Is there a single page on NexusForums for BOSS that is up-to-date?

[enderes]

Hi. First off let me say that I'm relatively new to Skyrim; I started playing for the very first time on July 16, 2012. I'm still in the process of figuring out what mods I like or even work.

 

One of the first things I learned about when starting to use mods was that I need several utilities. One of the most popular & commonly-mentioned utilities is called BOSS. It's this thing that helps you made sure your mods are loaded in the right order for them to work. If you're reading this thread then I'm guessing you know what it is & already use it.

Well by the time I came to Skyrim, (the NexusMods page for it was old had long-since been locked.

I installed it from the link there, but when I tried getting the list to use, I was told it was too out-of-date & obselete. I refer to the list of all mods, which BOSS uses to do what it does. That page links to a completely different website somewhere to download it all from. I had to google for an up-to-date list but didn't find one. (Btw my Google-fu is very, very, very weak, so I usually need other people to find stuff for me instead. Call it a handicap or whatever.)

 

More recently I found the "official" pages for BOSS, but the forum it's on has a rather low limit to how many posts a thread can have, so when the limit is reached, a new thread is made to continue it. It does not, however, have any clear link to a most recent thread, and I don't have the long hours it would take to read every page in every thread, looking for words that say "here is a mod-list that is up-to-date as of game version x.x.x". I'm having to go through this process:

Step 1: Open the first page on the Bethesda forums.

Step 2: Skip to the last page.

Step 3: Click the link in the last post to "New Thread."

Step 4: Repeat steps 2 & 3.

I'm already up to the 10th consecutive thread, and that only goes up to August 6. I have no idea how many more threads to go through till I get to the most recent.

 

I'm curious: When someone who just installed the game for first time is installing BOSS, or someone upgrades to a new game version & needs to update their BOSS list, where do they find the list in the first place? Where is a website listing it that other people find but I have no clue about?

 

Earlier this week I posted a comment in the page for a specific mod, asking about load order, and one person replied "Just use BOSS to order it for you." HOW DO I DO THAT!? In July, I thought from what I read that BOSS itself had become obsolete, and new lists no longer existed. But since then I've seen people comment in mod pages about using BOSS and something or other about the most recent list they've got, so apparently more up-to-date lists do exists. I just can't tell where they are found.

Can someone please post a link to a page here on NexusForums (and/or in a comment to this post) that links to BOSS and to the lists it uses, that is current? If such a page/thread even exists? And if it doesn't exist, can someone please make it for the benefit of EVERYONE who plays Skyrim & uses NexusMods to get their mods?

[DreamKingMods]

The list BOSS uses is generallly downloaded from within the BOSS application itself--it auto-updates its list, you don't need to manually download and install updated lists. Just be sure you have the latest version, 2.1 as of this writing, and try running the GUI version; you'll see the options.

[bben46]

The BOSS program is downloaded from a mirror site - Look for the triangle icon to the right on the row of icons - it's directly below the green 'vote For Me' bar.

 

Or, use this direct link. :thumbsup:

 

http://code.google.c.../downloads/list

 

Note: BOSS was originally made for Oblivion - the same program works for Skyrim, Fallout3, Fallout New Vegas & Nehrim.

[Sharlikran]

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I'm always glad to help, within reason. Searching the newest BOSS thread is probably the best way to find the link for the program. I understand that some links are outdated but the search option is not that antiquated.

 

The BOSS thred is here. The link to the newest installer is shown above.

 

If you install it in the default folder all the documentation is in C:\BOSS\Docs

Edited September 29, 2012 by Sharlikran

[enderes]

Ah, thank you all! It never occurred to me that the program gets & updates the list itself. I don't remember what went wrong when I tried installing & using BOSS the first time, I thought I remembered getting an error message somewhere that said "the list is outdated." Maybe I installed it the wrong way, or was looking for the list on a website rather than from within the program.

Either way, I've just downloaded & installed it from the link 2 of you provided, I'll try to run it now & follow the instructions from its readme.