If anyone is interested: I've been wanting to play Fallout: London since before it came out, but
was put off by the reports of its initial bugginess and how hard it was to make it work at all if
you didn't have the GOG version of Fallout 4. I already paid for the Steam version and really
didn't want to buy it again--the game is not that great.

Yesterday I re-installed my Steam copy of Fallout 4, deselected the hi-res textures (which
are supposed to render FO: Lonfon more prone to crashing) and turned off automatic
updates, downloaded the roll-back app from Nexus to restore Fallout 4 to the required
version, then downloaded Fallout: London from GOG and installed that over Fallout 4. It all
took a couple of hours and eleventy-one gigglebunties of disk space, but I can report it was
pretty easy to follow the supplied instructions and I've had several hours of fun without any
trouble.

Essential mods to add are the Unofficial Fixes mod and the long load screen fix mod. Also
you need to make sure you have the right version of the script extender as the latest one
goes with the latest update of Fallout 4, and not with the version that supports Fallout:
London.

It has the humour of the Fallout series, translated into English and set in a city I used to live
in. If you have any interest in it and have been hesitant hitherto, I think you might enjoy giving
it a whirl now.

Ciao,
Marco.

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"Mark P. Nelson" <markpnelson@sbcglobal.net> writes:

Yesterday I re-installed my Steam copy of Fallout 4, deselected the hi-res textures (which
are supposed to render FO: Lonfon more prone to crashing)

What it also does, it roughly triples the size of the FO4 base
installation, from about 30 GB to 90 GB. I left it out for that reason
and because the textures reputedly aren't that good. I did install a
bunch of other texture packs later: Vivid Fallout, Natural Landscapes, FlaconOil CRP, Savren Interiors, NMC Texture Bundle.

Oh, I took the extra step of installing FO: London as a mod, a single
zip file. This was mentioned in some guide but it didn't go into
details. But anyways, I can now just remove or disable it from the
Vortex mod manager.

Essential mods to add are the Unofficial Fixes mod and the long load
screen fix mod.

Which are these? Links please. I spent some time trying to find the
former or the effect of same from different mods but I never got
anywhere or at least load times still felt long.

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Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> writes:

Presumably:

* Unofficial Fixes
https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4london/mods/69
(you need to get the one supporting 1.10.163.0 version of F4SE.)

Thanks. I should've found this, I cursed so many times when something
was weird or broken. Then again, I'm generally not a fan of anything
that says "unofficial fix" let alone "fan patch". But this seems like
the real deal, fixing things, not just changing stuff all willy-nilly.

Although it seems quest fixes are not in this. As a bonus it mentions
another loading times fix in the notes: (Load Accelerator, https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/10283)

* Long Loading Times Fix
https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/73469
(also, cap your framerate to 60 or 120fps, apparently)

I'm not sure if this was around when I looked. It might've been updated
for FO:London after I started playing. Not really sure. Then again,
Googling for anything about FO: London is pretty frustrating.

It does seem to me at least this Load Accelerator only increases FPS
in load screens. I have that from some other mod but it doesn't seem to
help much. Looks like the Long Loading Times Fix does more advanced
things so it's probably the better choice. Seems pretty involved though
since it affects VSync settings in ENB and video card settings.

About the FPS in general, I was completely unable to go above 60 fps in windowed borderless mode but I could alt-tab in and out without a
problem. Fullscreen FPS ran faster but then alt-tabbing out and back
into the game would crash almost always. I don't remember FO4 being this
fussy but it's been a while.

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