ItchyAlgae

I had everything running well until I installed Darn's UI. (I've got the stutter remover installed and configured already). The install went fine - game crashed once during a menu, but otherwise it was ok. But now suddenly I'm getting a lot of stuttering in-game. Since I had to overwrite Fallout.ini when installing Darn's UI, I made a copy of the original beforehand. If I want to uninstall DUI and restore the Vanilla Fallout.ini, is it just a matter of ditching the modified file and moving in the copy of the original?

Solved. I'd had Sarem Hair Pack installed but also Project Beauty. PB includes Sarem already, turns out, so disabling Sarem got the hair textures working. Thanks again M48A5 and Rampage for pointing me in the right direction to get it all working.

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Game starts up fine, but when I get to the Hair section of the Character Creation, I get this: http://s20.postimg.org/j2cy40xul/Fallout3_2012_12_28_22_58_49_26.png Looks like a missing mesh or texture. I made sure there's no mesh folder inside another mesh folder, but there wasn't. I disabled Project Beauty and still got the screen. Everything installed over fine this morning when I started from scratch. Any guesses? Edit - Here are a few pictures of all the hair meshes found in Data/Meshes/Characters/Hair. The Character Creation was fine up until Hair.

Not quite what I meant, but I figured in the time it'd take me to keep jawing about it I could just do a clean install, so that's what I did. It's all set up according to that link, though since it was last updated Steam removed the need for Fallout 3 users to have Games for Windows Live installed, so anybody reading this from here on out should ignore that part.

Ahhh, bingo. Uncheck, deactivate, and delete and it starts up just fine. Much thanks. I see recommendations to run either FOIP (which is stated by modders to interfere with several of my mods) or Blackened when combining these particular mods. They've got a FWE - EVE patch, but no FWE - EVE - Project Beauty patch. Should I bother installing Blackened FWE - EVE? Also, my PC is multi-core, but I just went through the install normally, as in not in step with the link you provided. Since it's working right now, should I just leave it as is (at least unless or until I run into a problem)? Or is this something I should nip in the bud and do now? And if I do uninstall/reinstall FO3 into the Games folder, will I have to reload all my mods?

I really didn't want to be the guy to post a tired topic, much less as a first post, so much appreciation for those who stick this out with me. I've read the readme files, searched Google, searched the forum, watched tutorials and YouTube vids and I'm coming up empty. Whether I try to launch via FOMM or Steam or directly from FOSE I get the same crash as the game tries to load - "Fallout 3 stopped working." I'm running Windows 7/64-bit. Fallout 3 GOTY edition from Steam. FOMM and Fallout 3 are both installed under Program Files. I installed all my mods via FOMM and had BOSS auto-sort everything. FOSE is located in the correct spot, inside the Fallout 3 GOTY folder and not in Data. A few questions, in addition to my general "Help! Get me out of this!" plea: If I uninstall FOMM and reinstall it on the C: outside Program Files, will I lose all my mods and have to start over? Should/can I simply move the Fallout 3 GOTY folder out of Program Files/Steam and into C:\Games? For anyone who wants to see my load order as set by BOSS, look below. Note: BOSS didn't recognize FO3 WRP and Sydney PB Appearance (naturally, since I made that last one according to the Sydney Follower mod's instructions), so it put them at the bottom. I've tried putting Sydney PB Appearance above the Sydney Load Order Fix as well, but that did nothing. Fallout 3.esm Anchorage.esm ThePitt.esm BrokenSteel.esm PointLookout.esm Zeta.esm CRAFT.esm CALIBR.esm Project Beauty.esm EVE.esm FO3 Wanderers Edition - Main File.esp FO3 Wanderers Edition - Alternate Travel.esp Sydney Follower.esp Project Beauty - Broken Steel.esp Project Beauty - Point Lookout.esp DynamicCrosshair.esp eyes_hairpack_en.esp (Saram Hair) CASM.esp GNR Enhanced.esp megalight.esp FO3 Wanderers Edition - Main File.esp FO3 Wanderers Edition - DLC Anchorage.esp FO3 Wanderers Edition - DLC The Pitt.esp FO3 Wanderers Edition - DLC Broken Steel.esp FO3 Wanderers Edition - DLC Point Lookout.esp FO3 Wanderers Edition - DLC Mothership Zeta.esp FO3 Wanderers Edition - Followers Enhanced (Broken Steel).esp Sydney Follower - Recruitment Fix.esp Sydney Follower - FWE Dialog Fix.esp Fellout-Full.esp Fellout-Anchorage.esp Fellout-BrokenSteel.eso Fellout-PointLookout.esp Sydney Follower - Load Order Fix.esp Blackened FWE + MMM + EVE + Project Beauty.esp FO3-WRP.esp Sydney PB Appearance.esp (copied over Sydney's face from Project Beauty and custom hair from Saram Hair to the Sydney's default appearance)