Any way I could wipe all mod data and do a clean install but keep all my save game data?

[Lord Chester]

I've already tried asking something similar on the Nexus forums but I didn't get much help. The other day I reinstalled FO4 after not playing for over a year. I decided to reinstall CBBE, BodySlide and a CBBE armor replacer mod (in that order) using NMM. I later uninstalled the armor replacer because CBBE and the armor replacer were not working at all so I wanted to see if it was the cause. Now all female bodies have the CBBE shape but have this weird horrifying texture that looks like a mix of the vanilla female and CBBE textures. All female models have this appearance even when completely nude, not just when they are wearing certain clothes have tried uninstalling and reinstalling but to no avail. What should I do? Could the cause be the armor replacer I installed because I DID choose "yes to all" when the prompt came up asking to override the CBBE mod. Is there a way I could just try to completely eradicate all mod data and start over? CBBE and BodySlide are literally the only mods I have installed now so I am not opposed to deleting everything having to do with mods and trying again but I would prefer not to if anyone knows of a solution. I just don't want to lose my save game data or cause damage to the base game. Any help would be greatly appreciated

[Flippy]

You shouldnt need to reinstall.

The textures are in your Fallout 4 data folder....

The meshes in the Fallout 4 data folder could be making those textures look funny.

Try dragging the textures and meshes folders to desktop and deleting them from the Fallout 4 data folder first.

Then disable all mods.

Then start game and see whats going on.

Disabling a mod will do nothing if the folders in data are overwriting things. They dont need a mod active to over write.

[Aahzmandias]

No. That is not possible.

If you change even the mod order, you will get a potential corrupted save game.

If you change something, start a new game.

[Flippy]

Originally posted by mkess:

No. That is not possible.

If you change even the mod order, you will get a potential corrupted save game.

If you change something, start a new game.

Hes having texture problems that could be caused by either the texture OR meshes OR a mod. He doesnt need to change save games or anything.

I know about this stuff. :)

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1131485406

This screen shot has no mods or added files and is using the original Fallout 4 files with nothing added. The originals were changed though.

[Lord Chester]

Originally posted by Flippy:

You shouldnt need to reinstall.

The textures are in your Fallout 4 data folder....

The meshes in the Fallout 4 data folder could be making those textures look funny.

Try dragging the textures and meshes folders to desktop and deleting them from the Fallout 4 data folder first.

Then disable all mods.

Then start game and see whats going on.

Disabling a mod will do nothing if the folders in data are overwriting things. They dont need a mod active to over write.

https://forums.nexusmods.com/index.php?/topic/5110305-body-texutes-messed-up/
The picture this guy included is EXACTLY what I'm talking about except it sounds like he has other factors going into it that don't apply to me. Do you still think I should try the method you mentioned?

[Flippy]

Originally posted by Cosmic Crunch:

Originally posted by Flippy:

You shouldnt need to reinstall.

The textures are in your Fallout 4 data folder....

The meshes in the Fallout 4 data folder could be making those textures look funny.

Try dragging the textures and meshes folders to desktop and deleting them from the Fallout 4 data folder first.

Then disable all mods.

Then start game and see whats going on.

Disabling a mod will do nothing if the folders in data are overwriting things. They dont need a mod active to over write.

https://forums.nexusmods.com/index.php?/topic/5110305-body-texutes-messed-up/
The picture this guy included is EXACTLY what I'm talking about except it sounds like he has other factors going into it that don't apply to me. Do you still think I should try the method you mentioned?

Definately. The folders named textures and meshes in the data folder are added by mods. The game will run fine without them.

Drag them safely to desktop so you can drag them back if you want. Then disable the mods.

Delete them out of the data folder.

[Flippy]

The game should be fine after that.

The next step is to drag the texture only back to the data folder. not meshes and no mods running.

Then see how it looks.

I am keeping this simple. But this is the basics.

[Lord Chester]

Originally posted by Flippy:

The game should be fine after that.

The next step is to drag the texture only back to the data folder. not meshes and no mods running.

Then see how it looks.

I am keeping this simple. But this is the basics.

Okay so just to be clear, you are saying drag the Meshes and Textures files out of the Data folder and put it on my desktop, delete the Meshes, drag Textures back to the Data folder, and then disable both of the two mods I have installed (including CBBE)? Should that result in female characters ingame having the vanilla textures or the correct CBBE ones? Because I still do want to use the CBBE mod, I just want it to work. Apologies, I didn't realize how small my understanding of modding actually is lol, never had this problem in Skyrim or Fallout

[Xyzzy]

Originally posted by Cosmic Crunch:

Originally posted by Flippy:

The game should be fine after that.

The next step is to drag the texture only back to the data folder. not meshes and no mods running.

Then see how it looks.

I am keeping this simple. But this is the basics.

Okay so just to be clear, you are saying drag the Meshes and Textures files out of the Data folder and put it on my desktop, delete the Meshes, drag Textures back to the Data folder, and then disable both of the two mods I have installed (including CBBE)? Should that result in female characters ingame having the vanilla textures or the correct CBBE ones? Because I still do want to use the CBBE mod, I just want it to work. Apologies, I didn't realize how small my understanding of modding actually is lol, never had this problem in Skyrim or Fallout

plus there may be some stuff in your user-program data, folder.

[Flippy]

Originally posted by Cosmic Crunch:

Originally posted by Flippy:

The game should be fine after that.

The next step is to drag the texture only back to the data folder. not meshes and no mods running.

Then see how it looks.

