Tale of Two Wastelands (FALLOUT Mod) - Installing with VORTEX

Tale of Two Wastelands (TTW) is a complete overhaul mod that ports Fallout 3 to Fallout : New Vegas. In this video I will show you how to install TTW and get it working using VORTEX.
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[@b212hp]

This is the stuff that first brought Gopher to my attention: his epic tutorials.

[@Moparmutt1976]

Between Gopher and GamerPoets I pretty much have solid Fallout 3, N.V. and 4

[@ssaunders1122]

​@jasontodd8222 I'm working on that myself. I still can not get fallout 3 working. Hoping this tale of two wastelands works for me lol

[@fordid42]

@@ssaunders1122 FO3 through TTW works excellently, as long as everything is installed right. Hope you have fun!

[@xp00ch]

For everyone saying this doesn't work - You can follow this the majority of the way however when you get to the essential mods part you need to follow the text guide that he has linked in the description as there are far more essential mods now than when this video was made. I used this video to install the main TTW mod and then followed the other guide for everything else and TTW is now running flawlessly for me

[@elyjhalewis999]

Do you also have texture issues where after 5ft infront of you the textures are blurry? The only thing I did with the textures was download his collection

[@xp00ch]

@@elyjhalewis999 i'm playing with vanilla textures and don't have that issue. Are you talking about the NMC Texture Packs? If so I know there are Large, Medium and Small versions. Maybe try the medium one if you're using Large currently. Also, make sure you flick Archive Invalidation OFF and then back ON whenever you install any texture mods. The only other thing I can think of is another mod that accompanies the texture packs called 'NMC's Pre-Generated LOD Updated'. This could help you. Hope you get it running as you wish

[@justinponce7751]

My game crashes when I click new game how can I fix this???

[@OweMeOneKenobii]

@@justinponce7751 same

[@perryperihelion]

@@justinponce7751 hey dude i know its been a week but just in case youre still looking, i found out that if you have any of the newer AMD drivers they completely broke both 3 and New Vegas, even 100% unmodded mine were crashing when i clicked new game. I rolled back my drivers to 23.12.1 that seems to be the most recent version that works. it was as simple as downloading the file from amd and launching it for me

[@beedykh2235]

All love and respect to you Gopher. I can't imagine modding in a world without Gopher.

[@priceaction1676]

Gay

[@calvinnicholls8244]

Gopher please do a TTW playthrough been a fan since the fallout 3 days and nobody does it better than you, much love Gopher.

[@demistr7435]

TTW playthrough coming? Please say yes. I would be really interested in seeing another playthrough with a totally different character. Something like you did with Leonard.

[@sethharley5557]

I second this

[@beterbomen]

I third this.

[@TdogGamin]

I fourth this

[@LIFEDEATH65]

I fifth this

[@narutokdh]

I sixth this

[@dylanglenn5005]

I absolutely agree with everybody saying a TTW playthrough would be so awesome

[@Jonnecy]

I need a Gopher TTW playthrough in my life !

[@zack7541]

It's so funny that years ago as a kid I watched your tutorial on modding Fallout 3 on my laptop that could barely run the base game and now here I've come full circle after just seeing TTW got an update. So I just want to thank you for your time and dedication Gopher, from years ago to now; great to see you still around

[@CaptainShack]

OMG A TTW Playthrough?! Sooooooo down for this. Stay awesome Gopher!

[@nilrim8173]

I've always been a huge Skyrim fan and your videos are the only ones I have ever followed for modding, and I decided I wanted to play Fallout now, I cant believe you just put this out right as I needed it! I purchased both games and I am installing them right now to do this, you are absolutely epic! I recommend you to everyone who wants to mod! You have the most helpful and well explained videos I have ever seen for modding

[@midnightpandax]

IF YOU ARE HAVING PROBLEMS WITH THE HEAP REPLACER READ THIS!! There has been an update to the Heap Replacer that makes it so you don't have to run the .exe anymore. HOWEVER you have to place this in the Data folder in your Fallout New Vegas directory. Just drag everything in the Data folder and you're all set.

