how to install the unofficial patch mod?

[Icedfate]

okay, I went to the nexus and downloaded the unofficial patch mod and I can't figure out how to get it to work.

apparently, I'm the only one on the planet who doesn't understand how to install this mod because the creator felt no need to explain it and there are no videos on the net of how to do it and I can't find any other threads.

all my mods, I always downloaded them then activated them through Nexus Mod Manager.

on the nexus webpage it says "do not try to extract the files or let your mod manager perform the equivalent function" wtf does that mean? are they saying "don't try to install it manually and don't try to use nexus mod manager"?!
they also go on to say to use LOOT to fix the load order. okay.

so heres what I did, I downloaded the 7zip file, and then I DID NOT extract it. I just picked the 7zip file through nexus mod manager and told it to activate. (this is the process I used to intall all my mods and it always worked)
then I opened LOOT to see the load order and it shows the patch there and it looks like it is in the correct spot being loaded right after all the DLC's

but when I launched the game, I just get a black screen with an hourclass icon frozen there.

when I went back into NMM and disabled the patch mod, my game worked again.

what am I doing wrong? how am I "supposed" to install this.

I love how the modders just say "install the mod" and give no other instructions like they just assume that everyone graduated from The Institute with a masters in computer science.

[Ilja]

As I already explained, that has nothing to do with UFO4P itself, but how game itself behaves. All mods with custom scripts should have that warning printed as a big red text in front of the download page.

UFO4P fixes several things from the game. I do recommend keeping it.

What damage you might have cause by previously uninstalling it is completely impossible to say, because there is no way for me to know which data was run in between.

There is a change that UFO4P is able to fix errors caused by previous installation on it's own and there will not be any permanent damage to your game. This is why I said not to worry too much about it, unless you actually start seeing problems.

If you have to start a new game at some point, then I would strongly recommend keeping UFO4P in your load order. At the top of the annoyances it fixes, it also fixes few potentially bigger issues from the game. Aliases - which are required by scenes - have had issues in FO4.

Alias problems and clean-up failures for obsolete entries are always a bigger potential issue for Bethesda games, because they have a change to start spamming Papyrus even in a completely unmodded game. These are among things that UFO4P fixes and thus I do recommend keeping it.

[Icedfate]

so, LOOT always displays that warning under mods?

I'll admit that I assumed that it was caused by myself deactivating the unofficial patch...

because I wasn't using LOOT before I installed the patch and only downloaded LOOT on the instructions of the mod author saying to use LOOT to check the mod load order.

when I first launched LOOT, I never pressed the button to "sort plugins" I just looked at the screen and it showed all the DLC and it showed the patch below them in the load order and there was no messages about "deleted navmeshes" and I assumed everything was working correctly and there was no need to press anything else and so tried to launch the game and it wouldn't launch

then I deactivated the patch and launch the game and it worked

then I reactivated the patch and hit the button "sort plugins" and that's when all the little messages about "deleted navmeshes" appeared


are you saying those would have appeared anyway, regardless and me previously deactivating the patch is not the cause?

[Ilja]

Warnings about official files? Yes. They would have appeared there, even in a completely unmodded game, because Bethesda never cleaned their master files.

Thos warnings are not related to modding at all.

[Icedfate]

okay, so it's nothing to worry about then?

[Ilja]

Nothing too important to worry about.

I shared the guide how to clean your master files, if you are interested of doing so.