World of Tanks Nexus Launched

Welcome to World of Tanks Nexus! If you are new to the Nexus community then we're a 10 year old modding community focusing on specific games, including the Elder Scrolls series, Fallout series, Dragon Age series, Witcher Series, Mount & Blade series, Neverwinter Nights series and now, World of Tanks! We've got more than 3.5 million members, over 22,000 of whom are mod authors who have chosen to share their work with others on the Nexus sites, so we're no strangers to modding our games. I've b...

Neverwinter Nexus launched

A few weeks back a couple of individuals from the Neverwinter Nights modding community contacted me about the possibility of starting a Nexus sites for the veteran series of games. While I was sceptical about the prospect at first because the games have always been dutifully serviced by the Neverwinter Vault site, unfortunately it's also common knowledge that IGN are starting to wind down their fan site services and some are already falling in to disrepair, and the worry is that losing the Vaul...

Nexus donation system for users

Up until today we have had a policy of not allowing users to request or receive donations from other users on the Nexus sites. This has included things such as mod authors asking for Pay Pal donations in their file descriptions. This policy stemmed from a long running rule on Bethesda's official forums, dating all the way back to the launch of Morrowind where asking for donations, or even talking about the prospect of donations is not allowed. The reason is very simple; it's a legal grey area. I...

NMM v0.15.0 issues

Last night we released the Nexus Mod Manager version 0.15.0 for general download to fix the issues that Bethesda and Valve presented all the mod managers out there with the changes to the way load orders are handled. Sadly Bethesda didn't give us nearly enough time to ensure we could solve the issues they've presented us (and I'm sure they'd argue they don't have to), so I know that wrinklyninja (of BOSS) has worked at least 100+ hours in the last week alone on getting the BOSS API to a usable s...

Nexus server upgrades and increased download speed cap

Over the past month Axel and I have been secretly working away on a side project to upgrade and improve our file server infrastructure, primarily to make us future proof and increase the storage capacity of all our file servers, but also to ensure we have more than enough bandwidth to go around. If you're particularly astute, you may have noticed that some servers have gone missing from the server selection window for days or even weeks at a time, and new servers have cropped up (for instance...

Skyrim Load Order changes

With the recent beta release of Skyrim version 1.4.26 on Steam, Bethesda and Valve have decided to change the way in which Skyrim handles the load ordering of mod files. Originally load orders were decided by the timestamps of files on your file system, but the Steam Workshop integration for Skyrim has caused numerous issues (most notably the issue where updating your load order using NMM/Wrye Bash/other managers would cause those files to be re-downloaded by the Workshop), and so Bethesda and V...

Paid job position open: .NET Developer

Over the past few months the uptake of our Nexus Mod Manager beta has been tremendous, with now close to 350,000 users of the software. I would like to continue expanding and improving the Nexus Mod Manager and it's features while also improving the stability of the software and ensuring that as many people as possible who want to use the software, can use the software. With that in mind I am opening up a new employee position at the Nexus for a dedicated .NET/C# programmer to work on NMM, and s...

Dark0ne\'s Video Blog - State of the Union

8OiuGdOE8dk A couple of months back I uploaded my first video blog for the Nexus sites, partly to save my hands from writing out the typically 2,000 - 4,000 work essay blogs I used to write, and also so you could see what I look like and see my mannerisms when I expressed my opinions. I said I would do some more if they were well received and I had the time, and today I've finally gotten around to doing another. Today's video blog takes on the roll of a "State of the Union" type address. I...

New video tutorial for NMM by Gopher, NMM passes 300,000 unique downloads

The Nexus Mod Manager recently passed the 300,000 unique downloads mark, which means that at least 300,000 of you are helping us to beta test the latest version of NMM. We've still got so much left to do with NMM, and I'm currently trying to see if I can squeeze enough out of the Nexus site budget to get a programmer on full-time to work on making NMM as stable and feature rich as possible. That's my hope (and if you're a C# programmer living in the UK, let me know!). While I can't program in...

Site problems today

Update The backup has been restored and everything seems to be working again. Please note that the backup was from 10am GMT, so any posts made between 10am and 2PM GMT today will have, unfortunately, have been lost in the restore process. Apologies for this issue, but if it's any consolation, the table corruption has now been fixed! Yay! Original post I've been working hard today trying to fix an issue with a key database table that has become corrupted. I still haven't fixed the issue and ...

