Is it possible to install a second copy of Fallout New Vegas in a different directory? My room mate and I play New Vegas on my Steam account but I mostly mod mine for more of a FPS feel and he mods his for more of an RPG feel. Obviously, this causes a lot of conflicts. I was wanting to know if there was a way I could have a second installation that each of us could play. With Fallout 3, this was fairly easy, all I had to do was just copy the Bethesda file from Program Files (x86) to the regular Program Files. I'm thinking this won't be as easy since New Vegas runs on Steam. Does anyone know of any way to do this? Any help would be appreciated.

Perhaps a silly question, but why not just duplicate your data folder? You'd have to make your saves uniquely named to keep tracking it easy (or just duplicate that file as well).

Anyhow not sure if what your asking is possible, darn steam.

Hmmm, I will try this and see if it works.

Doesn't FOMM allow you to have different mod load lists?

bigcrazewolf

Yes but a few of the mods which are used replace some of the vanilla files with their own and while those specific files work for that specific mod when another mod is loaded that also requires that file their is a mod conflict and if I continue to play the game the game becomes unstable and possibly corrupt. Either way, no one has offered any helpful suggestions. I would appreciate helpful suggestions.

Hmmm.... Copy folder, customize the mod loads, and then rename as needed?

Dunno if that'd work, never had the need to try.

With that kind of attitude good luck on getting any kind of suggestions.....sorry for not being as helpful as you wanted :rolleyes:

bigcrazewolf

Sorry for sounding like I was snapping at you. As you can see this problem is quite frustrating for me, mostly because of Steam (which I've hated from the beginning). Thank you for your effort though.

Apology accepted, don't sweat it I was a bit of a jerk in responding and apologize as well.

Good luck with your problem :thumbsup:

bigcrazewolf

I still think your best bet is copying the data folder. Have one for you and one for him. Use boss master list to save your tweaked load order and just run the sorter once when you swap the folder out. Its abit of a hassle, but I can't think of a solid reason it wouldnt work.

You could even use a batch file to automate the switch even for example:

set datafolder=C:\Games\Steam\steamapps\common\fallout new vegas\set savefolder=C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\My Documents\My Games\FalloutNV\if exist "%datafolder%\Data1" goto restoremove "%datafolder%\Data" "%datafolder%\Data1"move "%datafolder%\Data2" "%datafolder%\Data"move "%savefolder%\Saves" "%savefolder%\Saves1"move "%savefolder%\Saves2" "%savefolder%\Saves"goto end:restoremove "%datafolder%\Data" "%datafolder%\Data2"move "%datafolder%\Data1" "%datafolder%\Data"move "%savefolder%\Saves" "%savefolder%\Saves2"move "%savefolder%\Saves1" "%savefolder%\Saves":endpause

You would have to make a copy of the data folder in the same directory named Data1 and one in the saves directory named Saves1 initially and then you would just run it and it would switch out the two folders automatically. You'd probably have to edit the directories for your data folder and save folder as well.

That sounds like that might work. Unfortunately, I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. Could you provide me very specific examples and a step by step process on how to do it?

You make a text file and paste the code and save it as something.bat
You edit the data folder path so it points to your new vegas directory: set datafolder=
You edit the save folder path so that it points to your new vegas saves: set savefolder=

Then you make a copy of your save folder called Saves1, and a copy of your data folder called Data1. When you want to switch you just run the bat file and it should switch out the saves and data folder.