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On 2/24/2026 at 11:38 AM, Aylis said:

Engine Limits

The old limit to the number of ESM/ESP (not more than 256 incl. the main files) is well known. In addition to that comes the limit of 256 'Main.BA2'. Going over that limit means running into CTD when you try to  start the game. Don't forget that most additions from the CC also use a 'Main.BA2'. So make sure that you only install the ones you actually want to use. Otherwise you will run into the limit much faster.  

 

Regarding the BA2 limits, there are now 3 options (4 if you count mod merging) to bypass the 256 file limit: 

Daytripper https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/91141 
Addictol https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/84214

see e.g. addictol - bINISettingCollection=true
# Increases the allowed number of archives from 255 GNRL and from 254 DX10 to 65355.

 

Personally, I do not fully trust these patches yet, therefore I opt for option 3, unpack small mods Ba2 archives and then delete the Ba2. The new shack walls mod you recommend is a prime candidate.

Posted

@EazyA03

Hmm, then all of it should work fine. I do have the newest version from Steam and have no issues. Maybe your LO is messed up? Recheck that in MO2.

 

 

Posted

Hello again, I'm kinda at my wits end here now. I've been looking over my load order and comparing it to the order in the guide and can't find any issues. I'm currenty still experiencing that the face and head part of PC Is a lot more orange which leads to quite the absurd neck seam and then I'm also experiencing a big where if I have shut the game of and then starting again on a save, the game CTDs when I open the pip boy. Holding down for starting the flashlight is fine but opening causes instant CTD. 

Added both Mod list and load order. 

 

modlist.txt loadorder (1).txt

Posted
32 minutes ago, EazyA03 said:

 the face and head part of PC Is a lot more orange which leads to quite the absurd neck seam

 

This is usually due to a different resolution for the textures between the body and face, you want both to be 1k, 2k, 4k etc

 

Otherwise you may need facegen data for whatever mods there are that changed the faces. 

Posted (edited)
Posted

Hello again! Everything is working great but I do have one quick question. 

I know there was one mod that disabled the loading screen tips and stuff but I can't remember which one. Anyone know?

Posted (edited)
6 hours ago, EazyA03 said:

Hello again! Everything is working great but I do have one quick question. 

I know there was one mod that disabled the loading screen tips and stuff but I can't remember which one. Anyone know?

 

Addictol (formerly X-Cell) has this feature. If you have Buffout installed this should replace it basically. 

Edited by Franco Cozzo
Posted (edited)

Collecting Links

Spoiler

Water Enhanced

Real Water for ENB

Wasteland Water Revival

     I recommend to go with 'Clearly Visible'.

Lots More Female Hairstyles                                                      Can cause CTD

Lots More Male Hairstyles

Robert Maccready                                                                       Not needed anymore

Beards N' Staches - A Facial Hair Expansion

Misc Hairstyle                                                                              Can cause CTD

More Hairstyles

SavrenX Better Robots and HD Liberty Prime

CCC - Modular Military Backpack REVAMPED

Atom's Glory Threads

Atom's Glory Threads - Fusion Girl Preset

Super Alloys - Enhanced Power Armor Paints and Textures   Contains errors according to Wrye Bash

SuperAlloys - Enhancement

Power Armors Redone

Perkier Perk SFX - Femme sounds for perk popups

Leveled Item Framework (LIF)

Always SPECIAL Bobbleheads

Facial Expression and Eyetracking Engine Fixes

Gore Overhaul                                                                             Texture issues

Gore Overhaul - Cuts and Bruises

Heather Quest Tags

Legendary Rearmed

Legendary Rearmed - Deadeye Patch

Combat Armor Remodel - NEO Headlamp Patch

Drop Quest Items and Keys

Drop Quest Items and Keys - Config (see 'Files')

Munitions Ammo Crafting Patch

Particle Patch - No More Glowing Objects

Armor Workbench No Fire Barrel                                            Moved in the group

Creation Club Delayed

Subgroup: Immersive Quest Start

TG'z Fens Interiors

Far Better Far Harbor - Exploration Expanded

Tactical Flashlights                                                                     Overkill

Super Mutant Equality

     Distributes vanilla weapons.

