Fallout 3 Darn UI DUIF3 button not doing anything

[FireyVortex2112]

Hi! I figured I'd try on here since steam has alot of people trying to fix these games. I've been trying all day at this game, I got Fose to work with the anniversary patcher..... I have all 4 fallout mod managers installed because only one allows you to change the load order..... and I got it to show the darn ui in game with no problems, I had the rain and snow mod and the fwe mod installed, and I had the darn ui hotfix for fwe, I have file invalidation on, and I've looked over every forum in the search engine and no one else has this specific problem. The DUI F3 option is in the main menu not the pause menu, I've tried downloading hud managers and they do absolutely nothing to the game. I can reinstall if needed or whatever, I have all the files ready, but all I'd like is for the button to actual take me to the options menu, some hud elements are bigger and smaller than others. If anyone can help that would be awesome! I wish these great games didnt take a month on and off just to start a new game with performance fixes and minor tweaks

[rico28zan]

bro I feel your pain as I am having the same issue

[Löthar Storm]

https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout3/mods/20867?tab=posts

Originally posted by DarkDominion 01 December 2021, 3:47PM:

I think you are using the Anniversary Patcher ?


Open start_menu.xml in Data/Menus/Options with Darn installed
find the <_isPauseMenu> line
Edit <eq> 9 </eq> to <eq> 8 </eq> two lines under it (line 51)


DARN uses the number of items in the start menu list to detect the main menu.
The patcher removes the LIVE button so DARN's check fails
The code checks if the number of items in the menu equals 9 ( or 8 )

haven't tried this myself, looks legit though.

[-={LG}=-]

Originally posted by Menace to Sobriety:

haven't tried this myself, looks legit though.

Worked perfectly, thanks and permit me to also thank you on behalf of the OP. Should have worked for him also.

This is the chant I used for the necro...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BXfJ1MElBk

[CPTech]

OH MY DAMNNN. Thank you so much for this; changing the value from 9 to 8 fixed this issue for me! I have wasted 6-8 hours trying to figure this out and couldn't find any help until now. THANKS

[Matheus]

necroing this again, but it is not working for me, any other solutions?

[Stricken1]

Not to Necro this thread one more timel, but I got as far as editing the value from 8 to 9, and now the positioning of all my menu section is totally ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up. I am however no longer experiencing the unskippable pop-up of doom

[Monchester_]

Originally posted by Cadaver Synod:

https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout3/mods/20867?tab=posts

Originally posted by DarkDominion 01 December 2021, 3:47PM:

I think you are using the Anniversary Patcher ?


Open start_menu.xml in Data/Menus/Options with Darn installed
find the <_isPauseMenu> line
Edit <eq> 9 </eq> to <eq> 8 </eq> two lines under it (line 51)


DARN uses the number of items in the start menu list to detect the main menu.
The patcher removes the LIVE button so DARN's check fails
The code checks if the number of items in the menu equals 9 ( or 8 )

haven't tried this myself, looks legit though.

Thank you very much