AAF suddenly completely stopped working

[Wow132666]

I have already checked the AAF troubleshooting post, and though it had alot of information, I either missed it or did not have anything about this. AAF completely stopped working and I don't believe I changed anything to cause this. Pressing the home button no longer opens the menu, and AAF Violate and AAF SEU don't play any animations after surrendering/prostitution/flirting/etc. The only thing that I could think of that might be causing it was me installing the "Build High - Expanded Settlements 5.0" mod but I'm fairly certain that I had an animation in between when I installed it and when it broke. Help is appreciated...

[walkin]

2 minutes ago, BigMoney1738 said:

I have already checked the AAF troubleshooting post, and though it had alot of information, I either missed it or did not have anything about this. AAF completely stopped working and I don't believe I changed anything to cause this. Pressing the home button no longer opens the menu, and AAF Violate and AAF SEU don't play any animations after surrendering/prostitution/flirting/etc. The only thing that I could think of that might be causing it was me installing the "Build High - Expanded Settlements 5.0" mod but I'm fairly certain that I had an animation in between when I installed it and when it broke. Help is appreciated...

I've had this happen every now and then myself. Usually its just a broken save that happened and reloading a save from previous in your game will usually fix the problem. I've even had it happen where the top 3-4 saves wont start up the AAF loading then the 5th will. Just look for a save where it last worked and you should see it load up properly again.

 

This is a Bethesda game- Save and save often then save again. This game is buggy with no mods. Lol

[Wow132666]

I do save ALOT to the point where I have to delete saves because I have so many saves that it lags my game. But alas the first save with AAF working is a whole 5 hours of progress back, so I'd like to know if there is any other way of fixing it.

[walkin]

3 minutes ago, BigMoney1738 said:

I do save ALOT to the point where I have to delete saves because I have so many saves that it lags my game. But alas the first save with AAF working is a whole 5 hours of progress back, so I'd like to know if there is any other way of fixing it.

That I wouldn't know my friend. Lol. It would probably involve picking a save where it doesn't work, then try to figure out why and what mod it could be and so on and so on. At the end of the day probably not worth it. The saves are probably broken. If you could remember what mods you added and when for any particular save (point in the game) maybe you could go from there but once again probably wouldn't be easy. Did you do the most obvious one and try to get rid of "Build High" mod and check some different saves? 

 

Other than that probably just have to bite the bullet sort of speak and be glad you have a save that still has AAF working properly. Lol

[Wow132666]

5 hours ago, chinbobble said:

edit 2 - fixed. The contents of the data folder in the f4se archive were no longer present on my computer. downloaded the archive again and dragged the data folder over, aaf works for me now 

oh my god thank you, I finally got it working. I fixed mine a little differently, but thank you for showing me it is still possible. I had checked the folder titled "AAF" in the scripts folder and mysteriously the folder was empty. I redownloaded AAF which caused the folder to be full again but it still wasn't working.I then dragged all the f4se stuff in my fallout directory again and loaded my "New Female" save file (which is right before the exit of the vault) and it showed the "AAF is installed!" message. I had my hopes up and went to my *glitched* save but AAF still wasnt working. I then disabled AAF, launched the save without it, saved over it, and then reenabled AAF, and it worked! Thank you for the help as now I did not lose 20 hours of progress on that save.

[walkin]

20 minutes ago, BigMoney1738 said:

oh my god thank you, I finally got it working. I fixed mine a little differently, but thank you for showing me it is still possible. I had checked the folder titled "AAF" in the scripts folder and mysteriously the folder was empty. I redownloaded AAF which caused the folder to be full again but it still wasn't working.I then dragged all the f4se stuff in my fallout directory again and loaded my "New Female" save file (which is right before the exit of the vault) and it showed the "AAF is installed!" message. I had my hopes up and went to my *glitched* save but AAF still wasnt working. I then disabled AAF, launched the save without it, saved over it, and then reenabled AAF, and it worked! Thank you for the help as now I did not lose 20 hours of progress on that save.

