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Checked out a bunch of mods that were released today(well, yesterday actually, and thought I'd share. Not saying that all of these mods are necessarily good, but it's just that they caught my attention: PipBoy 3000 Nuka-Cola Edition by Taiwendo http://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/404/? Changed the pipboy design to someting resemblining a nuka cola...or something like that. I kinda like the design. Spoiler-free Quest Animations by Beaker http://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/414/? Apparently the animations that show up reveal spoilers for the quest. I don't pay attention to the animations personally, but yeah, this could be very useful. TheXzi's Taylor Swift Pit-Boy Background image mod v1.0 by TheXzi http://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/370/? The very definition of LOL, WTF?!! Raider Dogmeat by Despy http://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/383/? Dogmeat turned into the dogs that the raiders haveOh my god! you just have to check out these screenshots! Dat dog armor! Fallout Noire by f5uck http://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/355/? Turns the game black and white. Makes me think of The Walking Dead comic book series. Oh, and that Power Armor in black and white, just whoah! Gabe Dog Pistol by Hantoniorl http://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/394/? Turns the 10mmpistol into the sound of an annoying dog. Talk about your troll mod! Explore Wasteland With Mouse (Less Keyboard Usage) by exgamesadrenaline http://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/417/? A mod which lets you explore the wasteland with just one hand. That's quite the technological achievement! Cait - Clothing Rexture - Harley Quinn inspired by BetterCallLars http://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/448/? A self confessed very bad looking clothing mod for Cait, who apparantly is a follower in the game(damn, was hoping that someone made the first player made follower) Got a smile out of me. Dark Brown Patchless Winter Jacket Retexture by BloodiedSimper http://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/455/? the first screenshot makes me think of the first outfit that niko bellic wears personally. my settlement by eefje http://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/396/? A save file that is sort of a house mod...sorta. Kinda creative. AlChestBreach Items by Gero http://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/464/? 4 days in, and already we have a mod dedicated to Alchestbreach, aka the best LPer in the world! Seriously if you haven't already, check him out. It's amazing what he ends up saying. He could mock the phone book, and it'd still be insanely entertaining! and last, and certainly not the least...in fact the only mod I'm going to be using is... Cattledog x Dogmeat Retexture by 7iger http://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/339/? Someone remodeled Dogmeat into their own rl dog. This thing is just toooo cute! :D USA FLAG RE-PLACER- AUSSIE FLAG by ZBH3 http://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/405/? Wow, it's like someone heard my best friend say that she doesn't care about Fallout 4, and created a mod for her. Well, it's not gonna work, but hey, thanks for trying. Ultra lowspec high performance cfg by HaroldBawls http://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/420/? My 4.1gb ram card thanks you! Darth Maul Face Texture by Liridon http://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/360/? Gah! This looks atrocious! Mare in the Moon by North http://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/375/? Oh hey, Someone put the Skyrim moon in Fallout 4! Cool! Plus, the author says that he wants to put horses in Fallout 4 once the CK is out! Nice! Recruit any NPC as Follower by jedijosh920 http://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/471/? First of all, it's not a mod, it's actually a notepad describing how to make anyone your follower, and notes that it means that you can have your own mini army. Which means that I can have both dogmeat and one human follower with me now. f*** yeah! Anyways, hope somebody enjoyed this. If that person is you, please let me know. I'll post the actual todays list in about 5 hours from now.

