OK this is whats happening to my game when i wake up after getting the geck and wake up at raven rock my screen is black . I can see my compos and heath bar i see the dialog and hear it as well i can see my pip boy screen but nothing else . Ive tried getting to the president by just using the compos and made it to the room but cant manage the stairs going up to talk to him .So i have tried using TLC to try and get outside i manged that but its still black i talked to falks . So then tried fast traveling to Arlington library still no change . Then i hear vertibirds coming falks takes care of them . But during the fight some stray bullets hit a car i guess and it blows up. And i can see the explosion barely but i still can see it,. So what i guess has happened its like my brightness has been turned down somehow .

Do any of you have any ideas how i might fix this ? My in game brightness setting it maxed out with no help there. I have gotten through this point in the game before just don't know why i cant not now. Please help i really don't want to scrap this game and if i cant finish the main quest i would think i cant start the other part, i forget the name of the dlc. I'm on the PC playing goty. Any ideas on this ill even be willing to, as soon as i get the geck to use the console to complete the quest so i can still be able to play and see .

But i im not sure what codes would be needed to manage this and to make the game think that i took the FEV and then gave the self destruct code to the president. So the game would go to the next part of the MQ. So if someone could maybe list the codes in the right order to make this happen it would be great.Or if there is a way to work with the brightness somehow. And thank you in advance for thying to help

Hmmm... It sounds like you have another mod active that makes it apply an Image Space Modifier (Things that change the screen, like make it fade to black, white, or be Black and white in Tranq Lane) that is darkening the screen alot. Perhaps you should try playing the game with no mods active and see if it does it then. If so, we can narrow it down to one of the mods you play with.

Well if its a mod then i guess that will be easy to pin point the mod because i only have one installed, lol. i ll give it a try and see if thats it . And thanks for the help.

OK i disabled the one mod i have and still no change. I again was able to walk blind and made it to eden and went throught the dialog, got the fev, told him to go boom and made it out to meet falks. I went through the dialog with falks and exited raven rock and it started to blow. At that point i could see perfectly but only when the explosions were happening . I made a save when i could see but that diddnt work , after reloading that save i still could not see once the explosions stoped.

So it has to be with the game itself. Isnt there any codes to use to make the game run checks on itself. OR a code like ' setgs fmoverunmult ' that i might be able to adjust the brightness more ? Other then just in the game settings section? Or is there a code to reset it to the way its suposeed to be? Like a self diagnostic routen i could have it do on itself ? PLEASE someone help me with this . :banghead:

if you are running no mods, but in running / installing the previous one you were using you did an archive invalidation either by editing the .ini or installing the one from the nexus, reverse that change. that'll make sure that the game won't use anything that tries to alter or change the game files. it's possible when you installed a mod that it installed a file trying to overwrite a setting / object, or as Gunmaster95 suggested, an image space modifier.

double post -_-

I dont know about AII, as that has to do with new textures. If he is having screen issues its got to be something with an ISM.

You are sure you have NO mods active? Have you ever downloaded/installed a mod that replaced Fallout.esm for any reason?

i think i did have to change part of an ini file from a 1 to a 0 i think. The mod was a female body replacer mod if that helps any. it was exnems replacer mod i think his name was on nexus . and i think i also had to use a invalidate option in the FOMM. I think everyone has to do that for mods to work with the game . So i need to switch that ini file back to 1 and make sure the invalidator is not invalidating anymore? if im understanding correctly? i feel like im getting close to fixing this i can only hope. :bowdown:

Ehhh. I don't know. I dont think either of those things will help you fix this issue. The Invalidation thing is Archive Invalidation Invalidated. All that does is allow for you to have mods that replace textures using texture sets. It would not effect your issue at all. And the ini file change. It depends on what line you changed, but I also dont think that would do it at all. I mean, you might as well try both if your out of ideas, but I dont think either will help.

There was a similar type of issue with nVidia video cards, but that was with Oblivion. I have not heard about it for Fallout 'yet'.
You might try the hardware issues forum.

or install the latest drivers for whatever your card is

thing is i have gotten past this point in my first game and was able to see after waking up , thats whats bugging me . Not that i was able to finish the first game as well . So two games now and have'nt finished one yet. And thats the only mod i ever installed, and i deactivated it in the FOMM the box is unchecked the line is no longer green and when you take off armor they have shirt and shorts on . Im wondering if the CSarmor has anything to do with this. Because i said i can see the pip boy screen but not any of the rest of the pip boy .Loading screens are fine when fast traveling i can see them no problem.

I really dont think its a driver isssue because it has worked already once getting past this point. Butt "i am" doing that multiple hat exploit. Im going to try and take off the stealth armor and all the hats and try it again. If there is no change im just going to unInstall the game and stick it on a shelf to collect dust , im tired of messing with this game . And to be honest it could be im just being (bleeped) with again by someone. Im starting to lean to the latter thought as being the cause. But im not about to put another 100+ hours into another game and hope i can finish that game, thats for dam sure. Thanks for the help or at least trying to anyways . :icecream:

In regards to the esm file .Who or what should be listed as the author of the esm file ?

Also remember i said i never got the geck from falks so i could play some of the DLC? well when i took the boat ride i got a msg. that said falks will be waiting at the ninth circle . So when i was done with PL i went there and sure enough he was there and he then gave me the geck. lol. But that diddnt help my problem any and most likely made things worse. :shrug:

OH and just ignore that part about uninstalling and putting the game up on a shelf to collect dust . Im too dam stuburn to give up on something, dammit. It's what I want to do, but I wont let me . lol