How To Enable Fallout 4 Mods

by **[PDE]PaulKersey** Tue Dec 29, 2015 8:09 pm

THE FOLLOWING INSTRUCTIONS ARE GENERALIZED. ALWAYS FOLLOW ANY INSTRUCTIONS THAT MAY BE PROVIDED BY THE MOD AUTHOR.

OVERWRITING GAME FILES IS RISKY AND MAY COMPROMISE THE INTEGRITY OF YOUR GAME INSTALL. DO SO AT YOUR OWN RISK.

USAGE OF GAME MODIFICATIONS MAY RESULT IN SAVEGAME INSTABILITY. ALWAYS KEEP BACK-UPS!

How To Enable Fallout 4 Mods

How to enable modding

Navigate to your Fallout 4 Folder at the following location "Documents/My Games/Fallout 4"
Within this folder will be a number of .ini files, highlight "Fallout4Prefs.ini" and "Fallout4.ini".
Right Click, select Properties and ensure that these are NOT marked as read only.
Open Fallout4Prefs.ini with your favourite text editor (we use Notepad++).
Navigate to the very bottom and you will see the line [Launcher]. Directly underneath this, add the following line:

bEnableFileSelection=1

Save and Close
Open Fallout4Custom.ini with your favourite text editor.

* Note that this file was changed from Fallout4.ini following update 1.2

Add the following lines to your Fallout4Custom.ini

[Archive]
bInvalidateOlderFiles=1
sResourceDataDirsFinal=

Save and close...

You're ready to get modding

More continued info at nexusmods.com