Gravdigr76 Posted January 10, 2019 Share Posted January 10, 2019 (edited) Hello everyone. I guess I'll tell a bit about me. I'm 42. I started PC gaming back in the days of half-life pre steam. I got my first pc and immediately starting modding it designing a homebrew liquid cooler to OC my celeron 300A to 450Mhz. After that I was hooked and the rest is history. After my divorce I had a major career change and became a truck driver. This affected my gaming drastically as I could not bring a desktop PC on the truck with me. I switched to gaming laptops then eventually to consoles for ease of use on a truck with no desk. I loved Fallout 4 on the PS4 and played it out before they ever enabled mods on the console. Now years later I'm driving and passing the time listening to game videos on youtube and I come across a youtuber named Oxhorn with a staggering amount of fallout 4 videos and amazing coverage and narration on the game. He is also in depth into mods and got me so interested I purchased the complete Fallout 4 pack for my laptop. Now I'm going to be learning everything I can about this modding thing as the stuff he showed was amazing. I'm actually looking at upgrading my aging laptop just to see the pretty stuff as well. So that's where I'm at now. My next task is to search up some information on if vortex plays well with the in game mod manager as I have already used that extensively before learning about the nexus. But I know this isn't the place for questions so I'm off to search for some answers. "And so it begins"~Kosh Edited January 10, 2019 by Gravdigr76 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soupdragon1234 Posted January 10, 2019 Share Posted January 10, 2019 "I started PC gaming back in the days of half-life pre steam." Ah a new boy. "My next task is to search up some information on if vortex plays well with the in game mod manager as I have already used that extensively before learning about the nexus." Should be fine they're quite separate though the ingame one will dump files direct in your Data folder whereas Vortex creates shortcuts which is the superior option. I'll let someone else explain the intricacies of that one though. It'll still manage your load order the same though. And :thumbsup: for referencing B5. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gravdigr76 Posted January 10, 2019 Author Share Posted January 10, 2019 "I started PC gaming back in the days of half-life pre steam." Ah a new boy. "My next task is to search up some information on if vortex plays well with the in game mod manager as I have already used that extensively before learning about the nexus." Should be fine they're quite separate though the ingame one will dump files direct in your Data folder whereas Vortex creates shortcuts which is the superior option. I'll let someone else explain the intricacies of that one though. It'll still manage your load order the same though. And :thumbsup: for referencing B5.well, technically I started pc gaming with a timex sinclair 1000 with the 64KB extended ram pack and BASIC coded games on cassette tapes. But I consider real PC gaming to be after the advent of the 3d graphic card. after some extensive reading and youtubing last night I'm just going to uninstall all the in game mods. Will be cleaner and easier to manage with everything in one place. Back in the early days of Everquest I had 5 toons all identical looking named Zathris, Zathres, Zathrys, Zathras, and Zathros =o) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeyYou Posted January 10, 2019 Share Posted January 10, 2019 "I started PC gaming back in the days of half-life pre steam." Ah a new boy. "My next task is to search up some information on if vortex plays well with the in game mod manager as I have already used that extensively before learning about the nexus." Should be fine they're quite separate though the ingame one will dump files direct in your Data folder whereas Vortex creates shortcuts which is the superior option. I'll let someone else explain the intricacies of that one though. It'll still manage your load order the same though. And :thumbsup: for referencing B5.well, technically I started pc gaming with a timex sinclair 1000 with the 64KB extended ram pack and BASIC coded games on cassette tapes. But I consider real PC gaming to be after the advent of the 3d graphic card. after some extensive reading and youtubing last night I'm just going to uninstall all the in game mods. Will be cleaner and easier to manage with everything in one place. Back in the early days of Everquest I had 5 toons all identical looking named Zathris, Zathres, Zathrys, Zathras, and Zathros =o) Babylon 5 fan? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deleted54170User Posted January 10, 2019 Share Posted January 10, 2019 I envy you a little bit. You're going to be starting with Vortex. TESCK and the manual install methods are still my favorite Method of Madness; gained from several Morrowind modders sites like; TESNexus. Presently I think of the Nexusmods amiably as, the "House of Mods." Because this present day mod's website from... Blacktreegaming ...name changed style and website name a few times... I suddenly am reminded of the book, "The House of 7 Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne about a house in Salem, Mass built in 1668." And a quote he wrote, "Easy reading is damn hard writing." Enjoy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gravdigr76 Posted January 10, 2019 Author Share Posted January 10, 2019 I envy you a little bit. You're going to be starting with Vortex. TESCK and the manual install methods are still my favorite Method of Madness; gained from several Morrowind modders sites like; TESNexus. Presently I think of the Nexusmods amiably as, the "House of Mods." Because this present day mod's website from... Blacktreegaming ...name changed style and website name a few times... I suddenly am reminded of the book, "The House of 7 Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne about a house in Salem, Mass built in 1668." And a quote he wrote, "Easy reading is damn hard writing." Enjoy! Vortex is very nice. But I found a lot of mods that still require manual install so I still had to learn that. I'm currently in the process of optimizing all my textures so fallout 4 will run better on my aging laptop (i5 6200, geforce 940MX 2GB, 16GB ram). The page said instead of replacing all the textures in the game file I can load them as a mod file through vortex. But it didn't say how so I gotta figure that out too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deleted54170User Posted January 11, 2019 Share Posted January 11, 2019 I finished putting together a mod esp that I built for a game in 2005. Making all the folders personal attached to the esp is the same as assigning textures to a folder which reads them like it is part of the Textures Folder. The creation kit way may be the long way around to getting textures read for the game via another mod, but it works and I have a mod I keep tweaking to see if I can make it stable enough to share. Did you figure out how to get Vortex to load your textures without creating a full mod? Are you planning on linking your created textures in your own Textures folder to an existing esp or the games main esm? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oblivionaddicted Posted January 13, 2019 Share Posted January 13, 2019 Welcome. I started playing at the time of the Master system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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