So when they happen, you want a Mod Manager that allows you to find the mods that are conflicting quickly and painlessly.

Or a whole plethora of other issues.Ĭonflicts are best avoided where possible but when you’re using hundreds of mods, they’re basically a fact life. File A could overwrite B and work just fine but B could overwrite A and cause crashes. Remember those conflict overwrites we were talking about earlier? Well just because a file is overwritten doesn’t mean that everything works as intended. MO2 of course has a whole slew of other awesome and helpful features but in the grand scheme of things, this is the big one right here. Go out and choose whichever mod manager you please… As long as it’s Mod Organizer 2. No more manual reinstalling or hunting for all the all the files associated with each mod. They replace files that were deleted because of overwrites and all you have to do is click one one or two buttons. These remember all the files associated with each mod so can uninstall and reinstall them freely.

Of course, this is impractical so modders came up with a solution: Mod Managers. What you end up with is a giant chain of conflicts so when you what to uninstall one mod you have to reinstall the rest. With a few mods this practical but imagine you’re working with a 100 mods and each overwrites the the previous. So how do you get it back? You go re-download the mod and reinstall. In and of itself, this isn’t a problem but let’s say you uninstall the mod that overwrote the file? This causes issues when the first mod needs to access that asset. This of course deletes the other version and now it’s nowhere to be found. Here’s the problem with that–what happens when two mods modify the same file? Well what happens in that case is that the modder has to decide which file takes priority and overwrites the duplicate file. In the wee olden days of Bethesda modding it used be that we had to move the file into a game’s data folder by hand through the file explorer or whatever it was called on older versions of Windows. OK, so why did I just give you this info dump and what does it have to do with Mod Organizer or other mod managers? Good question. Nothing that actually effects how the mod works in game. Both of these are just there for you to read over and compare. Some mod authors also like to include pictures to demonstrate changes made by their mod. These generally include documentation in the form of. You may also find some other loose files in the mod.

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