#Dansgaming fallout 3 mods how to

It’s a grand Bethesda tradition and it’s not changed, probably by the very nature of the open huge games they build, and certainly default 1.7 Fallout 3 with all the DLC’s would still crash, so modded Fallout 3 is going to crash too. The only time you will need to go online during this process is to get the mods and then again when you run BOSS/FOMM for sorting your load order, so other than those times switch off the virtual sandbox on your security apps, or be prepared to fix the issues that can create!**įallout 3 is going to CTD. I learned this the hard way and had to re-install everything from scratch! **Important: If your antivirus/firewall runs a virtual sandbox mode type of thing, you must switch that off before starting to install the stuff you will need in this modding guide. The other Qt3 (Old and long) Fallout 3 thread is here, and might have handy info too: Quarter To Three Forums – 14 Jun 07 To achieve this we will mostly rely on the excellent FWE mod, and to further increase the ‘toughness’ of the experience our ‘Patch Plugin Load Last’ esp includes a bunch of tweaked FWE stuff to further increase the games hardness.Ĭombined with Marts Mutant Mod, things can get a bit desperate at times. It should play better, aiming for a realism, more survivalist, after the apocalypse harder play style vs the default game without going OTT on mod content that adds zillion of things that might not be truly necessary for the aims of the build. Once we are done it will look something like this:

Basically if you’ve ever played a modded version of Fallout 3 you will be aware of the issues that involves, sometimes game-breaking, so we will aim to avoid any of that.

#Dansgaming fallout 3 mods how to

Why? Well it is a good game made great by some select mods, and we will also learn how to use tools like FO3Edit to change things we don’t like so much or fix problems in our build. THIS IS GOING TO BE A LONG SLOW BURNING TUTORIAL SERIES, NO QUICK FIX!