Achilles84

I've been using the fake windowed mode shortcut to launch the game. My game is installed on a separate drive so it isn't installed on C:

Well after trying to find a fix for 4 or 5 days, I THINK I found one, almost 5 minutes and making the above post. My google FU had been failing me. First - Lauch Fallout3 through steam, on the laucher window click the Data option, select all the mods you want. Exit. Then add - "bEnableFileSelection=1" under the [Launcher] heading in C:\Users\Username\Documents\My Games\Fallout3\falloutprefs.ini This seemed to do the trick. It looks like it's been a known fix for Skyrim. Hope that can help someone else.

I am having a similar issue. I have been following FO3 modding tutorials as I just purchased this game and I want to update it as much as possible before playing. I'm on my second try getting through the complete list of mods. I'm more than half way done this time and the same issue has started occuring. I had my plugins all set, the load order adjusted, and after closing NMM by clicking the X or launching the game, the next time NMM is opened, all of my plugins are unchecked. They don't seem to be active in the game either. I can check everything I need in the list. Then after closing and reopening it looks like this. I've checked the plugins.txt in my appdata/local/fallout3 and it is not read only and it is staying empty. I don't want to manually add them as the list of mods is really long. Is this a known issue without a real fix or is there something I can do about it? Any help would be greatly appreciated and allow me to finally experience this game!