- #How to use tes5edit to clean mod install#
- #How to use tes5edit to clean mod mod#
- #How to use tes5edit to clean mod update#
- #How to use tes5edit to clean mod mods#
The more dirty edits there are in a mod, and the more mods with dirty edits you use, the more likely you are to experience issues. Dirty edits can cause a wide range of issues, including incorrect game settings, missing content, broken quests and crashing to desktop.
#How to use tes5edit to clean mod mod#
Just start Skyrim again and everything will work just fine.Dirty edits are often a side-effect of mod creation, and are often due to bugs in the utilities Bethesda has provided to create mods, rather than bad practice by mod authors. This happens sometimes at the very first launch because of inconsistency with game-cache. Reference images: (Dragonborn used as example) (Saving the changes to "HearthFires.esm")Ĭlean the Dawnguard DLC, using the same method as with the HearthFires &Ģ - Check "Skyrim.esm", "Update.esm" and "Dawnguard.esm",Ĥ - Mark the "Dawnguard.esm", and DON'T MARK ANY OTHER FILES! Thenĥ - Close the program. (Saving the changes to "Dragonborn.esm")Ĭlean the HearthFires DLC, using the same method as with the Dragonborn DLC.Ģ - Check "Skyrim.esm", "Update.esm" and "HearthFires.esm",Ĥ - Mark the "HearthFires.esm", and DON'T MARK ANY OTHER FILES! Thenĥ - Close the program. *When done processing, TES5Edit will show the message about how many records that were changed.ĥ - Close the program. *TES5Edit will start counting all records again.Ĥ - Mark the "Dragonborn.esm", and DON'T MARK ANY OTHER FILES! Then (This will save the changes to the "Update.esm"Ĭlean the Dragonborn DLC, using almost the same method as with the Update.Ģ - Check "Skyrim.esm", "Update.esm" and "Dragonborn.esm",ģ - Select all files, and right-click one of them. *When done processing, TES5Edit will show a message about how many records that were changed.ĥ - Close the program. Right-click, and select "Undelete and Disable References". When done, TES5Edit shows a complete tree of all references.Ĥ - Mark the "Update.esm", and DON'T MARK ANY OTHER FILES! Then *TES5Edit will start counting all records. The message bar shows: "Background Loader: finished", the process isģ - Now select all files, and right-click one of them. *TES5Edit will start loading the selected data, and check all references, which Including Skyrim.esm (The base game-data).Ģ - Check only "Skyrim.esm" and "Update.esm", and *Upon startup, TES5Edit will show a list of everything in the load-order,
#How to use tes5edit to clean mod update#
The official Skyrim update and the DLCs need to be cleaned individually before Unpack and copy the files to any directory, then make a shortcut to
#How to use tes5edit to clean mod install#
If you haven't done so already, download and install TES5Edit ( LINK) The "dirty edits", but if you want to further Removing some double data, but it's a lot of work for a minor improvement. If you have a lot of mods, you might be able to decrease loading time by TES5Edit can also cleanĪ lot of other minor issues, but those are not really important for stability. Them instead, which makes references from other mods valid, and keeps the objectįrom appearing in the game at the same time. TES5Edit can "undelete" these objects, and disable Reference to that specific object that was deleted, the game will
Mod or DLC is loaded, this won't cause any problems. A "dirty edit", is when a mod or DLC, contains data that deletes an object in the world space. However, when mods are loaded, the dirty edits from the DLCs become problematic, and can cause crashes. These "dirty edits"Īre not causing any problem if Skyrim is run ONLY with the DLCs, and no mods. The DLCsĪctually contain more dirty edits than all the mods combined. And even Bethesda's own official DLCs, contain deleted references.