figured it out FOR EVERYONE WHO HAS TROUBLE INSTALLING THE TEXTURE MODS, because i know your out there 1."My Documents", then "My Games" then "Fallout3" folder. Open the "Fallout.ini" (with notepad program) press ctrl+f and search for : "bInvalidateOlderFiles=0", change the "0" to "1" and save. (dont let "new alternative method" confuse you, do this step by step) 2. install http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=10724 into fallout 3 folder 3. Open up FALLOUT.ini in My Documents\My Games\Fallout 3, find the SArchiveList= line, and add ArchiveInvalidationInvalidated!.bsa before everything else, so it looks something like this: SArchiveList=ArchiveInvalidationInvalidated!.bsa, Fallout - Textures.bsa, Fallout - Meshes.bsa, Fallout - Voices.bsa, Fallout - Sound.bsa, Fallout - MenuVoices.bsa, Fallout - Misc.bsa" 4.put the texture folder into the data folder (this step was crucially skipped in the original install guide" ta da