBounties.esp
NewVegasBountiesII.esp
TheInheritance.esp
Russell.esp
VincentVincent.esp
th3overseerBugFixes.esp
WMX-POPMerged.esp
3DNPC_Velius.esp
MoreNiner.esp
3DNPC_HopeLies.esp
QRhymeRenegade.esp
Decrucifixion.esp
A Wasteland in Bloom.esp
Big Bears.esp
Bonsters Boulder City Ranch House.esp
Death to Fascists.esp
Expanded Ranger Combat Armors.esp
Radar Point Station Expanded.esp
NewCalifornia DLC Control.esp
KingOfTheRing.esp
TheBetterAngels.esp
Near Death.esp
NukaCola-Ojo.esp
Decrucifixion - More Victims.esp
FONC_ShiBankFix.esp
CFW_Fix-AiO.esp
CFW-DLC.esp
Cowboy Perk Complete - New Vegas Bounties.esp
TorgueSalesDesk.esp
DLC Weapon Integration.esp
F4 Intimidation.esp
BottleBrahminMilkNV15.esp
Mojave Nights.esp
NCR Rearmament v1.5 (Lore).esp
NCRPREWARFLAGREPLACER.esp
NLA.esp
DumpIt.esp
FNC - Challenge Yourself.esp
zzClothes.esp
FNVOppositeTraits.esp
MojaveLoadingScreens.esp
XtraSpecialNV - MCM.esp
xatmosSkillPerks.esp
NV_STTraitsandPerks - NVSE.esp
Inedible Magazines.esp
ItemBrowser.esp
JAVM.esp
Livres plus utiles - More Useful Books.esp
HomeWeaponsPack.esp
LFox Night Vision Implant Low Brightness.esp
UmDrivingV_BTRhotfix.esp
zzjayHairsFNV.esp
PacifistPerks-LIFEISPRECIOUS.esp
Prewar_clothing.esp
Reload Sounds.esp
RobCo Certified Friendly Hit Fixer.esp
Scrap Scavenger.esp
STUN.esp
The Town of Vice - A Gomorrah Overhaul.esp
ScrapMetalRecipes.esp
Real Radiation Suits.esp
Solar's Bottled Water - Bottlecaps.esp
PerksPerLevel.esp
tubsqueakyclean.esp
DALCO Junk-O-Matic NV.esp
The Mod Configuration Menu.esp
Saints & Sinners.esp
Novac Player Home.esp
NewCalifornia Courier Stash Control.esp

Total active plugins: 154
Total plugins: 158

[dubiousintent]

"User Interface (UI)" problems indicate 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.

Work through the "Checklist" and 'Solutions to Starting the game problems' and possibly the 'Solutions to "Crash To Desktop" (CTD) problems' sections in the wiki "Fallout NV Mod Conflict Troubleshooting" guide.

 

-Dubious-

[M48A5]

You have been here long enough to know what information needs to be supplied to get you a reasonable answer. Why did you not post it?

Information such as mods that are not included in the load order, mod manager, system information, install location, etc. All the information that is mentioned in the Wiki article "How to ask for help" https://wiki.nexusmods.com/index.php/How_to_ask_for_help

[charwo]

"User Interface (UI)" problems indicate 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.

 

Work through the "Checklist" and 'Solutions to Starting the game problems' and possibly the 'Solutions to "Crash To Desktop" (CTD) problems' sections in the wiki "Fallout NV Mod Conflict Troubleshooting" guide.

 

-Dubious-

What is an XML file? I looked it up on google with new vegas, no results. People mention them all the time but I have no clue what they are or what alters them or why so I can backtrack, I verified my contents, then reinstalled my vanilla New Vegas files, nothing helped.

 

And honestly that Nexus wiki is like the Geck wiki: I break out in hives just looking at it. I can't do anything with that. I can't work with direction that dense that don't explain WHY. Everything is arbitrary without understanding why and that's why I can't make heads or tails of anything printed in that thing. And it won't work is not a why, that's a result.

 

Just tell me what I need to nuke in order of most likely, and I'll reinstall if that's all you have the patience for, cause I recognize not everyone's got the patience to explain everything to me, in person, slowly and in crayon which is the only way I learn new concepts.

[charwo]

You have been here long enough to know what information needs to be supplied to get you a reasonable answer. Why did you not post it?

Information such as mods that are not included in the load order, mod manager, system information, install location, etc. All the information that is mentioned in the Wiki article "How to ask for help" https://wiki.nexusmods.com/index.php/How_to_ask_for_help

No I don't. THat nexus wiki is horrible. It's overwhelming, the install location problem only mentions Vista and makes no mention of anything after for good or ill, and they need to be called by name and my game was running fine on the same damn specs, which haven't changed in seven damn years and Fallout 3 works just fine here too, so that's not relevant either. So I didn't mention them. This is a issue with the game files themselves, which I have NEVER seen before in eight years of modding. Never even heard of this problem.

[dubiousintent]

This is a "non-trivial" problem, related to the "install order" (not the "load order') of certain mods. XML files are vaguely similar to the untrained eye to HTML files in that they use "tagged lines" to define how the screen gets displayed. If you don't recognize the term, you will either have to educate your self, or (my suggestion) "verify files" and reinstall all your mods as outlined in my earlier reply.

 

Doesn't matter how long your game has been stable. As soon as you add or remove some mod, you put everything at risk. The Windows operating system under the "Windows as a Service" doctrine now used by M$ automatically updates (eventually no matter how long you try to delay or avoid) with very little (if any) testing against old programs and games, again putting your game at risk.

 

While I understand that many wiki articles are "dense with techno-babble", that is the nature of the beast. I wrote the "HUD-UI-Menu issues" article when I picked up FNV in 2014 and couldn't find anything about the problem myself. (I am always willing to make improvements in response to specifics. "Horrible" isn't specific.) But you have to apply some common sense and interpret things for your own situation. It is impossible (at least for me) to write a guide that covers every possible combination of mods that affect or modify XML files, which results in "generalizations" aside from specifics for very common mods.

 

And in general, anything that applies to "Vista" also applies to all later versions of Windows unless explicitly stated otherwise.

 

-Dubious-