black face

[larryddd]

morning all just starting a new game of fallout 4 and when I get to the setup screen male and female have a diff coloured face than body.I dont have many mods installed like 6 nothing that would effect the face ? sorry about the noob question

[socialmediaaddress3]

Its an issue with faces running different resolution than the rest of the game.
This is very helpful:

https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/64270

[Bored Peon]

I tried many different fixes for it over the years. The only real fix I saw was to exit the game like once an hour so it clears the video memory. Blackface usually occurred after too much video memory was used (like the game forget to purge it.) For example a visit to the top of Corvega usually caused blackface after coming back down.

[4kBuddz]

Usually too many textures, from what I've heard. The last three days I've been fighting with this and I found 4 mods in my mod list that caused it, three textures and oddly enough a weather mod. Double check your mod list.

[PeaceMaker]

Whenever it happend to me, and it did just a week ago, it corrected itself after a restart. I think it has something to do with video card memory like Bored peon says as it can come and go whenever, usually after the PC has been stressed a bit. Although I'm surprised it still sometimes happens on my 3080 12 gig. Could be all those texture mods I have I guess.
Never been enough of an issue to worry me or I'd look deeper into it.

[TheLoveMummy]

Rust face is what some mod authors call it. There are a few fixes but they are not 100% so you will still get it on occasion.

[Bored Peon]

Originally posted by PeaceMaker:

Whenever it happend to me, and it did just a week ago, it corrected itself after a restart. I think it has something to do with video card memory like Bored peon says as it can come and go whenever, usually after the PC has been stressed a bit. Although I'm surprised it still sometimes happens on my 3080 12 gig. Could be all those texture mods I have I guess.
Never been enough of an issue to worry me or I'd look deeper into it.

Well technically there is no fix.

The current "fix" is mods take one of the modeling layers of NPCs and use that slot to apply a fix that overwrites the blackness. Found that out when I had a conflict with one of the fixes I used and a looksmenu mod, the character wound up with no eyebrows because looksmenu updated and decided to use that slot being used for a fix.

So basically while these mods create a "fix" they are not addressing the core issue of the memory leak or cache not being purged.

[Bored Peon]

Originally posted by TheLoveMummy:

Rust face is what some mod authors call it. There are a few fixes but they are not 100% so you will still get it on occasion.

Must be a new woke reference....I swear people take things too far and get offended too easily.

While I appreciate the wanting to not be offensive people just do not think things through. When your NPCs faces turn black who the @#$% is going to search "character has rust face."

[TheLoveMummy]

Wonder if swapping the vanilla face texture with a transparent dds would do it? Worst case scenario if the high res face didn't load they would be headless. That sounds disturbing now that I think about it.

[larryddd]

Originally posted by 4kBuddz:

Usually too many textures, from what I've heard. The last three days I've been fighting with this and I found 4 mods in my mod list that caused it, three textures and oddly enough a weather mod. Double check your mod list.

thanks for your reply I did have true storms installed at the time

[larryddd]

thanks for the replies I'm reinstalling fallout 4 at the mo and will run it with no mods then at one at a time, like I said I only had a few mods installed

[PeaceMaker]

Originally posted by Bored Peon:

Originally posted by TheLoveMummy:

Rust face is what some mod authors call it. There are a few fixes but they are not 100% so you will still get it on occasion.

Must be a new woke reference....I swear people take things too far and get offended too easily.

While I appreciate the wanting to not be offensive people just do not think things through. When your NPCs faces turn black who the @#$% is going to search "character has rust face."

lol. I can't agree more.
Calling it `rust` is gonna cause more problems than just being straight to what it is.
And I'm black!

[B-o-B]

I endorse this message. It's a new one on me, never heard of it.
but...
Don't be scared of black when its in context.
or you could...

lower the resolution and you got minecraft
<--- minecraft

[larryddd]

the head is not all black just the face and front of neck

[Espurr]

Originally posted by Bored Peon:

Originally posted by TheLoveMummy:

Rust face is what some mod authors call it. There are a few fixes but they are not 100% so you will still get it on occasion.

Must be a new woke reference....I swear people take things too far and get offended too easily.

While I appreciate the wanting to not be offensive people just do not think things through. When your NPCs faces turn black who the @#$% is going to search "character has rust face."

Its a different look, sometimes its straight up black and other times its mixed with other races giving it a rust like appearance. Why does everybody want to devolve into Oonga Boonga politics...

[Bored Peon]

Originally posted by Espurr:

Why does everybody want to devolve into Oonga Boonga politics...

You could easily answer your own question there considering the topic had been dead for over a year and you bumped it by getting yourself involved in it.

The game had been out for NINE YEARS and it had always been called blackface.
Even the mods the hid the error were called "black face fix."
Then all of a sudden out of nowhere in 2024 someone calls it rust face fix.