LOOT - Sort Order - Doesn't work for me

[Sharlikran]

Wrye Flash and LOOT have been updated to handle ESL files. LOOT is probably available to download, but Wrye Flash isn't released yet. Don't worry about Wrye Flash complaining for now about save games your save games aren't broken, Bethesda added extra data to them. If you have a Python install (and don't use the standalone EXE) you can download the latest code from the bottom of the second post in this thread. Again the utumno-wip branch is Python only and while an EXE is offered it may or may not be up to date with the development branch.

[Sergale89]

I just got LOOT a few minutes ago because I kept having random crashes, even though I don't have a ton of mods. I figured, since it's highly recommended, that maybe LOOT could sort the loading order and fix my problem but when I "sort" in LOOT, it does absolutely *nothing* to the load order what so ever. Even if I move stuff up and down in NMM, LOOT doesn't move anything. I'm not sure what's going on. I'm really far from pro at using mods, but I know that all the master files are supposed to be loaded first -- or so I've been told, so I just put the master files first at the top in NMM and all other .esp files are kind of sprinkled randomly under them. But LOOT doesn't rearrange those "randomly placed" .esp's. So basically, LOOT has done nothing to my original load order.

[Soulbringer1]

i shifted my load order around three times and placed (Purposely), Mods above that should go below others. Loot sorted NOTHING. Did not move even ONE File. Is there a Sorter That Actually works with Fallout 4? Is BOSS Still being used?

[Soulbringer1]

I can't tell from reading your post exactly what the issue is. Are you saying that LOOT is sorting your mods, but not in a way that you think is correct?

 

When you launch LOOT, it does a couple of things like making sure that the masterlist it's using is up to date. This should take a few seconds with a decent internet connection. After that, when you hit the "Sort Plugins" button, it examines the plugins to check dependencies that are hard-coded (such as masters). This may take a little longer, because it scans the headers of every file.

 

There's a set of 4 icons in the top right corner. If you hover over the "list" icon to the left of the arrow (4th from the right), it will say "Sort Plugins". You click that, it sorts your plugins, and lists warnings underneath the mod names if something looks wrong. It will still sort your mods, despite the warnings, though. After this is done, if it has changed anything, an "APPLY" button will appear near the "Sort Plugins" button. Hit APPLY, and the changes are saved.

 

Generated warnings are usually legit, so it's worth investigating if it gives you any.

 

FWIW, your list doesn't look to me like it's actually been sorted via LOOT.

 

If you want to manually sort the plugins (which IMO is a lot of error-prone work), you can use the masterlist from https://github.com/loot/fallout4, or C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\LOOT\Fallout4. The list is called masterlist.yaml, and it's not difficult to read, but not particularly human friendly either.

 

 

I know this is very old thread. BUT, I cant seam to find the answer anywhere. I am Having the same problem. BUT I Found that LOOT is working Fine.. NMM is not taking the order from Loot and Implementing it. Any Suggestions. I cant seam to get any help from N WEBSITE. yes mY pLUGINS TEXT IS (not) Set to read only.