Dubnoman Posted February 4, 2013 Share Posted February 4, 2013 First of all, I know that some mods have special instructions for how to uninstall them. I know that if you uninstall said mods without following instructions, it'll create problems for you. But here is my situation... I had about 68 mods installed. I just did a clean reinstall of Skyrim. I uninstalled it, deleted the Skyrim folder in steamapps, deleted the Skyrim folder in the My Games folder, run CCleaner (a tool that fixes registry issues), and then I reinstalled Skyrim. Then I installed SKSE, activated a little under 70 mods in NMM, sorted out the load order, and went to play Skyrim, and...every time I launched the game, it'd crash to desktop right after the Bethesda logo. Btw, I'm not picking up any game saves, I want to start a new game from the beginning. So anyway, I deactivated all my mods via NMM, even though a few have special instructions... So, I deactivate all the mods, and Skyrim loads. I can get to the screen where you can choose New Game, Continue, and Load. So I have a mod that isn't working out. Okay, cool, I just gotta figure out which one not to use. The issue is simple to fix. Now, what about deactivating all my mods hap-hazardously? Do I have to worry about that and it leading to issues if I start a new game? Should I do a clean reinstall of Skyrim now? Or is it all nullified because I didn't actually play the game with all those mods activated, I don't have any saves with those mods and with all the scripts, and thus, it was harmless to just activate all those mods and then simply deactivate each one via NMM? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aoxer Posted February 5, 2013 Share Posted February 5, 2013 First of all, I know that some mods have special instructions for how to uninstall them. I know that if you uninstall said mods without following instructions, it'll create problems for you. But here is my situation... I had about 68 mods installed. I just did a clean reinstall of Skyrim. I uninstalled it, deleted the Skyrim folder in steamapps, deleted the Skyrim folder in the My Games folder, run CCleaner (a tool that fixes registry issues), and then I reinstalled Skyrim. Then I installed SKSE, activated a little under 70 mods in NMM, sorted out the load order, and went to play Skyrim, and...every time I launched the game, it'd crash to desktop right after the Bethesda logo. Btw, I'm not picking up any game saves, I want to start a new game from the beginning. So anyway, I deactivated all my mods via NMM, even though a few have special instructions... So, I deactivate all the mods, and Skyrim loads. I can get to the screen where you can choose New Game, Continue, and Load. So I have a mod that isn't working out. Okay, cool, I just gotta figure out which one not to use. The issue is simple to fix. Now, what about deactivating all my mods hap-hazardously? Do I have to worry about that and it leading to issues if I start a new game? Should I do a clean reinstall of Skyrim now? Or is it all nullified because I didn't actually play the game with all those mods activated, I don't have any saves with those mods and with all the scripts, and thus, it was harmless to just activate all those mods and then simply deactivate each one via NMM?If you are starting a new game — an entirely new game, not loading a 'clean' save — you can just uninstall mods without running any special procedure. What usually gets left behind in mods that require special uninstall procedures are scripts that are running continually. If you delete the mod without stopping that script, your save game will continue to have that script running, perhaps forever, leading to big problems. So that save game and any save game that had ever used the script becomes unusable. An entirely new game would not have the same problem. One caveat, the above is only true if you are correctly uninstalling your mods. If you are using NMM to uninstall mods, you're probably good, but if you've installed mods manually and then attempted to remove them manually, you may be leaving files behind in your data folder by accident. If you are unsure if you have bits of old mods left behind, you can delete your data folder then verify your Skyrim install in Steam to re-download your proper game files and then install the mods you want again with NMM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dubnoman Posted February 6, 2013 Author Share Posted February 6, 2013 First of all, I know that some mods have special instructions for how to uninstall them. I know that if you uninstall said mods without following instructions, it'll create problems for you. But here is my situation... I had about 68 mods installed. I just did a clean reinstall of Skyrim. I uninstalled it, deleted the Skyrim folder in steamapps, deleted the Skyrim folder in the My Games folder, run CCleaner (a tool that fixes registry issues), and then I reinstalled Skyrim. Then I installed SKSE, activated a little under 70 mods in NMM, sorted out the load order, and went to play Skyrim, and...every time I launched the game, it'd crash to desktop right after the Bethesda logo. Btw, I'm not picking up any game saves, I want to start a new game from the beginning. So anyway, I deactivated all my mods via NMM, even though a few have special instructions... So, I deactivate all the mods, and Skyrim loads. I can get to the screen where you can choose New Game, Continue, and Load. So I have a mod that isn't working out. Okay, cool, I just gotta figure out which one not to use. The issue is simple to fix. Now, what about deactivating all my mods hap-hazardously? Do I have to worry about that and it leading to issues if I start a new game? Should I do a clean reinstall of Skyrim now? Or is it all nullified because I didn't actually play the game with all those mods activated, I don't have any saves with those mods and with all the scripts, and thus, it was harmless to just activate all those mods and then simply deactivate each one via NMM?If you are starting a new game — an entirely new game, not loading a 'clean' save — you can just uninstall mods without running any special procedure. What usually gets left behind in mods that require special uninstall procedures are scripts that are running continually. If you delete the mod without stopping that script, your save game will continue to have that script running, perhaps forever, leading to big problems. So that save game and any save game that had ever used the script becomes unusable. An entirely new game would not have the same problem. One caveat, the above is only true if you are correctly uninstalling your mods. If you are using NMM to uninstall mods, you're probably good, but if you've installed mods manually and then attempted to remove them manually, you may be leaving files behind in your data folder by accident. If you are unsure if you have bits of old mods left behind, you can delete your data folder then verify your Skyrim install in Steam to re-download your proper game files and then install the mods you want again with NMM. Kudos to you. This information was helpful, and the last bit could come in handy (deleting data folder and using the verify game cache tool; that could come in handy in the future). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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