All Text Disappeared For No Reason?

[The Badger (née Poignion)]

It's been perfectly fine for months, but today it decided to be silly and the main menu text had disappeared and when I did manage to get into it the text was all gone. I've disabled and re enabled mods one by one, around 78 of them, and validated files, LOOTed them, used FNV Edit to check for issues and there were none apparently, deleted all saves, reinstalled, and to no avail. Any suggestions?

Edit: just tried restarting, still no dice

Edit x2: Found a fix! Just delete the menu file, "start-menu.xml". I have no idea why I nor the Internet hadn't thought of that in the first place, just gonna say it here in case anyone else stumbles on this issue.

[Calorline]

where even is this file?

[Tyro Mungus]

Originally posted by Calorline:

where even is this file?

This is under the Menu Folder inside of FNV's data folder, but the guy's edit didn't fix my game.

Edit: I figured this out, it has to do with a UI mod that edits the fallout.ini font. If you use a mod organizer, like MO2, you have to also make this change using the .ini editor if you're silly like me and it copies the fallout.ini from an already modded game.

This is what my [Font] Section in the .ini looks like:
[Fonts]
;sFontFile_1=Textures\Fonts\Glow_Monofonto_Large.fnt
sFontFile_1=Textures\Fonts\DarN_FranKleinBold_14.fnt
;sFontFile_2=Textures\Fonts\Monofonto_Large.fnt
sFontFile_2=Textures\Fonts\DarN_FranKleinBold_16.fnt
sFontFile_3=Textures\Fonts\Glow_Monofonto_Medium.fnt
;sFontFile_4=Textures\Fonts\Monofonto_VeryLarge02_Dialogs2.fnt
sFontFile_4=Textures\Fonts\DarN_Sui_Generis_Otl_10.fnt
sFontFile_5=Textures\Fonts\Fixedsys_Comp_uniform_width.fnt
;sFontFile_6=Textures\Fonts\Glow_Monofonto_VL_dialogs.fnt
sFontFile_6=Textures\Fonts\DarN_Sui_Generis_Otl_13.fnt
;sFontFile_7=Textures\Fonts\Baked-in_Monofonto_Large.fnt
sFontFile_7=Textures\Fonts\DarN_Libel_Suit_Otl_24.fnt
sFontFile_8=Textures\Fonts\Glow_Futura_Caps_Large.fnt
sFontFile_9=Textures\Fonts\NVFont_Test.fnt

The parts that say DarN aren't default. That is what is breaking the game. Your culprit may vary.

Remove the DarN sections and the semicolons in front of the default options, which restores the default options. Or copy and paste below.

[Fonts]
sFontFile_1=Textures\Fonts\Glow_Monofonto_Large.fnt
sFontFile_2=Textures\Fonts\Monofonto_Large.fnt
sFontFile_3=Textures\Fonts\Glow_Monofonto_Medium.fnt
sFontFile_4=Textures\Fonts\Monofonto_VeryLarge02_Dialogs2.fnt
sFontFile_5=Textures\Fonts\Fixedsys_Comp_uniform_width.fnt
sFontFile_6=Textures\Fonts\Glow_Monofonto_VL_dialogs.fnt
sFontFile_7=Textures\Fonts\Baked-in_Monofonto_Large.fnt
sFontFile_8=Textures\Fonts\Glow_Futura_Caps_Large.fnt
sFontFile_9=Textures\Fonts\NVFont_Test.fnt

Alternatively, fresh install (including purging the Fallout.ini from your MyGames folder) and start Fallout from Steam. Even with a mod organizer, it should copy the newly created .ini file. If not, you can look into the files manually and purge them too, but the game should just create a new .ini when the Launcher opens and you load into a save game.

[Salamand3r-]

How did you even find this to necro it?

[pontfogel]

Originally posted by Salamand3r-:

How did you even find this to necro it?

Google "fallout new vegas" "text disappeared" (with quotes) and it's the first search result. :)

[Salamand3r-]

Originally posted by pontfogel:

Originally posted by Salamand3r-:

How did you even find this to necro it?

Google "fallout new vegas" "text disappeared" (with quotes) and it's the first search result. :)

Damn, Valve pays a lot for their SEO.

[Tyro Mungus]

Originally posted by pontfogel:

Originally posted by Salamand3r-:

How did you even find this to necro it?

Google "fallout new vegas" "text disappeared" (with quotes) and it's the first search result. :)

yeah for real. I get sick of finding tech support problems with no solution, the best thing to do is try and follow-up as best you can on this crap.

Though this time I necro because I don't pay attention when steam has "new comments" lmao

[Boto cor de goza]

Originally posted by punion poignion:

It's been perfectly fine for months, but today it decided to be silly and the main menu text had disappeared and when I did manage to get into it the text was all gone. I've disabled and re enabled mods one by one, around 78 of them, and validated files, LOOTed them, used FNV Edit to check for issues and there were none apparently, deleted all saves, reinstalled, and to no avail. Any suggestions?

Edit: just tried restarting, still no dice

Edit x2: Found a fix! Just delete the menu file, "start-menu.xml". I have no idea why I nor the Internet hadn't thought of that in the first place, just gonna say it here in case anyone else stumbles on this issue.

HELLO MY BOYS! Daddy Tobidelis here to help!

Just run "Verify local files" through Steam, fixed here

[The Badger (née Poignion)]

Usually a reinstall does just would do the same job as file verification, but glad it works regardless!

[Tyro Mungus]

Originally posted by Tobi(delis):

Originally posted by punion poignion:

It's been perfectly fine for months, but today it decided to be silly and the main menu text had disappeared and when I did manage to get into it the text was all gone. I've disabled and re enabled mods one by one, around 78 of them, and validated files, LOOTed them, used FNV Edit to check for issues and there were none apparently, deleted all saves, reinstalled, and to no avail. Any suggestions?

Edit: just tried restarting, still no dice

Edit x2: Found a fix! Just delete the menu file, "start-menu.xml". I have no idea why I nor the Internet hadn't thought of that in the first place, just gonna say it here in case anyone else stumbles on this issue.

HELLO MY BOYS! Daddy Tobidelis here to help!

Just run "Verify local files" through Steam, fixed here

If this worked for you, good for you, but in my and this guy's attempt to do that did not work.

The fix I provided earlier to find and modify the specific .ini or where to manually purge the files does work; Steam will NOT verify or change those files because it will only remove files on an uninstall that are within the Steam or designated Install folder, not under MyGames in your Documents folder. This is why you typically retain savegames in most games.

I don't recommend updating this thread with information unless the specific fixes mentioned here do not work. I'm subbed to the discussion, so I can help troubleshoot further problems and see if I can get to the bottom of it. The purge I mentioned, should all else fail, seems full-proof though.