Hello, I have had an issue come up today where Fallout New Vegas will crash at the Bethesda logo. More specifically, I load up my game through the FNV4GB icon, and when the Bethesda logo appears, a black screen appears, and FNV is minimised to the taskbar. Clicking on the taskbar icon will bring up the black screen again, which then promptly minimises. The intro music continues to play while FNV is minimised in this way. Right-clicking on the icon on the taskbar while it has been minimised and selecting the Fallout NV option will bring up the error message "The program can't start because steam_api.dll is missing from your computer. Try reinstalling the program to fix this problem". I checked and steam_api.dll is located in C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Fallout New Vegas. Furthermore, after verifying the integrity of the game cache, Steam informed me that two files were missing and would be reacquired, but following that the game still crashes at the same Bethesda logo. I have 8GB of RAM, run Windows 7 64-bit and have a GTX 660M. I run around 10-15 mods and use the Nexus Mod Manager. I would like to point out that yesterday FNV was working fine on a fairly new save file (I've just come out of Doc Mitchell's house), and all of the mods seemed to be working (I could see the Ojo Bueno textures working, and Sunny Smiles had changed under New Vegas Redesigned 3). I have not changed my mods or added any new ones today, so I cannot see why the game was loading fine yesterday and not today when to my knowledge nothing has been altered. To finish the post, I'll leave the contents of the file FNV4GB.txt in C:\Users\User\Documents\My Games\falloutnv which seemed to update every time the game crashed: Loader: Getting windows version - 6.1.7601 Service Pack 1 Loader: Address Space Size = 0xFAF0B000 Loader: Getting executable name - C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Fallout New Vegas\fnv4gb.exe Loader: Parsing Command Line... Loader: Trying to get game path from Bethesda Softworks registry key Loader: Attmepting to open HKLM\SOFTWARE\Bethesda Softworks\FalloutNV - Failed Loader: Trying to get game path from Steam registry key Loader: Attmepting to open HKLM\SOFTWARE\Valve\Steam - Succeeded Loader: Attempting to query size of "InstallPath" value - Succeeded Loader: Attempting to query "InstallPath" value - Succeeded Loader: Changing directory to C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\fallout new vegas Loader: Original exe is: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\fallout new vegas\FalloutNV.exe Loader: LAA exe is: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Fallout New Vegas\exes\FalloutNV.exe Loader: Validating original exe... Loader: Validation passed Loader: Making sure original and LAA exe are not the same file - They aren't Loader: Making sure this executable is not C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\fallout new vegas\FalloutNV.exe - It isn't Loader: Making sure this executable is not C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Fallout New Vegas\exes\FalloutNV.exe - It isn't Loader: Original exe doesn't have LAA flag set as required. Loader: Getting file attributes for original exe Loader: Checking if file attributes for original exe and LAA exe match - They did. Loader: Validating and checking status of C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Fallout New Vegas\exes\FalloutNV.exe... Loader: seems good Loader: Setting SteamAppId environment variable to 22380 (Fallout New Vegas) Loader: Setting SteamGameId environment variable to 22380 Loader: Creating process: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Fallout New Vegas\exes\FalloutNV.exe" Loader: Allocating memory buffer in child procress - Success. Buffer at FFFA0000 Loader: Getting handle to Kernel32 Loader: Getting filename of Kernel32 Loader: Getting module information for Kernel32 Loader: Creating remote thread to initialize libraries Loader: Waiting for remote thread to exit Loader: Getting number of modules loaded in child process Loader: Getting handles to modules loaded in child process Loader: Looking for handle to Kernel32 in module handle list from child process Loader: Injecting dll loader code into child process. Loader: Writing injection data into child process. Loader: Creating remote thread to load helper dll Loader: Waiting for remote thread to exitfnv4gb_helper: successfully injectedExecutable filename: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Fallout New Vegas\exes\FalloutNV.exeExecutable address: 0x400000Address Space Size = 0xFA4D3000Resetting LAA BitGetting Handle to KERNEL32 - SucceededRedirecting GetModuleFileNameALoading additional DLLsAttempting to load nvse_steam_loader.dll - Succeededfnv4gb_helper: returning from CompleteInjection Loader: Checking if LAA has any effect - It does. Loader: Checking if LAA flag worked for child process - It Did Loader: Starting main thread in child process Loader: Waiting for child process to exit..\tier1\fileio.cpp (4002) : Assertion Failed: m_nNumRegisteredWriters == 0 Loader: Exiting

I see improved Texture mods for female humans Male humans but why can't we get some love for the beast races... ha if your a moder interested in doing this contact me and Ill Commission you personally! Honestly this community needs some more updated player model textures. (Think Cover Khajiit but for the full body.)

