New to Fallout 3, want some mods

New to the game, just got it on Steam today. Not sure what really prompted me to have a sudden interest nor sure why i never had a previous interest.

anyway, i want to spice it up right from the start. I just want mainly some texture type mods like Qarl's texture pack was for Oblivion, shadow/lighting type mods. Anything else that might make for a good first time experience?
I rummaged through Nexus but there's just too many without knowing which would make for the best experience.

 

Funny enough ive just installed it and was looking for Fallout 3 thread to revive it

Same here really, looking for some graphical mods! I remember somebody posting some really sweet looking screen here before!

 

Wanny, had this game looking really nice...maybe he will check in here, soon.

 

NMC's texture pack is a must!
TV's ENB for Fallout 3 was pretty darn gorgeous from what I remember. A few of my screens from it:
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8330/8131439014_87aca85b8f_o.png
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8055/8131439688_e09f5d2da0_o.png
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8044/8131413215_a81944d71c_o.png

I used it in conjunction with SweetFX.

Hell, here is my old mod list that I screenshotted.

Couldnt play without the enhanced night sky, Fallout Street Lights, Light of Night (makes nights darker - i used moonlight), megaton lighting overhaul, Xepha's darkened interiors, Project Reality

If you want the grass to look like it does in the above screenshots, edit fallout.ini with the following:

Code:

[Grass] 
iMinGrassSize=10
GrassPointLighting=1
bDrawShaderGrass=1
iGrassDensityEvalSize=2
iMaxGrassTypesPerTexure=4

If you want to massively increase Draw Distance, in the same file (fallout.ini)

Code:

uGridsToLoad=7
uExterior Cell Buffer=64

That's all I got. So many mods and config changes.... it's hard to remember everything

 

There's a fallout 3 mods thread here
http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=287764


Edit:

Good suggestions, jim2point0. I have some of them included in the thread linked above.

 

Everytime someone post screenshots of this game...it makes me want to play it again

 

I can post a list of mods but you are better off with ENB since its available for FO3.

I tried to use ENB in FO3 today but settings are spread everywhere so its kinda hard... I need patience...

edit: Well since ENB works kinda good from the go in FO3, I might give it a shot and learn it for good... Here's a shot I took after a few tweaks.



I'm gonna post a mod list soon that imho are essentials and I might continue my work on ENB tweaks (start point from Midhrastic's, all credits to him) + SweetFX if needed.

 

Midhras' enb is pretty spectacular for nights\indoors. He also has some pretty spiffy DoF going on. His daytimes are a bit funky though. Let me know if you ever work that out I prefered TV's ENB for overall daytime\nighttime balance.

 

I recommend installing something like MMM to increase the difficulty.

 

I also did a wrye bash (flash) guide for managing fallout 3 mods
http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=350762

I still have my wrye flash installation in place and can install all my mods instantly if I was to reinstall fallout 3 or nv.

 

A question.

How does Fallout 3 stand up against Fallout New Vegas Graphics and gameplay wise?

Loved Fallout NV and will buy the fallout 3 collection depending on your comments.

 

Fallout 3 has better atmosphere, both have same gameplay for the most part.

I liked FO3 the best.

 

Yes FO3 has a lot more atmosphere and mods make it even more eerie and creepy. I also prefer FO3 over FNV when it comes to replay.

 

What does that mean? What is F3 missing?

Excluding mods, does F3 and FNV have the same quality graphics wise?
If the answer is "no" Do the F3 mods make the grphics way better then FNV?

Edit: Also I saw this on the Fallout 3 Steam page "Notice: Fallout 3 is not optimized for Windows 7" Does this mean it will not work or keep crashing with Win 8 or Win 7?

 

I found New Vegas to be a lot uglier than Fallout 3. Both were fun games and had the same gameplay. The story intrigued me in both of them. But F3 does look better. I couldnt even make it look good with ENB... no matter how hard I tried.

 

Playing F3 once again and having a blast!

 

Keep this thread alive with some screenshots and mods.

This game and the STALKER series is why I have such a huge back log

I would play this again, but installing all of the mods was so damn time consuming in NV......plus the game crahed to desktop too much for me.

I would love to play FO3 in a very deep and creepy enviorment, with just a few quick mods......was hoping this game would get something like STALKER complete mod....which I adore.

F1refly...you will like the game, me thinks.

 

Please confirm, does this game work or keep crashing with Win 8 or Win 7?

If yes then why this notification on the Steam page? "Notice: Fallout 3 is not optimized for Windows 7"

http://store.steampowered.com/app/22370/?snr=1_7_suggest__13

 

That doesn't mean it crashes... I don't know why it says that at all. The game runs great on Windows 7.

 

Fallout NV cashed almost once every 2 hours for me in Win 7 and Win 8.
Anyway thank you for the info, will buy it on sale