[@grafpanzer1277]

The NVHR doesnt have a mod manager download button, and im unsure if it'll affect something, I had done it via importing it to vortex but i get error msg relating to HR binary

[@pipe_2k719]

@@grafpanzer1277just extract the files and drag them to the folder the description of the mod tells you. It's that easy fr.

[@Lost_Highway2049]

Hi do you mean extract to the main NV folder or the data folder within that folder?

[@midnightpandax]

​@@Lost_Highway2049 The data folder in that folder

[@pipe_2k719]

@@Lost_Highway2049 Steps: 1.- Extract the file in your desktop, a new folder should appear. 2.- Open game directory (folder where the game is installed). Here you'll find a folder named "Data". 3.- Drag the "Data" folder from your extracted file to you FNV Directory Folder.

[@riceonpizza6096]

Your tutorials are simply unmatched. Keep it up man.

[@SadisticSenpai61]

Just a note for anyone not using Vortex. The .exe file isn't in the newest versions of Heap Remover. I had to go back to the 3.2 version to get the .exe file to find out which version I was supposed to use. And then I had to delete the files I didn't need from the NVHR folder and the pdbs folder from the mod. Then just copy the NVHR file to the Data folder. Yay! All done!

[@HaplessOne]

thanks champ

[@Kaleun14]

Do we really need the exe version?

[@SadisticSenpai61]

@@Kaleun14 If you want to know which version to keep in the NVHR file, yes. If you leave all of them in there, you'll get an error.

[@FridayUwU]

my hero

[@Birdie_1991]

fixed it for me thank you so much

[@arrijones]

Always good to see a new tutorial by Gopher.

[@elflord8931]

Thank you so much Gopher for the new tutorial series! I've been waiting a few weeks for it and i've been itching to play Fallout 3 again and this has been a massive help :)

[@The_Elden_One]

This is insane. I literally have been itching to do a tale of two wastelands playthrough for weeks now and I've been gifted this beauty of a video. I'm holding off until you release a follow up video of your recommended mods but I am so excited to lose myself in the Wasteland('s) all over again. Also I hope this means that a certain someone shall be playing through fallout 3 since their last playthrough was cut too short due to unforeseen circumstances ;)

[@aibal]

Oh please let this mean there's a new fallout playthrough coming!

[@losmosquitos1108]

You‘re lucky that YT‘s AI can‘t decipher latin based medical terminology, labia majora…. 🤣🤣

[@blackwatertv7018]

Funny story

[@guitarxgaming64]

"When I think back to experiences in the Capital Wasteland, I get nostalic goosebumps.." Well said! It was my introduction to the franchise, and while I played it on concole basically having no clue what was going on for the most part, it was my best fallout experience overall despite the newer games being an objectively better execution of the fallout formula

[@ethansnow2175]

say what now "the newer games being an objectively better execution of the fallout formula"´you sir are a heretic the only good execution of fallout formula are 1 , 2 maybe tactics, your modern 3D crap is well crap. 3 to 4 are passable crap but i sure hope you did not inculde the turd of fallout 76 in the better category of anything. thank you have a nice day

[@PuffnStuff117]

Disagree with the other games executing fallout better but for sure ! Fallout 3 is my favorite fallout experience over all

[@Jmoney543]

That collections feature just blew my mind... Thanks for putting the work into this!

[@AIextheguy]

Can confirm this installation process with the essentials collection worked for me! Very exicted to jump into Fallout 3 again as it has been a long time, but will hold off for the followup to this. Cheers for tossing this all together!

[@JamesMiller69]

Man you've always been sucha big help with modding some of my favorite games, really appreciate this video.

[@moochcat8439]

I got an itch to mod a new game today. This fits this bill. I never really played deeply into either game. Thank-you for all tutorials you have made throughout the years.

