Broken Meshes and I can't find out why

[OblivionPotato]

see title, my meshes for several armor pieces and for certain weapons are all broken. my big issue is that they are the Courier's Stash weapons, that came with the game. i have no mods that alter the meshes, i did a fresh install and still the same issue.

any help?

[OblivionPotato]

if this is the wrong area for this i apologize, i didnt spot a bugs discussion thread

[talgaby]

Wrong how?
If you had game mods before, Steam never uninstalls them, so putting the game back on top will cause errors.

[OblivionPotato]

i mean if theres a specific bug discussion area or smth. happens

anyway. i mean i completely uninstalled, cleared the common file, etc. unless theres another area theyre stored, it was clean.

[talgaby]

I meant what the actual bug is? :)

[OblivionPotato]

exactly as the title says. specifically weapons and armor in the Classic Pack and the Tribal pack Dlc (in courier's stash) but not everything. The weapon and armor meshes are broken, causing the armor to make whatever it covers invisible (i.e the lightweight metal armor makes my chest invisible) and the weapons have the big red ! symbol around me when they're out. the weapons themselves do actually function, however.

from what i can tell this is due to broken meshes but beyond that i can't find what is causing this, even using several debug tools

[talgaby]

Only loose files can cause this, coupled with an incorrect archive invalidator file.
You have some mod content left in that installation library. You cannot get the exclamation mark glitch in any other way. You can try to remove it manually or possibly use a mod manager to rebuild the archiveinvalidator file.

[OblivionPotato]

feel a little stupid but would you mind linking me how to go about doing the second option there? unless its literally 'turn off and on archive invalidation"

[talgaby]

Literally turn off and on archiveinvalidation.

[OblivionPotato]

yep. Danke. however, can i also say that didn't work? xd

[Exvalcore]

NifSkope.exe can fix most mesh issues.
GIMP 2.exe can adjust custom textures.

Now sounds to me like you don't have an overwriting loose file in the meshes/textures armor files.
So that means it may be a ESP thats calling for a textures you don't have some ESP's add these.
You have to Use Geck to edit the ESP that is calling the issue, no other reason causes this okay.
If its not a loose mesh or texture which can be fixed using the tools above then its an ESP, simple!
First just deleted the Mesh & texture Folders, Next deactivate all mods but the Fallout NV & Dlcs.

[OblivionPotato]

that sounds like it. never edited stuff like this so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ hopefully i can fix it. thanks to you both