Well after nine fucking years I'm finally back into modding Fallout on a PC. Haven't touched it since '08 when I was modding Fallout 3. Things have changed or I've forgotten a lot.
Trying to mod New Vegas but I'm running into headaches.
Had to migrate my entire Steam library out of the Program Files (x86) folder to a new C:/Games folder to get away from the Windows shit. But for some reason it won't let me entirely delete the old x86 Steam folder despite deleting the old regedit files. I guess it doesn't matter as Steam is no longer accessing that folder so oh well.
I've downloaded Nexus Mod Manager (it's way more intuitive than it was a decade ago!)
Can anyone tell me what exactly Archive Invalidation does? I downloaded a mod called Archive Invalidation Invalidated but I don't know what it's actually doing. I was told to uncheck the "Read Only" box on the FalloutNV ini file but I've no clue what's being done. Tried to tweak some ini settings but they seemingly get reset every time I play the game. Can't figure it out.
Kinda frustrated. I'm just trying to download some character skin models to make my girl look a little better than the old ghouls the Beth engine makes them out to be, but I'm getting mad texture problems, and this "Archive Invalidation Invalidated" mod is supposed to fix it? But it doesn't seem to be helping.
I've no fucking clue.
On the plus side, Nevada Skies seems to work with no issues.