Haven't touched Fallout 3 since 2009, and I got pretty surprised to see that there's mods being updated and developed yet after five years, so I felt like trying it again, wipe the dust from my old Fallout 3 GOTY and have a good time... Or so was the plan, since three weeks ago @____@ I got too used to let BOSS do the hard work with load orders, but you know there's something seriously wrong when, once used to manage this game, the load order becomes a friggin mess in comparison to recommended LOs. So I try it myself, and... *sigh* I forgot I had to deal with install orders too. Had to delete the whole Steam folder to ensure mint condition on my next tryout... Aaaaand I sheepishly believed that FWE and FOOK2 could work together. They can't. Found this on an offhand comment buried in some old locked topic from two years ago. Thanks for the misleading Top 10 Mods list, PCGamer, making it sound like they all worked together... ù~u;; Delete everything, reinstall everything, study guides again to ensure I didn't made some screwup.... Game still CTDs before Bethesda's logo even come up. FFFFFFFFFFFFF...!!! *about to pull an Egoraptor tantrum* So now I'm on my way to the third retry and I still don't know what I'm doing wrong. I'm seriously losing my temper over this issue. Please help... Q.Q What I want: installing "the works", as in, the usual FWE with DarnUI, WMK and MMM, throw in some graphic shining like Fellout and NMC Performance Pack, because this rig here is a dino that keeps lagging with Skyrim... Also another reason I'm coming back to F3... Maybe some F3R but I'm unsure if that'll screw up the models from Ties That Bind, which was also another BIG reason for me to come back to this game once I saw some Let's Play recently. And after that is done, which I'm pretty sure is where I'm stuck since... *sigh* Q~Q Anyway, after that, install two of my all-time fave mods from back then, Underground Hideout and Coyote N.A.P.A.. That's it. Only this handful of mods. Maybe something else if you guys want to throw in a suggestion, but by the time I wasn't planning to uninstall <=> reinstall that much, so if that alone works I'm happy. What I need: just a few pointers in how-to. I know the groundwork, FOMM, FOSE, some masterlist orders... Also learned how not to trust BOSS for this game, gah >XP What I really need is mostly what should I install first, and some load order help, because three times in a row, right...? Something in there is angry at me and I don't even comprehend the nature of its attack, Ness! Q~Q Ok, end of walltext, sorry for the long read.