Zathmo Posted October 26, 2017 Share Posted October 26, 2017 Hey everyone! I've been trying to craft the perfect ultimate Fallout Game for a while but I can't play minimally. I HAVE to have a lot of mods, or else I feel like I'm not getting enough out of the game. I reached the limit of about 130 mods (going beyond that I get weird texture glitches) so I started merging mods. However my game finally gave up and decided to crap itself and I'm suffering from CTDs constantly. I've spent countless hours with this mod setup but I think I've come to terms with that I just need to start over with a fresh install. Sooo to the point: I believe my CTDs are caused by bad merges and I believe I messed everything up because of it (even with all plugins disabled I still crash). So when I restart I want to be smart about merging mods. Should I continue to use the merged packs I have? What are some good practices with merges? Does anyone have any good tutorials they know of that help teach about merges? I thought I was being smart about it, I merged armor mods with armor mods, quest mods with quest mods, and a HUGE merge of roughly 30 mods that were small mods that shouldn't have had any conflict with each other. Please if anybody can better educate me on merging mods (by giving tips or throwing a tutorial my way) I'd seriously appreciate it. Fallout NV means a lot to me and I really want to be able to make the game as amazing as it can be when I restart the modding proccess. Thank you so much in advance! *Im using Merge Plugins btw https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/69905/? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dubiousintent Posted October 26, 2017 Share Posted October 26, 2017 The component I think you are missing is where each of the plugins you intend to merge together fall into your "load order", which is determined by those other plugins they are dependent upon. There are all sorts of unexpected conflicts, even with so-called "small mods". Please see the wiki "Merged Plugin Guidelines for Personal Use" article. You must also bear in mind that "Merge Plugins Standalone" does not resolve record level conflicts. You still need "merge patch" files to do that. Both are discussed in that article. -Dubious- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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