Hi, I posted this in the PC support forums, but I figure the Mods section is probably the better place.

It seems my ArchiveInvalidation got messed up royally. If I set bInvalidateOlderFiles to 0, NPCs display properly, but mods like DarnUI don't work (the fonts are there but they're the vanilla size) and if bInvalidateOlderFiles is 1, NPC's don't display properly, but everything else is normal. Can anyone help me? The only changes to my mods that I did when this started was I activated Project Nevada Cyberware and War Never Changes. I deactivated both and deleted every file that was part of the War Never Changes zip, but I just can't figure out what is going on. I grabbed the newest version of the ArchiveInvalidation mod off of the nexus, and it still doesn't fix the problem

What does your sArchiveList look like?

[Archive]
SInvalidationFile=
iRetainFilenameOffsetTable=1
iRetainFilenameStringTable=1
iRetainDirectoryStringTable=1
bCheckRuntimeCollisions=0
bInvalidateOlderFiles=1
bUseArchives=1
SArchiveList=Fallout - AI!.bsa, Fallout - Misc.bsa, Fallout - Meshes.bsa, Fallout - Voices1.bsa, Fallout - Sound.bsa, Fallout - Textures.bsa, Fallout - Textures2.bsa

If I change the SInvalidationFile line to be ="ArchiveInvalidation.txt" it still doesn't work (no such txt file exists so I'm guessing that could be a problem? (but I've read that text file doesn't actually do anything). I've tried re-arranging the SArchiveList, I read that putting the AII.bsa and the 2 meshes bsa at the end will work, but it didn't.

Seriously, I'm freakin out, lol.

I've tried 3 different versions of ArchiveInvalidation - FOMM's and 2 different ones on FNVNexus. I've loaded old, characters, really old characters, and REALLY old characters. I've started new characters. None of em display properly.

The thing that bothers me so much is that I've been playing with several mods for several months, I add 2, stuff gets messed up, and now I can't get stuff back to normal Ever seen a bald Cass? Not pretty.

Try putting the AI!.bsa entry second or third on your sArchiveList

There's a new quirk in the AII setup: you have to insert it after the texture BSAs now, and let the meshes and all the others be before it. Basically, the only ones that should be after AII.bsa is the texture BSAs.

So AI!.bsa has to be after the textures and meshes/voices/misc, and before texture bsas? lol now I'm even more confused...

There have been other posts on this saying that it must be first in the list.

I have found also that FOMM moved MISC.bsa to be second after AI!

I will try: SArchiveList=Fallout - Misc.bsa, Fallout - Textures.bsa, Fallout - Textures2.bsa, Fallout - AI!.bsa, Fallout - Meshes.bsa, Fallout - Voices1.bsa, Fallout - Sound.bsa

As well as: SArchiveList=Fallout - AI!.bsa, Fallout - Textures.bsa, Fallout - Textures2.bsa, Fallout - Meshes.bsa, Fallout - Voices1.bsa, Fallout - Sound.bsa, Fallout - Misc.bsa

Neither of those worked

I tried putting AI.bsa 2nd and 3rd on the list, didn't change anything

Have you tried using fomm Invalidation? Its under the tools tab, in-case you didn't know.

If you are using it and have those problems, have you clicked it off and back on? Sometimes it doesn't update right when you add mods(Rare, but its happened to me once or twice)

edit: Noticed in a later post you said you tried it, I'd suggest clicking it off and back on again, see if it works for you. Also, if you screwed up any files with the editing the ini file, making steam reinstall those might be a good idea. You can re-adjust the downloaded ini file for darns in under a minute, and it'd make sure nothing odd is going on there.

Yeah I tried redoing FOMM's AI. I'll try verifying game cache, see if that helps.

edit: nope

Basically, every NPCs and the PC's heads are too big, is what it looks like. Hats make females bald and males look like the hat (ex. roving trader hat) replaced the top 1/4 of their skull.

Well, I tried both of them. Sometime during all this—I can't say whether this operation had anything to do with it, because I also reinstalled some textures and meshes and activated and reactivated FOOK—but one of my quest mods (Mojave Bounties) and one of my advlt Mods have broken irretrievably.

It looks like I'm going to have to remove and reinstall NVSE, FOOK, Project Nevada and ElectroCity and then add back the other mods.

Any luck? I'm still trying to fix mine, no luck so far.

Is it just NPC's that are messed up? Do you have this line in your .ini?

bLoadFaceGenHeadEGTFiles=1

Yes, and I have that line as the last line of the [General] section. That's where its supposed to go, right?