Modding FNV on Steam Deck

[Shevron]

Any updated guides for running NVSE and MO2/Vortex? All the YouTube tutorials I've watched are outdated and no longer seem to work.

[Vex Hilarius]

Does regular vanilla NV work on your steam deck? The deck uses AMD and NV has not worked with AMD since the new year. Many players have to downgrade their drivers to a December update in order to run NV.

[Shevron]

Originally posted by Vex Hilarius:

Does regular vanilla NV work on your steam deck? The deck uses AMD and NV has not worked with AMD since the new year. Many players have to downgrade their drivers to a December update in order to run NV.

Some audio issues but otherwise runs fine on Proton 8.0-5

[psychotron666]

I play on the deck modded, it's the same as on PC. Get a launcher (I use mod organizer 2), add mods, play.
Nvse and 4gb patcher etc install the same way and you run them through mod organizer 2.

[Paladin Dense]

Vex Hilarius, look at using DXVK if you're using AMD, it'll work with AMD GPUs that way.
https://performance.moddinglinked.com/falloutnv.html#DXVK

[MichaelScotton98]

Im sorry im not much of use, Bit I have had MO2 running and New Vegas working fine modded on my deck, this was a bit less than a year ago so sadly like your title says its not updated.. but I used this guide, please let me know if you have come up with an more updated process because this doesnt seem to work for me anymore... https://youtu.be/aCpkD1PVfYE?si=JZfkAMUv7PoZv8KN

[Malala]

Just manually install mods, it is much easier. I copied my windows install from my old PC over to my new linux PC as it was just easier than running every single thing through WINE and having to find workarounds.

[Jinx]

Originally posted by Malala:

Just manually install mods, it is much easier. I copied my windows install from my old PC over to my new linux PC as it was just easier than running every single thing through WINE and having to find workarounds.

Ok so say I copy my windows modded folder over to my steam deck. Which proton compatibility version should I use? I’m only running a couple weapon texture mods. The sprint mod, Nevada skies and the FOV mod.

[Malala]

Originally posted by Jinx:

Originally posted by Malala:

Just manually install mods, it is much easier. I copied my windows install from my old PC over to my new linux PC as it was just easier than running every single thing through WINE and having to find workarounds.

Ok so say I copy my windows modded folder over to my steam deck. Which proton compatibility version should I use? I’m only running a couple weapon texture mods. The sprint mod, Nevada skies and the FOV mod.

I use 9.0-4.

[Bobo]

On Linux (not a Steam Deck) the only way I had success with a mod manager was by following this guide to set up MO2.

https://github.com/rockerbacon/modorganizer2-linux-installer

Lutris installers and trying to run mod managers with Bottles had various issues.

[Death Approaches]

that guide is TERRIBLE and meant for non-technicals who are in linux but never bothered to learn linux, it's unnecessary at best and convoluted at worst; just extract MO2 somewhere and fire off whatever wine/proton you want to use using a WINEPREFIX that points to your proton ??/compatdata/22830/pfx directory or use 'protontricks 22830 shell' and go that route, 'wine MO2.exe' and it'll just work, I really wish he wrote that guide better, he confuses people more than helps them.

copying Data\ over manually works easiest for a lot of people, if they're manually installed mods not in a VFS image, then you don't have to do anything, make your mod changes on your PC where you have a real keyboard and things like typing aren't so annoying, and re-clone it back over each time you update or add new stuff... just keep in mind a Deck ain't that powerful, don't go crazy on mods especially graphical ones, it's an iGPU with 1GB VRAM and the rest is shared system RAM, of which you have a measly 16GB, which for this old thing isn't that limiting, but other games, woof.

re: what version, any should work, the default is fine as long as you don't get audio glitches, but for best experience set the highest stable... anything 7.x or higher though will be best, for any Bethesda game not just this one, mostly because of Faudio (FNA-XNA) support; DirectX does janky things cause Microsoft (c'mon we're in linux remember) and Bethesda's bundled libs count on that... but recent Faudio makes it so XAudio2, X3DAudio, ACT3, etc. just work as they would in real Windows... it's audio bliss and "just works".