6 million Skyrim mod downloads in first week since CK launch (from SW and Nexus)

Bethesda announced on their blog today that Steam Workshop has clocked over 2 million mod downloads since it was launched, along with the Creation Kit, a week ago. Combined with the download figures from Skyrim Nexus, which are currently standing at 4.4 million downloads in the past week, that means that over 6 million mods have been downloaded for Skyrim since the Creation Kit was launched (and obviously not including download counts from other community sites!). A very impressive achievement f...

Site performance tweaks and update

Over the course of this weekend Axel and I have been implementing a few performance tweaks on Skyrim Nexus to get the most out of the servers and ensure a more stable and faster browsing experience. It's my opinion that these tweaks have been a great success as the site has been loading a lot faster. If you'd be so kind, please leave some feedback on this article to let me know if you've been experiencing faster browsing on Skyrim Nexus. A small by-product of one of these tweaks is that some ...

Nvidia interview and tweak guide available for viewing

Yesterday I let you all know that I would be taking part in a livestream today with some folks from Nvidia and well-known author, Martigen. The livestream is over (it peaked at around 2,700 viewers, which is pretty cool!) but you can watch and listen to it all Twitch.tv. I speak with the Nvidia folks for about 15 minutes, which starts about 4 minutes in to the video and then Martigen takes over before Nvidia take a look at some of their performance enhancing tweaks for the game later on. Let ...

Skyrim Tweak Guide Livestream featuring Dark0ne

If you're a sucker for watching and listening to other people play games and show you how to do things then you might be interested in tuning in to the Nvidia livestream tomorrow on Nvidia's Twitch TV Channel (it's online, not on TV!). The folks from Nvidia will be going through their recent comprehensive tweak guide in detail, and if you're not interested in that, then I've agreed to pop-in for a voice chat with the Nvidia folks during the show. Should be interesting considering I'm on Mobile 3...

FXAA Post Process Injector wins 2nd place FotM

The 2nd place File of the Month for November was FXAA Post Process Injector by Retspadez, with 351 votes. Unfortunately we were unable to reach him in time for this set of interviews. In place of the interview (for now), here is some information about the mod. The FXAA Post Process Injector allows you to "enhance your graphics with FXAA and a variety of post processing effects, including bloom, sharpen, technicolor, sepia, tonemap, vignette, and more." The mod currently comes with 4 presets, ...

PHP Developer position open at the Nexus

With the release of Skyrim Nexus and the success of the modding scene to date the Nexus server infrastructure has been stretched to its very limits, and so have I. Working 18 hour days for the first couple of weeks (along with Axel) I began to question the work load I put in to running the Nexus and the obvious options were to tone down the scope of the sites or to bring on some more professional help to alleviate some of the stress placed on myself and the servers. I have enjoyed immensely w...

Scheduled down-time 29th of November 2011

Just to let you know there is going to be some down-time early tomorrow morning around 8am GMT (which is 3am EST) as all the blades we currently used are moved and reconfigured in the data center. The hope is that this down-time will not last more than 30 minutes, but bearing in mind sods law, I'd gamble on it being closer to an hour. You'll probably have connection issues and/or MySQL errors during this time. Fingers crossed all goes to plan!...

1,000 mods

So we're just about 2 weeks in to Skyrim's global launch and Skyrim Nexus has reached over 1,000 mods available for download, which is pretty damn impressive without an available SDK! And for you nit-pickers out there, I deliberately waited until we surpassed the threshold of uploaded save games, so that's 1,000 actual mods and game files, not including save games. I just wanted to post up a little something about what I, and the sites, have been through these past two weeks. Not least becaus...

Nexus Mod Manager new version, introductory video and a note on site blips

Another apology to make first guys. We hit a bit of a rough patch for an hour or so this evening with the Skyrim server. Every day we're hitting new traffic highs (525,000 unique visitors and 4 million page views today!) which means we're having to constantly adapt to the demands placed on the servers, continually optimising queries and config files and goodness knows what else. Thankfully we found the cause of today's issue relatively quickly and the server has been running sweet and sound sinc...

Nexus Mod Manager - 0.12.3 released

We have just released the latest update to the Nexus Mod Manager, 0.12.3. This is a bug fix patch that should help to resolve some of the problems that users have been experiencing so far. If you load NMM (and can get to the mod management screen) then NMM will automatically tell you there's a new version and offer to download it for you. Simply follow the setup process and NMM will be updated. If you haven't been able to access NMM up until now, or you haven't got it at all, head on over to ...