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[Kung Fu Hung-Su]

Arcanum

High resolution patch (666kb)
Untested by me. Extensive engine hack to make the engine fully scalable to any resolution, and calculates positions of all elements of the interface for desired width and height. Also adjusts sound positioning, fixes a number of UI bugs and disables sprite mirroring (if used without the UAP).

Features:

* All elements of the interface perfectly centered.
* No custom graphics and no upscaling/stretching.
* Full compatibility with any mods that are based off the 1.0.7.4 version.
* Full compatibility with older save games.
* Improved Compact UI. Can now be accessed anytime by pressing F10.
* Optional larger dialog and logbook fonts.

Warning: There are several quests where the 'aggro range' for failing the quest is based on whether it is drawn or not. If so, then you will encounter quests that are impossible to complete as you can't get close to the target without triggering 'guards'.


Unofficial Arcanum Patch 091225 (20.23mb)
An enormous number of fixes and restored content cut from the original. Updated 25th December 2009.
Changelog

Baldur's Gate

Widescreen Mod (664kb)
Untested by me. Allows Planescape:Torment, Baldur's Gate: Tales of the sword Coast, Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn, Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal, Icewind Dale: Heart of Winter and Icewind Dale II to be played at any resolution, provided that its X axis is greater or equal than 800 and the Y axis is greater or equal to 600 . Fullscreen works for any resolution supported by your graphic card, driver and screen. Otherwise, you can play the game windowed (except in TotSC and Ps:T, where you can't play the game windowed).

Baldur's Gate Trilogy
Plays Baldur's Gate with the updated graphics, better resolution, and interface improvements in Baldur's Gate II by using its engine, and also transports you seamlessly into Baldur's Gate 2 upon its completion. Requires Baldur's Gate, Tales of the Sword Coast and Baldur's Gate II.

Baldur's Gate 2

Widescreen Mod (664kb)
Allows Planescape:Torment, Baldur's Gate: Tales of the sword Coast, Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn, Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal, Icewind Dale: Heart of Winter and Icewind Dale II to be played at any resolution, provided that its X axis is greater or equal than 800 and the Y axis is greater or equal to 600 . Fullscreen works for any resolution supported by your graphic card, driver and screen. Otherwise, you can play the game windowed (except in TotSC and Ps:T, where you can't play the game windowed).

Borderlands

Borderlands Configuration Tool
Program that gives easy access to a heap of the game's internal parameters. Even includes auto updater!

Deus Ex

High Definition Texture Pack (17.51mb)
High poly models and HD textures for many of the game artifacts, some previously only 32x32px, now 256x256px.

New Vision
A work in progress mod that replaces around 67% of the game's world textures with high resolution ones.

Diablo 2

Median XL

Total conversion of Diablo 2 - modified regular monsters (like quill rats with homing quills), Elite and Heroic Monsters, Uberbosses - new runewords and Horadric Cube recipes, new skill trees with UberSkills, reward skills and plenty more.

Dragon Age: Origins

JB Textures Mod
Nexus download link
Before and after
Many textures in Dragon Age are low res - this adds high resolution textures just for those.

Fallout 1

Fallout 1 High Resolution Patch
Untested by me. Allows the game to work at any resolution, allowing you to see more of the map.

Fallout 2

Fallout 2 High Resolution Patch (421kb)
Allows the game to work at any resolution, allowing you to see more of the map. Also includes a no-cd fix.

Fallout 2 Mod Roundup
A collection of mods, tools and fixes selected by the ModDB community, adding campaigns, quests and conversions to Fallout 2. I do not recommend the Restoration Project, as it adds elements to the game that are of low quality and break the game's continuity, such as a low quality talking head for Cassidy and poor implementation of Sulik's tribe and sister quest.

Fallout 3

Arwen's Mod list
One player's personal list of preferred mods for graphics, realism, music and more. Includes a guide on how to load mods for beginners, and also the author's own extreme realism mod for players who feel that the "harsh wasteland" is too much of a walk in the park. Last updated April 2010.

ArchiveInvalidation Invalidated WARNING - File was unavailable at 6-June-2010, been reported.
Eliminates the need of ArchiveInvalidation.txt by adding a dummy texture BSA to the start of the BSA load list. This stops Fallout 3's ArchiveInvalidation from running on its main texture BSA allowing any texture replacements you have to work automatically without the need to do anything ever again.

Canterbury Commons Guards
People in Canterbury die over time because NPCs spawn and kill them. This adds guards to fend them off.
MTC MoreGuardsInBigTown
This does the same thing in BigTown

DarNified UI
Before
After
Replaces the game's large font, console gaming style UI with one better suited for PC gaming, with a smaller font.