[@pietermeyer9740]

Geez I think I've been subscribed to your channel now for 10 years, I'm 32 now. Thanks for everything Gopher.

[@Fireguy36]

I've had no problem up until 22:43 I have nothing in that folder for that mod that says "cpu_info.exe" And those .dll are not in separate folders, they're all shown in the single folder. I did use the collection you made. EDIT: Future me, dont worry just start the game without doing that, that window will pop up before the game starts and it will tell you which one you need.

[@WantNuggies]

I couldnt get this to work for me, anythng else you did?

[@_eclipz_]

@@WantNuggies Same here

[@Fitzwewels]

@@_eclipz_ When you run the game via NVSEloader in your Fallout New Vegas folder, it opens a window which shows what the CPU reader thing does.

[@beowulfschmidt6031]

Man, I was thinking this was gonna be hard. As always, Gopher makes it relatively simple. Well done.

[@JeremyRichard82]

Followed all the directions on my new computer and Gopher is a hero. Worked flawlessly!

[@bkzach]

Thanks for making this Gopher, I may just have to try this out, very cool to have the mechanics from New Vegas in fallout 3

[@TheErusPrime]

Love to see a gopher collection of mods you'd add to ttw besides the vanilla. We have similar tastes so your modpacks are always the best.

[@greengiant1006]

I’m a huge fallout fan and every time I see I need to do something or install a mod you always got a video on it, your a absolute legend and THANK YOU!!!!

[@Ivan_Glamdryng]

Thank you for this video and the collection/s you made. Always looking out for us.

[@losmosquitos1108]

This video is so much appreciated, Gopher, I am unable to express it in words. Was always reluctant to install this because of the work involved, stability issues in earlier versions and mod compatibility. But you gave me courage like you did in your famous Skyrim mod sanctuary. Looking very very eagerly forward to your next video. Installing texture packs like NMC is not quite as simple as it was in the original games. Thanks a lot! ♥️👏

[@billsharp7698]

Gopher, your collect makes this SUPER easy. Still had issues with the INI file, but your instructions made that easy to fix up.

[@leroyharrisoniv4811]

Thanks for the great tutorial Gopher! I was able to install and play TTW successfully. Can't wait to see the next video!

[@ricky-ex1bp]

This is great, I had trouble years ago with installing TTW but it was worth it. Hopefully this helps those who want to try it now and in the future

[@andy2feared]

I can’t believe I tried 3 separate guides and none of them worked EXCEPT YOURS. This guide was easy to follow, and using vortex instead of a jank mod manager makes my life so much easier. Thank you Gopher.

[@magellandimarco9889]

I’ve done this countless times before and yet I still had to sit and watch Gopher’s install walkthrough. Just because. Thanks for the vid, dark lord. Can’t wait for the (hopefully) incoming playthrough.

[@Darkorb44]

Thank you Gopher! I'm very excited to play FO3 again and to hopefully watch you play through it as well

[@SailorRoseRed]

THANK YOU so much! I tried to follow the other guide like 3 times and never got it work, followed your guide step by step and got it working. I wanna thank you so much

[@iamnizorro9781]

Whow! No joke, I just, YESTERDAY, finished my TTW install with the full modlist that I got for it. And then you come and upload this, less than 24h later. Wow, I can't wait for you're TTW playthrough! This will be fun to watch!

[@tippingaming9557]

Thank god your still making tutorial videos really helped out during the Skyrim and fallout days

[@tamecypress15]

THANK YOU!!! ILYSM!!! I've been waiting so long to play TTW again (4 months 3 reinstalls) but I somehow broke it when I moved my drives to a new PC. I completely reinstalled everything and watched another tutorial and my game wouldn't load I watched yours and you made things so simple and I really appreciate you for that. keep up the great work. :)

[@connormullin4547]

This works on steam deck too if anyone is wondering. MO2 doesn't work so I did it through Vortex. I just ran the exe patcher in windows and copied it over and created the mod files in windows as well. Had to do that in UTM with the ARM Windows 11 because I have an M1 mac and not a windows computer and it still worked fine.

