HOW-TO Chain Load - Fallout4 Launcher - F4SE and Fallout4.exe

Very important, if you see the game trying to update STOP it! first rename your original Fallout4 exe back to Fallout4.exe or the steam updater will get confused causing you to have to reinstall Fallout. Bummer.

How to "Chain Load" (ANY) Fallout 4 Launcher, F4SE, and Fallout4.exe

i.e. Make stock Fallout Launcher Load F4SE AND FO4

So... I was curious how I might be able to chain load... (Meaning: get all 3 programs to run each other in a row - "in a chain") ... F4SE while using the built in Fallout 4 Launcher so that it would always load F4SE AND Fallout 4...

This also works when using Steam to start the game or any 3rd party launcher

After reaching out to the developer, I learned that this feature (although undocumented - to my knowledge at the time of this write up) was, and has been included since the first release of the Program! So I figured that I would share this little GEM with all my friends here on the Nexus. You guys enjoy!

Step #1

Download & Install F4SE.ini 

(B) Manual Install

-Download the "Chain Loader" file -Place the "F4SE.ini" in your FO4 install directory --> ....\Fallout4\Data\F4SE\F4SE.ini

Step #2   VERY  IMPORTANT -Manually Rename  Fallout4.exe  to  Fallout4_.exe

Step #3 MAKE ABSOLUTELY SURE YOU DID STEP 2 FIRST! -Place modified F4SE loader (named Fallout4.exe it has no icon) in you Fallout 4 install folder - it's NAMED "FALLOUT4. EXE"

Step #4 (nVidia cards only) Use nVidia Profile inspector to carefully add Fallout4_.exe to the Fallout 4 driver profile for optimal performance!... (there are very advance internal driver settings and SLI profiles. You will more then likely make things run worse if you change the values with out knowing what you are doing) Latest Build - Offical Release[/url.

Find the Fallout 4 profile, then click "Add application to current profile". Now select F