Your thoughts on the best way of transfer FNV mods and saves to a new

[theobeau]

After good service of almost 4 years, my Windows XP Quad Core machine is giving up the ghost. That and ME3 have led me to get a new wizz- bang machine with Win 7, SSD, i7 CPU, fancy GPU. The only game I want to transfer to the new machine in the current operational state is FNV as I'm keen to see how pretty it can look with GPU settings turned up to high and as I was in the middle of playing around with a new Courier.

 

I use the unofficially patched FOMM (v0.13.21) to load some 144 mods, mostly direct from Nexus but about 20% have been tweaked with FNVPlugin. I also use FNV Configurator to tweak the game.

 

I was planning to try the the following approach:

 

1) Back up onto a USB drive from the old computer the the save games and all the contents of the \data folder (esps, meshes, textures, etc....); from FOMM back-up the load order; back-up my preferred FNVConfigurator settings and backup the following ini files fallout, fallout_Default, falloutPrefs from both the steam\etc... folder and the my games\falloutNV folder

2) install (retail in my case) FNV and Steam and then re-DL all purchased DLCs

3) run the new vanilla game once (I think I need to do this to allow steam to re-validate the game)

4) install FNV configutator and re-install preferred settings (after adjusting for new GPU!)

5) transfer in their entirety all old saves and the contents of the \data folder to the new computer to their appropriate locations

6) re-install FOMM, patch it to v 0.13.21 and reload the old load order of esms and esps

7) check that the new ini files so that archive invalidation is turned back on

8) Cross my fingers, run the game via FOMM and play with old saves and mods intact!

 

My question to this forum is to ask for advice and comments about whether this approach is the right one to take and to ask for the experiences and advice from forum members who have successfully transferred their game to the new machines.

 

Any advice offered much appreciated

[JimboUK]

You should be able to copy your entire steam folder including mods to the new PC, double click the Steam.exe and let Steam to the rest (registry entries, ect)You really only need to worry about moving your saves.

[theobeau]

@Jim_UK,

 

I started this thread after not being able to find much info on transferring the game to a new PC on this forum but your comments are reassuring.

 

I'll try instead to move the game as a whole to the new PC rather than the piecemeal method earlier.

[theobeau]

Quick update and for those searching for similar threads in the future:

 

Jim_UK's suggestion was sound and also was the solution as listed on the Steam forums:

 

Installed a clean version of Steam,

Did an initial load up of steam on the new machine

Moved the contents of \steamapps from the old to new machine.

Made sure that FNV loaded via steam (for some reason Steam decided to re-DL all the master ESM files from FNV and all the DLCs; all 9GB of them!

Saved the old FOMM load lists, FNV Configurator profiles, copies of the three FNV *ini files, transferred their contents to the new computer,

Tweaked the FNV Configurator profile for the newer PC's improved GPU

Crossed my fingers

Ran FOMM

 

Much to my relief it then proceeded to run my game as per the old machine through quicker and with improved graphics.

 

Hopefully this thread might be of use to someone in the future who has the same problem.

 

Cheers!