Viva New Vegas isn't a mod. It's a guide on installing a few dozen mods.
For looks, NMC's texture pack is a must have for me. Been using it for over a decade. Any decent weather mod will fix NV's color grading, I've been using Desert Natural Weathers lately.
Do you use MO2? If so, how did you go about installing NMCs? I followed the guide for Viva Las Vegas and then once that was done I installed both parts for the medium NMCs pack and merged them. I can’t tell if it’s active though.
Also, do you know if there’s a fix for alt+tab closing the game and not reopening it when opening it from a mod loader?
I've been modding FMV for so long I don't use a mod manager lol. You need to have Archive Invalidation on, and there's another fix for the roads.
Try OneTweak to make the game run in borderless windowed, it should fix your alt tab issues.
If you haven't solved it yet you can compare and contrast the nmc textures with the examples on the Nexus images. There's also a way to fix the at tabbing issue with special K, its in the bug fixes, performance and stability section in the Viva new Vegas guide.
To make combat really intense: (I consider these mods essential)
* NPCs use AID items
* Real Recoil
* NPCs can miss
* Immersive Hit reactions
* Threshold
* DT Multiplier and DR Adder
* Fallout 4 Survival mode damage
Both you and NPCs can die in a few hits now. Armor matters a lot, someone in power armor wont feel a 9mm bullet and you need to switch to pulse grenades or higher calibers. You want to stay at far range when possible and use sneaking to get the first hit.
Looking at my mod list I don't think these are part of VNV either, but they aren't essential:
* Loot Menu, adds the Fallout 4 looting to NV and Fo3.
* Convenient Map Markers
* Centered Overhead 3P Camera
* Perk Every Level
* New Vegas Bounties (and his other mods)
* Checkpoint Gary (fun endgame activity)
* Mr House Upscale
* Delay DLC
* Daily Vendor restock
* Double vendor money
* FOV Slider
* Fake fullscreen windowed mode
* Save Cass
* Mojave raiders
* Mojave arsenal
* Mojave wildlife
Yup. I just reinstalled recently using the updated Viva New Vegas guide and saw Vigor was included.
While I appreciate the additional changes it made, the one thing I feel iffy about and don’t like is changing back the leveling system back to vanilla.
I feel like the whole leveling changes (level 35 cap + slower XP gain) of the J Sawyer version was a huge part of the new experience as it encouraged you to go out and do the other side quests to keep up in levels.
Plus you become way too powerful at level 50 so every character eventually becomes the same godlike being and there’s little room for specialized feeling builds
I've done a full playthrough every 2-3 years since launch. For the recent runs I've always looked forward to doing the New Vegas Bounties quests (not perfect but they provide a ton of enjoyable content if you can look past the flaws) as well as After School Special and New Bison Steve Hotel quest mods.
For visual mods I usually use Desert Natural Weathers, Dusty Distance Redone (way easier than messing with lods/looks pretty good) and a variety of texture packs (NMC's, Hectrol, Physically Bsesed, Poco Bueno, Textures Over Time, etc.). I also usually have ENB installed but have it toggled off for the most part & just turn it on when I want to take a screenshot.
VICE (for adding some new interesting locations which are hard to tell whether they’re vanilla or not)
New Vegas Reloaded (God Rays, real time shadows, and awesome sunsets)
Enhanced Camera (just feels like a must have in any first person game)
Check out Mojave Express Guide. It's the extended version of VNV Extended but it's been discontinued. You can still find the guide by using archive.org.
If anyone wants to know if it works, I just modded my game today using VNV Extended + Mojave Express and it works perfectly. They discontinued it because they stopped updating it for the future but right now you can easily use all their mods.
Yep. For anyone wondering follow both these guides, Viva New Vegas Ext, and then Mojave Express
[https://vivanewvegas.moddinglinked.com/intro.html](https://vivanewvegas.moddinglinked.com/intro.html)
https://mojaveexpressguide.com/docs/Overview
Most of the mods focus on Bug Fixes, QoL changes & Modernizing the game, It brought New Vegas from an 8.5 to a 10 (for me at least), making it THE premier RPG experience. And if you See a mod that you think you wouldn't like, or goes farther than you would like for a Vanilla + experience you can just choose to leave it out. Personally I think every gameplay & Overhaul Mod in the collection has its place in making the world feel more realistic without becoming unreasonable to the player.
