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After having helped a lot of users with a lot of related issues in the past weeks and getting tired of repeating the same things over and over and since in 99% of the cases, these kinds of issues happen for the same reasons, I condensed the most common ones and their causes into: [/line]Ten rules to get a mod setup with a lot of workshop & crafting mods to work [/line] [/line][/line]#1: Don't use Working Food Planters and/or older versions of SSEx / Safe SSEx prior to v3.0! Homemaker and / or NX Pro Farming are well-maintained alternatives and don't have the issues that Working Food Planters and older versions of SSEx / Safe SSEx have and cause, including CTD and savegame corruption issues due to being made with XSnip (original SSEx & Working Food Planters) and/or incompatibilities causing missing menus due to being unmaintained and not providing SK patches (applies to all three of them). If you already built a lot of settlement objects with SSEx and want to keep using it, make sure to update it to the latest version (v3.0+), which has been fixed by Ethreon! [/line][/line]#2: Know your mods and understand, what they do and how they do it! Read and follow the descriptions, sticky posts and issue reports of the mods you use, to get information about how to install them, known incompatibilities and patches, how they add their items to the menus and other known issues. And whenever in doubt: ask the mod author! Keep in mind though, that the author of one mod doesn't necessarily know and use all of the mods you use and might not know about certain incompatibilities or load order issues in specific combinations of mods. An example for that is Snap'n Build. Its author recommends to put its .esm file below all other .esm files, which in combination with Homemaker and its Greenhouse and / or Bunker Disabler might lead to a CTD in the workshop, hence why Homemaker.esm has been put below Snap'n Build.esm in the recommended load order example below. [/line][/line]#3: Use the latest versions of Settlement Keywords (SK) and / or Armor and Weapon Keywords Community Resource (AWKCR) and don't allow other mods to overwrite their .esm files with older versions! These two provide a custom "standard" set of category keywords for other mods to use. They are the necessary base for a mod setup with a lot of workshop & crafting mods, at least until a better solution to battle the keyword cap issues has been found. Make sure to get accustomed to the menu structure provided by SK, since some vanilla menus are moved. A common example for that is the Stores menu, which is moved from the main workshop menu to Resources / Stores. So read the sticky post on SK's mod page which shows the complete menu structure provided by SK and browse all menus ingame before you declare something as missing. [/line][/line]#4: Use SK- / AWKCR-versions or -patches for your mods wherever applicable and / or mods, that only use vanilla categories without altering them. When in doubt, refer to rule #2.These are the settlement workshop mods that I use in conjunction with SK. When using the latest and right versions, installing them correctly and making the right choices during installation and applying the correct load order, these will work fine together: [/line][/line]#5: Don't use mods, that add custom categories without providing a patch for SK and try to avoid mods, that still add custom keywords to the game even with their SK patches. Try to convince their authors to provide a vanilla category version or a full SK port. When in doubt, refer to rule #2.Some commonly used mods that are known to cause menu conflicts due to adding custom categories without providing SK patches are: [/line][/line]#6: Don't use additional compatibility patches for the SK versions of two mods as long as it is not explicitly stated, that they are meant for the SK versions as well. With SK versions of two mods, incompatibilies between them in terms of shared menu categories should already be solved. When in doubt, refer to rule #2. [/line][/line]#7: Don't use multiple versions of the same mod / patch at the same time. Self-explanatory. When in doubt, refer to rule #2. [/line][/line]#8: Don't use outdated versions of your mods / patches and don't combine different versions of a mod and its patches. Self-explanatory. When in doubt, refer to rule #2. [/line][/line]#9: Don't use mods that are already part of another mod you use, unless it's explicitly recommended by the mod author in special cases. Common examples for this are Homemaker & Snappable Covenant Walls or Snap'n Build's main mod & one or more of the