Thoughts on Texmod or its alternative UMod

Just wanted to get peoples opinion on how they feel about these modding tools. I use them for the Mass Effect series. It made ME 1 look like how it was meant to be on PC with the help of modding talented artists. I started using UMod for ME 2, when it worked it was a thing of beauty. It dramatically decreased the horrendous load times associated with Texmod. Not sure of the technical side of things but from what I've gathered UMod loads up with the game where as Texmod loads up as a secondary function over the original textures thus making it take twice as long (longer depending on hardware). So Yeah, if any one has any thoughts on these or by chance if they know why my ME 2 UMod isn't working correctly I'd like some feed back.

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