http://i.imgur.com/IKJCmRm.png Hey guys! Today I'm going to teach you how to run Skyrim on a mac without having to buy Parallels or VMware . . . WITH MODS. ANY MODS (disclaimer: to the extent of your graphic card/ram) and even better . . . WITH PROPERLY 100% FUNCTIONING SKSE. I'm super sorry about my original post that a misleading solution on how to install skse into your skyrim on a mac! But now I can say that with the methods below, you will be able to play skyrim ON THE MAC, BUGS-FREE, WITH MODS. AND SKSE. Sounds too good to be true? Well, don't take it for me, try these steps below! I'll help you as much as possible, and if you have ANY QUESTIONS whatsoever please don't hesitate to PM me! I'll try to reply as fast as possible! If i don't reply within a month, you're screwed tho! =))) So let's start! How do you know what i'm saying is true? Well i've been playing Skrim on my mac for over 2 years now, and I believe I've perfected the art of Skyrimming on a mac! Yay so here we go! http://i.imgur.com/k8XFHIt.jpg (see how pretty my Bosmer is slaughtering the frick out of a draugr?) How are we going to do this? (Oh yeah this is 100% legal btw) We will be using a WINESKIN wrapper. The good ol' folks at theportingteam have created a super stable wineskin wrapper for us to play skyrim! What is Wineskin? It's NOT an emulator. Please, stop calling it that. Emulators emulate an entire OS, and we don't want that. That's too hassle, time consuming, and costs extra money! This method that I'm going to teach you will have minimal cost (you're only going to spend on Skyrim itself) and you should be done within less than an hour! (minus downloading time of course) What the WINESKIN wrapper will do will simply trick poor old Skyrim that we're in a windows environment! No loss of vram/ram whatever crap it's going to run perfectly yay! Why WINESKIN? Why not Cider? Or any other wrapper? Believe me, I've tried every single wrapper out there, since the beginning people have been trying to port skyrim and nothing compares to theportingteam's Wineskin wrapper! Here is the link where you can download it :smile: http://portingteam.com/files/file/7782-skyrim-wineskin-updated-2014/ Why do I like this wrapper? 1) SKSE works! 2) You can buy and install Skyrim directly from steam which is already provided by the wrapper! No need to go to the hassle of buying the physical copy! Any wrapper will do tho, just don't download those sneaky wrappers that includes the game! That's PIRACY, and that's bad! >:l So stay away from torrent sites, those wrappers there are evil! Buy the game people!! Other than the wineskin wrapper, I used to use Cider. To be honest, the latest Cider wrapper of skyrim is VERY fast. Super fast. Much higher fps than the wineskin one! But really, when you're playing, you won't be able to tell the difference, and the cider wrapper crashes waaay more often, and the worst part: NO SKSE. So if you need SKSE (and who doesn't?!) please get the wineskin wrapper above! What next? Follow the instructions on the website. It's very straightforward. Once you're done downloading the wrapper + buying the game through steam through the wrapper, or buying the physical copy and dragging the contents into the wrapper, come back to this guide! I'll teach you how to install SKSE + mods and have a hassle free experience! SKSE Done already? Good! Here's the proper way to install SKSE into your Wineskin! Update your skyrim app first to the latest update or whatever if it's not. Bethseda has stopped making updates already so this is the last update you'll ever need to update! Yay! Anyway, go to skse's website (just google it, i'm too lazy) and download the files. As it says on page 10 on theportingteam's website: 1.) Download SKSE and place the correct files in the "Skyrim" and "Data" folders. 