     The ESP can be flagged as ESL.

Dak's Weapons on Super Mutants

     Now the added Weapons get distributed too.

No Grass Enforcer - A universal weedwhacker for grass mods

Fallout Ladies - Cait (HiPoly) Replacer                                     Moved from 'NPC - Basics'

Fallout Ladies - Curie (HiPoly) Replacer

Fallout Ladies - Magnolia (HiPoly) Replacer

Fallout Ladies - Piper (HiPoly) Replacer

Synthetic Facelift - Atom Cats

Synthetic Facelift - Deacon

Synthetic Facelift - Diamond City

Synthetic Facelift - Goodneighbor

Synthetic Facelift - Merchants

 

LOD Generation 

FO4LODGen Resources

Optimized Vanilla Tree LODs

Far Harbor 3D Tree LODs

Far Object LOD Improvement Project

Modern House LOD

Terrain Freckles Be Gone

GRASSLANDS LOD addon

FOLIP Before Generation Output

TexGen Output

LODGen Output

LOD Output

 

Edited by Aylis
Posted
58 minutes ago, Aylis said:

Super Alloys - Enhanced Power Armor Paints and Textures   Contains errors according to Wrye Bash

What errors? Wrye Bash 314 show no errors for Super Alloys - Enhanced Power Armor Paints and Textures for me...

Posted
3 minutes ago, aldksoken said:

What errors? Wrye Bash 314 show no errors for Super Alloys - Enhanced Power Armor Paints and Textures for me...

It shows lines of code containing errors and stops creating the patch.

Posted
1 hour ago, Aylis said:

Collecting Links

  Hide contents

Water Enhanced

Real Water for ENB

Wasteland Water Revival

     I recommend to go with 'Clearly Visible'.

Kim Hairstyle

Lots More Female Hairstyles                                                      Can cause CTD

Lots More Male Hairstyles

Beards N' Staches - A Facial Hair Expansion

Misc Hairstyle                                                                              Can cause CTD

More Hairstyles

SavrenX Better Robots and HD Liberty Prime

CCC - Modular Military Backpack REVAMPED

Atom's Glory Threads

Atom's Glory Threads - Fusion Girl Preset

Super Alloys - Enhanced Power Armor Paints and Textures   Contains errors according to Wrye Bash

SuperAlloys - Enhancement

Power Armors Redone

Perkier Perk SFX - Femme sounds for perk popups

Leveled Item Framework (LIF)

Always SPECIAL Bobbleheads

Facial Expression and Eyetracking Engine Fixes

Gore Overhaul                                                                             Texture issues

Gore Overhaul - Cuts and Bruises

Heather Quest Tags

Legendary Rearmed

Legendary Rearmed - Deadeye Patch

Combat Armor Remodel - NEO Headlamp Patch

Munitions Ammo Crafting Patch

Particle Patch - No More Glowing Objects

Armor Workbench No Fire Barrel                                            Moved in the group

Creation Club Delayed

Subgroup: Immersive Quest Start

TG'z Fens Interiors

Tactical Flashlights                                                                     Overkill

Super Mutant Equality

     Distributes vanilla weapons.

     The ESP can be flagged as ESL.

Dak's Weapons on Super Mutants

     Now the added Weapons get distributed too.

 

Synthetic Facelift - Atom Cats

Synthetic Facelift - Deacon

Synthetic Facelift - Diamond City

Synthetic Facelift - Goodneighbor

Synthetic Facelift - Merchants

 


Don't you have NPC/Companion replacers that use the following
 

Quote

 

Lots More Female Hairstyles                                                      Can cause CTD

Lots More Male Hairstyles

Beards N' Staches - A Facial Hair Expansion

Misc Hairstyle                                                                              Can cause CTD

More Hairstyles

 


Specifically, think its the Fallout Ladies ones? They just defaulting to their vanilla hairstyle/beard without issue?

