AncientGamer65 Posted September 6, 2015 Share Posted September 6, 2015 I'm a noob to mid-level modder and am having problems with something...am hopeful someone can point me in the proper direction and give me a course of action. I like to try things out...I see a mod that might be interesting, I download it, give it a trial run in my game, and if I wind up not liking it, I just remove it. Nine times out of ten, this winds up being an easy process...you just uninstall the mod and all is good, right? Well, not always. Currently, I have about 5-10 mods in my load order that, if I uninstall even one of them, my game will crash immeadiatly on start up. I have tested this time and time again, so I KNOW it's these mods in particular...uninstall mod, game crashes...re-install mod, game starts up; and I'm ONLY messing with the one mod in particular when I use this testing process. These mods seem to vary...I have 2 quest mods like this and 2 weapon mods that I can think of off the top of my head. Yet another reason I'm glad paid mods failed...if I had paid for these, wound up unable to remove them from my game and get a refund, I would have been piiiiiiiiiiiiiiiissed...... Anyway. Can anyone tell me what might be causing this so I can alleviate said problem? Am I going to have to sacrifice save files with the mods present in the game world? (In this case, the mods ARE installed, but I haven't put them into my inventory.) Do I need to do some editing with FNVEdit? Do I need to reinstall the game with the mods in question removed from my Mod Manager? How can I fix this? Any and all help appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nystel Posted September 6, 2015 Share Posted September 6, 2015 ~ Without know what the mods are these mods dependent on each other? If so, be removing one, the others will not work. ~ Do you have a merge patch and/or bash patch installed. Again, if they are patched, than by removing one of them, the patch is missing a file and will crash the game. ~ Are you using Mod Organizer (you should if you are not: http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/1334/?). If we are only talking about 5-10 mods, than start a new profile and start over, 5 minutes tops of work. ~ With the weapon mods, are you running WMX or EVE? If so, you might have a compatibility patch that needs to read your new weapon mods, and if you remove them, the compatibility patch is looking for it master file and will crash b/c it can not find it. In all honesty there are multiple files that are tied to these mods that looking for the master files. If you disable one and not both, it will crash. I hope that this has helped a little bit. Or at least, narrowed it down a little bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AncientGamer65 Posted September 6, 2015 Author Share Posted September 6, 2015 Good point about dependencies; hadn't thought of that. :) Quest mods, yah, I can see that; but to some degree, we're talking about weapons here. Without pointing the finger at a mod/mod author in particular, one of the mods I've mentioned is a lightsaber. Just a weapon with no quest attached...but if I uninstall it, my game crashes. :/ I don't bash patch, but I DO use a merge patch, so that may be the culprit...I'll try removing the merge patch and then remove the mods that I'd like gone; thanks for that. :) Forest for the trees...didn't even think of that; thanks. :) The weapons involved aren't even in my possession in my current game, but at the spot the individual mod authors placed them in-game at their start, so there's no WMX involved. The mods involved aren't, to my knowledge, dependent on each other. I'd list the ones I'm having troubles with, but I don't want to look as if I'm dumping on the authors/dumping on the mods; they're fine work and all are great mods, but I'm just not interested in them myself anymore and would like to remove them. But to be general, we're talking about a lightsaber mod, an Original Series Star Trek Phaser mod, a quest mod or two, and a grenade launcher. :/ Remove any one and my game crashes, restore it and the game is fine. :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AncientGamer65 Posted September 6, 2015 Author Share Posted September 6, 2015 Now, THIS is why I ask questions. :) ***THANK YOU*** Nystel for reminding me about my Merged Patch. Removing that I'm able to remove the mods I want to remove. :) I ***KNEW*** it was something simple I was missing...lol. ;) Thanks again; I have some mods to go remove. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nystel Posted September 6, 2015 Share Posted September 6, 2015 Yea man, anytime. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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