Maximum number of mods/plug ins?

[snapper69]

Is there a maximum number of mods/plugins that can be used with Fallout 4. Since the last (I wish) patch I've been having problems with CTD's, which I more or less manged to sort, but with several plug ins disabled. I enabled 2 of them and the game started to load, but when I clicked continue a warning came up saying that some content required by that save may be missing. The list included Fallout .esm, Automaatron and quite a few others. It then crashed.

[archtrtd1]

I'm pretty sure that the official number is 255 plugins - .esms and .esps to include the Fallout4.esm and all dlcs. You can have as many texture/mesh mods as your computer can handle. I've read (in Skyrim) that some people were experiencing instability the closer they got to having 255 plug-ins. My rule of thumb is to keep my plug-in list under 225. I usually try to combine some of the smaller mods/patches into a single plug-in to reduce my load order.

[snapper69]

thanks for that, looks like I'm going to have to do a bit of weeding.

[TummaSuklaa]

255 though I believe you can bypass this with merged plugins, but would need a Wrye Bash type program for that.

[damanding]

Elianora has a great tutorial for merging plugins using FO4Edit:

[padraigsh]

I've 133 plugins. Most are of a very slight nature, usually for this or that gun, and bigger ones like Carbot (drive a car and some motorbikes or motorbike like machines) also only have an effect if the item is crafted. I should see what I can merge.