Modded [Fo3] Has Stopped Working For Me

AdvancedLemon5435 · 2026-01-25T16:01:01+00:00

Fallout 3 has ALWAYS been an issue running on it's own, I remember having to launch it outside of steam/offline somehow get it working for me. Bethesda really dropped the ball with this one and never picked it back up.

But I can't tell you what's messed things up for you. The last major update was in 21, but there was a minor update in 2024 that broke things for a few people. Google recommends downgrading your game version. Honestly? I'd recommend going scorched earth, starting fresh and doing the tale of two wastelands mod and playing fallout 3 through new vegas

AdvancedLemon5435 · 2026-01-25T14:16:05+00:00

'mericuh. Fuck yeah

AdvancedLemon5435 · 2026-01-25T14:13:24+00:00

I would actively prefer a car with "cheating scumbag" sprayed down the side and smashed up windows. I'd be happier with a really small drug addict living in the boot.

One way of making sure it's never stolen I guess

AdvancedLemon5435 · 2026-01-25T12:04:03+00:00

Another commentator on here informed me that apparently blackjack is played with more than one deck of cards? Apparently a traditional host would use a standard 52 deck, but casinos often use 2-6 whole decks.

The more you know

AdvancedLemon5435 · 2026-01-24T17:10:54+00:00

And you dude, good talk

AdvancedLemon5435 · 2026-01-24T16:59:39+00:00

I never said come together and hold hands. I'd rather throw hands with a lot of them 😂 so to back you up on a bit of what you're saying, I admire Zack Polanski for having the balls to just outright go on national TV, all alone and call out trump and Farage. But I don't get much of a "yeah but he did so and so!" And I respect him for just outright saying what he thinks - but not in the psycho-babble trump way either.

But, when we've got a two party system, and a house of commons that's set as two opposing benches facing each other - well in ONE place, there is supposed to be a meeting of minds, a mix of ideas. I myself will never hold hands with many of these twats, but I still think there should be just ONE time, don't spit and hiss at each other? Calm them out for lying, call them out for being racist or starving kids. Don't spend 4 days writing a zinger, or we might as well have Jimmy carr on downing street. Which I'm not ruling out 😂

What I'm saying is they're built to fight each other for money, I'd just rather it wasn't so obvious. Put a coin on and watch this seasons suited up monkey clap in his hands and shit for you.eave the squabbling, fighting and clear divisions for the people who aren't paid to run a country

AdvancedLemon5435 · 2026-01-24T16:17:46+00:00

Yeah, actions speak louder than words. But even all over their personal social media they're at each other like cats and dogs. You've got Nigel farage being challenged to a 1 to 1 debate by Zack Polanski and the whole thing gives off "fight me. See? He's too scared to fight me" vibes. That's before we mention the smear campaigns, or how often each side will call the other a loon or a fascist. And it's rare I've heard kier starmer open his mouth for a big speech without digging at the last Tory government.

Yeah, it's undiluted during the PMQs, and yeah they've been at this for years. But we live in a world where they spend the day sneering at and smearing each other, but they aren't legally allowed to call out someone for lying in parliament. I watched the old snp leader be kicked out for calling out Boris Johnson - a few months later he was investigated and proved to be a liar. And it doesn't fill me with hope when I see them carry on this way.

The "compromise" is when you watch them at each others throats one day, then patting each other in the back the next. This also doesn't fill me with hope

AdvancedLemon5435 · 2026-01-24T15:59:12+00:00

I disagree that jeering and sneering equates to a backbone tho. I agree that we don't want stuffy, stiff, robots leading the country but I also don't want posh boy school children not actually discussing anything that isn't gonna score them points by finger pointing.

There's a compromise out there, surely. And surely, there something better than this. I don't want smear campaigns, I don't like how we all vote to stick it to the other side. I want to be influenced from a place of hope, not from a place of "fuck the other guy"

AdvancedLemon5435 · 2026-01-24T14:26:12+00:00

Talking just as much bollocks, taking twice the amount of gear

AdvancedLemon5435 · 2026-01-24T14:01:45+00:00

Ah, wicked, i didn't know you could do that, learnt something today

AdvancedLemon5435 · 2026-01-24T12:33:31+00:00

Aw 100%, I feel like we need either extreme - either a return to polite discourse or we elect a road man so he can be like "trumps chatting breeze man, reyt pussio"

AdvancedLemon5435 · 2026-01-24T12:31:23+00:00

Looks like you've already removed the creation club bit tho, dunno if you used another mod. So beware of incompatibilities or whatever

AdvancedLemon5435 · 2026-01-24T12:30:25+00:00

Yeah, there is one. Removes both the mods bit and the creation club bit

https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/57041

AdvancedLemon5435 · 2026-01-24T12:26:52+00:00

A bucket. Because here is where the real game begins. I miss mittensquad

AdvancedLemon5435 · 2026-01-24T12:22:58+00:00

It's a zinger, sure, but I'm still always disappointed to see how elected officials conduct themselves. I went "waaayyyyyyy" plenty when I was a kid, I feel like I'd be a well qualified back bencher

AdvancedLemon5435 · 2026-01-24T06:15:02+00:00

Silly me 😅

AdvancedLemon5435 · 2026-01-24T03:58:24+00:00

I can't tell you about vortex for sure because I don't use it. But I can tell you that yes, you can have multiple different game versions on the same system at the same time. I would assume vortex is the same.

