Switching Pc Problems

[diamonddusk6]

Hey there!

So recently I bought an Alienware Pc to replace cheap laptop and I have encountered a problem. I've been able to move The actual Fallout New Vegas game over and my save but when I tried moving my mods across my home server to the new pc something went wrong. I loaded my game and my last save and was confused when all of the mods from my old pc where technically working since I could see all the guns and the clothes and the pip boy readius but all of the textures were a flickering mess of multiple textures. I turned all my mods of and loaded it up again and saved since I heard that might fix it. Now the textures are still messed up and when I go to look at my pip-boy and I stare at my bare wrist when the vanilla one is on or I just stare at my empty hand when I activate readius. I have no clue how to fix this and I really don't want to start everything over again since I have spent a fair amount of time on this character. Hopefully there's a fix because I don't want to lose this character.

[bben46]

First run the steam validate game cache to make sure the vanilla game is installed properly and is up to date.

 

Then, before adding any mods or any add on programs such as FONV - NONE! - be sure to start the game from the steam launcher to allow it to create a new ini file for your new hardware - Just start a new game, and once it starts, immediately make a save - once that is done, the new ini will be there for your saved games.

 

If you use a custom ini - rename it so you will have a record of your custom changes. DO NOT just copy it over as some of the entries are hardware dependent. After you get the game working - go through and make the changes to you new ini manually - DO NOT copy the old ini.

 

Now you can copy over the saved games and mods - DO NOT just copy over the data folder - as that will overwrite some of the vanilla files.

Here is a quick way

rename the vanilla data folder to something else ( vanilla-data works)

Copy the old data folder into the game folder

now go into the vanilla-data, select all - and copy into the new data folder that you just made - be sure to select replace or overwrite

This will overwrite all of the old vanilla files from your old computer with the new ones from your new setup.

 

Note that if you use NMM, or any other mod manager the procedure for getting your mods moved WILL BE DIFFERENT!! Using this procedure the mods will not be registered in NMM and your Mods list will be empty. Similar things will happen with other mod managers.

 

As there are several different mod managers, and the procedure will be different for each I won't go into that here.

[OutandBack]

Hi bben42,

I have a similar situation. I use Steam and the NMM for all my games.

I have been playing on an old laptop. I just bought a new gaming PC and want to transfer or move or start from scratch I don't know which would be easier.

 

Do I jusr sign out of NMM on the old laptop and Load/sign in on the new PC to get my mods on to the new system?

 

thank you for any help you can offer.