New Installation of Fallout 4

[Fabienne]

Hello, my dears,
I have reinstalled Windows and now want to install Fallout 4. Since it was very modded in the "old" installation, I would like to start over with a clean installation. Is it possible to download a fresh installation in Steam? without save games and without modified entry?

[The Inept European]

If you do a clean install from Steam then yes it will wipe out your mods. It may preserve your save game files.

Also beware if you used a third party mod manager it could be loading mods from other locations on your file system.

[Fabienne]

Originally posted by The Inept European:

If you do a clean install from Steam then yes it will wipe out your mods. It may preserve your save game files.

Also beware if you used a third party mod manager it could be loading mods from other locations on your file system.

Thank you!

[The Inept European]

You are welcome.

Please note - it might preserve your save game files; it might not. If you want to save them, back them up first - locally or to a cloud save.

[Nitemares]

Also note:

Unless you did a full format of your hard drive, you will want to look in "My Documents\My Games\" and see if you have a fallout 4 entry...

IF you do, I strongly recommend you delete it, as this will contain fallout's INI files and settings, Any F4SE settings and scripts, and other such things that will mess up a clean install.

I also recommend you DELETE your old save games too. You admit that they were played with a modded play-through, so those saves will NEVER work again with out those EXACT mods in the EXACT load order the save game array is expecting -which is next to impossible to reproduce.

Sadly, that the price we mod players must pay if we ever want to start over again with a fresh install.

[The Inept European]

^^ good advice.

[Fabienne]

Thanks for the tip. My hard drive is completely reformatted and onedrive is off. There shouldn't be anything left.