Need help, enhanced light and FX doesn't work

[Israel]

Title and using next gen update

[Ignis Imperia]

Got Far Harbor and Automatron? They're said to be required. Also check your INI settings to see if you've got mods allowed and perhaps try running F4SE, there's an update for the next-gen thing on nexus.

[Ruin]

Why do people post threads like this on Steam for mods, as if people are going to be able to magically diagnose the problem and give a howto on how to fix it from a barely literate 6 word description of the problem?

[Ignis Imperia]

Originally posted by Ruin:

Why do people post threads like this on Steam for mods, as if people are going to be able to magically diagnose the problem and give a howto on how to fix it from a barely literate 6 word description of the problem?

Most people don't like joining discord servers or using nexus forums or stuff like that, it's less convenient generally. That being said, in general if someone struggles with anything regarding a mod, I'd suggest joining the ModdingLinked discord server, people there are super helpful and knowledgeable about the mods in general.

[Israel]

Originally posted by Ruin:

Why do people post threads like this on Steam for mods, as if people are going to be able to magically diagnose the problem and give a howto on how to fix it from a barely literate 6 word description of the problem?

Because I didn't find any source of solution in internet, just some people that are "suffering" the same problem.

Originally posted by Ignis Imperia:

Got Far Harbor and Automatron? They're said to be required. Also check your INI settings to see if you've got mods allowed and perhaps try running F4SE, there's an update for the next-gen thing on nexus.

Yes I do.. have some other mods that are working fine, changed load order too

[Ignis Imperia]

Originally posted by Israel:

Originally posted by Ruin:

Why do people post threads like this on Steam for mods, as if people are going to be able to magically diagnose the problem and give a howto on how to fix it from a barely literate 6 word description of the problem?

Because I didn't find any source of solution in internet, just some people that are "suffering" the same problem.

Originally posted by Ignis Imperia:

Got Far Harbor and Automatron? They're said to be required. Also check your INI settings to see if you've got mods allowed and perhaps try running F4SE, there's an update for the next-gen thing on nexus.

Yes I do.. have some other mods that are working fine, changed load order too

You can try putting it all the way at the end of the load order, if that doesn't fix it then maybe it is just currently broken because of the next-gen update.

[sfried]

Are you using a mod manager?

Originally posted by Ignis Imperia:

Originally posted by Israel:

Because I didn't find any source of solution in internet, just some people that are "suffering" the same problem.


Yes I do.. have some other mods that are working fine, changed load order too

You can try putting it all the way at the end of the load order, if that doesn't fix it then maybe it is just currently broken because of the next-gen update.

It's definitely not broken on the next-gen update. I've been using this, ELFX Previsbines, and a couple of other mods that don't use F4SE (which, btw got updated for Next-Gen), and they all worked as intended. Been even using ENB along side it.

[Israel]

Originally posted by sfried:

Are you using a mod manager?

Originally posted by Ignis Imperia:

You can try putting it all the way at the end of the load order, if that doesn't fix it then maybe it is just currently broken because of the next-gen update.

It's definitely not broken on the next-gen update. I've been using this, ELFX Previsbines, and a couple of other mods that don't use F4SE (which, btw got updated for Next-Gen), and they all worked as intended. Been even using ENB along side it.

Using vortex, tried to install manually, checked the inis, all fine :/
I'm already using all up to date.. I just don't want to reinstall haha

[Cooperal]

Have you done archive invalidation? It is mainly needed for texture swaps and this is another example of a mod that needs it.

To save a web search you need to open your Fallout4Custom.ini file in Documents\My Games\Fallout4 and add the following three lines:

[Archive]
bInvalidateOlderFiles=1
sResourceDataDirsFinal=

Since it is such a small detail that you no longer have to think about it once done, it can be quite difficult to figure out that you need to go back and do it if skipped at the initial steps.

I am only asking because although I normally know to do this before I even begin modding Bethesda games and have done for well over a decade at this point so it seems so basic, and yet I did recently get stuck scratching my head for hours and although my situation was kind of unique this turned out to be the problem. It occurred to me that my computer was more reliant on my Onedrive than I was comfortable with (e.g. being filled to capacity by junk like unneeded cloud saves) so I decided to do something about it, and when I purged my documents folder in the most hamfisted way possible I also purged the file containing the archive invalidation edit.

I performed a reinstallation of every mod I had (never a smart thing to do mid-playthrough) and only right after that did the solution click, then suddenly my troubles were over.

I think their may be more automated ways too. I think Vortex and other mod managers can do it directly. Or you might be able to download it as a mod from nexus. My bad if that wasn't the issue.

I am not playing on the next gen update myself so I can only hope that is not the actual cause.

Originally posted by Ruin:

Why do people post threads like this on Steam for mods, as if people are going to be able to magically diagnose the problem and give a howto on how to fix it from a barely literate 6 word description of the problem?

If he was talking about a mod that nobody knew about I would sort of understand where you were coming from, but in this case we are talking about over 1 million unique downloads. Not only that but modding and Bethesda games are practically inseparable on PC, so it is definitely not out of the realm of reason that any old person could wander in here with the correct answer even without experience specific to this mod.

[Israel]

Originally posted by Cooperal:

Have you done archive invalidation? It is mainly needed for texture swaps and this is another example of a mod that needs it.

To save a web search you need to open your Fallout4Custom.ini file in Documents\My Games\Fallout4 and add the following three lines:

[Archive]
bInvalidateOlderFiles=1
sResourceDataDirsFinal=

Since it is such a small detail that you no longer have to think about it once done, it can be quite difficult to figure out that you need to go back and do it if skipped at the initial steps.

I am only asking because although I normally know to do this before I even begin modding Bethesda games and have done for well over a decade at this point so it seems so basic, and yet I did recently get stuck scratching my head for hours and although my situation was kind of unique this turned out to be the problem. It occurred to me that my computer was more reliant on my Onedrive than I was comfortable with (e.g. being filled to capacity by junk like unneeded cloud saves) so I decided to do something about it, and when I purged my documents folder in the most hamfisted way possible I also purged the file containing the archive invalidation edit.

I performed a reinstallation of every mod I had (never a smart thing to do mid-playthrough) and only right after that did the solution click, then suddenly my troubles were over.

I think their may be more automated ways too. I think Vortex and other mod managers can do it directly. Or you might be able to download it as a mod from nexus. My bad if that wasn't the issue.

I am not playing on the next gen update myself so I can only hope that is not the actual cause.

Originally posted by Ruin:

Why do people post threads like this on Steam for mods, as if people are going to be able to magically diagnose the problem and give a howto on how to fix it from a barely literate 6 word description of the problem?

If he was talking about a mod that nobody knew about I would sort of understand where you were coming from, but in this case we are talking about over 1 million unique downloads. Not only that but modding and Bethesda games are practically inseparable on PC, so it is definitely not out of the realm of reason that any old person could wander in here with the correct answer even without experience specific to this mod.

Thanks for the time, i already have those three lines on the .ini
But unfortunely didn't work, perhaps i will need to reinstall everything, what bothers me is the fact that there are people with no problems with ELFX in Next Gen update like @sfried said above.

[Israel]

Yep, just tried after a clean reinstall, installed just ELFX first and nothing.