Any benefit to cleaning DLC .esm ITM records?

[rickur]

I was reading Essarrbee's New Vegas modding guide and he recommends deleting ITM records and "Undelete and Disable References" for all the DLC .esm's. In the guide he didn't really explain as to why you would want to do this. So now I ask you guys, why?

 

I'm usually of the opinion that "if it ain't broke don't fix it". However If this could solve any yet to be discovered conflicts or maybe possibly gives even a minor boost in performance/load times, I'm all for it.

[Gribbleshnibit8]

You really don't want to do it. If you want fixes that cover those things, get a mod like YUP to fix issues, but modifying the base game core files is not a good idea.

[luthienanarion]

Whoever instructed you to "clean" those files was wrong. This game and most of the mods for it are older than this stupid "cleaning" craze, and we expect those ITMs and deleted references to be in those files. Identical-to-master records are not always mistakes, as they can be used to revert changes to a record made by other plugins. Ignore that guide, and ignore BOSS/LOOT when they recommend it for anything other than Skyrim.

[rickur]

Identical-to-master records are not always mistakes, as they can be used to revert changes to a record made by other plugins.

I know they are not. However for the DLCs there seems to be no reason for it to contain ITMs since they are loaded directly after FalloutNV.esm anyway. Well I was of the opinion that it seemed not necessary to clean them anyways so I won't since both of you think it's a bad idea.

 

 

ignore BOSS/LOOT when they recommend it for anything other than Skyrim.

Why is it different for Skyrim?