Lol. Good to hear. Its always wise to have a couple dummy games on top of your main game. I have AAF installed on my main game but don't really use it all that much. I wouldn't even really care if it stopped working on my main game as that game is where I'm doing all my building and I'd be damned if I was going to lose all I have done cause AAF stopped working. Lol. Whenever I feel like messing around with AAF I usually just go to one of my other games. They are really handy for testing new mods also to make sure theyre not going to mess up your important saves. I never introduce a mod into my main game no matter what it is unless Ive tried and tested it first in one of my dummy games. I learnt the hard way too many times previous. Lol

[dagobaking]

4 hours ago, BigMoney1738 said:

oh my god thank you, I finally got it working. I fixed mine a little differently, but thank you for showing me it is still possible. I had checked the folder titled "AAF" in the scripts folder and mysteriously the folder was empty. I redownloaded AAF which caused the folder to be full again but it still wasn't working.I then dragged all the f4se stuff in my fallout directory again and loaded my "New Female" save file (which is right before the exit of the vault) and it showed the "AAF is installed!" message. I had my hopes up and went to my *glitched* save but AAF still wasnt working. I then disabled AAF, launched the save without it, saved over it, and then reenabled AAF, and it worked! Thank you for the help as now I did not lose 20 hours of progress on that save.

It sounds like the issue didn't have to do with AAF or corrupt saves. Not sure what would delete files like that. Maybe an issue with your mod manager, virus protection or even hardware issues.

 

But, deleting mods, saving and re-installing them like that can potentially break saves. Just FYI.

[dagobaking]

17 hours ago, chinbobble said:

@dagobaking I think I saw you say in another thread somewhere that a lot of people don't install f4se correctly and some f4se dependant mods can run on a partial f4se install so it would seem a lot of ppl assume aaf Is broke as other f4se mods work... for example I have war of the commonwealth on this build which is... a tad script heavu and it works (whether it worked fully or partially Im not sure as I was only playing each added mod down to diamond city to check for ctd's etc) but your mind does go well if WOTC is working and aaf isn't then it must be aaf that's going wrong! its easy to not consider the f4se issue when you can see a f4se dependant mod is working... but it would seem a lot of these issues do actually track back to f4se rather than aaf. 

Yeah. I think that issue does catch a lot of users.

 

There is a built-in F4SE check in AAF test builds. So, when that gets released it should help.

17 hours ago, chinbobble said:

 

as to whats deleting files im too a bit bamboozled .. first time trying vortex here so im inclined to wonder if that's a culprit. I did have dropped files using NMM in the past but never deleted files. so definitely a suspicion on vortex from me   I know for the rest of the build im going to use vortex to install and enable mods but then do a manual install of everything over the top of it

 

 

I haven't used Vortex. So, wouldn't know. NMM caused some difficult-to-fix issues for me.

[walkin]

18 hours ago, chinbobble said:

@dagobaking I think I saw you say in another thread somewhere that a lot of people don't install f4se correctly and some f4se dependant mods can run on a partial f4se install so it would seem a lot of ppl assume aaf Is broke as other f4se mods work... for example I have war of the commonwealth on this build which is... a tad script heavu and it works (whether it worked fully or partially Im not sure as I was only playing each added mod down to diamond city to check for ctd's etc) but your mind does go well if WOTC is working and aaf isn't then it must be aaf that's going wrong! its easy to not consider the f4se issue when you can see a f4se dependant mod is working... but it would seem a lot of these issues do actually track back to f4se rather than aaf. 

 

as to whats deleting files im too a bit bamboozled .. first time trying vortex here so im inclined to wonder if that's a culprit. I did have dropped files using NMM in the past but never deleted files. so definitely a suspicion on vortex from me   I know for the rest of the build im going to use vortex to install and enable mods but then do a manual install of everything over the top of it

 

 

I use Vortex with absolutely no problems whatsoever. Its not Vortex.

[Guest]

What worked for me was to uncheck all AAF related mods, make a save, turn them back on and re-sort with LOOT and it works again.

[limu11]

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