Swapping Between Racemenu and ECE

[Kraggy]

I hope this isn't an FAQ because I've not seen such a question asked from Googling "racemenu and ece".

 

From my research of these tools I think I understand that, basically, they're mutually exclusive and while I did find one discussion of how they can be 'persuaded' to play nice it seems you're fighting an uphill battle.

 

If that's the case then it begs the question, it seems to me, "can you switch from one to the other?"

 

Say I find a Racemenu preset which I like and install RM to handle it, then later I find an ECE one which I'd also like to try. Can I uninstall RM and install ECE and not affect the game using the RM character?

 

I guess I really don't have a good understanding of how these tools work so have no real idea if they have to exist once one has installed one of their presets .. or, are you doomed to having to make a once-and-for-all choice, if you don't want to maintain two entire Skyrim installations?

 

Can anyone educate me, or else point me at an thread(s) I haven't discovered so far discussing these tools?

 

Cheers.

[bill8872]

If I had to make a guess, changing mid game would be a bad idea. So you need to pick one or the other during a play through.

I do not use ece, and the faq on the Racemenu page say's ece is not 100% compatible with Racemenu, and does say presets will not work, if using both.

[Kraggy]

Yes, I think I read the comments you're referring to. :(

 

I find it sad that someone felt the need to create a second such tool when one already existed and made it such that they weren't compatible .. I guess that's the story of the entire software industry, making user choose one or the other. Yes, I know this is just a game and this stuff is free but by ensuring they don't play nice together one or the other is pretty much going to be ignored, as I really can't think the effort of maintaining two separate Skyrim systems simply to pander to their lack of coexistence is going to be much fun.

 

/sigh

 

Cheers.