skyrim823894 Posted October 27, 2016 Share Posted October 27, 2016 (edited) Hey! I have modded vanilla Skyrim quite a bit, but it has always been buggy as hell and a lot of random endless loading screens and the game shutting down. And i have only used maybe 30-40 mods (i have GTX 760 and 16GB ram). This has made me hate mods and just play vanilla and i can't seem to fix all the bugs and side effects. I see here that people use up to 200 mods. How do people have so many mods and still keep it stable? Is this going to be better in the Special Edition? Anyone have any tips for me as i prepare the new playthrough on the Special Edition? Edited October 27, 2016 by skyrim823894 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LordNyron Posted October 27, 2016 Share Posted October 27, 2016 The Special Edition will be more stable when modded thanks to it being 64bit instead of 32bit. I imagine the problems you had might have been due to conflicting mods or something. Hard to say without knowing what mods you used and in what order they were arranged. My suggestion is that, if you intend to mod Special Edition read up on the basics of modding Skyrim. Maybe someone can explain it to you better than I could. It took me a bit to get the hang of modding at first. So many crashes before I finally figured out how to get my mods to play nice with the game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crimsomrider Posted October 27, 2016 Share Posted October 27, 2016 (edited) Simple. I had a ton of mods, but I always read the front page, known issues and user comments to see what the mod does and how it does it. Not to mention I had some insight in how mods operate and I was a frequent user of the Creation Kit. Best advice I can give you is - ALWAYS READ THE FRONT PAGE AND USER COMMENTS. If you read the front page, you will not have any issues. I personally had over 400 mods installed, including 196 ESPs. Every issue I ever came across was always from the vanilla game itself. Any issue I came across that was not a vanilla issue, I knew exactly what mod was causing it because I am careful with what I install. Don't be like some new people who just download 3000 mods without reading and then post false bug reports on other people's mods... like what happens with most of my mods. People submit false bug reports because they don't read what I strictly wrote on the front page and under the files. Front page is not there to bore you to death, it is there to provide you with helpful information so you don't screw up your game. Edited October 27, 2016 by crimsomrider Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skyrim823894 Posted October 27, 2016 Author Share Posted October 27, 2016 So basically the issues i need to look for is compatibility issues with other mods? And i can find these issues on the mod page? (i'm a real noob, sorry...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crimsomrider Posted October 27, 2016 Share Posted October 27, 2016 So basically the issues i need to look for is compatibility issues with other mods? And i can find these issues on the mod page? (i'm a real noob, sorry...) Yes, some mods are not compatible with eachother. It is very important to check this before using a mod. Here's another advice : When a new mod comes out, don't download it right away. Wait an hour or two so other users check it out and report any bugs (if there are any). I personally always do this. Also, some mods may simply cause bugs unintentionally. It happens. But as long as you read the info and details about each mod, you won't run into any issues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skyrim823894 Posted October 27, 2016 Author Share Posted October 27, 2016 Thank you for your tips! Will try modding the hell outta Special Edition while following your tips and see how it goes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dayglo98 Posted October 28, 2016 Share Posted October 28, 2016 yeah be sure to read the whole main page of a mod, particularly the Compatibility section, the Installation section etc. Look in each mod's discussions if you have any issues.« Currently running 135ish mods smooth as butter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Papajack55 Posted February 9, 2017 Share Posted February 9, 2017 Make damn sure none of them clip-be incompatible with any of each other-also keep them up to date-and those that are abandoned or no longer in use, either take out, or patch it. That's what I do and I'm running 241 mods at this point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RadioactivatedRed Posted February 10, 2017 Share Posted February 10, 2017 Not every mod page will list compatibility issues, sometimes you just need to hunt it down yourself. There's no guarantee that a mod author has used, or even heard of, whatever else might be causing problems in your load order. You might need to hunt through comments to see if others mention an issue, or just try running without other mods as a trial to see what happens. For every reported incompatibility, someone out there was the first to discover it. There's always a chance that person could end up being you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gavinjb Posted February 10, 2017 Share Posted February 10, 2017 The only times I have had SSE crash with me was due to Incompatibilities or forgetting to sort the Load Order, not sure if its needed for SSE, but I also clean my Master Files which with Old Skyrim help with stability. I have about 180 Mods (just over 100 Plugins) installed and stability seems to be very good, for Old Skyrim I never installed much in the way of Mods as couldn't get it stable after I had more than 30-40 mods and even then it would CTD every 30 minutes. I have found with SSE that if there are incompatibilities you more often than not get some strange behavior in game rather than the game crashing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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