2.) Rename "TESV.exe" to "Skyrim.exe", and rename "skse_loader.exe" to "TESV.exe" 3.) In "Data", make a folder called "SKSE" 4.) Open press textedit, press Shift + Command + T then type the lines below. Save the file as "skse.ini": [Loader] RuntimeName=Skyrim.exe Yay! Now you have working SKSE! Note whenever you launch the skyrim app, please go to preferences, then look through the tabs for the "update button" and press "Do not update automatically" after installing Skse! You have to do this EVERY TIME. You don't want in the middle of your dragon hunting, when suddenly the game CTDs because steam thinks that the TESV.exe file is missing and tries to reinstall it! MODS Mods mods mods. Skyrim is no fun with mods. But so that you'll have a smooth modding experience, let me first tell you straightforward three things: 1) Mac graphic cards suck. 2) You can't install ENB 3) You NEED the Unofficial Skyrim Patches!!! That's pretty much it. Anyway, how DO you install mods? First, you can't use NMM. Sorry haha. You have to install manually. It's pretty easy. I highly recommend you make an alias folder of the "Data" folder of your Skyrim app so you don't need to dig deep into the app to find it. If you haven't seen your data folder before, right click on your Skyrim app, then press "Show Package Contents." drive_c > Program Files > Steam > SteamApps > common > Skyrim then you'll find your "Data" folder inside. When you get a mod, unzip the file, then drag the contents on the specific folders inside the Data folder. You'll get the hang of it, it's an art! Oh btw, never listen to a mod author who says "Press overwrite, nothing bad will happen" because something bad will happen!! Please double-check what ever you're trying to overwrite. Windows and Mac have different file directory structures so overwriting will cause overwriting entire folders, not just files!! Be careful! Careful about putting too much high res textures. I don't recommend installing the 2K textures mod here in nexus. I use a Late 2013 mid-range iMac and I get good results (60 fps in idle scenes, 40 fps in combat scenes with magic) on MEDIUM settings. Yes, MEDIUM. If you're using a macbook air, or even a macbook pro, you might want to keep your settings on LOW, and have very minimal retextures! And besides that, I would recommend you only have about 10-15 mods or so. Or less if you can manage! (this is not counting the unofficial patches, which again, I stress, you NEED them!) I play with about 9 mods (NOT including the unofficial patches + my texture mods) every time I run skyrim. Please, to avoid save bloat, don't install/uninstall new mods DURING a game, especially if it has a lot of scripts! So yeah, please learn how to be choosy! If you were to choose, what would you retexture? What mods would you place? I recommend the following mods (just search them here on Nexus): Pure Waters - This makes the ugly thing that Bethseda calls "water" into something a bit more realistic for nearly no FPS loss! Try it out. Try your luck at W.A.T.E.R. too, but I've never had good results with that one :sad: I will note one thing, FPS loss isn't that important in playing skyrim on a mac. What you're trying to do is minimise FREEZES which can occur a lot because of the low specs of Mac video cards! The lesser mods the better! And this is one of the great mods you should have! Grass On Steroids - I like this mod a lot. Doesn't make skyrim prettier in a sense, because it just increases the grass around by a LOT, but it's very nice and makes empty spots less boring and more challenging especially if you play as a hunter. Why am I also recommending this mod? No visible FPS loss either! You can even BOOST your fps with this mod! Read the description file of that mod to find out how! Saturation Boost - Sorry i'm not one for those "Realistic" games. I play fantasy games, because mainly, I want to live in a fantasy world! So I want it to look very dreamy and fantasy like! Since I can't install enb, this mod thing just saturates the whole adsfjsadf of Skyrim! It looks amazing! It's kinda strong tho, so if you're a "Realistic" gamer, stay away! You can use your brightness setting in game to lessen the effect tho. Again, no fps loss! Book of Silence - I love the retextures there! Here's the catch, it's a stupid idea to install all of those textures in the same play through! Before i start playing, i already plan what armours i'm going to use, so I only install the certain armours that I will be needing! This goes with any other armour or weapon retexture you're going to place, if it's a compilation, only install the ones you're really going to use! Or else, freeze/crash, then total frustration! And you don't want that! Take it from me though, I normally only install ONE or TWO armour mods and ONE or TWO weapons mods at a time! You can always change them anyway when you play another play through! Frostfall + Realistic