Like many Bethesda games, modding is one of the big draws of games like Skyrim and Fallout 4 on the PC. Nexus Mod Manager is one of the best ways to install mods on your favorite games, and we’re here to show you how to use it.
Nexus Mod Manager actually supports many other games, too, including The Witcher games, Dragon Age, Dark Souls, and other Fallout and Elder Scrolls games, so you should be able to adapt the instructions for any other game Nexus Mod Manager supports. We’ll use Fallout 4 in today’s example.
How to Enable Modding in Fallout 4
Even though you’ll be using the Nexus Mod Manager, you’ll still have to perform a quick tweak to Fallout 4’s game files before it will accept the mods you install. (Other games, like Skyrim, won’t require this tweak, and you can skip to the next section).
First, navigate to the Fallout 4 folder in your documents directory. You’ll find it under
C:UsersYOURNAMEDocumentsMy GamesFallout4
.Double-click the
Fallout4Prefs.ini
file to open it in your default text editor. It’ll open in Windows Notepad unless you’ve installed another text editor like Notepad++.Scroll down to the very bottom of the text file and you’ll see a
[Launcher]
section. Add the following line below it:Click File>Save to save the file, and then close Notepad.
Double-click the
Fallout4Custom.ini
file to open it in your default text editor. Add the following lines to the end of the file:Click File > Save to save the file, and then close Notepad. Fallout 4 will now accept and use the mods you install.
How to Install and Configure Nexus Mod Manager
It’s possible to manually install mods for a lot of games, or use Steam’s built-in Workshop (for games that support it). However, we recommend using the Nexus Mod Manager tool to make this process easier and reduce the risk you’ll break something while installing a mod.
Download Nexus Mod Manager and install it on your PC. If you don’t yet have a Nexus Mods account, you’ll be informed you need to register for a free account to download it. You’ll be asked to sign up for a paid supporter membership during the sign-up process, but you can just scroll down to the bottom of the page and click “Create Account” to continue.
Launch Nexus Mod Manager after you install it and it will search your PC for games. If you have Fallout 4 installed, it will find it. Just click the checkmark to confirm Fallout 4 is installed at that location and then click “OK.”
Select “Fallout 4” in the list of installed games and click “OK.” If you always want to use this program to manage Fallout 4 mods, click the “Don’t ask me next time” checkbox here.
You’ll be informed that you need to set up the paths where Nexus Mod Manager will store mod-related files. Click “OK” to continue and you’ll see a Fallout 4 Setup screen. By default, Nexus Mod Manager will store these files under
C:GamesNexus Mod ManagerFallout4
.There’s a problem with these default folder settings. It won’t work unless you run Nexus Mod Manager as Administrator. If you run it normally, you’ll see an error informing you that Nexus Mod Manager is “unable to get write permissions for” the directory.
To solve this, set the folder paths to something like
C:UsersYOURNAMEDocumentsNexus Mod ManagerFallout4
. Alternatively, keep the default folders and run Nexus Mod Manager as an Administrator. To do so, right-click the Nexus Mod Manager shortcut and select “Run as administrator.”To always run it as Administrator, right-click the shortcut and select “Open file location.” Right-click the “Nexus Mod Manager” Shortcut, select “Properties, click the “Compatability” tab, and enable the “Run this program as an administrator” checkbox. Click “OK” to save your settings and Windows will always launch Nexus Mod Manager with Administrator permissions.
How to Install Fallout 4 Mods
You’ll want to sign into Nexus Mod Manager with your Nexus account for easy mod installation. To do so, click the profile icon next to “You are not logged in” at the bottom-left corner of the Nexus Mod Manager window. Enter your Nexus Mods username and password here.
You’ll then see a “Logged in” message here, informing you you’re logged in.
You can now head to the Fallout 4 Mods category page to browse and search the available mods. If you’re logged in, you’ll see “[Name]’s account” at the top-right corner of each web page. If you’re not, click the “Log in” link at the top-right corner of the web page.