[@im_amil]

giving me yet another reason to buy a steam deck lol. fallout handheld sounds great

[@goatlebronjames4052]

Such a legend man. Great walkthrough. Super short. Super simple.

[@rictrician]

Very well done. This is how it should be done. Thanks a bunch for your time and wisdom in doing what we didnt know how to do.

[@OmenofBane]

Yessss Gopher! Thank you for this!!! I hope to see more!!!

[@NinjaWeazel]

oh man, this is super-relevant to my interests. Thank you sir!

[@RKGrizz]

Of course when I finally get a weekend to play this awesome mod the installation guide is 404-ing. Thankfully Gopher is on the case with video assistance. Thanks again for your contributions to this community.

[@JadziaDaxDS9]

I’ve been waiting for a TTW tutorial from you for many years now. Very happy to see you finally make one. Edit: hope you put together a collection of mods you recommend using with TTW.

[@Frost_17]

Only with your epic tutorial did I manage to install TTW correctly. I tried to follow some others' but I always screw something up in the end. Subscribed man, thanks very much for your very clear guide! 😁

[@DSIWCastics]

I didn't know how much i needed a TTW Gopher playthrough, before this showed up.

[@AmyMinckler]

I saw TOTW quite awhile ago but never got around to installing it as it looked like a ton of work and I was new to modding. TY very much. I am currently in the process of installing your collections :)

[@cdanielh128]

Fantastic as always. Keep up the great work!

[@TerminallyNerdy]

Yea TTW got updated so some of the required ones got updated too. I used your vid AND the TTW install guide to both get things working. This vid was awesome, thanks! :)

[@LordPhantomWolfe]

So I learned how to Mod with Vortex solely through Trial and Error. Fallout Dust and New California being as large and confusing as they were was my major test. Now I'm thinking of doing a TTW playthrough but the install seemed a bit intimidating since it's a lot of words and requirements just kind of thrown at you. This tutorial should help a ton. Thanks Gopher.

[@patrickleonard1114]

Thank you so much for this, I have been having trouble with this for far too long

[@charliemc2]

Thanks for the video and the Essential Mods Collection. I'm actually going to try and install TTW into Community Managed NMM to see if I can duplicate what you've done here in Vortex. Your Essential Mods Collection will make this so much easier. Thanks again. I can't wait to watch your next video on mod recommendations.

[@daviderickson1912]

Excellent job of a detailed method (2 actually) of installing TTW. The cadence of his voice is clear and capitvating (he doesn't put you to sleep). Totally enjoyed his presentation. Again, Excellent! job.

[@megaprime6154]

Hello Gopher, thank you so much. I ALWAYS wanted to play TTW without pulling my hairs out of my head and I am grateful you have maked that tutorial I always wanted. You have helped me with modding FNV and now you help us to get this BEAUTY to Vortex. Thank you Megaprime

[@jeffsnipes8766]

Wow Gopher you never cease to amaze me. Your tutorials brought me to you years ago and I have been a fan ever since. Top quality as always this worked great. Thank You so very much.

[@jeffsnipes8766]

One question I do have though. Is now when I click the launcher for NVSE I see a black script window pop up on the left of my screen before the game starts, any idea why this is happening.

[@BurntSteak]

@@jeffsnipes8766 You might've figured it out by now, but in case you haven't: the script window is just New Vegas Script Extender launching.

[@donseavey3704]

There have been some great conversations for alton, Il and Washingtons malevolence, i highly recommend them for a playthrough

[@Joey_Shepard]

Awesome guide as always, thank you!