Needs and Diseases - I can't play without those two mods. I just had to mention that. Now here's a thought. Why even attempt in making your exteriors of Skyrim look pretty that will probably beat the heck out of your Mac's poor graphic card? Instead, why don't you make your character and the NPCs in skyrim pretty instead? Much easier, less hassle, and I actually like it better that way! So what do I use? This is my personal taste but these textures look super pretty and don't have heavy toll on my mac: Eyes - The Eyes of Beauty Lips - meh too lazy to install anything Facial animations (not really a texture but whatever) - Female Facial Animations. Makes a world of difference for me. Hair - Lore friendly vanilla hair retextures. Very nice. I don't like apachii, personal preference, and I don't like how certain hairs float :sad: Elves (i usually play a wood elf) - Ethereal Elven Overhaul. Actually, I don't think there are any alternatives to that AHAHAHA Female bodies - UNPB + SG female retextures. I hate CBBE, sorry *starts an arguement* Male bodies - Favoured soul meshes + Geonox faces. I use all the default textures and meshes from those mods, i don't like the options. Here's some idea of how this looks like! I have a secret private light leak mod that i asked my friend to make for me so don't ask why/how it looks like that! The only thing i did on photoshop was the depth of focus ahahahaha =)) http://i.imgur.com/I5qJhZo.jpg (pretty ysolda, always had a crush on her!! do you know how massive the difference of my texture mods make? go here and see for yourself) http://i.imgur.com/x2bulgi.jpg (Tauriel and I kick ass wheeee =))) Kudos to the guy who made the Tauriel mod! She looks so amazing, I don't get bugged by the floating hair! Though if someone can fix that . . . Oh yeah and I love the bosmer armour by maty743!!) Unofficial Skyrim Patches - Please. Don't be a fool. Install these. Skyrim is UNPLAYABLE without it. There are way too many bugs that have ruined my saves before I installed these. This goes for everyone. NEVER PLAY SKYRIM WITHOUT THE UNOFFICIAL SKYRIM PATCHES!! Grrr i cannot stress this enough!! I bought all the DLCs so i installed the unofficial patches for them too! Please please please, save yourself the hassle, install these! CIDER You really want "more fps" don't you? Well, I'm telling you right now, it won't make much of a difference, but here's the instructions on how to install mods on your Skyrim running through Cider. Download a cider wrapper for Skyrim on the internet. I would presume this is legal, so long as it doesn't actually include Skyrim the game itself. Now after downloading the cider wrapper for Skyrim (should take a few minutes), you have two options: 1) Go to gamestop and buy a pc version of skyrim. 2) Download on Steam. NEXT STEP: The cider file would probably look like the game itself, with a nice icon and all. Drag it to applications. Rightclick (double tap on your trackpad/control+click) and press show package contents. There should be a bunch of folders inside. Open Resources, then Transgaming, then c_drive, the program files. In Program Files, dump the game itself's folder inside (The Elder Scrolls V Skyrim). You can now enjoy your own LEGAL copy of skyrim on your mac. Get the heck out of programfiles, go to Applications, click on the cider file, and it should launch. :smile: To install mods, just go look here in nexus, then download the file manually. Unfortunately, NNM won't work, being an .exe file. Find the cider file again, right click, show package contents, keep on heading in until you reach The Elder Scrolls V Skyrim and go to your Data folder. Follow the mod instructions if it has. Mainly, it would mean dragging the downloaded mod's contents into the data folder. Be careful not to overwrite. Do not trust instructions saying it will not overwrite a specific folder, because windows has a different file structure than a mac. After that, you need to activate the data file. Scroll back, and into the main folder of The Elder Scrolls V Skyrim. There should be a folder at the very top called %USERPROFILE%. If it's not there, make it. Make a folder called Local Settings, and inside, make another folder called Application Data, and inside, another folder called Skyrim. If it's there, simply enter these folders until the Skyrim folder. Now open textedit. copy+paste