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Fallout 3 - Remaster & QoL Mod's 2025
By Ragna_Ikari
Bored of the usual Fallout 3 experience? If you want to change it up, this article shows the list of mods than i use on my own playthrough. Its looks great in 2025 and its also performance and lore friendly.
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Guide Index
Overview
Fallout 3 - Remaster & QoL Mod's 2025 
Prepare for Modding 
Sprint Mod 
Enhanced Camera 
Alternate Start 
Fellout 
User Interface Organizer 
Immersive HUD - iHUD 
No more dots 
Loot Menu 
Fallout 3 HD Overhaul 
Flashlight 
Iron Sights Plus 
Accurate NASA Stars 
HD Moon Cycle Textures 
Enhanced Blood Textures v2 
Effects teXtures Enhanced 
Flora Overhaul 
Devestated City 
ATMOS Ambient Sound Overhaul 
Fallout 3 Redesigned 
Body replacer 
body and face textures workshop - Type 3 - 4 and 6 
Male Body Overhaul 
HD Creatures 
Weapon Enhancement Pack 
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Fallout 3 - Remaster & QoL Mod's 2025
Prepare for Modding
Highly recommended

If you have any issues, watch my other guide.
It will show you a few steps like bug fixes, modding manager and some other tips and tricks, to prepare Fallout 3 for mods.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3432868089

Sprint Mod
Adds a sprint button. Now you can run freely around the wastes like you've always wanted to, limited only by your action points.

Details
With FOSE: The sprint key replaces the run key. Simply hold down run to sprint. -OR-If you would like to preserve the functionality of the run key, you can set a custom keybinding from the control settings menu of the pedometer.

Without FOSE: In NoFOSE mode, you must bind the Sprint Hotkey / Pedometer in your inventory to a hotkey. To start sprinting, press the sprint hotkey and then move forward. To stop sprinting, press the hotkey again. To bind a hotkey, hold down a number key while viewing the inventory and click on the item you want to bind. You can set a sprint delay in the settings menu of the pedometer, which will allow you to run for a certain amount of time without sprinting. So if you choose a delay of 2 you'll need to run forward for 2 seconds before you start sprinting.

For both: Sprinting takes action points, and if you run out, you'll have to wait for them to recharge. The more endurance you have, the less AP it takes to sprint, and the more agility you have, the faster you'll go. The amount of weight you're carrying also affects your speed. There are certain situations in which you will be unable to sprint, such as when your legs are broken, or when you're overencumbered. Various screen effects are used to enhance the sense of speed. For a readout of your speed and distance potential and access to various settings, use the Pedometer located in the apparel section of your inventory.

Install
1. Extract the files to a temporary location.
2. Examine the folder structure and make corrections where necessary.
3. Copy files to (install folder)\Fallout 3\Data\
4. Start Fallout Launcher, click 'Data Files', place a checkmark beside the .esp file(s).

Uninstall
1. Start Fallout Launcher, click Data Files, uncheck the .esp file(s).
2. Delete the files/folders associated with the mod.

Fallout 3\Data\Sprint Mod.esp
Fallout 3\Data\sound\fx\Sprint\
Fallout 3\Data\textures\interface\icons\pipboyimages\perks\Sprint\
Enhanced Camera

This is a FOSE plugin that enables a visible body and player shadows when in first person. Also, any points where the game force switches to 3rd person (sitting/knockout/death, etc.) are now in 1st person.

Requirements
This plugin requires Fallout 3 version 1.7.0.3 and FOSE v1.2 beta 2 or higher.
Install
Extract the contents of this archive into your Fallout 3 Data folder.
Uninstall
Delete "FOSE_EnhancedCamera.dll" and "FOSE_EnhancedCamera.ini" from your "DataFOSEPlugins" folder.

Alternate Start
Considerably speeds up the character creation process.
Start the game faster right outside Vault 101. You start with a meager amount of supplies that you would likely have gotten if you actually completed the tutorial.
Fellout
Fellout is a weather and lighting mod intended to get rid of that awful green tint to everything. It does this both indoors and out.