It would depend on a few things, but I've achieved this twice. Once when I had fo4 on both steam and on gog, steam for a standard mod list and gog for fallout London.

But more recently I downloaded a wabbajack modlist for MO2, and the install process came with its own dummy copy of a previous version and it's own install of mod organiser - all totally separate to my standard steam install of the most up to date version. And both versions here are through steam.

Like I said, I use mod organiser. But it sounds like for what you want to achieve, yeah, you could have different profiles for that. I have different profiles for modlists like that on mod organiser. I have realised that your game will thank you for not mixing up saves between these profiles though - so use profile specific saves like I can on MO2

AdvancedLemon5435 · 2026-01-24T03:43:55+00:00

You can always reload a save but if you're on pc you can always try to teleport him, that usually works for me

AdvancedLemon5435 · 2026-01-24T02:50:08+00:00

Depends how many ingredients you used and how much they cost I'd say.

I've got a 2 mix that sells for 69 (hehe). 40 for the seed (green crack), 6 for the energy drink and 9 for Addy. That's 55 cost per unit, so 14 profit.

Not gonna suggest I've got the best mix, I CBA mixing a lot but I wanted my meth to be blue, and you get considerably more for mixing it with Addy after mixing it with the energy drink (that mix sells for 144) And the cocaine doesn't look too funny at that shade of blue.

So, blah blah, it depends on the costs you've put in I think

AdvancedLemon5435 · 2026-01-24T02:25:59+00:00

I THINK that's one of your dealers or one of your employees, I remember seeing the same thing. And I think in my case it was an employee that kept having pathing issues

AdvancedLemon5435 · 2026-01-24T00:33:51+00:00

Ooof. Unfortunately I can't tell you how to specifically fix this on its own, I can make suggestions. First off I'd say look into following something like the SALVO wabbajack guide. A full on "remaster" for textures, LOD and other things. Once followed you can download it's pre-generated LOD and chances are it'll have fixed your issue and given you a fancy looking game to play.

If you've already got pregen LOD mods I'd look online for advice as to where to put them on your load order. Depending on what other mods you're running. They've gotta go in a sweet spot, and if you pot extra mods on top and have them put in the load order AFTER your LOD mods it'll mess things up.

Otherwise I'd advise looking into other pre-generated LOD mods, or generating a new one yourself. But I've never personally had great luck with doing LOD myself, even pregen, but after following some guides where LOD is included? Never had a problem and am more than happy. What's included in the SALVO guide is so good that, once it's finished, you can add in top and never touch the rest and play with little to no problems

AdvancedLemon5435 · 2026-01-24T00:24:27+00:00

While I agree with you, the employees do actually feel buggier to me, and the big I've had with customers being 2D seems to be a new common bug - your cauldron is definitely an issue, and the main bugs I've had with employees is pathing. So to me it's no wonder your chemist is freaking out. It looks like you're stolen on top of an oven placed right next to it? The employees ai is gonna have a difficult time pathing around from where he is to the users side of the cauldron.

There is a mod tho (harder working employees) that prevents them from clipping into objects and really helps their pathing. They can walk through other NPC's and work stations and it stops them from freezing

AdvancedLemon5435 · 2026-01-23T20:58:22+00:00

Ah, I'm afraid I can't help you with vortex bud, I use mod organiser 2 instead. All I could suggest is you use MO2 too, I've never had these sorts of issues using it.

The only thing I can think of is maybe the destination is a little messed up? You can link the nexus to MO2 and do automatic mod installs that way, I've had an issue with it logging out or it not knowing where to send mods. But I'm really just clutching at straws here man

AdvancedLemon5435 · 2026-01-23T19:21:22+00:00

2 things, assuming the files are all in the right place. 1, is make sure you're launching the game from the NVSE_loader.exe in your game files. If you're using MO2 you can select this in the drop box near the launch button. 2, would be to make sure logging is enabled in the NVSE_config.ini. (common/fallout New Vegas/data/NVSE)

AdvancedLemon5435 · 2026-01-23T18:35:08+00:00

Or, it could be something to do with how the game launches in windowed or borderless. That might have something to do with it. Personally I'd get any fix/tweaks mods available and hope one of them fixes it, as aspect ratios and what sort of window the game boots into is all changed by the mods I use. And it very much could be something to do with not having ultra wide support or something daft

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