Hello gentlemen,

I have seen a lot of complaints about texture mods not working with vista or not working at all.

Here is a solution , step by step , to solve the problem .

1 : Download the skin and open it the zip.

 In it , there should be 2 or 3 files - textures - meshes - readme.

2 : Put the textures and meshes in your "C:\Program Files\Bethesda Softworks\Fallout 3\Data" folder.

3 : Into the readme, there should have lines , looking like this ;

 "textures/weapons/2handautomatic/1stpersonassaultrifle01.dds
  textures/weapons/2handautomatic/1stpersonassaultrifle02.dds"

  Copy and paste these in your <big> 
  C:\Program Files\Bethesda Softworks\Fallout 3\Data\Archiveinvalidation.txt </big> folder.

  You can add as many of these as you want in the Archiveinvalidation.txt .
  They will not collide.

4 : There are now 3 files you must open. These are : -Fallout_default.ini In your main Fallout 3 folder. -Fallout.ini and Falloutprefs.ini in your
"documents\mygames\fallout3" folder.

 Open those 3 files , press CTRL+F and type "binvalidateolderfiles = 0" and press next.
 Once you find the line, replace the 0 by a 1.

 And then everything should be workful! :)

 <big> NOTICE THAT IF YOUR .ZIP CONTAINS A .ESP YOU NEED TO LAUNCH IT USING FOMM (timeslip) FOUND HERE : </big> 

             http://timeslip.chorrol.com/fomm.html

  Put it in your fallout 3 folder and launch it. Simple.