I am keeping this simple. But this is the basics.

Okay so just to be clear, you are saying drag the Meshes and Textures files out of the Data folder and put it on my desktop, delete the Meshes, drag Textures back to the Data folder, and then disable both of the two mods I have installed (including CBBE)? Should that result in female characters ingame having the vanilla textures or the correct CBBE ones? Because I still do want to use the CBBE mod, I just want it to work. Apologies, I didn't realize how small my understanding of modding actually is lol, never had this problem in Skyrim or Fallout

Drag texture and meshes out of the data folder to somewhere safe. Make sure they are deleted out. Disable mods and see if its fine.

Go from there.

CBBE is excellent. I use parts of it. But it uses different meshes and textures.

Get your game running properly first then go from there.

This topic you will figure out how it works eventually. Took me forever to figure it out and i am still figuring different things out. I got mysteries i am still trying to solve. :)

[Flippy]

Once you have cbbe how you like it make a backup of the entire fallout 4 folder before adding new mods.

Keep making back ups as you successfully mod. Making sure to play test very well.

[Lord Chester]

Originally posted by Flippy:

Originally posted by Cosmic Crunch:

Okay so just to be clear, you are saying drag the Meshes and Textures files out of the Data folder and put it on my desktop, delete the Meshes, drag Textures back to the Data folder, and then disable both of the two mods I have installed (including CBBE)? Should that result in female characters ingame having the vanilla textures or the correct CBBE ones? Because I still do want to use the CBBE mod, I just want it to work. Apologies, I didn't realize how small my understanding of modding actually is lol, never had this problem in Skyrim or Fallout

Drag texture and meshes out of the data folder to somewhere safe. Make sure they are deleted out. Disable mods and see if its fine.

Go from there.

CBBE is excellent. I use parts of it. But it uses different meshes and textures.

Get your game running properly first then go from there.

This topic you will figure out how it works eventually. Took me forever to figure it out and i am still figuring different things out. I got mysteries i am still trying to solve. :)

Okay so I moved the textures and meshes folder from out of my Data folder, they are now sitting on my desktop. I then deleted them from the Data folder and deactivated both BS and CBBE but I just loaded an old save and females STILL have that distorted texture even when I have no mods running... This is honestly becoming very frustrating

[Flippy]

Originally posted by Cosmic Crunch:

Originally posted by Flippy:

Drag texture and meshes out of the data folder to somewhere safe. Make sure they are deleted out. Disable mods and see if its fine.

Go from there.

CBBE is excellent. I use parts of it. But it uses different meshes and textures.

Get your game running properly first then go from there.

This topic you will figure out how it works eventually. Took me forever to figure it out and i am still figuring different things out. I got mysteries i am still trying to solve. :)

Okay so I moved the textures and meshes folder from out of my Data folder, they are now sitting on my desktop. I then deleted them from the Data folder and deactivated both BS and CBBE but I just loaded an old save and females STILL have that distorted texture even when I have no mods running... This is honestly becoming very frustrating

So no meshes or textures folder in the data folder?

The old save shouldnt be doing anything.

Are they wearing vanilla clothing? Try different clothes.

Any other mods?

Keep trying to get the game running properly then install cbbe fresh.

Yes modding can be very frustrating and takes practice and trial and error. But can make Fallout 4 into any game eventually.

There is no rush because the pay off can be great. It could take months to have the game you want so dont worry about rushing. :)

[Lord Chester]

Originally posted by Flippy:

Originally posted by Cosmic Crunch:

Okay so I moved the textures and meshes folder from out of my Data folder, they are now sitting on my desktop. I then deleted them from the Data folder and deactivated both BS and CBBE but I just loaded an old save and females STILL have that distorted texture even when I have no mods running... This is honestly becoming very frustrating

So no meshes or textures folder in the data folder?

The old save shouldnt be doing anything.

Are they wearing vanilla clothing? Try different clothes.

Any other mods?

Keep trying to get the game running properly then install cbbe fresh.

Yes modding can be very frustrating and takes practice and trial and error. But can make Fallout 4 into any game eventually.

There is no rush because the pay off can be great. It could take months to have the game you want so dont worry about rushing. :)

I just uninstalled both mods through NMM and then uninstalled Fallout 4. I'm waiting for it to install currently and then I'm going to try and reinstall both of the mods. Hopefully a fresh install will help?

[Flippy]

This is my latest problem.

Valentines secretary doesnt look bad here but this replacer clothing doesnt really fit her character does it. So now i got to go through Nexusmods and try find something that looks good but still fits her character.

No big deal i will get around to it eventually. But this is modding to get the game looking perfect.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1155952133

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1155952107

This is from my exit save because i didnt realize until i went to Valentines. Going to get it straightened out before playing on.

I noticed that carpet needs work to. Got to do that. :)

[SpawnCap]

If your save game doesn't load after you tried that then try and start a new game. See if it runs stable. If so you might never get that save to load. Also try and load an old save of that character from when he was lower level, and maybe less mods loaded at that time, and see if that save loads.

Remember, you can't just load all the mods you want and expect it to run decent on minimum specs and could very require over recommended system specs, and will just lockup if it doesn't have the power.

Once you do get it stable backup your game folder, like mentioned above, and your save game files. Keep updating your save game files in seperate backup folders (or zip file) and backup your game folder before you load any new mods in it's own folder (don't overwrite previous backup if HD space isn't an issue).

Use to spend a lot of time using mods in my games but when diagnosing issues started cutting into my game time (something I value more than any mod) I cut down on the modding.