Dialogue Tweaks
Fallout 3 has a lot of little dialogue oddities that break immersion. This small mod aims to fix as much as possible without fundamentally changing quests.


FOOK - Fallout 3 Overhaul Kit
Untested by me. Numerous retextures, new weapons, item balancing and much more. 9.82/10 overall nexus rating from 412 ratings.

Enhanced Weather
Screenshot
Adds rather fantastic looking rain and snow. Snow in particular feels dramatic in the fallout world.

Fellout
It's weird that the world is tinted green when it's been 200 years since the last bomb fell. Gives the world a harsh look reminiscent of the Sahara Desert by removing green tint everywhere, including indoors. Includes Atmospheric Sun Glare by LadyDeadlock, used with permission.
Side by side screenshot

Fallout Street Lights
Adds lights and FX beams (some flickering ones too) to most of the street lights and signs in the DC ruins. Works great with Fellout which has darker nights.


GreenWorld
Untested by me. Adds green grass and trees to the game world, making it more pleasant and fun to explore. 9.79/10 nexus rating from 120 ratings.

Driveable Motorcycle
Screenshot
Adds motorcycles to the Wasteland for you to repair, cruise around on and upgrade or 'pimp' with weapons and crazy inventions.

FilePlanet Fallout Mod Pack V3
Adds new poses, the Sexy Pandora Companion, GreenWorld, AlexScorpions Sniper Gear, tight fitting leather armour for games with the BABE body replacer, exotic dancers, a spacious club house and the Path of the Gunslinger quest mod. Download as one pack or all separately.

Megaton_Texture_Pack 9.95 out of 10 (93 ratings), 18.75-217.4MB
Comparison shot
Rivet City Texture Pack 9.89 out of 10 (109 ratings), 13.6-194.4MB
Comparison Shot
Terrain pack 9.91 out of 10 (185 ratings)
Comparison Shot
Terrain_Pack_ROCKS_ADD_ON_PACK 9.89 out of 10 (55 ratings)
Comparison Shot

Default game textures and bumpmaps have a typical resolution of 512x512 pixels - these have all been replaced with real-world photo-based textures.
3 different resolutions available to suit your PC: Max (400% larger), High (200% larger, Detailed) and Default (same resolution as original textures)


Fileblog Fallout 3 Companion Mods
5 mods to add new companions or enhance existing ones.

Unofficial Fallout 3 Patch WARNING - File was unavailable at 6-June-2010, been reported.
Internode download
Bethesda will never get around to fixing all those bugs. Obsessive fans would do a better job anyway.

Fallout: New Vegas

4Gb Large Address fix
For players on Windows x64. Sets a flag to let game use 4GB of memory. May not work as of 1.1.1 patch.

IIWR - Invisible Wall remover
Removes all invisible barriers found throughout the Mojave. Only a few persistent mapping bugs.

MTUI
Smaller fonts, larger item selection areas, improved conversation menus and so on.
Before/After

Inventory Sorter
Adds a prefix, such as "CURR" for currency to items, so that sorting your inventory makes more sense.
Screenie

Enhanced Blood Textures
Increases resolution of blood textures from 256² to 1024². Affects on screen blood, blood from wounds and splatter.
Screenie

Working FOMM for NV
Mod manager that works with both Fallout 3 and New Vegas. Note that you don't have to install it in the game's folder, you're free to install it where you like.

DoF Complete
Adds Depth of Field to the game's visuals. Not much can be seen in the supplied screenshots, but users are raving.

Better Game Performance
Removes superfluous objects to improve performance, such as objects with 0 occurrences or very small rocks.

HD texture installer
Note: Some complaints of game breaking in comments thread
If you have NMCs Texture Pack for Fallout 3, this script will install them in New Vegas.

Gothic 3

Community Patch 1.7 (880.47mb)
Changelog
Internode Mirror 1.7+1.71
An enormous patch that changes a formerly buggy, C grade mess to a game worth playing.
atomican Review

Community Patch 1.71 Incremental (129.36mb)
Internode Mirror
Even more fixes.

Heroes of Might and Magic 5

AI Mod
Improves the enemy AI in many ways, and adds additional levels of difficulty.

More to come...