Locate a mod you want to install and click the “Download (NMM)” button to download the mod with Nexus Mod Manager. Your browser will hand off to the Nexus Mod Manager application, which will download the mod you chose.
The Download link at the top of each mod’s page will download the main, current version of the mod. However, some mods offer multiple versions, or additional files.
To download multiple versions or optional files a mod offers, scroll down on its download page and click the “Files” tab. You’ll see the various files the mod offers, along with explanations from the mod author about what they do. Click “Download With Manager” to download the mod files you want.
Once it’s downloaded and installed, locate the mod in the list, select it, and click the green checkmark button in the sidebar to enable it. You can click the red cancel button that appears in this location afterwards to disable a mod.
Some mods will walk you through a setup process the first time you enable them. You’ll be able to choose different options, depending on the mod. Go through the setup process and select your desired options to enable the mod.
To change these options later, right-click the mod in the Nexus Mod Manager list and select “Reinstall Mod.” You’ll see the same setup screens again.
Now all you need to do is launch Fallout 4. You can do so using the “Launch Fallout4” button at the top-left corner of the screen or just launch it through Steam normally. Load your existing game or create a new one–either way, the mods you installed will immediately take effect.
To disable or uninstall a mod later, close Fallout 4 and open Nexus Mod Manager. Right-click the mod you want to disable or uninstall and select “Deactivate” to disable the mod or “Uninstall and Delete” to remove the mod from your system.
You can also click the settings icon at the top of the Nexus Mod Manager window and use the “Disable All Active Mods” or “Uninstall All Active Mods” options to quickly disable or uninstall all currently activate mods.
How to Configure Your Mod Load Order (and Why It Matters)
The above process should work perfectly if you’re only using one mod. However, if you plan to install several mods, you may need to think about your mod load order.
This is exactly what it sounds like. Fallout 4 will load mods one by one, in the order you specify.
If you have multiple mods installed, some of them may overwrite each other’s changes. For example, you may have one “total overhaul mod” that tweaks a large amount of things in the game, including all the weapons. Second, you may have a small mod that makes a single weapon function in a certain way. If the game loads the small mod before the larger mod, its tweaks will be overwritten by the total overhaul mod. To have the second mod function, the larger total overhaul mod needs to be loaded first.
This only applies to mods that have plugins. If you install a mod with a plugin, it’ll appear on the “Plugins” tab, as well as the “Mods” tab. To control the load order, click over to the “Plugins” tab. Select a mod you’ve installed and click the up and down arrows in the left pane to adjust the load order. The “Masters” information for a plugin tells you when a mod depends on another mod. For example, in the screenshot below, “Homemaker – SK Integration Patch.esp” depends on Fallout4.esm, SettlementKeywords.esm, and Homemaker.esm. It must appear after all these other plugins in the list. Nexus Mod Manager won’t let you move it above those other plugins in your load order.
It may take some trial and error to get the load order working the way you want it. Some mod authors may provide information about recommended load order on their mod’s download page.
If you want some additional help, you can try using LOOT, the Load Order Optimization tool. It works by examining your mods and attempting to decide the correct order so that all dependencies are satisfied and that each mod has a maximum impact on your game. It will recommend you a load order you can configure in Nexus Mod Manager.
How to Deal With Mod Conflicts, or “Overwrites”
There’s another way mods can conflict, and it’s totally separate from your plug-in load order. Sometimes, two mods overwrite the same files in your game, and you’ll need to decide which one you want to take precedence. We’ll use Skyrim here as an example. Skyrim and Fallout 4 share the same engine, and work similarly.
Texture packs are a great example of this. For example, the Skyrim HD mod adds over 2,000 high-res textures to the game, making it look absolutely fantastic. But there are also smaller mods for specific textures–like this Real Ice and Snow mod–that (sometimes) look even better. Let’s say you want to replace most of your game with the Skyrim HD pack, but want the ice and snow from the Real Ice and Snow mod.
