Beginner's Guide to Modding FALLOUT: New Vegas (2020)#1 - Getting Started

Timestamps:
00:00 - Introduction
00:34 - Who is this video series for?
01:03 - What do you need to follow this series?
05:04 - FNV 4GB Patcher
11:28 - NVSE Config
12:56 - NVTF - New Vegas Tick Fix
16:08 - Bug Fixes (4 mods)

Useful Links

Mod Links
Yukichigai Unofficial Patch - YUP : Yukichigai Unofficial Patch - YUP

[GophersVids]

Sorry about the re-upload. Roy Batty found a small error and we felt it was important to fix it. A big thanks to him for being my technical support for these videos :)

[SnakeDoctor]

I would advise anyone watching this, now or later, to stick to what Gopher is recommending here. Avoid the temptation to throw a load of mods at New Vegas and hope they stick.

Many years back, on Gopher's first New Vegas tutorial series, I watched one episode, learned how to install mods, and thought I knew everything. The end result, some 150 plugins later, was a completely broken game that CTD'd on startup, or froze every couple of minutes. I had to manually uninstall and reinstall hundreds of mods to find the culprit, still got CTDs, and eventually had to reinstall the entire game.

If this is your first time modding, Gopher will show you the right way to install mods, and his tutorials are super easy to follow.

Don't be me and charge in like an idiot.

[AntroElCaprino]

(Science 17/80) "You make modding look easy for me."

[andrewbailey]

After completing the series and having never modded before, this was a PHENOMENAL guide. Thank you for taking the time to explain everything in detail. Still easy to follow in 2023. Cheers.

[Da_cocobong]

My science stat is definitely not high enough

[phun]

Might wanna add this in the description:

[Memory]
DefaultHeapInitialAllocMB=400

[July-gjst]

UPDATE FOR ANYONE WATCHING THIS IN 2021:

1) "NVSE" has been updated for the first time in a long time, instead now you should be using xNVSE, you can just install it as you would NVSE and tell it it's ok to replace any files. (You'll see why in the next update)

2) The "Unofficial patch NVSE" has been replaced with "Unofficial Patch NVSE Plus" which now requires JIP LN NVSE Plugin, JohnnyGuitarNVSE and xNVSE (This is why you now want xNVSE rather than the old NVSE).

3) You'll notice that a lot of mods on the nexus now state that xNVSE is required, again this is why you will want that instead of NVSE (See (1)).

For now that is all I could find regarding this part of the guide, I will either edit this as I go or just post a new comment on the next part of the guide.

[ajflink]

I like how the serious mods have images that ironically imply that it is a joke mod. Also, I love how carefully you went through everything. The thing that I hate about standard tutorials is the fact that the person doing the tutorial assumes you already know too many things.

[Buraunia]

Man 2020 and still Fallout NW is relevant, that's the sign of masterful story/game design.

[CrossShot]

When Gopher says it's been 9 years since the first modding guide, then you realize you've been watching Gopher for 9 years. Where does the time go?

[blackadam]

Thank you for this guide. I recently got a pc and was terrified at how modding is and it seemed really overwhelming, but you're guide was so easy to follow and thorough, I had little to no issues installing everything. Thank you

[cheemers]

For all of us who played FNV 10 years ago on console and now are excited to get into modding it on PC after hearing about Fallout Frontier, thank you for your clear and comprehensive guides!

[MarkCavy]

The fact that you are even making this video is why we love you, man. God bless! Proud minion of seven years here! (I even own a Gopher T-shirt)

[piratediscoking]

This is one of the best instructional videos I've ever seen on YouTube. It takes a daunting process and takes the viewer step-by-step while explaining everything clearly and concisely in a way beginners can understand. Excellent work.

[GremDisaster]

*2020* edition?! I searched and clicked this thinking it was the old one! Holy shit this awesome, usually in the older guides I find - not everything is as it was and I have to do a few work arounds. But this? THIS! *HELL YEAH! Who won the lottery? I did!*

[Riley-uype]

super important tip for folks having trouble using vortex!
Go back to the dashboard and make sure to launch the game from the lil NVSE tab not the tab at the top left of the screen. that tripped me up for a bit. you should also click its lil options button and make it primary so it just uses that

[GophersVids]

** PLEASE NOTE **

** IMPORTANT ** You NEED the x86 version, not the x64 version.

Thanks to one of the patrons (Avrie) for pointing the last point out to me :)

[Tgspy]

Oh also, would absolutely recommend User Interface Organiser as a "default" mod you install when making a new game. It also massively improves the performance and speed of VATS

[MatteeTheRogue]

---- PSA For people following this guide ----
First of all this guide is awesome! But if you're like me you always tend to run into little things here and there that don't quite match up with what the guide is doing and encounter problems of your own.

I personally ran into a problem at Part 3 of Gophers guide here where I installed the WMIM mod and then went to test the weapons. When I opened the weapons tab on my pip boy and moused over any weapon in my inventory the game would freeze and crash. After a few painstaking hours, I've found out that the mod that is causing these crashes with the pip boy is the Unofficial Patch NVSE mod. If you're following this guide in 2021, you'll notice that the link in this video tells you that the mod no longer exists, it got merged with another mod and is now Unofficial Patch NVSE Plus. In order to install this new mod you also need to install another mod called JohnnyGuitar NVSE. One of these two mods, or a combination of both of them, was causing my game to crash when trying to select weapons.

I'm not sure exactly which files are in conflict or what the exact problem is, but I use NMM and for me I had to just not install the Unofficial Patch NVSE mod, or else I'd crash. Just a heads up for anyone who encounters that issue.

[KayCifR]

I started playing this back in the day on my PS3 but the crashes became more frequent the more I played. I can finally play it on PC in 2022 and this was the exact guide I needed to make it an optimal experience.