My turn: Still Starting at Mitchel's

[c0baltlightning]

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  Window 8, AMD A10-6700 APU, 8g RAM no idea on brand-name


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  NMM 0.55.1, although did manual install


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  Practically what TTW.esm tells me to the letter, for Loading Order. I've dissabled and uninstalled all other mods so they wouldn't conflict.


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  Still starting new game in Mitchel's house, when it should be doing otherwise


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  I have tried the FAQ, and I've tried changing the .ini files in all related locations. However, it seems FALLOUT.ini in the documents/new vegas folder keeps changing itself back. I've put it in read only, took it out of read only, tried a different file type, encoding, and copy-pasting it and FalloutPrefs all around anything Fallout Related.

For Fallout 3, I've the Game of the Year installed, but for New Vegas I installed all DLC options after the base game was purchased. What do now?

[RoyBatty]

It's probably NMM doing it, or if you are not saving as "all file types" it might be saving it with a .txt extension and you aren't seeing it.

 

[Kotov_Chaos]

I don't recommend NMM for any game anymore, and manually installing is a booger. FOMM has always been good and MO (my favorite) is a lot better for Fallout then it used to be, so try running the fomod packages through one of those. MO is a good mix of letting the installer take care of it and still being able to manually control certain aspects. Try deleting 'Fallout_Default.ini (from install directory), Fallout.ini, and FalloutPrefs.ini (both from Documents/My Games or similar). Then run the default launcher once to regenerate those. Then go into properties for THE WHOLE FALLOUT NEW VEGAS INSTALL FOLDER and uncheck read only (Make sure you have permissions). Make the INI changes necessary again and see what comes of it.

 

If you do decide to use MO here's a link to describe how you would make the INI changes in it.

https://taleoftwowastelands.com/content/new-game-starts-nv-when-it-should-be-vault-101