Icewind Dale

Widescreen Mod (664kb)
Untested by me. Allows Planescape:Torment, Baldur's Gate: Tales of the sword Coast, Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn, Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal, Icewind Dale: Heart of Winter and Icewind Dale II to be played at any resolution, provided that its X axis is greater or equal than 800 and the Y axis is greater or equal to 600 . Fullscreen works for any resolution supported by your graphic card, driver and screen. Otherwise, you can play the game windowed (except in TotSC and Ps:T, where you can't play the game windowed).

Morrowind

Morrowind Expanded
An rather clear, step by step guide on how to safely install Morrowind with a plethora of many of the community's very best mods. Includes all the links and descriptions for all mods and apps needed. An ideal starting point for all new Morrowind modders and experienced modders with fresh installs.

Telesphoros' List of Mods
One of the oldest and largest lists of mods for morrowind. Very mature and with a well chosen selection of mods of many kinds. The yardstick against which all other mod lists are compared.

GRAPHICS
An enormous forum thread spanning several consecutive posts on the best graphics mods. I agree with the selections, though the writing is often a bit unclear and one can easily get lost in the thread.

Povuhulo's Morrowind 2010
A shorter list of graphics and sound enhancers that is very up to date (2 Jan 2011)

Wall of Mods
No descriptions, just names and links. A useful resource for experienced modders.

Retexture Links
A list of links for just about every Morrowind landmass retexture mod you could want. Includes screenshots.

Empirical Morrowind
A single list of mods with descriptions and links, devoted to making morrowind's gameplay more realistic. Encompasses such things as penalties with increased injury and fatigue, sneak bonuses at night, less generic NPC responses and much much more.

The NPC Head Replacer Comparison Thread
A list of mods that replace and add to the heads available in Morrowind. For every mod, a screenshot of 12 set NPCs is included to better allow you to compare the mods available.


Morrowind Overhaul
+
Check out the atmospheric fog casting shade rays in bright sunlight toward the end of that clip! Gorgeous.

Oblivion

The Oblivion Texture Overhaul (TOTO)
Every kind of graphics enhancing mod you would ever need, with links, screenshots and descriptions.

A's List of Recommended mods
Just a few hundred mods were selected from thousands for this list. Extraordinary selection of new gameplay elements, including decapitation with neck strikes in combat.

BallofFire's Oblivion Modlist
A list of absolute essentials, such as the Unofficial Oblivion patch and performance enhancements.

The Oblivion Quest List
Don't even bother searching for new quests, just go here. The best of the best, many of which have taken years to produce.

The Oblivion Performance Project
A reference with tips on optimising Oblivion performance, directly with mods and tweaks, and indirectly with Windows tweaks and tweaking software.

Morroblivion
A total overhaul for Oblivion, recreating the Morrowind world.

Pirates of the Carribean

[url="http://www.moddb.com/mods/potc-build-mod""]Build Mod[/url] (312.16mb plus extras)
A compilation of many mods plus some extra work, introducing many new bugfixes, features, mods, character models, locations, items. All to make a previously flawed game worth playing.

Planescape Torment

Widescreen Mod (664kb)
Untested by me. Allows Planescape:Torment, Baldur's Gate: Tales of the sword Coast, Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn, Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal, Icewind Dale: Heart of Winter and Icewind Dale II to be played at any resolution, provided that its X axis is greater or equal than 800 and the Y axis is greater or equal to 600 . Fullscreen works for any resolution supported by your graphic card, driver and screen. Otherwise, you can play the game windowed (except in TotSC and Ps:T, where you can't play the game windowed).

Planescape Torment Fix Pack (242kb)
Untested by me. Fixes many bugs not fixed by the 1.1 patch. Changelog in the link.

Useful files and mods for Planescape Torment
Untested by me. Page with brief guide on Planescape Torment modding and many links

Skyrim

Make Skyrim a PC game again
A top 10 list of Skyrim mods to improve the games. The written descriptions are at times vague and fail to effectively describe the mods, but the mods themselves appear to be top notch. Updated Feb 28, 2012.

Skywind
Total overhaul for Skyrim, that recreates Morrowind in the new engine. That link points to the FAQ, which you probably want to read first. Requires Morrowind!

STALKER

STALKER Complete 2009 (390MB + 178MB patch)
Screenshot gallery
Brings the game from 2007 to 2009 with over 30 mods that add photographic textures, additional bumpmaps, realism, freedom, sound, music and add community fixes. Technological enhancements include HDR, depth of field, motion blur and much more.