Snap'n Build single-set mods. While it might work in some cases, in most cases it is at least unnecessary, if not conflicting and leads to unnecessary confusion especially when troubleshooting. When in doubt, refer to rule #2. [/line][/line]#10: Preferrably use NMM or LOOT to generally sort your load order and look for missing master files and then adjust the load order manually according to the example load order originally provided by Gambit77 (author of the excellent mod Armorsmith Extended) and tweaked by me. The main thing here is not the individual mod order, which might differ depending on your individual mod setup and different mod versions, but the overall order sorted by mod type and for example having all workshop mods above all crafting mods! General load order rules, especially regarding mod / patch files having to be placed below their master files, still have to be applied in case they differ from this example. [/line][/line] Following these rules should allow you to see and use all of your mods' objects in the menus. This does however NOT guarantee you to not hit the category keyword cap, due to some mods still adding their custom keywords to the game, even with their SK patches. But it should reduce the jumbling of menus / items to crafting menus only, even when having hit the cap. And since I keep forgetting it and I can't edit the title to say "11 rules", I'll just put it here: There are restricted settlements where you won't have access to all workshop menus! Boston Airport is one of them. Always try it in settlements known to be unrestricted, like Sanctuary for example! [/line][/line] CTD issues The above guide / ruleset does NOT necessarily solve issues apart from menus not showing up and/or objects missing. While some CTD issues might already be solved by following the above rules, there are a lot of other, more probable causes for CTD on startup or on workshop menus, including, but not limited to: your ini files not being set up correctly (anymore)follow this advice to set up your \%userdata%\Documents\My Games\Fallout4\Fallout4Custom.ini and double-check, even if you already made that change earlier, just to make sure it didn't get reverted by Fallout's launcher or an update in the meantime.remove \%installpath%\Fallout 4\data\Fallout4.ini in case you have it, since otherwise it would override your \%userdata%\Documents\My Games\Fallout4\Fallout4Custom.ini [/line][/line]having placed mods / patches above the master file(s) they are referring to or not even having installed / enabled the master file(s) at allcheck and fix your load order. NMM shows these files in orange / red and LOOT will sort them automatically. Make sure to still apply the general mod type order shown in the load order example above afterwards. [/line][/line]not having installed the files in \meshes and subfolders of a mod to \%installpath%\Fallout 4\data correctly (can also happen when using NMM and / or MO2)try copying the folder and its content manually and / or try launching NMM with admin rights and then reinstalling the mods [/line][/line]having a conflicting interface mod or other custom changes to the game besides .esm / .esp filesremove \%installpath%\Fallout 4\data\interface\Workshop.swf in case you have it. Other .swf files might conflict as well.remove any custom .ba2 files like for example \%installpath%\Fallout 4\data\widescreen.ba2 or other non-vanilla ones (the vanilla ones all look like this: Fallout4 - *.ba2). [/line][/line]using corrupted or incompatible textures (check this thread for some examples)when in doubt, just rename the \%installpath%\Fallout 4\data\textures folder. If the CTD does not happen anymore and you see some pink objects or vanilla textures instead, it is a texture issue and you will have to hunt down the according texture(s). [/line][/line]having built stuff far beyond the limits of vanilla game with the help of mods and / or console commands (high amount of objects and / or building outside vanilla borders for example)try it on an older save or a clean new game [/line][/line]suffering from savegame corruption due to using flawed mods on that playthrough beforehand (Working Food Planters and at least the old XSnip-version of SSEx are probable causes for this)try it on a clean new game [/line][/line]suffering from general savegame bloat after playing hundreds of hours on that playthrough, which can even happen in vanilla game without ever using any mods at all, although using mods at least increases the risk for this to happentry it on a clean new game [/line][/line]suffering from game file corruptiontry verifying game cache in Steam and/or reinstalling the game