First, you select the Skyrim HD mod and enable it, just like you would any other mod. If you start the game at this point, you’d see that the Skyrim HD textures have been applied. Then, when you enable the Real Ice and Snow mod, you’ll get this message:
This happens because you have two mods–Skyrim HD and Real Ice and Snow–attempting to modify Skyrim’s snow and ice textures. If you want Real Ice and Snow, you’ll click “Yes to All” or “Yes to Mod” to overwrite Skyrim HD’s textures. If you prefer Skyrim HD’s textures, you’d click “No to All” or “No to Mod”, and any conflicting textures from Real Ice and Snow would not be applied.
You could load these mods in the opposite order, too. If you loaded Real Ice and Snow first, you’d get the ice from that mod, and decide whether to overwrite it with Skyrim HD after the fact.
If you’re installing a lot of mods, we recommend loading the bigger, game-sweeping mods first as your “base layer”–in the example above, that’s Skyrim HD. Then, load the smaller, more specific mods after, always choosing “Yes to All.”
The more mods you install, the more complex the process becomes, and we’ve only scratched the surface here–there are many mods that require even more steps outside of Nexus Mod Manager to work (like ENBs or interface modifications). But the more you do it, the more it’ll become second nature. If you ever have questions, check the Discussion tab on the offending mod’s Nexus page–there’s a lot of good info to be had, and developers are often pretty responsive.
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Minecraft is a sandbox multiplayer game that is really popular among gamers from around the world because it lets you go above and beyond your imagination and be as much creative as you possibly can. In this game you build anything you want with blocks. You can create cities, castles, countries, kingdoms, etc. Everything is possible in the world of Minecraft. However, some gamers were not content with the unlimited amount of stuff available in the world of Minecraft so they went ahead and created different mods to augment the world of Minecraft even further and add extra features to the overall gameplay. There are countless different mods out there for Minecraft, but almost all of them can be installed easily depending on the version of your Minecraft game.
There is not one simple way of installing a mod for Minecraft because there are different Minecraft mods so there are many different ways of installation for each different mod. However, you can still install many different mods by using simple installation methods that we have mentioned below.
Note: Before you go any further and install any mods on your Minecraft game, just make sure to back up any worlds that you have already saved on your game. If anything should ever go wrong with your installation then you will still have a working backup of your entire game saved on your hard disk.
Method 1: The Easier way to Install Mods
The first method involves using the Minecraft Forge software. This is a simple mod for Minecraft, however, instead of modifying the game entirely this one lets you install different mods for Minecraft easily by using the Forge software. You will need some Forge compatible mods to install for your game. Follow the method below to install Minecraft Forge on your computer.
- Head over to the Official Minecraft Forge Website.
- Download the specific version for your specific version of Minecraft.
- Get the recommended version of Minecraft Forge to be on the safe side.
- Now, find the downloaded file and install the client on your computer.
To check if Minecraft Forge has been successfully installed, Launch Minecraft and look in the drop-down profiles menu. You should now have a new “Forge” profile in the list which means that Forge has been successfully installed on your computer and detected by your Minecraft game.
Now, in order to install mods on your Minecraft game by using forge, you need to download some mods that are compatible with the Forge software. You can find mods on Google, make sure that you read the official developer website of the mod to find out if the mod is compatible with Forge or not. Once you download the mod, find the downloaded zip file of the mode and Copy/Paste it in Mods folder that is available inside the /minecraft folder created by Forge software.
Launch Minecraft and you will find the installed mods under the Mods menu section. You can select your preferred mod and start playing your favorite game with the best mods installed.
Method 2: The Harder Way to Install Mods
This is more of a direct approach to installing mods for Minecraft that’s why it’s a little bit complex than the previous method. There’s always a chance of damaging your saved worlds when using the direct method so it’s always better to backup all your files before performing any mod related function on your game.
