VelocityPolaris

Abstract: FCO attacks all hoomins in game and turns them into exclamation point monsters plox halp Yup, I've been following Xuul's almighty modding guide, which means I'm running Mod Organizer, LOOT, bethini, the works. Got a beefy Windows 10 PC with an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 graphics thingy. After installing the basic fixes, NVSE, UIO and whatnot, moved onto proper mods like project reality, and everything was just peachy with one or two exceptions. The first is that New Vegas kept crashing mid-cutscene, which I fixed by installing some d3d9 doohickey the internet recommended. The second is when I got to the Fallout Character Overhaul, yep, you guessed it, everyone got infected by the punctuation virus. First clue that something was up was that when double-clicking on the FCO 3.0 download in the mod organizer, instead of opening an external installer like in the vid I was following, it brought me to your standard manual-ok-cancel mod organizer downloading menu. OK didn't open the external installer either, so I instead clicked manual, bringing me to a menu with a bunch of checky boxes, as per standard mod organizer procedure for a normal mod. Some of these checky boxes named options I remember from the normal external installer, like dirty&clean teeth, the afterschool special, and Willow, but some stuff looked to be non-negotiable core files - I think. FOMOD, main, .esp or .esm or something like that. So I guessed the best I could and installed, and then the game loaded with those evil exclamation points. I checked 3rd person view, and even the courier had one. First guess was that I missed a checky box, or checked a checky box too many, so I spent the next couple of hours basically reinstalling with different checky box combinations. Every one of them loaded with those terrible exclamation points. Second guess was that another mod was incompatible with FCO, as everything was exclamation-point-free without it installed. So I unchecked pretty much every mod that wasn't a bugfix or required for FCO, no luck on that front either. As I am not very tech-savvy, the only conclusion I could draw was that the bighorners were getting their revenge on humanity by infecting them with a hallucinogenic grammar-related virus, so I shot all the bighorners in goodsprings as re-revenge. You see, the bighorners don't get infected because they're illiterate. So that leaves me in my current situation. I'm not willing to play without FCO because everyone's face is ugly without it, and I've got no idea how to install it. If anyone can tell me whether any other graphics mods are required to load FCO, maybe Robert's mod or something, or tell me how to run the external installer, or which checky boxes to check in mod organizer manual, or has any other advice to offer, that'd be greaaaat.

I'm not sure if there's a way to officialy close a topic, but having ruined things to the point of needing a clean install due to experimenting with ENB stuff, I have now given up in this particular topic. Thanks for the advice, though.

No luck, unfortunately. I've tried everything on that list, and I'm still seeing bodies of water, foliage, and, most horrifyingly, parts of people's faces all clipping through everything. (using enb of the apocalypse btw) Now, I do have one lead, though I don't have the technical expertise to chase it down. Attempting to find GPU settings, I pulled up a "GeForce Experience" app, went to fallout new vegas, and saw the settings. Now, the settings I needed to change were listed, but I can't actually click and uncheck them - I have to drag a slider between "performance" and "HD". This disables some of the things, like anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering, but with the slider at any setting, "water displacement" seems to remain on. I can't think this is the cause of 100% of transparency problems, since water displacement wouldn't explain transparent bushes and faces, but it's the only lead I've got.

Hullo, I'm a total noob to the mod-installing scene, about as tech-savvy as my grandma, but I apologise in advance for talking like a character who just failed several science checks. Still, both attempts at help and overused meme copypasta are appreciated. Basically, every time I try to install an ENB (Rudy or ENB of the apocalypse are the two I tried), I get that weird glitch where you can see bodies of water, barrels, foliage through rocks, and it's pretty hecking jarring. All other mods work just fine, so I've been going without the ENB all the way up to Freeside, but sometimes you get sick of the frakking grand canyon looking kind of ugly, you know? Having watched some tutorial videos, I am aware that before playing, one should pull up the pre-launch New Vegas menu and disable anti-aliasing, anisotropic filtering, and water displacement. Steam overlay is also off - still getting that problem. By the way, I have a Windows 10-running PC named "The Beefeater", have an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 graphics card, and am running the necessary bugfix and ENB-required mods off of mod manager, though the ENB files are obviously put manually into the New Vegas data, as per instructions. I vaguely suspect "graphics card settings" might be involved somehow here, but I can't figure out how to access or change that stuff. Also, every time the computer powers up and I load New Vegas, an icon for "press alt-z to enable g-force overlay or something like that" shows up, freezing the game loading at the big "Bethesda softworks" screen. Exiting out and loading it again enables playing the game - I don't have a problem with that, but just noting it in case it's a clue for the ENB issue. Anyways, that's all I can think of, hopefully this isn't too vague for a kind soul to help out someone who doesn't quite know how computers work. Let me know if I should gather any code files or whatever to get help, I'm good at fetchquests. Thanks in advance!