Best Fallout: New Vegas mods: What you’ll need. Since New Vegas is an old game with less-than-ideal stability and performance, preparing it for modding is a little more complicated than other Fallout and The Elder Scrolls games. The first thing you need is a Nexus Mods account, the website where most mods are posted.

10 Best Fallout: New Vegas Mods

• 3 A World Of Pain.
• 4 Fallout Character Overhaul.
• 5 Weapon Mods Expanded – WMX.
• 6 NMCS Texture Pack For New Vegas.
• 7 Fallout New Vegas Redesigned 3 – Open Source.
• 8 Project Nevada.
• 9 Combined Community Sound Pack.
• 10 Brave New World.

Nexus Mod Manager (NMM) – A simple yet useful mod manager—especially useful for players who are new to modding. Recommended for experienced modders. (Made for Skyrim but works for Fallout: New Vegas too.)

New Vegas was totally worth playing even without mods (and yes, even with the bugs) but yes there are plenty of mods to basically spruce up the experience.

So yes, Vortex is a lot better than NMM, and for the most part, safe to use. Oh, it’s also recommended to start using Vortex when you’re modding from scratch, as the import from NMM/MO2 is known to be a bit iffy.

Vortex is the new, modern mod manager from Nexus Mods. Lead by Tannin, the creator of Mod Organizer, Vortex takes the lessons learnt during the development of MO and Nexus Mod Manager to provide the most powerful and intuitive modding experience available.

Vortex is designed to seamlessly interact with Nexus Mods allowing you to easily find, install, and play mods from our site, learn about new files and catch the latest news.

in post script> if you decide to try a second install of NMM to a second drive you won’t be able to use the manager option in the downloads on nexus you’ll have to download manually then just open your second copy of NMM then add the mods .

No you can manually download and install Nexus mods. Don’t use the in game mods. Stick with NMM and non Beth.net mods for sure. All you need is LOOT for load order and it works just fine.

Installing Nexus Mod Manager

1. Save the file to your hard-drive like you would any other file you download.
2. Run the installer program you just downloaded.
3. Select the language you would like the installation process to use.
4. The installer wizard should pop up after you hit ok.

Should be in the /Games/Skyrim/mods. I think it’s the default setting, and it can also be changed.

Vortex has replaced NMM as the official mod manager of Nexus Mods, you can learn more about Vortex here. NMM is a completely open source piece of software and, occasionally, people will release new updates and bug fixes to the software.