[@AidenEclipse666]

Thank you so much for the epic and easy to understand install tutorial my absolute favorite games from my late teen year's, Gopher you are a legend!!! I can't thank you enough for helping me do this. I'm an Xbox gamer turned PC, so all this is brand new to me cheers and have a wonderful day my good sir :)

[@rickjeffery4110]

Thank you for making these tutorials, I did a playthrough on each back when they first came out. I was going to play FO3 and then NV, until I found this video while browsing on the couch with the Nvidia shield. Never imagined I'd get to do both at the same time like this! What luck, Just happens that I suck at MO2 and already have prem vortex account. You're a gamers hero of sort.😁👍

[@samuelcaicedoserna2728]

Coming back to this after having a blast with the TV show!

[@fricening959]

First of all I love your content thank you for the laughs, fun and just overall joy you've bought me over the past few years when my friend introduced me to you and secondly and most importantly THANK YOU. thank you soo much for this guide I love this mod and it used to be simple to install and when they updated it it confused me soo much but now it works again and I'm playing it now and just thank you soo much from the bottom of my heart for the help with this mod you've bought me soo mush happiness today I really mean it. Thank you for all the help and joy you've bought me and I really mean it I wish you all the luck and happiness you deserve from how friendly and helpful you are. I know I keep saying it but I really do mean it, Thank you for everything from the bottom of my heart.

[@CoreXion_]

I was talking to my spouse about reinstalling and setting up these games with TTW the other day. This was very well timed release.

[@lilshagg4151]

THIS VIDEO WAS A GOD SAVE! Thank you good sir, you are getting the favorite video of the year for me👍🏻 I appreciate you his guide so much, thank you so much again!

[@MaximusOverhead]

I just did a TTW play though of FO3, it was pretty fun ! It was also the first time playing on PC and Modding in general

[@doomsday437]

Thank you for the super easy and quick tutorial I just want to add, for the mods to work for me after adding the essentials collection, I then have to delete showoff nvse and re-download it on vortex, then delete nvhr and install it completely manually After that works like a charm

[@captainrev4959]

I completely understand your feelings for fallout 3. It is just got such nostalgia to it. I can't explain it but it's just such a special game to me.

[@xSilencex7]

I downloaded all the files a while ago, but got intimidated because I'm not used to the Mod Manager they recommended and preferred to use Vortex instead. Thank you for this, it helped a lot!

[@phxjoni9399]

I love Fallout 3, as you already Said it gives nostalgia played it First when I was 11 the Intro still gives me goosebumps.

[@Travybear1989]

Thank you for the video, it helped massively!

[@cat_clan_leader]

The ToTW installation guide link doesnt exist anymore

[@dillon1889]

omg you are a godsend. i can finally play. thank you so much, this have been very helpful

[@Eckheart]

Made it very easy to get this working. This is my first time playing Fallout 3 and New Vegas so this should make Fallout 3 more bearable from what I have heard.

[@aserosiris]

Excellent work! Also for those with AMD GPUs download the DXVK. This last step was what got me pass the game crashing in the roulette loading screen

[@BaDNeWsPaNdA1]

You too? I get that nostalgia feeling whenever I think of the 700 + hours I have played of Both 3 and NV. I'm happy to see this video as I've needed something as a stress reliever from my work and I have always trusted your guides 100% Love you man

[@BoBoTheGreat1]

I'm needing some Gopher FO in my life rn tbh. been missing it

[@NaughtyKlaus]

For anyone using the latest AMD drivers, if the game crashes when starting a new game / loading a save, install a mod called DXVK and use windowed mode. Using windowed mode is actually important because the game will lag like crazy if you don't. Hopefully AMD will patch this issue, but the only alternative is to supposedly downgrade the AMD drivers, but that's not recommended as it'll likely affect other games.

[@Anakthemutantmassenjoyer]

A Big guns play through of TTW would be awesome! It's a bit different from what you would normally play but with all the cool big guns F03 and NV has it could be interesting.

