Installing the preset

Step 01

Get the archive

UngodlyNVR-1_1_0-NVR440.zip — 20.9 MB. It contains New Vegas Reloaded 4.4.0 unmodified plus the preset, so this is the only download the graphics extender needs.

NVR itself is officially distributed through the TES Reloaded Discord↗, linked from the project wiki↗. The old Nexus page is unavailable and the versions floating around elsewhere are years out of date.

Step 02

Drop it into the Downloads pane

Open Mod Organizer 2 and switch the right-hand pane to the Downloads tab. Drag the zip onto it. It appears in the list as though you had downloaded it through the manager.

If you would rather not use drag and drop, the archive icon at the top of MO2 (Install a new mod from an archive) does the same job.

Step 03

Install it

Double-click the entry. MO2 reads the folder structure, recognises nvse/, Shaders/ and Textures/ as valid game data, and offers a name. Call it UngodlyNVR so it matches the rest of this guide, and confirm.

Step 04

Tick it, then send it to the bottom of the left pane

Enable the checkbox. Then drag UngodlyNVR so it sits below every other graphics mod in the left pane. In MO2, lower means higher priority, and a mod lower in the list wins file conflicts.

This matters for one folder specifically: nvse/Plugins/. If another mod ships a file with the same name and sits below this one, it will overwrite the configuration and the preset will silently do nothing.

In the list on this site it is the last entry — priority above 8kLOD, which is above the rest of the LOD block. See the mod list for the full order.

Step 05

Confirm the file tree

Double-click the mod in the left pane and open the Filetree tab. You want:

nvse/
  Plugins/
    NewVegasReloaded.dll
    NewVegasReloaded.dll.toml            <- the live preset
    NewVegasReloaded.dll.defaults.toml   <- stock reference, do not edit
    NewVegasReloaded.pdb
Shaders/
  NewVegasReloaded/
    Shaders/    <- HLSL for the engine's own shader slots
    Effects/    <- the post-process passes
Textures/
  Effects/  Precipitations/  Water/
Docs/
  UngodlyNVR/
    README.md
    CHANGES-ULTRA.md
    Presets/  <- Ultra, Balanced, Purist

There is no ESP and no ESM. Nothing appears in the right-hand plugins pane, and nothing needs activating there.

Step 06

Check that nothing overwrites it

Still in the mod's window, open the Conflicts tab. Overwritten files should be empty. If anything appears there — usually another ENB or NVR package, or a second copy of NVR installed earlier — remove it or move it above UngodlyNVR.

A quick way to sanity-check the whole install: MO2's Data tab, filtered to nvse/Plugins. Every file there should be attributed to the mod you expect.

Step 07

Set the two INI lines and the NVTF flag

Skip this if you already did it on the prerequisites page. Both water settings must be on or the water shader renders glassy and see-through:

[Water]
bUseWaterReflections=1
bUseWaterRefractions=1

And in NVSE\\Plugins\\NVTF.ini, from the NVTF - INI mod:

[DirectX]
bModifyDirectXBehavior = 1

If you use DXVK, add d3d9.floatEmulation = strict to dxvk.conf now as well. That one line is the difference between a clean sky and a black diagonal seam through it.

Step 08

Launch through the script extender

Select nvse_loader.exe from the executables dropdown at the top right of MO2 and press Run. Not the vanilla launcher, not FalloutNV.exe, and not the Steam or GOG shortcut — any of those will start the game with no NVR loaded and no error.

Step 09

Prove it is running

Load a save outdoors and press O. The NVR menu should open over the game. If it does, the DLL loaded and the preset is active.

Changes made in the menu are live but revert on restart unless you press Enter, which writes them to nvse/Plugins/NewVegasReloaded.dll.toml.

If the menu does not open, go to troubleshooting — the first three entries cover the usual causes.

Step 10

Pick your variant and tune the night

Ultra is installed and active. Balanced and Purist are complete, ready files in Docs/UngodlyNVR/Presets/. To switch, copy one over the live config and rename it to exactly that filename:

Docs/UngodlyNVR/Presets/Ungodly-Balanced.toml
        →  nvse/Plugins/NewVegasReloaded.dll.toml

Then spend ten minutes standing somewhere dark. Night brightness is the one thing no preset can get right for everyone, because your weather mod, your monitor and your in-game brightness slider all sit in the same chain. The night section on the preset page gives you the three numbers to move, in the order to move them.