Posted (edited)
13 hours ago, BiddinWar said:

Don't you have NPC/Companion replacers that use the following
Specifically, think its the Fallout Ladies ones? They just defaulting to their vanilla hairstyle/beard without issue?

No.

Those use 'KS Hair' or 'Azar'.

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This run is looking good. So far no crashes or stutters in ~20 hours game time.

 

CC-Packer helps a lot with the loading time. I didn't expect it to make such a noticable difference. 

Edited by Aylis
Posted (edited)
13 hours ago, Aylis said:

No.

Those use 'KS Hair' or 'Azar'.

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This run is looking good. So far no crashes or stutters in ~20 hours game time.

 

CC-Packer helps a lot with the loading time. I didn't expect it to make such a noticable difference. 

 

Fair I guess, I did check though because I was pretty sure and 
Piper and Ivy use it for one of the variations and Robert Maccready uses Lots More Male Hairstyles

Additionally, not sure if just oversight or you're testing it but
Bastion - Power Armor Overhaul and Better Power Armor are incompatible, Bastion lists so on their page and its also a full rework of BPA to begin with.

Edited by BiddinWar
Posted (edited)

The next update will take a while. My build here stops a while before continuing to load so there's something that doesn't work correctly.

 

I very much suspect the feral ghouls have an issue too as they sometimes get invisible parts (throat and neck only partially there).

 

Maybe I'll simply do a clean-up first and remove mods that are not necessary or might cause (other) issues...

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LOD creation is messy and complicated. I've run it several times now and I still find some broken trees in the distance. I really wish we could use trees from Skyrim. Those look way better than what we got for FO4. 

Edited by Aylis
Posted

The biggest issue i had was cc packer

Instead of getting 3 files >main/textures and sound. I ended up with 4 >main/textures 1/textures 2 and sound

In the end i found that downloading the game and creations then running cc packer before the mods seemed to work for some reason..

But to be fair I personally think AE is crap compared to OG 163 and i seem to have read and heard the same on numerous websites  etc..The consensus seems to be is this Todds idiotic way of stopping us from modding FO4

Posted (edited)

@total newby

Well the big issue is that Bethesda shoves everything into the game. Who the heck needs all of the ~50 skins for the pipboy that get installed? Looks like something like FOMOD is something completely new for them... 🥴

 

CC-Packer at least reduces the required files a bit. I got 20 CC and those get converted into three active files. If you got more CC then you end up with more. But even then it is way less than you had before.

 

And with Todd trying to break modding... The release of NG was already 'a bit' suspicious.

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I'll completely skip the LOD creation. I had so many reruns with different settings (and also tried downloadable ones) that I don't think it is worth it. There were always some corners where it didn't work correctly and the distant trees ended up as fractals.

 

The good part is that I found that my oldest setup for trees got updated mods. Less clipping trees (aka not having two different trees in the same spot) and an autumn and summer version. Better visuals with less downloads and patches sounds good to me. And, as long you save in an interior cell, compatible with existing saves.

 

Edited by Aylis
Posted (edited)

Update to 4.0.4

Bugfixes and prevention, new trees without clipping/overlapping, reworked setup for previsibines

 

 

Mods to REMOVE

Spoiler

Foundation

A Forest                                                                                        Got a solution without clipping or overlapping trees.

A Forest - Pine Trees Redone Patch

True Grass                                                                                    Might cause crashes even with the patch.

A Forest True Grass Compatibility Patch

Water Enhanced                                                                           Gets replaced.

