Lost my Pip Boy

[Not That Guy]

I cant open up my pip boy after a botched mod install, it just blurs the screen and shows the bottom bar with perk chart and that sort of thing, i opens up in my power armor fine.

Do i need to jangle some files or swap a setting or am i doomed to power armor for the rest of my game?

Ive also restarted everything and verified game files to no avail

[LAZERFACE]

LOL

[Not That Guy]

Originally posted by LAZERFACE:

LOL

Just saw you in another disscussion, you seem as helpful as a recipt for a coffee

[Simple Man]

Load a save from before the mod?

[Not That Guy]

Originally posted by blueberry spank muffin:

Load a save from before the mod?

Ill do this if i cant fix it another way, i was in my power armor for a rather large section of the game before relising my pip boy was gone

About 5 hours to be precise

[ronr42]

Depending on your "Botched" mod install and what you did, you may have to re-install the game.

Try these things first;

1. Go to Documents/My Games/Fallout 4 and delete the Fallout4.ini and the Fallout4Prefs.ini. Then verify the game files again and launch the game from your Steam library launcher. That will create new .ini's and possibly fix the issue.

2. There was an old bug that caused the Pip-Boy to be blurred. It was patched long ago but, the fix was to set Ambient Occlusion to HBAO+. Try that.

3. You can try re-equiping the Pip-Boy. FIRST, make a new menu save before ever using the console! Open the console[ ~ ] and type player.equipitem 00021b3b 1 and hit Enter. That will equip a new Pip-Boy and may fix your issue. If it doesn't then load that save you made before you used the console.

4. If the above doesn't work you may have to re-install the game. If so, uninstall all mods first then the game. After that go to the game folder in C:/Program Files[x86]/Steam/steamapps/common/Fallout 4 and delete anything remaining in the game folder. Next, go to Documents/My Games/Fallout 4 and delete the Fallout4.ini and the Fallout4Prefs.ini if they are still there. Now re-install the game AND becareful with mods this time.

[Not That Guy]

Ive tried 1-3 to no avail and since it would take much longer to reinstall the game than just redo the last 5 hours i think i might just redo them

Thanks a bunch for trying to help

And i will be nice and safe with mods from here on out

[LAZERFACE]

I have restarted the game 100x's

[Yonaga]

Just run around in your PA and everything is fine.

[SuperSledgeNY]

You Pipboy is probably messed up because your "botched mod installation" probably left junk files in your Data folder or, worse case scenario, overwrote pipboy files you installed from a PREVIOUS mod.

In the case of "junk files", just manually extract the botched mod to your desktop. Open the mod folder AND then open the DATA folder in your Fallout 4 game directory. Compare EVERY file and folder in the mod with the corresponding files and folders in the game's DATA folder. If you see the sames files in the exact same place as the mod's, that's a leftover junk file and can be deleted.

HOWEVER, if you have PREVIOUSLY install ANY mod that changes your pipboy, deleting the junk files may make things worse IF the botched mod replaced any of those files. Those previously installed mods will have to be re-installed in order to restore your pipboy to the condition it was before you botched it.

[Not That Guy]

i dont really want to mess with my game at this point, an old save still has its pip boy and is pre mod so ill just use that instead

[LAZERFACE]

I know many people use mods but it seems like the ones who use them well are experts at modding, if I used mods I would learn, or find a very smart friend. I am not anti mod, its just not for me. I want a mod that lets me play my FO4 toon in World of Warcraft so I can shoot all the huntards in the face with my alien blaster.

[H.Honor]

open console command type player.equipitem 21b3b

[Egg with a knife]

Originally posted by H.honor:

open console command type player.equipitem 21b3b

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