1. First of all, locate the Minecraft folder where all the important files are stored. You can find it at C:Usersuser nameAppDataRoaming.minecraft, Once you have located this folder make sure that you can find an archive file named minecraft.jar. This is the file that needs to be modified in order to run your mods.
2. Now download the mod that you want to install in Minecraft. Also, make sure to have an archive utility installed on your computer (7zip or WinZip or recommended). You will need an archive utility to unzip the minecraft.jar archive file.
3. Unarchive the minecraft.jar archive and extract all the files. Now install the mod. The installation instructions vary by each mod but mostly it involves unarchiving the mod archive and moving all the content into the minecraft.jar file.
4. Before you can go launch Minecraft and enjoy your mods. You have to get rid of the META-INF folder. This folder is also located in the same directory as Minecraft. Just delete it. You have to delete it because it keeps Minecraft from running any mods. So if you want to run any mods on Minecraft then you will have to remove this folder for good.
5. Launch Minecraft. If you followed each step carefully then Minecraft should start and the mod automatically starts running along with Minecraft. You can now enjoy your modded Minecraft game.
Where to find Minecraft mods?
There are countless different mods available for Minecraft. So always make sure to find the compatible mod for your running version of Minecraft. There are some mods developed by unknown developers so you should always stay away from such mod because these can damage your entire game and saved files. Always download mods from trusted developers. You can find many different mods on the official Minecraft forums. Another great place to find Minecraft mods is the top list at Minemum. Planet Minecraft has some of the latest news regarding Minecraft and it also offers a lot of amazing mods for the game as well. Always make sure to read the entire Mod documentation before downloading the mods, this can save you from any trouble later when playing the game.
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You can use any of the above-mentioned methods to install Minecraft mods on your computer. If you have any other better way of installing Minecraft mods then feel free to post them in the comment section below.
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With all the stylizing and visual flair in this new entry, this is one game that NEEDED to be 3D ready. Fortunately the game only required a few simple fixes to get it darn near perfect.
Fixed:
-Lighting & Shadows
-Halos
-Reflections
Disabled:
-Tire track ground decal in City in Chaos stage
Updated to version 2.2 on 10-27-2016
-Fixes shadows under characters that were missing after one of the latest updates
-Fixed lighting/specular reflections, which were previously disabled all together (needs high convergence around 150-250 for them to be in the correct location). Adds another layer to the awesome visuals
-Added side-by-side / top-and-bottom 3D support
Previous updates:
-2.1: Fixed regression, where broken tire track effect in City in Chaos stage reappeared
-2.0: Fix for Story Mode shaders. Also fixed some additional lighting/shadows that were previously unfixed
Sfv Pak Mods
INSTRUCTIONS
1. Download: Version 2.22. Install to: .Street Fighter VStreet Fighter VBinariesWin64
3. Update Nvidia driver profile: Please follow these instructions
Additional functions:
-Pressing the Xbox Right Stick button (click the stick in) toggles between 50 convergence and 250, which is useful for switching between story mode (50 convergence) and fight battles (250).
-Pressing the key toggles HUD on/off
-Pressing the [ key cycles the HUD through various depths.
*Note: This does cause the life bars to glitch a little and not display correct amount of life for a short while after taking a hit, but they should show correct values after some time. You can cycle until they are at screen depth if you don't like the glitch, or change 'z = 0.5' to 'z = 0.0' in the d3dx.ini file.
Enjoy!
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So you've bought Minecraft and spent some time mucking around in a blocky wonderland--and now you want a little more out of the experience. This is where mods come in.
Single-Player Modding
Installing mods for a single-player client is a somewhat convoluted process. The steps vary from mod to mod, so you'll want to follow the instructions listed on the particular mod you're looking for, but the general technique is the same. I'll walk through installing one mod on Windows: Minecraft user jamioflan's World War 2 Guns. This mod adds MP40s, bazookas, and the like, to exact vengeance on nefarious hordes of zombies and creepers.