Real Water for ENB

 

PC

Lots More Female Hairstyles                                                      Can cause CTD

Lots More Male Hairstyles

 

NPC

Beards N' Staches - A Facial Hair Expansion

Misc Hairstyle                                                                               Can cause CTD

More Hairstyles

Robert Maccready                                                                        Not needed anymore

Recruit Small Bertha and Tony - Wasteland Brats Patch           Leftover

 

Creatures

SavrenX Better Robots and HD Liberty Prime

Feral Ghoul Apparel                                                                      Issues with the ghhoul replacer (missing body parts)

 

Power Armors

Super Alloys - Enhanced Power Armor Paints and Textures     Contains errors according to Wrye Bash

SuperAlloys - Enhancement

Better Power Armor - Redux                                                        Redundant

 

Override

Gore Overhaul - Cuts and Bruises                                                Textures are off.

 

World and Quests

Subgroup: Immersive Quest Start                                                Group replaced by a single mod.

 

Weather and Lighting

Tactical Flashlights                                                                         Overkill

 

Previsibines

Starlight Deep Clean                                                                      Causes the molerats to respawn.

 

NPC - Finetuning

Synthetic Facelift - Atom Cats                                                      Requirements cause problems.

Synthetic Facelift - Deacon

Synthetic Facelift - Diamond City

Synthetic Facelift - Goodneighbor

Synthetic Facelift - Merchants

 

Mods to ADD/Move

Spoiler

Foundation

Extended Fake Interiors - Commonwealth buildings fixes

Extended Fake Interiors - DLC buildings fixes

Wasteland Water Revival

     I recommend to use the 'clear' version.

 

Details - Textures

Realistic Stars                                                                             Moved from 'Foundation'. To prevent an overwrite.

Moon with Phases

 

NPC

Robot Textures Redone

 

Armor and Clothing

CCC - Modular Military Backpack REVAMPED

 

Factions - Children of Atom

Atom's Glory Threads

Atom's Glory Threads - Fusion Girl Preset

 

Power Armors

Power Armors Redone

 

Sound

Perkier Perk SFX - Femme sounds for perk popups

 

Override

Leveled Item Framework (LIF)

Always SPECIAL Bobbleheads

 

Patches and Fixes

Facial Expression and Eyetracking Engine Fixes

Heather Quest Tags

Legendary Rearmed

Legendary Rearmed - Deadeye Patch

Combat Armor Remodel - NEO Headlamp Patch

Munitions Ammo Crafting Patch

Particle Patch - No More Glowing Objects                             Moved from 'World and Quests'. Now in the correct group.

Armor Workbench No Fire Barrel                                            Moved in the group. To prevent an overwrite.

 

World and Quests  

The Rebuild Collection - Shared Resources                     Got it working.

Creation Club Delayed

TG'z Fens Interiors

 

Weapons

Super Mutant Equality

     Distributes vanilla weapons.

     The ESP can be flagged as ESL.

Dak's Weapons on Super Mutants

     Now the added Weapons get distributed too.

 

Previsibines

Boston Natural Surroundings

     This got autumn textures. For green trees use the optional file instead.

Better Landscape Grass

Terrain Freckles Be Gone

Goodneighbor Expanded                                                          Moved from 'World and Quests'. Fixes a misplaced wall.

Jagged's Third Rail

Better The Third Rail (standard) - Audio

Rebuild Starlight Drive-In

     DELETE/HIDE the included previs-file.

Satellite Station Olivia - Location Overhaul                            Moved from 'World and Quests'. Saves a mod slot.

     DELETE/HIDE the included previs-file.

 

NPC - Finetuning

Fallout Ladies - Cait (HiPoly) Replacer                                     Moved from 'NPC - Basics'. Now they work as intended.

