Help me avoid rookie mistakes (SSE)

[gromulos]

over writing saves is a bad idea IMO

 

if you have something go wrong with a save, then you have absolutely no idea when it started AND you won't be able to recover from a problem as easily, you could potentially lose hours or even days of game play

[Wejjoo]

Okay, so what is the best way to save? Right now I have 3 saves and I overwrite the oldest one of those 3. After about 10 overwrites on each save I erase them and create 3 new

[gromulos]

I make a hard manual save each and every time, what that means is i go into the game options menu and save each time, no quick saves, no autosaves EVER, and i keep a archive of 25 saves minimum

[Wejjoo]

Okay, thanks for your answers :)

How bad is it to download updates to mods or new mods in the middle of a playthrough? I saw that Racemenu just got an update and I also realised that for some reason the textures for my frost atronach was bugged or missing so I was considering downloading the Rustic Daedra mod to fix this

Thanks

[gromulos]

adding mods is fine as long as you rebuild the bashed patch each time, if you ever remove a mod, make a new character

 

removing just ONE mod will break every single one of your saves

[Wejjoo]

Hmm, okay. I removed one mod in the beginning of my playthrough because it messed up the crosshair. After saving I checked Wrye Bash and the save was purple, which it still is. Should I start over?

If I add more mods, I guess I should use LOOT first and then rebuild the bashed patch as you said?

Can I generally go by if the save is purple in Wrye, I'm good to go? Are there any other ways to check for save corruption?

Thanks :)

[gromulos]

no don't start over, if the save was purple, that means you got lucky, for some reason that mod was not built into the save

 

if you look at a save, on the right Wrye will list EVERY mod that save uses

[Wejjoo]

Okay, thank you so much for all your help, I really appreciate it.

I'm going to download a couple of mods now and use LOOT, rebuild the patch and then check Wrye again.

I downloaded something called resaver that could clean saves that have loose scripts, do you know anything about that?

[Wejjoo]

I downloaded the mods, used LOOT and then rebuilt the patch. The old saves are orange, but if I load one of them and save, the new save becomes purple. Am I good to go?

[gromulos]

yes but ONLY with that new save, that's normal because you changed the load order

 

resaver = don't use, i never will, and it's the lazy way to fix your save, plus I've heard from different people that it breaks your save more times than fixes it

 

I just reinstalled Fallout 4 and used a save with 53 mods attached to it to change it from red back to purple, loaded up no problem first time :smile:

Edited August 24, 2018 by gromulos