A Flash of light

[ZenoWolf000]

so I have been playing Fallout 4 for a while now and I'm having fun with it, I even installed a few mods for it, and it's been going great. but for some reason, after I kill a raider or 2 I get this big flash of light on my screen. it looked intentional but I'm not sure. and this barely happens as well. once this flash of light happens I can't do anything. can't move, can't see, but I can still access my inventory. the flash of light looked like I was being teleported somewhere else but nothing happens and once it does I looked at my compass and I haven't changed locations at all, enemies still surround me and I can still take damage from them. I have no idea what this situation is, please help

(mods that I have:)
Healthier commonwealth
true storms pack
SOE pack
liberty power armor
Skyrim power armor
weapon pack
Atomic radio
unofficial Fallout 4 patch
pip boy retextured pack
and crafting workbench pack

(I doubt this does much but the specs I have:)
CPU: AMD Ryzen 3
RAM: 16 GB
GPU: NVIDIA GTX 1050 ti
OS: Windows 10

[The Inept European]

Did you hold down the VATS key and force VATS mode? In that mode you can rotate but not move, and you still take damage because time is slowed but not totally stopped.

[Lucifer69]

No list of mods, no list of hardware, you don't say if you have updated drivers, what OS, if you have tweaked the ini's at all and if so what tweaks have you made. No short video clip of the event, or even a couple screenshots. You don't mention if there is weather going on, if this is an interior or exterior cell, etc.

You seriously expect help?

Edit: Removed because it's likely not related based on what little you do provide.

[ZenoWolf000]

Originally posted by The Ex-ept European:

Did you hold down the VATS key and force VATS mode? In that mode you can rotate but not move, and you still take damage because time is slowed but not totally stopped.

yeah but all I see is white, my hud's still there but I can't tell if I turn or not

[ZenoWolf000]

Originally posted by Lucifer69:

No list of mods, no list of hardware, you don't say if you have updated drivers, what OS, if you have tweaked the ini's at all and if so what tweaks have you made. No short video clip of the event, or even a couple screenshots. You don't mention if there is weather going on, if this is an interior or exterior cell, etc.

You seriously expect help?

Edit: Removed because it's likely not related based on what little you do provide.

i was inside when this happened and it's not mod-based that I know. and the weather didn't affect the situation it seems to be only tied to me killing raiders

[The Inept European]

Of all the things that could cause it, killing Raiders is not one of them.

[The Inept European]

So yeah, mod list.

[ZenoWolf000]

Originally posted by The Ex-ept European:

So yeah, mod list.

the mods I have are cosmetic or weapon-based, hell I even have power armor mods. there shouldn't be anything that causes this I don't think

[Lucifer69]

Again, you still haven't given a mod list, hardware list, ini changes, updated drivers, OS, etc. Impossible to help you until then.

At least I can rule out weather since this was in an interior cell. What I find odd is controls being locked. If you truly are unable to move, attack, etc then you could be experiencing multiple issues.

Controls being locked, in my experience, is usually due to an animation failing for a variety of reasons while opening a vault door. Controls get locked during said event. It can lock some controls or all of them. It depends. Fixing this isn't hard, but I hope this isn't the case as we'll have multiple layers of debugging to go through if so.

In the meantime, you can use "ForceEnablePlayerControls 1111111111" to see if you can move around.

[ZenoWolf000]

Originally posted by Lucifer69:

Again, you still haven't given a mod list, hardware list, ini changes, updated drivers, OS, etc. Impossible to help you until then.

At least I can rule out weather since this was in an interior cell. What I find odd is controls being locked. If you truly are unable to move, attack, etc then you could be experiencing multiple issues.

Controls being locked, in my experience, is usually due to an animation failing for a variety of reasons while opening a vault door. Controls get locked during said event. It can lock some controls or all of them. It depends. Fixing this isn't hard, but I hope this isn't the case as we'll have multiple layers of debugging to go through if so.

In the meantime, you can use "ForceEnablePlayerControls 1111111111" to see if you can move around.

ill give that a try, also I updated the post with a list of mods I have

[Lucifer69]

I still think it's the white screen bug as the main issue. If this is the case, then it's truly not a mod bug. Disable wetness and see what happens. It can render the screen partially or fully white in both, interior and exterior cells. Usually it only get's triggered when weather starts then the whiteness can get locked in.

As for the controls, I'm not sure. Something else may be to blame for this. At a glance though, I don't see any obvious mod issues (even though I don't like true storms for having a corrupted image space header).

Screenshots would help.

[ZenoWolf000]

Originally posted by Lucifer69:

I still think it's the white screen bug as the main issue. If this is the case, then it's truly not a mod bug. Disable wetness and see what happens. It can render the screen partially or fully white in both, interior and exterior cells. Usually it only get's triggered when weather starts then the whiteness can get locked in.

As for the controls, I'm not sure. Something else may be to blame for this. At a glance though, I don't see any obvious mod issues (even though I don't like true storms for having a corrupted image space header).

Screenshots would help.

hmm well I did discover that killing anything would trigger it, but for a while it was raiders, killed a robot and it triggered it. but I will try your suggestion and ill get a screenshot of when it happens again

[The Inept European]

Any mods overriding the kill move animations?

[Lucifer69]

Based on his mod list above, no.

[The Inept European]

So a key test to replicate is, if starting a new game with no mods, does the problem recur or disappear.

For example this situation could be due to a previous mod replacing kill animations such that the base game animations are now unavailable. Maybe after removing said mod.

Also important to know which mod manager was used or which manual modding technique.

[SRO]

I used to have this happen to me when I unlocked the framerate of the game before getting a mod that untied fps from the game physics. Are you running the game above 60 fps?