SOLVED: With v 1.6x is cleaning masters still to be avoided or now required/advised?

[anjenthedog]

Back when I first started playing Skyrim SE (1.5.73), it was expected for players to "clean masters"

That changed by the time ~v1.5.97 was current, and it was expected to NOT clean masters

Since I just reinstalled Skyrim SE and am now operating on v 1.6.1170, I have to ask, are we still NOT cleaning masters, or are we now cleaning masters again?

thanks.

[7531Leonidas]

If you plan to use DynDOLOD, then I believe cleaning (of all mods, not just masters) is required to run both TexGen and DynDOLOD.  Otherwise, there seems to be controversy still...

I cleaned my masters, and have not had any identifiable problems from that yet.

[greyday01]

I cleaned my masters, made an empty mod and placed all of the cleaned masters into it, restored the original esms (from copies I made), them placed my Cleaned Masters mod in my load list just below the original esms. I haven't had any problems with that set up.

[anjenthedog]

10 hours ago, 7531Leonidas said:

If you plan to use DynDOLOD, then I believe cleaning (of all mods, not just masters) is required to run both TexGen and DynDOLOD.  Otherwise, there seems to be controversy still...

I cleaned my masters, and have not had any identifiable problems from that yet.

Not planning on using DynDOLOD, but good to know for future reference. 

thanks