#INSTALL FALLOUT 3 MODS INSTALL#
#INSTALL FALLOUT 3 MODS MOD#
#INSTALL FALLOUT 3 MODS MODS#

There are still mods coming out and more are still in development for Fallout 3, a game from 2008! The Nexus section for Fallout 3 contains around 14.000 mods. That means, the game has an enormous modding community. Because even through the vanilla game is excellent, it’s a Bethesda game. If you haven’t played it yet and love RPG’s, get it here. It’s one of those game that I regular visit, each time with over 150 hours of playtime. You will get sucked into a wonderful universe and it will never let you go. Just walking around the destruction of mankind, seeing the daily struggles of the survivors, feeling all the attention to the details. Who hasn’t played this masterpiece of a RPG? The Capital Wastelands always had and always will have a certain magical atmosphere for me. This question is intended to be 'what are the general steps for installing mods with the GOG version of Fallout 3', not 'how do I fix my specific setup'.Fallout 3. And I might want to change up my mods in the future anyways. In addition to being really really really long, I thought they would be too specific to help anyone else. I intentionally did not list the exact steps I took.

How can I get mods working with the GOG version of Fallout 3? I'm willing to uninstall everything and start from scratch at this point if that would help.

#INSTALL FALLOUT 3 MODS INSTALL#

After my (failed) attempts to install mods, when I checked the game options, the HUD color and other options were always set back to their default values. I did that, and changed a few game options during that first game, like HUD color. Multiple guides said it was important to start the game once before doing any modding, so that a base ini file would be present. I did notice one other weird thing that might or might not be relevant. The actual mods I was trying to use tended to be from the group of all-time most popular on Nexus Mods, so they should be relatively stable and trustworthy. It's also very possible that some of the changes I made for one guide inadvertently caused problems for my attempts with later guides. Also, some of the guides were very old and included steps for dealing with obsolete features like Games for Windows LIVE or UAC, which did not seem to apply to me.

#INSTALL FALLOUT 3 MODS MOD#

At this point, I've tried most combinations of Fallout Mod Manager, Nexus Mod Manager, Fallout Script Extender and LOOT. For example, some said to use Fallout Mod Manager and not bother with Nexus Mod Manager, while others said to use Nexus Mod Manager and not even install Fallout Mod Manager. To make matters worse, most of the guides I found contradicted each other or even themselves. Any time the guides referenced a Steam-based file path, I changed it to my best guess at the equivalent path on my machine, but otherwise I followed the instructions as stated.

All of the guides I could find were for the Steam version of the game. I never see any error messages or crashes, the game just starts up with no mods present no matter what I do. I have tried to follow numerous online guides, but none of them helped. It might be important to know that I got it from GOG, not Steam. I want to use mods with it, but can't get a single one to work. I just performed a clean install of Fallout 3 GOTY edition (version 1.7.0.3) on Win10.

Install fallout 3 mods