Reinstalled NV, whichs mods should be installed first?

[huntsman2310]

I've reinstalled New Vegas with all DLCs now onboard, and I would like a opinion on a good and stable method of choosing which mods to install first.

 

I'm thinking that UI and graphical improvements mods should be put on first, then characters and quests, and finally weapons and armor. Something like that?

 

And of course before all of that, nvse, wrye bash and NMM would be installed.

 

What do you guys think?

[MeinName]

Well... The order of installation is not that important. Or at least I think so.

If you install them all with NVMM you will be asked if you want to overwrite stuff that doubles.

Graphic mods should not interfere with the stability of your gameplay (at least if your cpu is strong enough to handle them, eg: Don't use NMC's textures in large if your pc can't handle them...) so when they are installed doesn't really matter (afaik).

To make sure your game runs stable when several quest or location mods are installed make sure that they don't use the same places, because it would cause clipping and maybe crashing.

After installing your quest/location/custom character mods you can proceed installing your other mods.

Graphical modifications and weapon or armor mods rarely interfere with each other or make the game unstable (apart from maybe overburdening the game because the mod is to large).

At the end the load order in NVMM may matter. Rule of thumb: Load important things first and less important afterwards -> .esm files at the very start, master .esp files and and large .esp files in the middle and add-on .esp files at the end of the loading list.

I don't know if that's still the up-to-date-procedure but that's how I learned it and my game runs pretty smooth with it. ;)

[Gribbleshnibit8]

You can also just get BOSS, which is a program that will sort your load order based on the community determined best load order. It's relatively up to date, and will update automatically every time you run it. It won't catch every little thing, but since it also gives you a list of every mod, and conflict, and what wasn't sorted, it's still pretty useful.

[huntsman2310]

Doesn't NMM use BOSS?