Oh good, there is a thread for GECK. I don't really have a question, instead I am going to try to document some troubles I'm having.
The person at this forum explains it all perfectly.
So ... with Fallout 3 (or New Vegas) apparently Windows 8 or newer does not like to work with the GECK! It's hella frustrating. My gaming computer is 8.1, and it'll open the GECK just fine, and it'll run certain functions. I can make NPCs for instance, and place them into the Wasteland just fine. But if I want to start messing with quest-making or scripts, the GECK doesn't recognize what I'm doing at all, and it has something to do with some updates Windows 8+ I have accepted over the years. So for anyone else out there having these sort of issues, there seem to be others who have conquered them.
Apparently, I'm supposed to look for some sort of "compatibility mode" and I think I've found it. Edit: Nope, didn't work. I made sure to right-click on the GECK exe file, go into its Compatibility tab, and run the program as Windows 7, as an administrator. Didn't work though.
Edit 2: This is caused by a Windows 8 update: kb3000850. Various threads on the 'net talk about getting rid of this update, and I tried this, but it also didn't work. The problem is that if you're like me, and you've been updating your computer over all these years, now you've got a zillion updates to get rid of. And SOME of them seem as though they're hardcoded. They cannot be removed. Lesson learned: no more updates! At least, not on my gaming computer.
Final solution:
Here it is. For some reason, every topic and condition gets "shoved over to the left." To correct this, you have to highlight the top left corner of each blank window until this little pointer thing shows up which looks sort of like this:
<-||->Now, GRAB this with the left mouse button, and literally DRAG to the right. Everything is still there, it's just hidden.
Phew. I need a drink.
This post has been edited by Renee: Jun 25 2017, 05:44 PM