hi,

so i've been tearing me hair out trying to figure out why my game won't load. Since i use some the 4gb patch, my game doesn't actually crash on startup, it just doesn't show the Continue, Load, Save, etc options for the main menu.

I know that this is a master issue. I removed Nevada Skies ESM from my load order, and i had merged the Nevada Skies ESP into a merge plugin, so i removed that as well. I triple checked every single plugin's file header for the Nevada Skies plugins, I cleaned and Sorted every plugin, i went through every plugin in GECK to make sure there was no error. I opened up Wyre Flash and made sure there was no missing masters. Everything is correct. But I'm still not able to access my Main Menu.

Nevada Skies causes a certain issue with other mods i wanted to test, but somehow i cannot get rid of it!! any ideas?

First I would verify integrity of game cache.

If that didn't work I would install/reinstall oHud http://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/44757/?%C2%A0

Hopefully this will replace what I suspect is a missing xml file.

the only thing i did was remove the esm and bsa's from the data folder, and ofc removed the esp from the merge plugin using the proper script.

even if i add back nevada skies esp and esm and bsa's, the game still doesn't show the main menu. no idea why. I've gone through each individual record that Nevada Skies touched, and i made sure there were no overrides, there was only one. but i just deleted the record in fnvedit to triple make sure, even though at that time there was no problems getting into fnvedit or wyre flash, ie neither of them threw an error for a missing master.

Im guessing you have a mod manager , and you didn't use it to uninstall ... so therefore its install info is jacked up.

I guess you could try poking around in its directory ... dumping various things inside the "Install Info" But you might just need to reinstall the mod manager ( save your mods folder)

Also deleting your ini files found with your saves , then recreating.

i didn't use it to install nevada skies, and this would be the first i've heard of any install info causing problems.

The records are clean, most of Nevada skies is custom records and assets, so there were only 2 records that were overridden, both of which were fixed. There were a few records that were similar, but b/c they added nothing unique from the mod, they should have no effect. Still i cleaned those records as well.

There may be an issue with cleaning and sorting the masters, but i have no idea what that could possibly be. I verified the game cache, but that really wasn't necessary, b/c it just repalced every vanilla file i edited (7 total), which means i have to re-edited them for some plugins to work. I'll check out the .ini files with the saves, but that shouldn't matter either since the game can't even load to that point. but maybe its something.

so i did it dirty by checking the plugins individually, and it is without a doubt the merge plugin that i removed the Nevada Skies .ESP from that's causing the crash at start menu.

That is blowing my mind right now, as i've been through every record with with both nevada skies plugins in fnvedit, and i cannot seem to find any direct conflicts or custom records that would trip the game error. I'll play around with it, maybe just have to re-merge the rest of those plugins in the merge plugin. That will be a first for the plugin manager not cleaning out a particular mod that was merged.