Fallout 4 Mod Help Guide - Infinite Load, Mods Not Loading, Crashing

In this video, kinggath goes over some of the current issues that come up for people trying to use mods with Fallout 4 and how to work around them.

- The biggest issue folks run into in 2020 is that as of an update done to Fallout 4 in late 2019, you have to have a fairly recent build of the game in order to use mods that were saved in the Creation Kit after that date.

Additional issues covered:

- Infinite load screens caused by the script data limit
- Crashing due to excessive scripts and mod updates

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Special Thanks

RuinedWorld for the kinggath animated logo and JebRWocky for giving it sound effects!

[nicholasfox]

The saddest part is we love this game so much as to go to these lengths just to play the damn game.

[topeque]

MY PROBLEM WAS THAT I FORGOT TO TURN MY MODS ON LMFAO

[christianclarkesmerk]

i literally spend more time trying to get the game to load then playing it.

[spycrab]

When ever I try to load a save file, the game crashes as soon as I'm supposed to be able to play. I can make new games fine but loading a game can't be done. I don't even have many mods, little over 10 I think. I need some help please

[injunjoe]

Thank you for this. I've seen several disgruntled gamers commenting mostly due to the conundrum which arises with Sim Settlements on Xbox with memory limitation. Its not your fault. It does explain a lot though. Xbox Fallout 4 is temperamental regardless no matter what load order. It has to be developed on PC and then it takes some work to port over to Xbox. That comes with hiccups. Thank you for explaining to people about this. Keep up the good work. -Injun Joe.

[anarkisgaming]

Random tip on a bug i noticed with a very heavily modded game (with merged patches & compatibility stuff, so it wasn't entirely the mods at fault). Occasionally it start to always crash to desktop on save (auto or manual), basically making the game unplayable. I noticed that if i were going to load my game twice in a row, it would behave and saves would work again.

Not sure what's the logic behind that, but hey, if it can help someone, nice.

[ninjamanu]

Kinggath I loved conqueror that mod was a game changer but MAN it made my game crash more than a drunk driver. It also made it impossible to quit to desktop without task manager. Still recommend the mod because it's like a night and day gameplay overhaul but MAN it made things unstable af

[johnpayne]

Kudos in the highest!! Goes to prove that old posts that are solid endure as during my last FO4 rebuild, I added Sim Settlements for the first time and was stymied by a much smaller load order owing to a massive accumulation of added scripts. Modding thanks and code blessings be upon you, kinggath.

[seductivepotato]

So the solution is wait somewhere? Bruh, this game simply isn't playable. Vanilla is fucked, modded is fucked unless you wAiT aRoUnD. its honestly another pathetic game bethesda won't fix because they made their money.

[commanderfox]

I have a glitch where when you’re customizing your character it doesn’t let you and you’re just stuck

[katnerd]

Just your friendly neighborhood Bethesda nerd popping in to give a quick reminder: Don't use Quicksaves. Always do a hard save. Generally quicksaves in Bethesda games cause a progressive savegame corruption that you don't notice until your game is unplayable.
On PC this is probably very easy as I'm sure there's a mod for PC that simply makes your quicksave hotkey do a hard save. X-Box, I dunno. Games that players have been running for a long time that just stop working or start developing severe issues often have this as the cause of the problems.


Of course there's also the issue that, no matter what you do, after playing the game for a long time your saves will simply die. As Kinggath mentioned. I'm sure he can give you a more detailed explanation of why saves in these games can't hold over "X" amount of accumulated data. Don't really matter tho, all our saves are gonna die someday if we play long enough. And we're gonna play long enough. We, collectively, have a problem, hehe.

[PyroMarshall]

my game locks up when I try to close it both from in a loaded game or just back on the main menu screen any thoughts anyone?

[lukechambers]

All this game does now is either freeze or crash

[Biosynthnut]

I'm on Series X, have the required mods. Anytime I try and go to Starlight drive in, weather fast travel or just walk. It freeze n crashes.
I'm on mid chapter 2.

[ARealFreeAgent]

The LookMenu mod is always unchecking for me on PC.

[geomodelrailroader]

Here is another tip if you are going to run city plans go vanilla if you are running AAF or OSA in Skyrim or Fallout 4. If you want to use the pool mod, doctor mods, or CWSS all you have to do is replace the furnishings in the bathrooms or in the shops with the mods To use the pool mod just plop down some shack foundations and build from there. Once you have a blueprint installed delete it everything is where it is once the transfer is complete.

[gameraiders]

Talk less and get to the point quickly bruh, you bored me to the death.

[NEO_RKX]

All I have are modern fire arm mods, some in game music, realistic sound mod, a small galaxy mod, cheat room ( top of load order ) and some clothing textures, all on Xbox one, game crashes quite a bit, seems like it happens most when I’m walking around Boston streets

[steveiler]

Need help please, my mods will not download, xbox one, I try to download and it will reach a random percent then give the error this operation could not be completed. Small mods will download if it doesn't time out during download but SS2 takes too long to not time out at some point

[TheMarc]

Amazing that this game is still so popular, I only play fallout 4 just love it