Posted March 12, 2024
EDIT: SOLVED, It was my own fault for not making sure my new install of Vortex had LOOT toggled active
I AM LEAVING THE BELOW ONLY UP FOR HISTORICAL REFERENCE
They are supposed to be the same yes?
Alas they are not. I just downloaded a week ago a copy of the GOG game onto my new gaming laptop. Its the only game that laptop has ever seen. (MSI Raider GE78HX 14VIG-600US )
This is what I noticed.
- The T51 Power Armor in its base unmodified form when you find it as T51a, is also rusty. In the steam copy it is the only armor that appears painedt in its base form but in the GOG game it appears like the others unpainted with a rusty texture. I suppose that makes sense and this may well be an intentional update from someone (??). EDIT: FIXED ITSELF WHEN I FIXED MY LOOT ORDER)
- several of my mods do not "hook" into the game and seem to do nothing, and act as placebo files, Impervious Armor, DLC timing and a couple of others.
- The naming of the .ini files is ever so slightly different. I dont have screenshots next to me but I noticed adifference right away
- The GOG copy is less stable even though expected the opposite.
On my desktop with the Steam copy I am almost CTD free and every mod works, from a ~340 mod loadout.
On my laptop with GOG file, I get CTDs every 5-40 minutes, even though my laptop specs are higher than my desktops (desktop: i9 10900 KF, 64Gb DDR4 RAM, 1T SSD for my C drive, RTX 4070; My laptop: i9 14900HX, 64GB DDR5 RAM, late spec 2T SSD as my C drive, RTX 4090 , yes its laptop 4090 so its desktop equivalent is barely a 4080 but still not less than my desktop) and this is also with my mod list culled to only ~ 220 mods.
I wonder if my CTDs are maybe due to the fact that my utilities like UFO4P or Buffout4 may not fully act on the game files, if any of the folders are in any way dfferent?
Summary.
I really believe in the DRM free GOG concept and want to support GOG.
I still have the steam version on my desktop.
I deeply resent Steam for forcing all this bloat on us for accpeting their games (GOG has a similar game management wizard GOG galaxy, but allows you to opt out the GOG galaxy wizard and install the pure file "by hand", which I did).
Tommorrow I hope to be at fast internet and then I will likely uninstall my GOG game (keeping a backup , I expanded my new lapop with an extra 4T SSD) and install the Steam bloatware and Fallout 4 via steam. Sigh
I am not a noob, but I am not a power user either, anyone here at similar problems and found an easy fix?
Maybe an issue with the .ini files?
Please let me know, so I dont have to switch back to Steam, I bought my GOG file so I would have more stable gaming and be protected from Beth and Steam updates.
PS: No issues with load times on the GOG version at least, but my new laptop is faster than my desktop and boht have the high speed physics mod so no surpise there.
PS2: I have less than 24 hrs to decide to either uninstall GOG and reinstall Steam, or to fix GOG because I will head overseas and not have access to my desktop for a long time.
I AM LEAVING THE BELOW ONLY UP FOR HISTORICAL REFERENCE
They are supposed to be the same yes?
Alas they are not. I just downloaded a week ago a copy of the GOG game onto my new gaming laptop. Its the only game that laptop has ever seen. (MSI Raider GE78HX 14VIG-600US )
This is what I noticed.
- The T51 Power Armor in its base unmodified form when you find it as T51a, is also rusty. In the steam copy it is the only armor that appears painedt in its base form but in the GOG game it appears like the others unpainted with a rusty texture. I suppose that makes sense and this may well be an intentional update from someone (??). EDIT: FIXED ITSELF WHEN I FIXED MY LOOT ORDER)
- several of my mods do not "hook" into the game and seem to do nothing, and act as placebo files, Impervious Armor, DLC timing and a couple of others.
- The naming of the .ini files is ever so slightly different. I dont have screenshots next to me but I noticed adifference right away
- The GOG copy is less stable even though expected the opposite.
On my desktop with the Steam copy I am almost CTD free and every mod works, from a ~340 mod loadout.
On my laptop with GOG file, I get CTDs every 5-40 minutes, even though my laptop specs are higher than my desktops (desktop: i9 10900 KF, 64Gb DDR4 RAM, 1T SSD for my C drive, RTX 4070; My laptop: i9 14900HX, 64GB DDR5 RAM, late spec 2T SSD as my C drive, RTX 4090 , yes its laptop 4090 so its desktop equivalent is barely a 4080 but still not less than my desktop) and this is also with my mod list culled to only ~ 220 mods.
I wonder if my CTDs are maybe due to the fact that my utilities like UFO4P or Buffout4 may not fully act on the game files, if any of the folders are in any way dfferent?
Summary.
I really believe in the DRM free GOG concept and want to support GOG.
I still have the steam version on my desktop.
I deeply resent Steam for forcing all this bloat on us for accpeting their games (GOG has a similar game management wizard GOG galaxy, but allows you to opt out the GOG galaxy wizard and install the pure file "by hand", which I did).
Tommorrow I hope to be at fast internet and then I will likely uninstall my GOG game (keeping a backup , I expanded my new lapop with an extra 4T SSD) and install the Steam bloatware and Fallout 4 via steam. Sigh
I am not a noob, but I am not a power user either, anyone here at similar problems and found an easy fix?
Maybe an issue with the .ini files?
Please let me know, so I dont have to switch back to Steam, I bought my GOG file so I would have more stable gaming and be protected from Beth and Steam updates.
PS: No issues with load times on the GOG version at least, but my new laptop is faster than my desktop and boht have the high speed physics mod so no surpise there.
PS2: I have less than 24 hrs to decide to either uninstall GOG and reinstall Steam, or to fix GOG because I will head overseas and not have access to my desktop for a long time.
Post edited March 15, 2024 by palmerwmd3