I know there is a mod for fallout 3 that adds in a raccoon skin cap but I dont know if there is one for new vegas If someone knows a link to a mod or is making one could they send it to me?

I've searched up, down, and all around for a solution for this problem (which has been a known one since 2012), but couldn't find a solution anywhere. I start up the game, all's well and good, FPS is locked at 60, exactly where I want it to be, as to not have every object in a square mile fly off to Sovngarde. Then, the Youtube video playing on my second monitor ends, and I want to go look for a different one. So, I alt+tab, go about my business, and return to the game only to find out the framerate is now unlocked. First of all, I know I can globally cap framerates in Nvidia Control Panel, which I have done, to 144, since I own a monitor that supports it. Second, I've tried multiple configurations of the .ini files and NvidiaCP to try to get things working the way I want them, but there's still always that difference before and after alt+tabbing. If I could just completely turn off Skyrim's frame capping, I can set a cap in NvidiaCP to Adaptive-Halved, effectively capping the framerate at 72 FPS, which would be perfectly acceptable (and does work! ... after alt+tabbing), but before alt+tabbing the game is locked at 30... I know about "iPresentInterval", but this seems to have zero difference on the described issue. If anyone has found a solution to this, I'd appreciate it a crap-ton if you'd share that solution with me.

I stopped playing for months, came back due to all DLC out. I am all freshly installed and modded up and ready to go. HOWEVER I notice going interior to exterior world space is taking 17 to 35 seconds!. I look online and see some people complaining but not real answers ranging from launch to ill recently. I decided to run through my testing and long story short, determined that when I uncapped my frame rate (tested with either nvidia inspector or enbseries cap) i would load very fast. This comes of course with cursor issues but was 4-8 seconds. I tried capping with different tools, and at different intervals 59.9, 60 , 70, 100 (my monitor is a 100 hz Gsync) and all varied a bit some were in 14 seconds area, which was better but still way too long. So I don't know why this is a thing now, but im in a pickle. Capping is causing some load time issues, BUT I still hear mixed things about high FPS in this game. Ive seen people sware by the following: - Over 60 will blow up the sun - Up to 72 is fine but anything over causes X - I am running 120 to 144hz fine with no issues! So I decided to test Vsync, I went into my video card CP and enabled it to use application settings (was off due to gsync) and made sure the Ipresentinterval things were on in the ini files. This capped me at 100 fps. I went in game and everything seemed ok, tried the loading screen spots and boom, faster then capping and just as fast as No cap. So what do I do? Am I one of those that will be fine at 100 fps? is it not so much the Hz or FPS but the interaction of the games vsync? Last thing I tried was the above PLUS a cap but this too resulted in the upper mid range when capped at 60. I dont want to play for X hours just to find that the higher fps/hz will screw me later down the road but 100 hz/fps via just the games vysnc seems to be only fix :(

I know that for poison and elemental resistance, even if the item enchantment says that it is 100%, it is actually 85%. That's why vampires can still get poisoned, despite supposedly have 100% poison resistance. However, what about disease resistance? I know that for vampires and werewolves, 100% resistance means 100% resistance, but what about for item enchantments? For example, if you're not a vampire or werewolf but are wearing Hevnoraak's mask, can you ever get infected by any disease?

Ok So i want to start a new skyrim plythrough and i really want to have a lot of mods. I however keep going over the mod limit of 255 esps And i really want to know the best way to merge mods to have not as many esps so i dont go over the limit but still have a lot of mods enabled Any help would be apreciated and I am very aware of the types of tool such as tes5edit and wryebash but i need to know the main way to merge esps in skyrim so that i can make space on my plugins load order. I use Mod organiser Any help would be sick

I would like a kind modder to add a camo raincoat/poncho to the game. It only makes sense to want protection from the rain, realistically speaking. With the new survival mode coming, it could ACTUALLY protect you from the rain. It should be worn over the armor and hat without having to unequip them. It's hard to be sneaky with my huge white and shiny golden sea captain's hat! Examples: Opened/closed, covers hat and head/no head cover. Personally I would prefer it to go over the hat and be closed. It should end above the boots but under the knees. http://i.imgur.com/jfVbHPn.jpg Military fatigues style/army fatigues style/new urban camo style? Maybe just modification to the actual fatigues to make it appear as though they have a poncho over them instead of creating a new item+slot. http://i.imgur.com/5rT0OH3.jpg Compatibility with backpack mods? Not very important, backpacks can be waterproof. http://i.imgur.com/ta8T7AC.jpg _______________________________________________________________ I would also like it for someone to remove the hard cap on S.P.E.C.I.A.L stats so able able to keep upgrading my stats past level 264 (I'm going for a max level run). Thank you for your time.

Hello. I've recently looked around the forums and the web to find a hat mod for my character in skyrim. What I was looking for was a Knit cap/Bobbie hat/Beanie type of head wear with textures and colors much like the 'Scarves of Skyrim' mod. (and would be great to use both together) It would be very pleasing to the eye, and would go with the winter-ry type of feel for the game. The knitted cap would be a great addition to the rather lacking area of headwear/gear for skyrim modding. One suggestion would be to allow the characters' hair to show through the knitcap/beanie for aesthetic purposes. I hope to see such a mod soon! Cheers

I may not be a cabbie or a golfer, but I REALLY love flat caps. Unfortunately, the only ones offered in vanilla Fallout 4 however are the brownish red News-Boy Cap and worn red press hat that Piper wears. I'm having alot of trouble to find viable reddish-brown clothing that I can match with the same color scheme. So, I would like to request alternate color textures for these hats, something more univeral like black, tan or regular brown colors if anyone's up for the challenge. Thanks, CoffeeholicCielo

I tried retexturing the baseball cap to make it look like Clem's cap. But I'm a programmer, not a designer, hence I messed up. Bad. Just intended as something for lols & giggles. If anyone could work it out, that would be splendid. The texture for Clem's cap is below. (Helpful reminder: You probably should leave out the bits with her hair.)