Fallout Ladies - Curie (HiPoly) Replacer

Fallout Ladies - Ivy (HiPoly) Replacer

Fallout Ladies - Magnolia (HiPoly) Replacer

Fallout Ladies - Piper (HiPoly) Replacer

 

In testing

Spoiler

Far Better Far Harbor - Exploration Expanded

Drop Quest Items and Keys

Drop Quest Items and Keys - Config (see 'Files')

SP's CBP Preset (Fusion Girl)

Uneducated Shooter - QE Leaning and Gun Inertia

Street Clocks Illuminated

     Get the 'loose' version!

OCDecorator - Static Loot                                                  Still works?

Shackin' Up - A Prefab Shack Mod                                     Useful?

OCDecorator and Shackin up fix

Display Marker - Place Anything                                        Easier than OCDecorator?

 

 

 

Edited by Aylis
Posted (edited)

Just noticed you dont have this in your lists:

 

https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/56789

 

The main feature that I use it for is the Dynamic Height so you can actually crouch under things that you should be able to crouch under. So when you crouch I assume your collision box actually changes instead of just your camera angle. Makes the game much more pleasant to play. 

 

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Edited by Franco Cozzo
Posted

I am currently on old gen 163 playing the mod list from before rather than this one...

But currently having gpu issues I don,t know if its the card or amd software but every time it goes down i am missing the software as it self deletes which is a pain in the rear end..Seriously thinking of jacking it in it,s been like this for a month and no help from the retailers or amd.. Just a waste of over 700 UK sterling........

Posted

@Franco Cozzo

I'll take a look.

 

@total newby

I use a card from AMD and the newest drivers. No problems with my 9070 XT...

 

What do you mean with 'software self deletes'? Drivers? Which OS?

  • Aylis changed the title to Fallout 4 for Beginners 4.0.4 (OG/NG/AE)
Posted
41 minutes ago, Aylis said:

@Franco Cozzo

I'll take a look.

 

@total newby

I use a card from AMD and the newest drivers. No problems with my 9070 XT...

 

What do you mean with 'software self deletes'? Drivers? Which OS?

 

I am on Win 11 with an ASUS tuff gaming 9070xt and the amd adrenalin likes to keep having driver timeout and crashes to desktop..

Then when i right click to go into adrenalin or even through start apps the adrenalin has gone so i have to redownload and install it..

I have even had the drivers disapear from display in the device manager so sometimes after a full install i have to go in device manager to make sure the amd driver is still there or i have to update that..

I don,t know if it,s a card or software issue but is it AMD or win 11, I used to have an ASUS tuff rx7900xt and i had not one bit of bother with it..So at present i am in talks with the retailer to see if they can test the card for me so i can try a rule out process

Posted

@total newby

OK. Lets go through it:

 

1A. Remove the driver completely and make sure nothing from NVIDIA is still there. Use DDU for that.

1B. Now restart the system and install the newest software and driver version from the website of AMD (NOT Asus).

 

2A. Recheck the cabling of your video card. Every connector on the GPU should use its own cable from the PSU. Y-Cables can cause stability issues under load (btw. same goes for NVIDIA).

2B. Recheck if your mainboard got an extra connector for the GPU and make sure that one is connected.

 

Whats the brand and wattage of your PSU?

Posted
55 minutes ago, Aylis said:

@total newby

OK. Lets go through it:

 

1A. Remove the driver completely and make sure nothing from NVIDIA is still there. Use DDU for that.

1B. Now restart the system and install the newest software and driver version from the website of AMD (NOT Asus).

 

2A. Recheck the cabling of your video card. Every connector on the GPU should use its own cable from the PSU. Y-Cables can cause stability issues under load (btw. same goes for NVIDIA).

2B. Recheck if your mainboard got an extra connector for the GPU and make sure that one is connected.

 

Whats the brand and wattage of your PSU?

Just Ran DDU screen seems a lot brighter, fresh install like you said from AMD Never had nvidea so not a problem there just AMD PSU is 1000 watt so no issues there with all 3 cables supplied with the rog strix platinum psu all MB cables are fully attached just waiting to see if it disappears again or not..

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