[@Strikey005]

Thank you for your videos they help so much

[@fubarfubar1977]

You Sir are a Legend. Thank you so much for this!

[@paragondega]

Lol i literally started playing TTW again a few days ago and just followed the mod organiser guide :D

[@DanVille1000]

Man this was a breeze. Thanks brother.

[@EnclaveOperator]

I'm awaiting the Recommended TTW mods video eagerly :)

[@ricknerinfantry]

Thank you for alleviating my migraine. I had it running using this tutorial, was advised that mo2 is better, and then spent three weeks not playing, and reverted back to this and should be playing this weekend.

[@fredtehbinman]

brilliant video, worked first time

[@jacoren5785]

Beyond useful for me. Trying to do playthroughs of both games, but I can only get NV to play while Fallout 3 crashes less than a second after launching (entirely vanilla Fallout 3 from Steam). This is, as far as I can tell, the only way I can get Fallout 3 to work on my PC, so thanks!

[@annmester2740]

So very helpful! Thank you

[@absolutexo1387]

I really wish this video series would have come out like 2 or 3 months earlier but even without it I still managed to get my ttw working

[@Kazamezo1]

Oh god Gopher sure wasn't lying when he said the TTW installer was gonna take a long time. I thought having an NVMe SSD meant the wait would be no more than 4 minutes. But It's been 15 minutes, and it's only 25% done... But in any case, thank you so much for making this gopher. You're a gem.

[@UTFapollomarine7409]

yea im on my m.2 as well bro and it takes a few hours at least 2 or more and i had no luck to get it to work sadly :(

[@atomic1689]

Ive never played NV or 3 even though I have them in my steam library. In the middle of a Skyrim AE playthrough but seeeeriously tempted to try this.

[@vSHADOWVIPERv]

Worked like a charm except for NVHR. Your collection tries to pull the latest version and I had nothing but problems with it. 3.2 is the way to go even now in sept 2022. This is of course my experience. Other than that everything else worked like a charm Thanks !

[@joehanson2250]

Dude your Comment was a lifesaver, I luckily stumbled over it like 5 min before I had that problem

[@TheRuvaak]

This fixed my issues, thank you. There's a lot of people in the comments now with this same issue so it would be a big help for people if Gopher could pin this comment.

[@carter9427]

Thank you sir, this comment helped me a lot!

[@FunWithLeo]

thank you so much actaul just thank you

[@DweezlePeePants]

Thank god for you and ctrl+f

[@Sidhunners]

TO THOSE WHO HAVE ISSUES @ 22:00: Do this instead of the video 1.Disable the Heap Replacer on Vortex 2.Uninstall the Heap Replacer 3.Redeploy Then follow the instructions TTW Guide's page about the New Vegas Heap Replacer You can pick the video back up @ 22:23

[@siiweeyy1321]

This helped me brother 👍 Thankyou

[@tylerpollard7018]

It didn't work for me. Do you know another option to fix it?

[@nuttygodlmao7910]

thank u so much this was the the most helpful video for installing this mod your the best and for making that mod list as well thank u a lot

[@willlakatos1116]

Funny i came back here expecting to see thousands of comments, i thought this upload was MUCH older than it really is. I cant believe how new this tutorial is. infact i installed this mod using this video ON THE DAY IT CAME OUT. Simply on a whim. I just felt an itch to play fallout. Im hoping to see more of the mods you can recommend for a TTW playthrough, textures, lighting, water, Project Nevada is something I was interested in seeing run in both 3 and NV.

[@antoni1201]

Heap Replacer doesnt have an exe for me and i have my view settings right please help imma cryyyyy

[@danielfranco3944]

Thank you Gopher :3

[@batsdarkprime9462]

I had some issues installing even with this guide, I tried it last year and couldn't get it to work properly but this time by the grace of god I did, had to do some things differently like manually installing the 4GB patcher and even had to opt out of the heap replacer but I got it to work