Fenris' Personal Mod Guide / Setup
Because I'm gonna forget what to install in a year or two.
Title: Waiting on that part of my brain to come up with something decent.
Game
- Fallout 4 v1.9.4.0
DLC Required
- Wasteland Workshop
- Automatron
- Far Harbour
- Contraptions Workshop
- Vault-Tec Workshop
- Nuka-World
Introduction
If you're following this guide I'm going to make an ass of you and me and assume that you know what you're doing when it comes to modding Bethesda games.
I'll do my best to have the mods here ordered in a way that makes sense, though my usual install methodology is to go down the list of the top 100 mods and install them one after the other.
I tend to favor lore friendly mods that spice up the visuals, as well as grabbing as many lore friendly weapon and armour mods as I can fit into a load order.
I'll include reminders to run LOOT and to check that your game isn't derping out after each section.
Here's my PC's config if you're into that sort of thing, it's probably worth mentioning that this guide will favor high fidelity over FPS, with little to no compromises:
- CPU: Intel Core i5 4670K @ 4.2Ghz
- GPU: MSI GeForce GTX 980Ti @ 1440Mhz / 7Ghz
- RAM: 16GB Corsair Vengeance 1600Mhz CL9
- Mobo: MSI Z87-GD65 Gaming Motherboard
- SSDs: 2x Kingston HyperX 120GB RAID0
Getting Started
First things first: Install the game.
Whether via steam or some other platform, it's usually a good idea to install the game to a directory that isn't Steam's default.
That is to say, anywhere that isn't either C:\Program Files or C:\Program Files (x86).
Below is a small walkthrough of how to set up a secondary install location in Steam.
If you have a second hard drive or an SSD just for games, then you have no doubt done this already.
Drivers & Applications
Whilst the game is downloading, this is the perfect time to prepare the other applications that we're going to use.
Firstly, update your graphics card drivers.
Choose a text editing program.
There are a few choices here, the main two being Notepad++,
and Sublime Text 3.
The latter being my preferred editor.
Once you have chosen a text editor you should set it as the default program to open both .ini and .txt files.
To do this go to your Fallout 4 directory and right click an ini file such as Fallout4_Default.ini, then select Open With > Choose another app.
Ensure that Always use this app to open .ini files is ticket, then scroll down the list and click More apps > Look for another app on this PC.
Point Windows to the editor's executable file.
For Notepad++ this is a file named notepad++.exe located in C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++
For Sublime Text this is a file named sublime_text.exe located in C:\Program Files\Sublime Text 3