After many hours of googling I found this script, which adds weight limits to containers: Scriptname zzzContainerWeightCap extends ObjectReference Float Property fMax = 1000.0 Auto Float fItem Float fCurrent Int iCount Bool bFull Event OnItemAdded(Form akBaseItem, int aiItemCount, ObjectReference akItemReference, ObjectReference akSourceContainer) fItem = akBaseItem.GetWeight() iCount = Math.Floor((fMax-fCurrent)/fItem) fCurrent += fItem*aiItemCount If(aiItemCount > iCount) RemoveItem(akBaseItem, (aiItemCount - iCount), False, akSourceContainer) bFull = True EndIf ;Debug.Notification(fCurrent as Int + "/" + fMax as Int + " (Add)") EndEvent Event OnItemRemoved(Form akBaseItem, int aiItemCount, ObjectReference akItemReference, ObjectReference akDestContainer) fItem = akBaseItem.GetWeight() fCurrent -= fItem*aiItemCount ;Debug.Notification(fCurrent as Int + "/" + fMax as Int + " (Remove)") If(bFull) Debug.Notification("The " + GetBaseObject().GetName() + " is full. (Current weight: " + fCurrent as Int + " of " + fMax as Int + ")") bFull = False EndIf EndEvent My knowledge of scripting is very limited, though, so I don't know what this script does. It seems to work pretty good, though, except for arrows. I have tried several weighted arrow mods, but none of them seem to be compatible. I would like to extend this script so that it also add weight to arrows and bolt (even from other mods, when they're using a keyword or something? VendorArrow?) I heard you can add weight to arrows by using a dummy item? How do you do this? Finally I want this script to also work with weighted arrows. So arrows put in the container with this script will have their weight counted properly. Does anyone have any clue on how to do this? Keep in mind that I know almost nothing about scripting. Thanks in advance Kind regards Andre

Please somebody make a reversed cap or back cap or how you call it. I'm trying to make Dusty from MOHW :pinch: http://imgur.com/JPlSBYs

Hi, everyone! First of all, great web site, I love Nexusmods. I have a question: Does this site have a download speed cap? I've been downloading at OK speeds till now, but suddenly I see 10 KB per second max download speed in NexusMods. It only happens with this site, tried downloading from other servers like Nvidia drivers or from goMicrosoft, etc, etc and everything is OK. Is it a cap for users who download mods non-stop? My account has no privileges, it's just a regular one, BTW. Thanks!

I just want to be able to change the color of my newsboy cap, ushanka, suit, slacks, etc. Make it something like you put it in the Armor Workbench, then use certain fruit or plants to dye the article.

So there was this really cool mod a few years ago that added a Mojave Express cap to the game, iirc it placed them near all the mailboxes. As far as I can tell, this mod isn't available anymore, and it even if it was, it didn't have the highest quality texture. So I'm hoping someone will see this and maybe decide to remake it. I believe it was a retextured Enclave Officer Hat. Edit: I am unsure how to delete this, if I even can. Someone did it, and it's great. Look at it's greatness: Mojave Express Hat at Fallout New Vegas - mods and community (nexusmods.com)

I have tried just about everything, I have a VPN on and I have purchased the premium membership and still my downloads are capped at about 1MB/sec.

I'm currently making a bottlecap texture. I put it into nifskope to see it, and a white box appears around it. I tried making the texture background transparent, white, and black. Transparent and white looked the same with the white box. The black just changed the box to black. Any help would be appreciated.

Remove this one. I accidentally made a copy

Is there a way to get spell/magic effects to cause more than magnitude 999.9999 effects? For example, I want a spell effect to drain 4000 stamina per second when InventoryWeight is above 600.

Im currently working on a gameplay overhaul for Skyrim, and ive overhauled the damage model and eveything is fine and dandy, and i thought it would be a good idea to increase blocking effectiveness as well, because, well, it makes sense that blocking would reduce damage a lot more than it does in vanilla. However to my big surprise and frustration, it would seem that there is a cap on damage reduction by blocking. Well, then all i have to do is change that cap, easy peasy right? No that cap is unchangable! The setting that is supposed to edit that cap (fBlockMax) does NOT change ANYTHING and is useless. Why is that so? Its such a small but important thing! Why are you doing this to me???? Life is a lie!!!! ...sorry about that, its been tough not being able to change that important setting. Now im making this post if anyone googles this setting, so that they know that this is a thing. I think the cap is somewhere between 70% and 85%, its hard to know for sure. I would have liked it at 99%. 100% could be game breaking but 99% would have been much better.