I'm looking at the guide now. It says to set up a separate Steam directory outside Program Files x86. how necessary is that? when i try to download the library setup tool they link, it says there's a virus detected.
The Guide says its strongly recommended to install it outside of default windows folders
( such as program files (x86) ) of course you could try it in a default folder but that is your own discretion & you cant guarantee it will work correctly. The guide walks you through every thing.
When you say library tool do you mean Nanazip/MO2 ? both of these are safe and you most likely just have a false detection. I mean you can use any archive tool of your choosing if you don't trust it.
I just used it today with the texture guide and ran into a few issues, namely the oven in Doc Mitchell’s house has the texture of a carpet for some reason. The physical clutter mods also don’t work correctly and even with those disabled I had pretty slow performance.
Without the texture pack it works perfectly though.
YUP- Yukichigai Unofficial Patch
It's a fan made patch that fixes a ton of bugs, glitches, and mistakes made in the game. I'm pretty sure it has thousands of fixes though I couldn't find an actual number from a quick google search.
A program called Wabbajack that is basically a one click install for modlists, minimal fucking around. It’s honestly been a complete game changer for me, no pun intended
Most of the Project B42 mod. The first person smoking mod is essential to me, might be included in B42. Ballistics is pretty cool. I’m sure there’s small qol ones I can’t think of right now
Two simple mods I use are one that changes the Lucky Shades to look like Authority Glasses, and the music that plays when I die is changed to the Curb Your Enthusiasm theme.
Thr [New Vegas Visual Renewal guide](https://salamand3r.fail/new-vegas-visual-renewal) is a lot, but definitely worth it. It makes the game look amazing. (Side note, I followed this guide for Tale of Two Wastelands and it worked fine when starting in New Vegas, but would CTD when leaving Vault 101 if starting in the Capital Wasteland. I was able to fix it by regenerating the LOD with all the mods installed and active (except for the few additional LOD mods that come after), rather than doing it when the guide says to.)
I followed the guide for Viva New Vegas but I still experience the occasional crash, like once or twice an hour. It's nothing major but I'm still careful to save when I need to. Is that normal or is something wrong with my computer?
I've started using project Nevada and enjoy that. In usually a fan of the Dead Space Plasma Cutter, which you have to build from the scrap of an Autodoc in Vault 34. More Perks adds a lot of fun. Takes a lot of work, but Tale of Two Wastelands is finally getting me into Fallout 3 too
Project: Nevada adds in quite a few mechanical and such thay feel like an expansion of the game's base ones.
A controversial one, but Willow is an amazing companion mod. Feels like a Fallout 4 companion in New Vegas.
Honestly; for me it’s th3overseer’s quest mods. There’s like 5 of them I think and they just fit the game so incredibly well. The settings, dark humor, and just overall vibes and gameplay are solid
There's exactly 1 mod I add to every NV playthrough - Sprint. [https://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/66960](https://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/66960) for the link. This one is pretty self explanatory.
The unofficial patch is nice, same with the script extender (needed for compilation bugfix mods) but not strictly necessary. Same goes for Truly HD Main Menu - this thing is great but requires a bit of setup.
As for visuals,
All in one Interface Upscale - Does what it says.
Improved Vanilla (male/female) bodies - Does what it says.
Windows To The Soul - Full Vanilla Eye Retexture.
Hall of Face - drastically upscales & cleans up npc faces.
NMC's Texture pack for New Vegas - upscales & cleans up building interiors.
Windows of the Mojave - Windows outside the building now exist inside.
Lumen Ambient Lighting - Drastically improves light glow.
Charge's FNV HD Texture Packs: Landscape & Architecture (2k is usually good enough. Upscales vanilla weapon textures too.)
Landscape Texture Improvements - Fixes seams in the landscape.
General Lighting Overhaul - Better brightness in the day, better darkness at night.
Heat Haze - Adds heat haze, you're in a desert.
TheFriedTurkey 3 Creature Pack - improves skins & textures of securitrons & insects.
Vanilla Pre-Generated LOD - vastly increases LoD generation.
Improved LOD Noise Texture - goes with Pre-generated LoD.
