Priority and load-order

[vickyticky]

Greetings

I have now watched endless videos and read a bunch of forums, and its different every time. What is different?

 

 - THE priority-order on the left side of MO!

 - the actual load-order

 

What is the correct priority and load-order?

 

I deeply appologise if this is logical to people, or if this has been posted somewhere I havent seen. Or if this is for some reason the wrong place to post it.

I have yet to get the answer to this questions, and I belive i am going insane from googling any time soon. If someone could help me out here, I would be grateful.

HERE is a screenshot of the mods/patches in question:

 

 

I must say, I am wondering if I am the only person in the world using Unofficial Skyrim Legendary Edition Patch, as every other video or guide is referring to the individual patches. That also confuses me a little.

Thank you in advance!

[Kesta]

Yes, your left pane is OK assuming it's sorted from the top to the bottom, but I'm pretty sure it is.

 

The reason why every guide is about the USKP collection instead of USLEEP is because USLEEP is still quite recent and almost no youtuber have made a new guide or updated its old one fir this.

[vickyticky]

Well... your last line makes for a exellent point, hehe. I just started playing Skyrim again after several years break, so I have kinda spendt quite some...welll... weeks, tbh, to get a grip on everything. Thank you.

And yes, it is indeed from top to bottom.

[GrantSP]

MO has introduced a distinction in modding that previous tools didn't show: mods are made of 2 distinct things -- plugins (ESM/ESPs) and assets (sounds,textures,meshes,animation,scripts,menus,etc.)

 

MO's left-hand pane shows the mod in its entirety, including the assets whereas the right-hand pane shows ONLY the plugins.

To illustrate the subtle distinction between the two, hover your mouse cursor over the column headers labelled "Priority" in MO's left and right panes. Note the the way the tooltip describes what is being sorted.

 

Assuming you have a mod that contains just a plugin and it is stated this plugin needs to be last in your load order the actual "mod" installed, and shown in MO's left-hand pane, can actually be anywhere in that pane as the plugin can be sorted independently in the right-hand pane.

Now if that mod also has assets that are different version of other assets supplied by different mods, these will need to be sorted in the left-hand pane so as to supply the game with the correct files.

 

This is similar to the way you modded many years ago when the installation must be done in a specific order so that subsequent mods 'overwrote' the files from previous mods.