None of my mods are working?

[Naruto5995]

This has probably been asked hundreds of times but, I originally had a physical copy of the goty edition of Fallout 3, but it stopped working for some reason or another, my mods DID work on there, so instead of buying another disc I decided to buy it on steam, and now no mods that I install using fomm actually work, I have no idea how to fix this? Like I tried installing a reskin for the pipboy, I used fomm, didn't work. So I went into the files for the game, and in data there were no texture folders or anything like that? Please help.

[Overcast73]

This has probably been asked hundreds of times but, I originally had a physical copy of the goty edition of Fallout 3, but it stopped working for some reason or another, my mods DID work on there, so instead of buying another disc I decided to buy it on steam, and now no mods that I install using fomm actually work, I have no idea how to fix this? Like I tried installing a reskin for the pipboy, I used fomm, didn't work. So I went into the files for the game, and in data there were no texture folders or anything like that? Please help.

 

Yeah, most likely - for most mods, you'll need some data under Textures/Meshes and maybe more folder for them to work. Mods don't *have* to put data in those folders, but since most have at least some custom data, most will.

 

In those cases, if you still have the GOTY install, you should be able to safely copy everything under the data folder to the new game install location - unless your game was unstable before, then I would highly suggest just reinstalling the MODS altogether. It's a pain sometimes, but beats crashing a lot if they are goofed up.

 

Ehhh, so the ESP's show up in FOMM?

 

Have you done the 'Archive Invalidation' again on the new install? You can find a mod here on the Nexus that makes that real easy.