User Interface Organizer
An FOSE-powered plugin that is designed to manage and maintain all UI/HUD extensions added to the game by various mods. Once installed, UIO will ensure UI extensions are always properly installed and, when necessary, properly removed; it will automatically detect, resolve and prevent UI-related issues, and will help keep the game's UI intact.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTlXOqV6pBA

Install
Simply download and install it using NMM/FOMM, or manually extract the ZIP archive into the game's 'Data' folder. Please note that this is an FOSE plugin, not a standard mod - it doesn't include an ESP/ESM file and will therefore not show in your load-order.

Immersive HUD - iHUD
The aim of iHUD is to provide the immersive feel you get from having no HUD, whilst keeping the usefulness of having one. It takes the permanantly visible HUD elements such as HP, AP, radar etc, and hides them when not needed. Hence the motto:

HUD when you need. HIDE when you don't.

Requirements
This mod NEEDS FOSE!

Installation
1 - Download and install using NMM or any other Mod Manager.
2 - Activate and make sure the iHUD.esp file is checked.
3 - You will need to install UIO if you have not installed it already. This will automatically include all the menu files required. It is possible to manually install them if you prefer, but you must figure that out yourself :)
4 - Download and activate the Vanilla patch if you do not use any other UI mods. You will not need this if you use Adjustable HUD or Darnfied UI etc.
No more dots
Rremove dotted tracks from map
Loot Menu
Adds a real-time menu for looting.
Take items with the 'Activate' key. Scroll with mouse-wheel or DPAD. Open containers with the 'Reload' key.
Holding shift or DPAD Left/Right allows equipping or taking all items.
The INI allows configuring the max number of items, whether the vanilla prompt is hidden, and various UI properties.

Items are sorted for ease of use:
Quest Items, Weightless Items, Keys, Notes, Books, Ammo, Aid, Weapons, Armor and Misc.

Installation
Use Mod Organizer 2/Nexus Mod Manager/FOMM, or manually extract the .zip file into your Fallout 3 'Data' folder. It is safe to install, update or uninstall mid-playthrough (a new save is not required).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3mHUZPG7h0
Fallout 3 HD Overhaul
Fallout 3 HD Overhaul is providing new and improved lore friendly HD textures, ranging from 1K resolution up to 8K. He replaces thousands of textures all over the world of fallout 3.
















Requirements
A full stable and patched Fallout 3 which is capable to run these textures.
FOSE
Fallout Anniversary Patcher
Updated Unofficial Fallout 3 Patch
lStewieAl's Tweaks
Out of Memory Fix
Fallout 3 Heap Replacer
NVAC - New Vegas Anti Crash
Command Extender
Flashlight
The flashlight is a light beam that follows your line of sight. It's effective up to 1000 units away. (For reference, an average player character about 125 units tall.) The beam magically comes out of your player's face, so in that sense it's not really a flashlight. This light is not connected to your Pip-Boy light; your Pip-Boy light will continue to work as normal.

Requirements
1. Fallout 3, version 1.7.
2. Fallout Script Extender (if you want to use a FOSE version).
Iron Sights Plus
Adds iron sights to vanilla Fallout 3's weapons, including energy weapons.

Requirements
  • Fallout 3 Script Extender v1.3b2
  • lStewieAl Tweaks (True iron sights enabled)
  • Updated Unofficial Fallout 3 Patch
  • Archive Invalidation

Accurate NASA Stars
New star texture and mesh using NASA satellite images to create a real-world accurate starfield for Fallout 3. Features a visible Milky Way Galaxy and constellations!
Available in 4 different resolutions.


ENB users
you may need to tweak your "enbseries.ini" settings in order for the stars to look correct.
    Sky
  • StarsIntensity=3.2
  • StarsCurve=1.5

HD Moon Cycle Textures
A set of new textures for our natural satellite.


Enhanced Blood Textures v2
Increases the resolution size from 256 to 1024 and created new textures for screen, world, wounds and static blood decals.

Effects teXtures Enhanced
Every last visual effect texture in FO3 base game remade. This affects all visuals in a great way.

Flora Overhaul
New trees and flora. Several versions to choose from.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtzLyoEwjQU

Recommendet Anti-Aliasing Settings:

Devestated City
This mod attempts to make the downtown D.C. area feel more post apocalyptic, by adding things like vehicles, rubble, craters etc. However, the changes are not too extensive at the moment.