Hello, this is my first forum post so I apologize if it is not up to par. I am brand new to modding but I am set on a specific project inspired by METRO 2033 that I need some assistance getting off the ground. I would like to turn bottle caps into a new baseline ammunition (lowest currency, weakest ammo) primarily for Pipe weapons, with optional receivers for pre-war non-energy weapons. Ideally I would like to implement the following: 1) Caps behave like any other ammunition, without requiring the player to craft "cap rounds" at a crafting bench. 2) Caps behave like any other inventory item with weight and ability to store/drop. 3) Caps still function like normal, allowing barter and services (doctors, rooms, tour guides) and rewards despite being "ammo". Is this even possible without relying on legendary effects or converting caps into ammo at a craft station? (if confused, see the linked inspirations below) Since so many great contributions already exist on the Nexus, I want any mods I create to be as compatible as possible. Any compatibility advice concerning this mod or future endeavors would be wonderful, as I would like this to be the first step toward a larger, possibly modular overhaul. Thank you to anyone that reads/contributes to this thread. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Current mods that inspired this idea: Coinshot and Ringshot and Capshot for Shotguns by Cancerous1 (cap ammo inspiration, though this requires crafting) https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/14569 The Legendary Overhaul's "Capitalist" modification (image #3) by Drag0nDr0p (cap ammo inspiration, though this uses a legendary effect) https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/22420?tab=images Weighted Bottle Caps (Can be Dropped) by AlturDrake (weight/item inspiration, not interested in adding settlement scrapping aspect at this time) https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/8681 STASH THOSE CAPS by Greslin (weight/item inspiration) https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/23558 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On METRO 2033 inspiration: I am no expert on the games/novels, but I enjoy the universe and I know there are many fans that also play Fallout. To my understanding, you trade with pre-war MGR (Military Grade Rounds) which can be used to purchase the cheaper alternative dirty rounds (post-war). Unlike Metro's MGR, caps are plentiful in Fallout 4, so caps would be treated like dirty rounds, despite occupying the role of primary currency.

Module Number Capped/Limited Mods/DropdownMenu Problem The Mount and Blade Warband launcher suddenly won't show all of the mods I have installed. Its as if there is suddenly a limit to how many mods can display in the drop down menu. When I scroll down the drop down menu it will not scroll down to the last module in the module folder. Before the problem I could see all of the mods installed from the drop down menu by scrolling with the mouse, all of the mods are properly installed. I know this because I have played and tested them. I have both the Steam and GoG version of MBW installed with their own modes in their own module directory. Both versions have the same problem a limited list of modes in the drop down menu but with a different number of mods. I have the Warband Scripted Enhanced installed in my Steam install. I did a restart of my computer (win10) and that didn't fix it. I cleared the registry of the last mod used. I tried deleting redundant mods with the launcher. Example; deleting out of date versions of a mode while keeping newest one. This didn't fix it. I tried to install a new mod. This didn't fix it. I deleted the rgl_log.txt, didn't fix it. I cleared all mods in the Steam Mod Workshop. All unsubscribe and I don't see any of them in the workshop folder. No fix. Is there a cap to how many modules we can install and use? If so why is the number for the cap different for either the Steam and GoG version? How do I fix this problem so that there is no limit to how many modules/mods I can install?

I've recently started using Texture Pack Combiner and as I'm only using up to the 2k textures I can't understand why I keep maxing out the RAM. I used to run the skyrim 2k texture pack (not tpc) fine with all the full versions. I've not even go all the available TPC mods installed. The worst thing is It shoots up to about 2.5gb on the load screen alone and then gradually rises. without warzones it starts a bit lower but goes up faster and crashes about the same time. So I can only assume that something is 'flooding' it unnecessarily or something. I have warzones, Asis and Automatic variants which I imagine are all adding to the issue but again I had them with the full 2k mod and water etc. and it used to run fine. What I didn't have before was the bids/flocks and stuff but I'd have thought they would have a minimal effect. So basically I'm lost. I've tried disabling warzones and using a save from before I used it and there was a minimal difference (going by running into a warzone and running into an immersive creatures group. Immersive creatures is new as well btw, not sure how demanding that is. OK so I was hoping someone would be able to let me know which mods are the most demanding, if you think this is to be expected with my mods and which mods you'd suggest I try getting rid of and why. My FPS are always around 45+ until it starts to crash so my GPU can handle it I take it. I've included my skyrim performance monitor n boss log. I've included the ini files I was using during the performance monitor run but I'm using the ones from here (http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/36146/?) now and they've done the same as getting rid of Warzones (reduces the ram on load but it still rises to the max). Any help would be great, Thanks.

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I have searched around for something like this for a while but haven't seemed to be able to find anything. Would anyone be able to remove the 85% cap, or at least raise it to 95%? And additional request to go with that would be to make Blunt weapons ignore a percentage of your armor rating while generally doing less damage, but the above one is my main request. If there's a mod that already does one of these that I simply haven't been able to find, please post a link.