How to activate & use mods and random stuff you may want to know

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For newbies,

 

Step by step instructions to activating mods,

 

1. Download your fallout 3 mod on Fallout Nexus, the best place for mods.

 

2. Save it somewhere. Example: the desktop.

 

3. Extract you mod, u need winRAR for the one i'm explaining by the way, by right clicking on the icon and clicking again on the 'extract here'

 

4. Enter your fallout 3 data file. Instruc: go to Local disk (E:), Click on Progam Files, Click on Bethesda Softworks, Click on Data.

 

5. Cut, or copy, you mod files that you extracted, and paste it in your fallout Data.

 

6. Enjoy your mod!

 

Also, for some mods you may need Archive invalidation, so here is instructions to activating that:

 

1. First you will have to located ‘Fallout_default’, which is located in the Fallout 3 folder (not the data folder, if you are in the data folder, go back one and your there) Easier way, copy this to the location bar on the top: C:Program FilesBethesda SoftworksFallout3

2. Locate in the text ‘bInvalidateOlderFiles=0’ and switch the 0 into a 1, then save.

3. If you can’t find it, or are having problems, download Archive Invalidation or use FOMM’s built in validator. Links underneath:

Archive Invalidation: http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=944

FOMM: http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=640

 

Recommended mods by me:

1. CRI Squad: http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=5717

2. Enclave Commander Military: http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=14395

3. CRI HQ: http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=12281

4. Enclave Commander Warhammer 40k Edition (Messes with Enclave Commander Military!) : http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=5579

 

Credits:

CRI Squad: tumbajamba

CRI HQ: DivineHeresy

Enclave Commander Military: zhangweizheng3

Enclave Commander Warhammer 40k: (Producer) Coffagenesis

And me I guess: Lonewanderer

 

Random Stuff you may want to know:

1. Opening the console (tilde: ~ or on other keyboards, )

2. Using the console: for a complete guide, go to The Vault Fallout Wiki, its safe: http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Fallout_Wiki

3. You have to peel the cover before you can eat an orange (LOL!)

 

[falloutstephen]

When u download a mod, do u actually put the whole folder into the Data folder (which I have done) or do you put the files of the mod into the relevant folders, eg textures etc. Hope that makes sense?