STALKER SUPER Mod Pack
A collection of many, many mods merged with the also enormous Oblivion Lost mod, which makes vast improvements to the AI, world realism, realism of the player's actions, dynamic anomalies and much much more. The scale of all these mods cannot be defined by the few lines I have here.
Part 1 (755mb)
Part 2 (748.88mb)
Patch 1
Patch 2
Patch 3

System Shock 2

System Shock 2 on modDB
Includes downloads for
System Shock Rebirth - a high poly replacer pack
System Shock 2 Texture Upgrade
System Shock 2 WinXP/Win2000 fix

Torchlight

Ultimate Modlist Page
A categorised list of most of the mods released for Torchlight. Creators often remove their mods from the list themselves when they prove buggy, so the list contains mostly just functional mods.

Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines

Unofficial Patch (147mb)
Although Troika has disappeared, leaving this game still buggy, fans have continued to patch the game even today. Last updated Version 6.0, 15-Feb-2009.

Beautiful Monster Redux
A reskinning of the Torreador male.

Brujah Release Pack
Replaces the Brujah female in the game, all armors have been created. Based off an existing model. Over 100 hours of work here so hopefully no bugs (other than the trivial ones already in bloodlines).

Gangrel Female Addon (1.53MB)
Reskin for the Gangrel female.

P&P Mod v3.01 (Download link is about 3/4 the way down the page, and can be easily overlooked.)
Changes the game rules to be more like the original roleplaying game from White Wolf. Several skill synergies are different, many disciplines have different costs and durations, there are several new clans to choose from (as well as the originals), and everyone gets an extra discipline at character generation. The only downside I've seen is that Jack accuses you of cheating in the tutorial - say you're using a mod, though, and it continues as if nothing was different. (Review by Cybes) Includes 16 new clans.
P&P Addon
Alters every weapon in the game to do damage equivalent to its P&P incarnation. This makes combat deadlier for both you and your opponents.
Clan skins
16 male and female models for 8 of the new clans in the P&P mod.


VTMB Compmod (174.07mb + 424.8kb)
Untested by me. A remarkably professional looking mod that adds:

• Recruitable NPCs with customisable outfits - to travel with you and aid when possible.
• Ability to possess your traveling companions and use their special abilities from afar (if desired).
• Ability to embrace select human companions later in the game.
• Place party members around your haven in an assortment of animated poses
• Supports installable outfit packs.
• Access to secondary traveling inventory through companion dialog.
• Over 250 dialog responses were crafted from existing audio to support new transition conversations with companions.

Includes unofficial patch 6.0 above.
Promo trailer

The Witcher Modding forums

ENBSeries for the Witcher
Before
After
The famous ENBSeries bloom shader, now working for the Witcher.

Hi-res character models
Forum thread
Before and after
Hi res textures, not models, for all the NPCs skin and hair.

Edited by Kung Fu Hung-Su, 20 August 2013 - 06:12 PM.

[Girvo]

Brilliant post man!

[AccessDenied]

A quick warning with the Arcanum "Hi Res" pack. There are several quests where the 'aggro range' for failing the quest is based on whether it is drawn or not. If so, then you will encounter quests that are impossible to complete as you can't get close to the target without triggering 'guards'. Cemetry quest is one example.

So use with care.


However... The NUMBER ONE big super duper 'unofficial' patch that MUST be installed is the Drog Black Tooth patch.

http://rpgcodex.net/...pic.php?t=23720

This patch restores lost content (Content that was meant to be there but due to coder error was omitted), fixes problematic conversations which appear to loop, fixes the "idiot savant" conversation options.

HEAPS of fixes. Worth replaying the game with this patch installed no matter how many times you've finished the game. ADDS HEAPS!

AD

[Kung Fu Hung-Su]

^ This kind of thing is exactly what I need to hear :] I was hoping to make a community made post on the best RPG mods, but I'm thinking this post will slip into nothing unless I get Fallout 3 and mod it like mad.

[Cybes]

Dude, this post needs to be marked in an index sticky. All these mods and patches are extremely useful, and can be hard to track down. Speaking of tracking down... Back to the hunt for Vampire stuff.

[Rion]

I agree this post needs a sticky. It also needs more Fallout 3 goodness. When I get the chance I'll do a little research regarding this.

[Vanne]

trying to get the widescreen mod from gibblings 3 working on IWD2, but no such luck. anyone care to lend a hand. its not installed in default location, but rather in an E: drive. recon that could be the culprit? ive launced the app both from within the game dir, but still no joy, it says it cant patch the iwd2.exe file... hmm, maybe it write protect.... brb... nah, that didnt do it... anyone?