this: #This file is used by Skyrim to keep track of your downloaded content#Please do not modify this file.Skyrim.esmUpdate.esm Now below Update.esm, type in the names of the .esm/.esp. files of the mods you downloaded. This is case sensitive. If you bought the DLCs and received them in .esm/.esp/.whatever format, place them too, right after Skyrim.esm, in this order: Skyrim.esmDawnguard.esmHearthFires.esmDragonborn.esm-rest of your mods- Save the file into the Skyrim folder. You can't run SKSE. And also, i'm going to boo you for the rest of the life for exchanging SKSE for more FPS. BOOOOOOO FAQ My skyrim has no text when i open the main menu! There's a solution on the theportingteam website. Worked for me! Skyrim keeps on crashing! If it keeps on crashing in game, check your mod load order. Try different ways of ordering them. Follow the directions of the mod authors on where to place the mod. This might be a deal breaker for some of you, but you can't run BOSS on your mac. So you can't get a good mod order list. It's all about luck and guessing! You'll get it, don't worry! If Skyrim crashes when you start the game, you probably trying installing an ENB, or other bad ideas. Please, stop having bad ideas and use common sense. Skyrim keeps on freezing!! How embarrassing, you literally just told me you disobeyed my instructions to NOT HAVE TOO MUCH HIGHRES TEXTURES!! :sad: Seriously, this is 99.99% the reason why your game freezes up! Before, I used to have freezes every 10 minutes because i insisted in having all the daedric retextures on the Nexus like all those other noobs! Please, become mature, stop using CBBE, and use less textures! Help, skyrim looks ugly! Not my problem! =)) Stop playing it then! I don't want to have Skyrim on my desktop! Then don't have skyrim at all! Please don't delete the steam.desktop file either. I drag the zip file from the mod into the data folder but nothing happens! , , , please learn how to use a mac before you install skyrim. Can I use Creation Kit? Sure. There's a Creation Kit port that theportingteam made! I don't use it, too glitchy + i'm lazy but my other friends on Macs have had good success with it. How come you don't like RLO, Apachii, CBBE, and all those other great wonderful mods? Everyone has their own opinions! Use what you want! IF YOU HAVE ANY MORE QUESTIONS, GO PM ME!! Have fun guys! :smile: This guide will be updated again accordingly!

We need a new basic needs mod! I love to add immersion to the game and the basic needs is, according to me, an important part of that. TR - Basic needs is fantastic, but (correct me if i'm wrong) is kind of abandonned and Imp's More Complex Needs is (at least for me) too complex. We could really use a new mod like this, and would cover the most basic human needs: Hunger - Meals of different sizes fill you up different amounts and i you care not to eat, damage to health regen. Thirst - There's a lot of alcohol in Skyrim, but also a lot of berries and fruit and domesticated animals. Quench your thirst with various spirits, different juices or milk. Skip that apple juice in the morning and suffer penalty to magicka regen. Sleep - A normal person should sleep at night and roam the land at day. Stay up for too long and your stamina regen will slow down greatly. (Bladder controll?) - Just for fun, reglated by how much you eat and drink. If you hold it in for too long, eventually you'd soil your self and have serious chances to contract diseases untill you wash your self in nearest lake/river. If you know another mod that add human needs to Skyrim, would you link that in the comments, or tell me your opinion to this request. - The ArgonianBuccaneer

I've recently been searching for new mods to use but I keep seeing mods I've already downloaded before. I can't find a way to filter them out as it is. And I've fought of these search filters: "Updated mods only" - I would find this very useful for checking for any updates that Vortex missed"Mods not downloaded" - Useful when looking for new mods"Downloaded mods" - Looking for mods I've previously downloaded and deleted before and couldn't remember namesAre any similar or exact filters already available that I've missed? I know Nexus knows and remembers which mods I've downloaded and when to a certain extent, and thought that it could be used in a more helpful way. Thank you, Davenby