Version 2 - Added more vehicles on the roads around the city and cleaned with Fo3Edit

ATMOS Ambient Sound Overhaul
Take your immersion to the next level.
More than 200 new ambient sound effects.
Over 3000 hand places sound emitters.
3D sound effect with actual distance and direction in the gameworld.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mR7RzkpXY5c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVSLIf2-P74
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2wJjB2F-FU

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
Ambient Wasteland 2
eerie ambient

Installation:
Download and install with NMM or Vortex
Manually download, and extract into Fallout 3 data folder.
Fallout 3 Redesigned
This mod just makes people look more realistic.



























HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
FO3Redesigned (Project Beauty) Patches
Compatibility patches for Fallout 3 Redesigned aka Project Beauty and various popular mods.
Body replacer
Female body replacer featuring no neckseams and much improved arms and upperbody. Complete set of armor and clothing with support for all DLCs, and Impact.

Installation
Download the Main package and install with your favorite package manager.

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
Unofficial Fallout 3 Patch
body and face textures workshop - Type 3 - 4 and 6
Body and face texture options.
Includes all female based textures necessary for the installation of any TYPE Body.

  • Severl Variants of the Female face texture.
  • HD 4k textures replacer for type based bodies, clean, dirty, and freckled.
  • Raider Textures.
  • Ghoul texture
  • DLC tribal texture and ESP fix (for missing hands, and ther misc fixes)
  • Christine, lobotomite and Fallout 3 DLCs.
  • "Type" based bodies (type3, type6, type4, type6m...)

Install
Install the MAIN FILE, for the body type you use.
Run the installer and select your desired options.
Optionally download Fallout 3 patch, if you are installing it for fallout 3, or TTW
Then check the optional files if you want to use these texture on some custom race.

There are 6 variants:

Hairy or Shaved, that both come in clean and dirty and freckled version.

IMPORTANT INSTALLATION NOTE
To successfully install this mod, you need to DEACTIVATE it and REACTIVATE your archive invalidation.
If you have any questions regarding Archive Invalidation, please read this article[www.nexusmods.com] : Archive Invalidation - How to use. it contains detailed explanation of what it is, why it is necessary, and how to use it.

Male Body Overhaul
Features of the new male body:
- Seamless (with its set of heads and hands);
- High Poly, yet reasonable;
- Vanilla compatible;
- High resolution textures (4k body);
- Seamless textures for all races, including DLC tribals, ghouls etc...
- Real feet model;
- Underwear version, nude version or "erect" version.

Highly recommended
Tribal fixes
Tribal Fixes is highly recommended if you want your White Legs Race fixed.
Vanilla has a bug and it point to the wrong hand texture.
Also fixes all female tribal races that used the male hand, nstead of the female one.

HD Creatures
Retexture of creatures with totally new bump-maps and sharpened mip maps

Weapon Enhancement Pack
A Texture replacement pack for several of the fallout 3 weapons and some of its unique weapons containing several fixes.

Installation
Download via NMM or drag and drop the 'data' folder into your Fallout 3 directory

If you are using RH Ironsights, download the patch in the 'files' tab


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10 Comments
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rarydar84 May 11 @ 9:27pm 
Why does the HD overhaul require like 50 plugins and patches bro
Ragna_Ikari  [author] Apr 29 @ 3:10am 
thanks :grwheart:
Hetann Apr 28 @ 11:29pm 
@Ragna_Ikari it would be nice, this guide is the best ive ever seen
mfreeman Apr 21 @ 8:08pm 
I'm gonna start a new playthrough using your suggestions, thanks:cozybethesda:
Ragna_Ikari  [author] Apr 17 @ 7:56am 
@Zanudych
Nope
Zanudych Apr 17 @ 7:39am 
Is there a ready-made assembly with these mods? A repack?
Ragna_Ikari  [author] Apr 17 @ 1:54am 
@Hetann
no but i can make one maybe
Hetann Apr 16 @ 7:25pm 
Cool Guide, u have a NV version?
Ragna_Ikari  [author] Apr 10 @ 9:37am 
maybe english?
Zanudych Apr 10 @ 9:16am 
Было бы неплохо,сразу готовым паком ;c