[Vanne]

trying to get the widescreen mod from gibblings 3 working on IWD2, but no such luck. anyone care to lend a hand. its not installed in default location, but rather in an E: drive. recon that could be the culprit? ive launced the app both from within the game dir, but still no joy, it says it cant patch the iwd2.exe file... hmm, maybe it write protect.... brb... nah, that didnt do it... anyone? wtf, dual posts...

Edited by Vanne, 22 April 2009 - 02:24 PM.

[Kung Fu Hung-Su]

Update with the Vampire Bloodlines Unofficial Patch and Companion Mod. Also added Arcanum Unofficial Patch. As for your problem Vanne, I don't have IWD2 at present so I can't help you. Hopefully one of the others can. What patches have you put on?

Edited by Kung Fu Hung-Su, 22 April 2009 - 03:22 PM.

[Cybes]

Thanks, Kung Fu, but I already did - just after I posted. Though I'm holding off on CompMod until I've played it through solo again. (Rolled a Toreador... I only just got that bitch through last time, and I was in practice then!)

[Kung Fu Hung-Su]

Thanks, Kung Fu, but I already did - just after I posted. Though I'm holding off on CompMod until I've played it through solo again. (Rolled a Toreador... I only just got that bitch through last time, and I was in practice then!)

Wasn't just for you, other people play Bloodlines too :] You just reminded me. xD

[Cybes]

Fair point.

[Cybes]

Here's a dumb question, Kung Fu... Where in hell does a .esp file (like Greenworld's, for ex) reside? The game doesn't have any of it's own, nor an obvious place for 'em, and the archive helpfully doesn't mention it. I've been awake for about 18 hours on only 4 hours sleep, so it's quite possible I'm just not seeing what's right in front of me, but I really have no idea where this thing goes.

[pekkahead]

Cybes, Just drop it into your data folder, and if you're using FOMM, activate it through that. Otherwise activate it when you start the game. The only oddity I have with it, is that the trees look just a little too lush for the post apoc environment. Too many leaves, maybe 50 % less leaves would be better, but other than that ,yeah, it's a really nice mod. It goes really well with the Fellout mod, which gets rid of that standard greenish earth colour for a browner one.

Edited by pekkahead, 23 April 2009 - 07:01 PM.

[Kung Fu Hung-Su]

^ What he said, the process is exactly the same for Bethesda's other games, Morrowind and Oblivion. Also, never mod a Bethesda game without a modding software like FOMM. I might write a more detailed guide later.

[Cybes]

Thanks muchly fellas. I'll look into getting FOMM and Fellout, asap.

[Vanne]

No patches at all installed on IWD2, clean install. ill have to dig a bit further it seems. :)

[AccessDenied]

OK.. Part bump and part information... (This thread MUST NOT DIE!!!) Reinstalled Arcanum on weekend. Installed: Unofficial patch and "Hires building" patch. Did not install hi-res GAME patch. I run this is Windows Vista (32 bit). I found a massive issue with 'mouse lag' on this. In the end I found this relates to DirectDraw and Vistas handling of Directdraw/3d. To get maximum performance out of this, you need to turn off all 3d acceleration for the game. In some cases, just selecting 'default off' is not enough and needs to be 'forced off'. Hope this helps someone. AD

[Kung Fu Hung-Su]

I'm in the process of trying out the Fallout 2 Restoration Project. Installed fine with the High res patch, hope it runs ok. Will edit OP later today.

Also, I might start investigating Diablo 2 mods.



Also, anyone using the hi res patch, a new version is up, 2.0a. :]
http://www.nma-fallo...mp;file_id=1252

Edited by Kung Fu Hung-Su, 29 April 2009 - 09:16 AM.

[Kung Fu Hung-Su]

Adding four very important links for Oblivion players.


A's List of Recommended mods
Aelius has tested out thousands of mods, picking out just a few hundred for this list. Brilliant, brilliant reference.

The Oblivion Quest List
Don't even bother searching TESNexus or the Bethsoft forums for quests, just go here. The best of the best.

BallofFire's Oblivion Modlist
A list of absolute essentials for Oblivion, such as the Unofficial patch and performance enhancements.

The Oblivion Performance Project
A reference with tips on optimising Oblivion performance, directly with mods and tweaks, and indirectly with Windows tweaks and tweaking software.



Something for fun, for Fallout 3 players

Driveable Motorcycle

Adds motorcycles to the Wasteland for you to repair, cruise around on and upgrade or 'pimp' with weapons and crazy inventions. - "Nothing is better than first cripple a raider with your dual miniguns then crush his skull under your wheel!"

Edited by Kung Fu Hung-Su, 02 May 2009 - 09:51 AM.