Visuals
Creating a Separator in MO2.
- Right-click the empty space in the left pane of MO2 and select Create separator.
- Name the separator Visuals.
There may be less visual mods than you may be used to with a modded game, but there is good reason for that. The game has a pretty unoptimized renderer, built on now 20 year old DirectX 9.
Mesh replacers are often grossly unoptimized, which is disastrous, since the mesh pipeline is the main performance bottleneck.
ENBs may make for pretty screenshots, but they are near-impossible to play with due to the many bugs, performance problems and vision-obscuring effects they use.
Texture mods often suffer from being inadequately oversized, which leads to wasteful memory usage and increased loading times and stutter. They also create a great disparity between the new textures and the vanilla textures, both in quality and in style. They can also create some jarring texture transitions or seams, largely mitigated by Landscape Texture Improvements (already in the guide).
Installation instructions:
- Main Files - FaceGen Tint Fixes for NV
Installation instructions:
- Main Files - No Muzzle Flash Lights
This mod does not disable the actual muzzle flashes, but rather the lights the muzzle flashes cast on the environment. It also only disables the effect for NPCs by default, but that can be configured via the included INI file. See the mod's screenshots for details. Like any mod in the guide, it can be skipped if you like the effect and don't mind the performance hit.
Installation instructions:
- Main Files - Anniversary Anim Pack
- Right-click Iron Sights Aligned under your list's Bug Fixes separator, then click Reinstall Mod.
- You will be prompted with a FOMOD installer:
- Anniversary Anim Pack
- Yukichigai's Unofficial Patch
- Install
- Click Replace when prompted.
Installation instructions:
- Main Files - FNV Clean Animations - Anniversary Edition
Smooth True Iron Sights Camera
Installation instructions:
- Main Files - Smooth True Ironsights
Installation instructions:
- Main Files - B42 Inertia V1.2
Installation instructions:
- Main Files - B42 Optics
- B42 Optics NV Patches
- You will be prompted with a FOMOD installer:
- Anniversary Anim Pack
- Install
Installation instructions:
- Optional Files - NVCS Vanilla Weights
Installation instructions:
- Main Files - Improved LOD noise Texture
Landscape Texture Improvements
Installation instructions:
- Main Files - Landscape Texture Improvements
- You will be prompted with a FOMOD installer:
- Next
- YUP Patch
- Install
Installation instructions:
- Main Files - First release.
More Consistent Vanilla Rock Textures (Less Green Clifftops)
Installation instructions:
- Main Files - More Consistent Vanilla Rock Textures
Installation instructions:
- Main Files - A Little More Lamplight
Installation instructions:
- Main Files - Atmospheric Lighting Tweaks - FNV
- Atmospheric Lighting Tweaks - EVEM Patch
Installation instructions:
- Main Files - Desert Natural Weathers NV
If you want a weather mod other than DN Weathers, check out Altitude, Yellow Goodbye, or Clarity.
Installation instructions:
- Main Files - High Resolution Bloom
Installation instructions:
- Main Files - Cloud Upgrade
Installation instructions:
- Main Files - Interior Rain
Installation instructions:
- Main Files - 3D Rain
Installation instructions:
- Main Files - Climate Control - Rain
- Optional Files - Climate Control - 3D Rain