Mod Installation: Before or after Helgen Tutorial?

[mikegray]

Why was it held to be better to wait until after Helgen in that forum? What's so special about Helgen?

The idea - at the time - was that the Helgen sequence functions differently from the rest of the game, in particular involving special scripts that could conflict with otherwise stable mods and cause various problems, including long-term savegame corruption. Made a lot of sense at the time - a time before the advent of StableUgrids, ENBBoost, the Sheson memory patch and Flexcreator's save cleaner, when there really wasn't much you could do but wonder how long you had to play before the save turned into spaghetti ...

 

BTW, I can't remember where I picked up that information.