Aim4DatHead Posted February 12, 2009 Share Posted February 12, 2009 so i used steam to download my game i got fallout 3 as a present over steam from a friend of mine and i just beat it and (please note this is before i applied any mod this about the game its self so thats why i posted here not mod section) started getting into the modding stuff looking around now when i opened the game i noticed my game is not like others its texture files are strange they looked like this http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l187/xxx_lord/fallout3thing2.jpg notice 3 and 2 thats how they were before then i downloaded mod manager and extracted the files from the BSA as its called (i remember resident evil 4 having this you had to extract the files before you could put the modded files in) so i was like eh thats prolly how it is but i never installed any mods i wanted to test it without mods before i tried with mods then this happened when i started the game http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l187/xxx_lord/fallout3thing.jpg so please tell me how i fix this if anyone else has had this problem and know how to fix it edit: i do some more unpacking etc. my folder now looks like this but its still not working right can anyone help me? http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l187/xxx_lord/fallout3thing3.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smosh Posted February 12, 2009 Share Posted February 12, 2009 You do not need to extract any bsa files if you are only going to use other people's mods. Extracting those files is only ever any use if you plan on making your own mods. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aim4DatHead Posted February 12, 2009 Author Share Posted February 12, 2009 i see even though i put the files in there my manual text file editng of the fallout3.ini did not work i used the invalidation exe. thingy and works fine sorry for the time i've wasted Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smosh Posted February 12, 2009 Share Posted February 12, 2009 i see even though i put the files in there my manual text file editng of the fallout3.ini did not work i used the invalidation exe. thingy and works fine sorry for the time i've wasted You sound very confused. binvalidateolderfiles is done in the Fallout.ini which is found MyDocuments/MyGames/Fallout3 ArchiveInvalidation is a txt file for textures that goes in your Fallout 3 main folder but ArchiveInvalidation Invalidated is a program that does this for you (you seem to have found that). Unfortunately your lack of punctuation makes your posts very hard to decipher. If you ever have any other questions about Fallout may I suggest working on that side of things first. Just some friendly tips. I'm glad it's all working now though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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