I'm About to mod my game, suggestions

[MaxGreen5]

So, I recently deleted ALL my mods, savegames, reinstalled the game.. I had so many crashes and CTDS and what not... I started modding my game on august 2017 and I didn't have any of the DLC's so I obviously downloaded only mods without DLC support I recently just got the season pass and things started getting worse.. Before, I would just lose my audio ingame for a couple seconds, after that it was freezes.. that resumed after like 30 seconds the the freezes became permanent and i had to close my session to close the game.. The It was the CTDs few seconds into the game.. So Today I decided to start all over again..

Sorry for not going to the point.. If you guys have anny suggestions on mods to avoid or anything Id be thankfull to read them

[Kodiak412]

The only thing I can say is to stay away from overlapping mods. For example if you use 6 mods that alter Piper your chances for problems are high.

 

My best suggestion is to stay way from mods that make major game changes and focus on small mods that do one thing. Since you have already played the game look for issues with vanilla gameplay and find a small mod that addresses that issue.

 

Load either load them one at a time and see if they cause issues (my suggestion) or find what you want and load them all at once. However if you follow this path and you have issues, there will so many variables that troubleshooting will be very difficult.

 

If you see a mod you like go to that mods comments section and read what others say. There will always be someone that may be having a conflict with other mod and saying this mod to blame, but if everyone is having an issue and the author has not addressed them, you should probably steer clear. Good luck.

[Greslin]

If you don't already know FO4Edit inside and out, take some time and get a refresher. It'll solve nearly all of your mod problems.

[Slategrey]

When selecting or installing mods (as others have said)

 

1. Dont go mad - too many mods will make fault finding nearly impossible - start small.

 

2. Always always read the mod description and the bug reports. A mod with 30 reported bugs isn't going to miraculously work perfectly for you.

 

3. Check the "last updated" date and compare that to the bug list. If bugs were reported 2 years ago and the MOD hasn't received an update, chances are it never will.

 

4. Use Fallout 4 Nexus "Top Files List" - 10k thumbs up is a good sign - usually

 

5. try to avoid mods that overlap, for example, mods that alter Sanctuary tend to conflict in small but subtle ways (or crash your computer in not so subtle ways)

 

6. Use Loot to order your MODS, but be prepared for some fine tuning as its not perfect (close, but not perfect)

 

7. Load order. If you cant avoid number 5 and number 6 has not helped, be prepared to manually adjust the load order.

 

8. Dont forget Wrye bash. Use this to create a bashed patch and put it at the absolute end of your load order. (contains levelled lists for "stuff")

 

9. Decide what SORT of character you want to be and chose mods around that character. No point loading clothing , weaponry etc mods that you will never use

 

10. Notes. Make notes of what works and what doesn't - and be prepared to uninstall your mods and reinstall your mods time and time again till you hit the sweet spot.

 

11. when in doubt - ask. Most (but not all) people on the nexus are more than willing to help if asked politely.

 

I'm currently running 209 Mods that "seem" to work together after a LOT of jiggery pokery. It's been a long , hard slog (but fun) to get to this point.

 

oh yeah number 13 - make sure you have plenty of coffee or energy drinks to hand :)

[jkruse05]

Get the Fallout 4 Script Extender (F4SE).

 

If you like settlement building, or just want it to be better, get Scrap Everything and Place Everywhere (PE requires F4SE). Use Sim Settlements and it's expansions if you want to spend less item building, but more time managing resources, kinda like an RTS.

I also highly recommend you install the Unofficial Patch, Armor and Weapon Keywords Community Resource (AWKCR), Settlement Menu Manager (SMM), HUDFramework, and Mod Configuration Menu (MCM), or at least bookmark them, as a lot of other mods are dependent on them (especially the first three).

I also recommend Be Exceptional, which makes the leveling system at least somewhat more like the old Fallout games (requires F4SE and LevelUpMenuEx).

Obviously I want you download my own stuff from my signature as well, but the ones above are the baseline I personally recommend for anyone. I used to recommend Junkmaster from bethesda.net as well, but there have been recent issues with the PC version and it has grown so big that it started conflicting with things I wanted more, like Be Exceptional. If you think you might be interested in the future, Junkmaster is a combination of bug fixes, re-balances, and reintroductions of content from old Fallout games.