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Why do people use steam ? You can remove the steam DRM mechanism either yourself with sufficient assembly knowledge or search for a cracked version. You bought the game, you can use whatever version you want.

I think about ordering the VR version for Fallout 4, although I am more interested in Skyrim VR next year. So I can't directly look into it, however, you need to check how the .esp file format changed compared to Fallout 4 vanilla. There might be just some minor changes in the file header and specific record types related to the game's visuals. If you compare specific Fallout VR .esp file with its vanilla counterpart in a Hex editor, you will likely see that they are mostly identical. So you need to either develop a program to convert a fo4 .esp into a fo4 vr .esp, or and preferred (As there might be data in the new vr .esp file format not present in the vanilla .esp format) adapt FO4Edit to properly parse the new file format. So you have to understand how Fallout 4 VR loads those files when the game starts. You can do so by attaching a debugger like x64dbg to Fallout4 and step through the CPU instructions one by one. You need to find the Fallout4's file parser and you need to adapt FO4Edit in a way which adopts FO4's parser behavior. It's probably easier for you to wait until FO4Edit is updated (if at all).

VRAM and RAM store different kinds of data, they are not interchangeable. VRAM is where your texture files and other local GPU data resides. Every time your game calls "malloc" or (C++) "new", the data (for example a class containing NPC stats) goes into RAM.

I think, from Bethesda's point of view, it would better to monetize TES 5 modding partially and then finally replace modding in TES 6 with an ingame store. People will be angry, but this doesn't hurt the sales much. The largest portion of Skyrim's sales was made up by the PS3 and XBOX360 audience. Until October 2016, above 30 million units of Skyrim have been sold. These people (console players) don't care about modding, they usually never even heart something about modding. Console players would also pay for microtransactions. They are glad to receive any additional content. You can always do some DLL injection with memory manipulation to change some basic stuff (or more extended - after painful months of reversing a game engine, see OBSE or SKSE), it is usually a tedious task to reverse engineer meaningful components of the game logic. Advanced modding in Skyrim is possible, because the engine's core components have been reversed over the course of many years and Bethesda also provided a powerful modding framework for each game. There are games like Rise of the Tomb Raider, which doesn't even allow simple texture replacement (as of now, even after 2 years of work on it, only very basic things can be changed like the color of clothes). If the game file formats are completely unknown (unlike in for example ES or GTA games), reverse engineering is a painful task.

Yes, TES 6 will come with an integrated microtransaction system. The "vocal" Bethesda community usually only refers to the subset players - those who play on PC - and not even nearly all of them. Unfortunately, PC player are just a vocal minority. The far majority plays on consoles and doesn't care. There is no such thing as "enough money", it's a publicly traded company. It is their obligation to the shareholders to increase profits. Bethesda will do whatever necessary to maximize profits. If replacing mods by microtransactions will lead to an increase in revenue, they wont release a easily moddable TES6.

Both run quit well, actually. I never managed to crash my original Skyrim version, even with a large number of mods enabled, proper load order assumed. The only drawback is the 4GiB memory allocation limit.

You can play through Morrowind already, only shadows are not implemented yet. Don't confuse Tamriel Rebuild/ Skywind with OpenMW, it is completely different and open sourced, so everybody can see the progress weekly. In fact, it is in a state where you can play Morrowind multiplayer already, there a videos on youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKhfdOxkafo

I no longer care for SKSE64. Some people from OpenMW are already working on Oblivion and in five years we may have an OpenSkyrim, SKSE will be completely obsolete then.