ErianDragonborn Posted May 1, 2017 Share Posted May 1, 2017 Hi!Just a quick tip here. It works less well if you have a lot of mods with dependancies on other mods, but it still stands. 1. You game crashes.If your game crashes or has other bugs and you don't know what causes it, you can of course disable all mods and add them one by one, but there is a faster way (if you have checked with all checking software out there). 2. Does the game crash without any mods, on a clean save?First, disable everything and see if the crashes are gone. Test with a new save. If they are not gone, you might have to reinstall the game. 3. Is the culprit mod in the first half of your load order?If the bug is gone without mods, activate the first half of your mods, all at once (take note of dependancies here), and test. If the bug did not return, you know it is somewhere in the second half. Only half as many mods to check. If the bug DID return, you know it is in the first half, and can leave the second half alone. 4. Now test the quarters, etc.Now devide the mods that you still have to test in half again, and test those. 5. I still can't find it!!!If you don't find the mod that causes the crash in this way, but it returns once you have everything activated, then it's a bit more difficult. It will be caused because two mods are incompatible...Try activating the first quarter together with the third quarter, the first with the fourth, the second with the third and the second with the fourth. The bug should pop up at one of these possibilities. Then you can start narrowing it down again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VanKrill Posted May 3, 2017 Share Posted May 3, 2017 (edited) Test the mods outside of the game, by selecting them one at a time, and running the varied available tests, using TES5Edit and WryeBash. Most of the really weird bugs I've finally found, I've found that way, or just looking carefully at the error messages, when I load just the one mod, in the CK. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOQO2S6HDBw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zr7pz4JGSEM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKU_R1Hqa4o Many mod makers publish their mods, without ever cleaning them of dirty edits. Shameful, but true! - Edited May 3, 2017 by VanKrill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ErianDragonborn Posted May 5, 2017 Author Share Posted May 5, 2017 Thanks for the addition. I never really used other software to test mods, so didn't know anthing about those. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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