presets Presets don't show up at all [Using MO2]

[Tennant]

Hello, I was trying to use a preset in my new playthrough. I have a clean install of Fallout 4, I installed some mods, and I was mainly following The Midnight Ride guide, so for the first time I decided to switch over from Vortex to MO2. So far MO2 hasn't been that bad, but I can't seem to make Presets work?

 

As you probably know, MO2 puts the files in a different location and not directly into Fallout 4/Data/etc... and I'm wondering if that's the issue of my presets not working. However, I tried putting them in the regular location as well and they still don't show up. When I open the looksmenu the entire "Presets" menu is greyed out.

 

This is the path when I installed the preset via MO2

 

C:\Modding\The Midnight Ride\mods\Ciri original\F4SE\Plugins\F4EE\Presets\.json file

 

But even when I try to put it in the Fallout 4 folder, it doesn't show up.

 

C:\Games\Steam\steamapps\common\Fallout 4\Data\F4SE\Plugins\F4EE\Presets\.json file

 

The presets should be working, at the very least they are highly popular on nexusmods... I'm using the downgraded version of Fallout - 1.10.163.0 and I'm launching the game via the correct F4SE

I'd really appreciate any help!

 

edit: I should also note that I've tried multiple presets and none show up.

 

and I'm entering looksmenu via console using "slm 14"

Edited July 21, 2024 by Tennant

[adoiad]

12 hours ago, Tennant said:

C:\Games\Steam\steamapps\common\Fallout 4\Data\F4SE\Plugins\F4EE\Presets\.json file

That path is correct and they should work. Are you positive you are using the correct Looksmenu for you fallout 4 version?

[Uhuru N'Uru]

This one got me for a while, I've just had the same issue it was with F4 & FoLon being Two GOG installs,

I was stumped like you, until I remembered from my Oldrim days, how finicky the BGS games are about the registry pointing to the games current install location.

 

It's set by the last install & the fact it doesn't point to the correct game causing 3rd party changes like F4SE, Saving/Loading LooksMenu Preets not working..

Most of these type of 3rd party pathing issues I've had are with the dumb decision to give GOG a different %LocalAppData% Folder.

It's certainly not an obvious cause & effect, but it's fixed my issue by pointing the registry at my current install.

Here's my current installs (Using Offline Installer), Steam & Galaxy set it as well.

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Bethesda Softworks]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Bethesda Softworks\Fallout4]
"Installed Path"="E:\\Games\\Fallout 4 - GOTY Edition (GOG)\\"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Bethesda Softworks\Skyrim Special Edition]
"Installed Path"="E:\\Games\\Skyrim - Special Edition (GOG)\\"

Here's my Reg Edit save of the location, your names & path will be different, but the registry path is the same.

Edited September 2, 2024 by Uhuru N'Uru