It’s been a hectic day today. The astute among you will have noticed we’ve done a domain move on every Nexus site to subdomains of our new central domain, nexusmods.com. Don’t worry, we’re not making any funky visual changes to the sites! It’s just better for us this way.

In between all the crazy name server and DNS changes (and all the issues they bring with them!), Kaburke has managed to get the latest version of the Nexus Mod Manager out and available for download. Version 0.14.1 adds some super cool and much needed UI tweaks and features that make the program look more modern, and more functional!

We’ve stuck the download manager at the bottom of the program, and it will pop-up and show you your download activity if you start a new download. You can choose to move this back to where it was before if you prefer, but I think it’s way better in this latest version! Talking of downloads you will now be able to see your download speed within NMM. Normal members are limited to 500kb/sec per file and Premium Members are able to use up to 4MB/sec per file and both normal member downloads and Premium Member downloads are multi-threaded. That basically means if you are far away from the file servers and wouldn’t normally be able to download as fast as possible, you should be able to now. And you don’t need to do a thing to make that happen.

The UI is now much more customisable. You can move the tabs about to suit your needs, and you can even “pull” them out of NMM in to their own separate windows. You might find that handy for debugging certain things. Or if windows really rock your boat! If you make a mess of things and can’t work out how to get it all back to normal there’s a setting under the Tools icon to reset your UI back to the default, so no worries there.

NMM is really starting to gear-up and play the part now and I’m really happy with how it’s starting to look. We’ve got lots and lots of things we still want to do and get in to the program, and we’ll get around to it all eventually. Some people have mentioned the fact that the download page for NMM is hard to find on the sites, and that’s a conscious decision I’ve made to not advertise the program too much because we are still in open beta with the program. Having said that, we’re almost at the 250,000 unique downloads mark for the program, so word-of-mouth really does speak for itself. Version 0.14.1 will mark the start of when I begin to advertise NMM on the sites so you’ll see some more visible links to the Mod Manager page and how and where to download the program on the sites soon. I think it’s time to get the word out.

Edit: It should also be noted that for some people, the domain changes today will have caused a few glitches and errors that you might still be experiencing. These will go away within the next 24 hours depending on how fast your ISP is to update their DNS caching.