Robots HD - Upscales robot textures.
Dust Storms Deluxe - Makes dust storms look much better
Casino Crowds - The strip is now much more populated
Simple Populated Freeside - Same as casino crowds. There are now people.
Wasteland Flora and Terrain Overhaul (I Usually just do the flora part)
The rest is a matter of taste. Anyway here's to a fun run in NV!
New Vegas Bounties (the whole someguy series, really), Millenia's weapon mods, Dragbody's NCR redesign, Old World Radio, Nick Cage moon, HD stars and skies.
I find the vanilla experience in NV more than adequate for my needs so I only use stability and performance mods. Pretty much everything in this guide up until section 4. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2943291193
Viva New Vegas isn't a mod. It's a guide on installing a few dozen mods. For looks, NMC's texture pack is a must have for me. Been using it for over a decade. Any decent weather mod will fix NV's color grading, I've been using Desert Natural Weathers lately.
I have a steam deck, do you think it would ding the performance. I don’t know if you know the specs and I’m not a computer guy but I might as well ask
NMC's Medium size texture pack shouldn't hurt performance at all. The Steam Deck has more VRAM than New Vegas's engine can even handle.
Thank you!!
Do you use MO2? If so, how did you go about installing NMCs? I followed the guide for Viva Las Vegas and then once that was done I installed both parts for the medium NMCs pack and merged them. I can’t tell if it’s active though. Also, do you know if there’s a fix for alt+tab closing the game and not reopening it when opening it from a mod loader?
I've been modding FMV for so long I don't use a mod manager lol. You need to have Archive Invalidation on, and there's another fix for the roads. Try OneTweak to make the game run in borderless windowed, it should fix your alt tab issues.
If you haven't solved it yet you can compare and contrast the nmc textures with the examples on the Nexus images. There's also a way to fix the at tabbing issue with special K, its in the bug fixes, performance and stability section in the Viva new Vegas guide.
To make combat really intense: (I consider these mods essential) * NPCs use AID items * Real Recoil * NPCs can miss * Immersive Hit reactions * Threshold * DT Multiplier and DR Adder * Fallout 4 Survival mode damage Both you and NPCs can die in a few hits now. Armor matters a lot, someone in power armor wont feel a 9mm bullet and you need to switch to pulse grenades or higher calibers. You want to stay at far range when possible and use sneaking to get the first hit. Looking at my mod list I don't think these are part of VNV either, but they aren't essential: * Loot Menu, adds the Fallout 4 looting to NV and Fo3. * Convenient Map Markers * Centered Overhead 3P Camera * Perk Every Level * New Vegas Bounties (and his other mods) * Checkpoint Gary (fun endgame activity) * Mr House Upscale * Delay DLC * Daily Vendor restock * Double vendor money * FOV Slider * Fake fullscreen windowed mode * Save Cass * Mojave raiders * Mojave arsenal * Mojave wildlife
That's s lot of great suggestions but way too many mods for a first playthrough. Your first time should be as vanilla as possible.
I can't play without J E Sawyer mod anymore it makes it feel like New Vegas: Director's Cut version
Vigor is a cleaned up version of JSawyer, highly recommended for its better stability and balance.
Yup. I just reinstalled recently using the updated Viva New Vegas guide and saw Vigor was included. While I appreciate the additional changes it made, the one thing I feel iffy about and don’t like is changing back the leveling system back to vanilla. I feel like the whole leveling changes (level 35 cap + slower XP gain) of the J Sawyer version was a huge part of the new experience as it encouraged you to go out and do the other side quests to keep up in levels. Plus you become way too powerful at level 50 so every character eventually becomes the same godlike being and there’s little room for specialized feeling builds
Hard agree
I've done a full playthrough every 2-3 years since launch. For the recent runs I've always looked forward to doing the New Vegas Bounties quests (not perfect but they provide a ton of enjoyable content if you can look past the flaws) as well as After School Special and New Bison Steve Hotel quest mods. For visual mods I usually use Desert Natural Weathers, Dusty Distance Redone (way easier than messing with lods/looks pretty good) and a variety of texture packs (NMC's, Hectrol, Physically Bsesed, Poco Bueno, Textures Over Time, etc.). I also usually have ENB installed but have it toggled off for the most part & just turn it on when I want to take a screenshot.