Jamioflan's forum post provides links to the mod proper, along with a few necessary files: ModLoader, AudioMod, and ModLoaderMP. The Minecraft community developed those three tools to enable mods to function properly. You'll also need a compression tool--WinRAR or 7-Zip--so grab one of them (I use 7-Zip) if you don't have an app handy already.
First find the 'minecraft.jar' file. Click the Start button, and type ' %appdata% ' into the search window (without quotation marks but with one space before and another after the typed string) to get to Windows' application data folder. The folder '.minecraft' will be at the top. Open the folder titled 'bin', and look for the file 'minecraft.jar'--this is where the magic happens.
When you find it, make a copy of 'minecraft.jar', and stash it somewhere. If something goes wrong, you'll want a clean copy to start over with. Right-click the original minecraft.jar, and open the archive with Win-RAR/7-Zip. You'll see a long list of files in a new window. Follow the instructions provided by the mod at this point: For the WW2 Guns mod, you'll copy all of the '.class' files from ModLoader, ModloaderMP, AudioMod, and the WW2 Guns mod into the open 'minecraft.jar' archive.
The last and most important step: Delete the 'META-INF' folder inside the 'minecraft.jar' file; otherwise, Minecraft will just crash when you start it up. Close the file when you're done.
And with that, you're set! This particular mod requires collecting materials, so if you want to see whether it worked, create a new world in Create mode, and spawn a few guns to see them in action.
Server Modding
Installing mods on the server client is much easier.
The first step is to install CraftBukkit and have it running on the server. The Bukkit wiki offers instructions, as well as a pair of simple applications that will get you started without any code-wrangling.
The first option, involves 'How to Install Bukkit (Newb Friendly)', a simple batch file that will look for any server mods and fire up your server with them enabled. Download this file and then double-click the html shortcut file labeled Latest CraftBukkit Download to get the latest version of the CraftBukkit Java executable.
Stick that and the CraftBukkit Starter.bat file you've already downloaded into your Minecraft server, and double-click the batch file. It will open a console window, create a fresh world (or tap into yours), and start your server.
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The second option is a bit more robust. ImminentFate's CraftBukkit Installer is a Windows-only application that you'll need to install on your PC. Once it's running, the app will list all of the plug-ins that it finds. CraftBukkit Installer is definitely the more user-friendly of the two options, with a clean interface and neat features, including managing worlds and attempting to automatically update all of the plug-ins you're using.
How To Install Mods On Sfv Pc
Whichever option you choose, installing mods is simple: Download one, and dump it into the 'plugins' folder that either app creates.
Finding Mods
Now you just need to find these mods I keep talking about. The official Minecraft forums' Mods section is a good place to start looking, if you just want to browse new, popular additions to your experience. The mods can range from adding new blocks and tools, to introducing full-fledged conversions that turn Minecraft into an entirely new experience. Many of them are technically cheats--mods that tell you where to find rare minerals or that add macro commands for controlling your health levels and the like. Use them at your own discretion.
For the server side of things, the Bukkit dev website hosts an exceptionally large number of mods. These are conveniently arranged into categories, which simplifies the task of tracking an individual item down.
So many options! I've already linked to the World War 2 Gun Mod, and that particular forum post offers up a lot more in the same vein.
On the PCWorld Minecraft server, Dynmap is invaluable. Once it's installed, you can point a browser to a URL, and get a map of the server, complete with real-time updates and chatting functionality. Dynmap makes it easy to figure out where everyone is and to coordinate efforts: I like to keep it open on my iPad for a bird's-eye view of what's going on while I'm deep in subterranean crypts.
Found a mod that you can't live without? Let us know! And if you haven't already, be sure to check out our guide to getting started in Minecraft, and our guide to setting up your own server.