Fallout – Can’t play modded Fallout 4 due to crash to desktop

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Here's my problem: I want to play a heavily modded Fallout 4. Once I start a fresh game I can, strangely enough, play just fine without any issues and any crash. However, once I exit the game, and start it up later, I cannot load the save game any more, because it crashes to desktop almost immediately.

The mods I want to play with: https://pastebin.com/gTY2J3Sk
Any culprits there?

Best Answer

Happend to me as well - solution which worked for me is below.

Targets:

  • Avoid reinstall of the game
  • Keep all players settings in save untouched

1) Situation description

  • Game was modded (> 80 mods), but with fully functional saving system
    • Suddenly without any change in the game or Nexus, the game was crashing to desktop without any information during saving
    • save files were suddenly saved as *.fos.tmp instead of *.f4se and .fos (save files in C:\Users*user\Documents\My Games\Fallout4\Saves)

2) solution, which worked for me (chronologically)

  • Created backup of saves
  • Switched off all "Plugins" in Nexus (Plugins, not the mods!)
  • Splitted "plugins" into 2 halfs and first half switched back on
  • Try to save the game and because of OK save process, I splitted the remaining part into 2 halfs and switch of one half only (it means 1/2 + 1/4 of plugins were switched on)
  • I was using quicksave for functionality check (quicksave of "original" save)
  • With this method was gradually switched on plugins and at the end was identified mod, which suddendly was causing the problem with saving
  • At the end I tried to switched on the "problematic" and save was suddenly functional as well, despite that before it was clearly causing the problem

Nevertheless the game is saving again. I hope, that it was helpful for someone.

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