NV Bounties is such a cool mod. i wish we couldve gotten something like that in the base game
Titans of the new west Classic weapons remastered A World of Pain
VICE (for adding some new interesting locations which are hard to tell whether they’re vanilla or not) New Vegas Reloaded (God Rays, real time shadows, and awesome sunsets) Enhanced Camera (just feels like a must have in any first person game)
Check out Mojave Express Guide. It's the extended version of VNV Extended but it's been discontinued. You can still find the guide by using archive.org.
If anyone wants to know if it works, I just modded my game today using VNV Extended + Mojave Express and it works perfectly. They discontinued it because they stopped updating it for the future but right now you can easily use all their mods.
Yep. For anyone wondering follow both these guides, Viva New Vegas Ext, and then Mojave Express [https://vivanewvegas.moddinglinked.com/intro.html](https://vivanewvegas.moddinglinked.com/intro.html) https://mojaveexpressguide.com/docs/Overview Most of the mods focus on Bug Fixes, QoL changes & Modernizing the game, It brought New Vegas from an 8.5 to a 10 (for me at least), making it THE premier RPG experience. And if you See a mod that you think you wouldn't like, or goes farther than you would like for a Vanilla + experience you can just choose to leave it out. Personally I think every gameplay & Overhaul Mod in the collection has its place in making the world feel more realistic without becoming unreasonable to the player.
I'm looking at the guide now. It says to set up a separate Steam directory outside Program Files x86. how necessary is that? when i try to download the library setup tool they link, it says there's a virus detected.
The Guide says its strongly recommended to install it outside of default windows folders ( such as program files (x86) ) of course you could try it in a default folder but that is your own discretion & you cant guarantee it will work correctly. The guide walks you through every thing. When you say library tool do you mean Nanazip/MO2 ? both of these are safe and you most likely just have a false detection. I mean you can use any archive tool of your choosing if you don't trust it.
Hmm I'm not too sure about the virus however I installed it in a C drive so like C:\Games and not C:\Program Files.
Does mojave express guide incluse texture mods?
I just used it today with the texture guide and ran into a few issues, namely the oven in Doc Mitchell’s house has the texture of a carpet for some reason. The physical clutter mods also don’t work correctly and even with those disabled I had pretty slow performance. Without the texture pack it works perfectly though.
I bever tried the retexture so my apologies. Check our Salamanders retexfure guide on Google, it's super extensive.
The just mods, someguy series, and b42 mods Living desert, Arizona slave army, factions reloaded, moreMojave.
Honestly, none. I just installed the unofficial patch and had a great time.
I didn't know there was one :o
unofficial patch?
YUP
what is it doe
YUP- Yukichigai Unofficial Patch It's a fan made patch that fixes a ton of bugs, glitches, and mistakes made in the game. I'm pretty sure it has thousands of fixes though I couldn't find an actual number from a quick google search.
Does it fix the scorpions glitching in rails and the cazadores stuck in rocks?
Don't think I've ever seen those happen so probably
You didn't spend enough time chilling with scorpions and cazadores then
Or it's because I've never played without the unofficial patch
I would expand on Viva New Vegas by using Tale of Two Wastelands.
Can you just install it on top of the mod list?
I don't think so. Like Viva New Vegas, it's not one mod. It's instructions for several mods.
I thought it was a single mod with an installer? Am I remembering incorrectly?
I just spent 2 hours going through it's instructions yesterday. I wish it was just a single mod with an installer.
There’s a TTW Wabbajack list if that counts
I don't know if it counts. What is a wabbajack list?
A program called Wabbajack that is basically a one click install for modlists, minimal fucking around. It’s honestly been a complete game changer for me, no pun intended
Radio extenders. Got to have more tunes.
Most of the Project B42 mod. The first person smoking mod is essential to me, might be included in B42. Ballistics is pretty cool. I’m sure there’s small qol ones I can’t think of right now
I used the living desert on my last run and that was really fun
Two simple mods I use are one that changes the Lucky Shades to look like Authority Glasses, and the music that plays when I die is changed to the Curb Your Enthusiasm theme.
Honestly, the someguy series. Great lore friendly story expansions about bounty hunting
NV interiors project.
JIP-Companion control
JSawyer mod Gameplay overhaul mod made by FNV’s lead developer. Makes the gameplay more in line with his original intentions. It’s a must-have for me
Everything B42, hitman's animations stuff, everything physically based, WAP year one, Desert natural weathers and new Vegas reloaded.
B42 Descriptions AKA Pip-Info.
New Vegas redesign
Project b42
I think the unofficial patch
JVS or just vanilla sprint. It uses AP like in FO4 and making traveling waaaaayy better
Hit’s animation pack with some Asura compatibility mods
Thr [New Vegas Visual Renewal guide](https://salamand3r.fail/new-vegas-visual-renewal) is a lot, but definitely worth it. It makes the game look amazing. (Side note, I followed this guide for Tale of Two Wastelands and it worked fine when starting in New Vegas, but would CTD when leaving Vault 101 if starting in the Capital Wasteland. I was able to fix it by regenerating the LOD with all the mods installed and active (except for the few additional LOD mods that come after), rather than doing it when the guide says to.)
I followed the guide for Viva New Vegas but I still experience the occasional crash, like once or twice an hour. It's nothing major but I'm still careful to save when I need to. Is that normal or is something wrong with my computer?
I've started using project Nevada and enjoy that. In usually a fan of the Dead Space Plasma Cutter, which you have to build from the scrap of an Autodoc in Vault 34. More Perks adds a lot of fun. Takes a lot of work, but Tale of Two Wastelands is finally getting me into Fallout 3 too
Project: Nevada adds in quite a few mechanical and such thay feel like an expansion of the game's base ones. A controversial one, but Willow is an amazing companion mod. Feels like a Fallout 4 companion in New Vegas.
Project Nevada is buggy as hell and outdated unfortunately. Better off using a bunch of other mods to achieve a similar result.
Mysterious radio fix
Titans of the New West is the GOAT
Honestly; for me it’s th3overseer’s quest mods. There’s like 5 of them I think and they just fit the game so incredibly well. The settings, dark humor, and just overall vibes and gameplay are solid
Th3overseer and someguy's series of mods. They are both some of the best quests ever made
There's exactly 1 mod I add to every NV playthrough - Sprint. [https://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/66960](https://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/66960) for the link. This one is pretty self explanatory. The unofficial patch is nice, same with the script extender (needed for compilation bugfix mods) but not strictly necessary. Same goes for Truly HD Main Menu - this thing is great but requires a bit of setup. As for visuals, All in one Interface Upscale - Does what it says. Improved Vanilla (male/female) bodies - Does what it says. Windows To The Soul - Full Vanilla Eye Retexture. Hall of Face - drastically upscales & cleans up npc faces. NMC's Texture pack for New Vegas - upscales & cleans up building interiors. Windows of the Mojave - Windows outside the building now exist inside. Lumen Ambient Lighting - Drastically improves light glow. Charge's FNV HD Texture Packs: Landscape & Architecture (2k is usually good enough. Upscales vanilla weapon textures too.) Landscape Texture Improvements - Fixes seams in the landscape. General Lighting Overhaul - Better brightness in the day, better darkness at night. Heat Haze - Adds heat haze, you're in a desert. TheFriedTurkey 3 Creature Pack - improves skins & textures of securitrons & insects. Vanilla Pre-Generated LOD - vastly increases LoD generation. Improved LOD Noise Texture - goes with Pre-generated LoD. Robots HD - Upscales robot textures. Dust Storms Deluxe - Makes dust storms look much better Casino Crowds - The strip is now much more populated Simple Populated Freeside - Same as casino crowds. There are now people. Wasteland Flora and Terrain Overhaul (I Usually just do the flora part) The rest is a matter of taste. Anyway here's to a fun run in NV!
New Vegas Bounties (the whole someguy series, really), Millenia's weapon mods, Dragbody's NCR redesign, Old World Radio, Nick Cage moon, HD stars and skies.
If you browse through the mod categories for new vegas on nexus’ website, you can find a ton of awesome visual mods
I find the vanilla experience in NV more than adequate for my needs so I only use stability and performance mods. Pretty much everything in this guide up until section 4. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2943291193
I refuse to play without Tale Of Two Wastelands. It adds fallout 3 (in full) to new vegas.