Need Help Installing a Mod

[amourfou]

 I need help installing what I thought would be a very simple modding exercise and I get the strangest result. 

 

I have been trying to install a HUD mod so I can minimize and relocate some of my HUD elements, mostly messages as in "E" Talk to (NPC).

 

I tried to install "Less Intrusive HUD" and also "Minimal HUD". I get the same error with both of them. I am using Mod Organizer with SKSE, FNIS, Sky UI, Extended UI, I have all DLC and Patches, and I followed STEP so the instillation is good, with all DLC and Patches cleaned as per STEP. My operating system is WIN 7 64bit. I run about 250 mods all working fine.  I use LOOT for a correct load order. I also tried installing the HUD mods either first or last to see if that helped.

 

After installing either HUD mod, when I launch a save game I get this message:

 

"This save relies on content that is no longer present. Some objects may no longer be available. Continue Loading?  Missing Files:  Skyrim.esm, Update.esm, DG.esm, HF.esm, DB.esm, Legendary Edition Patch, SOS.esp, .....

 

Does anyone know what is going on here? I thought installing a simple HUD mod after all the other rather complicated mods that I managed to successfully install would work with no issues. Yet it seems Skyrim and all DLC and everything else won't load when I have these HUD mods installed.

 

Thanks in advance. Any help will be much appreciated.

[GSDFan]

How many ESPs and ESMs do you have in the right pane that are activated?

[amourfou]

I have 256 plugins active in the right pane

Is it possible that my Profile got corrupted?

 

Perhaps I can create a new profile that might launch the save games and load all esm and esp files as they are supposed to?

[Nebulous112]

Ding ding ding! I think we have a winner. Plugin limit in Skyrim is 255.

 

The one mod you added broke the camel's back. I'm not sure how the new game started with 256 though...

 

Edit: Actually, thinking about it now, if you included the base game, 256 is the limit. 2^8. Which makes sense, since the new game worked.

[amourfou]

So, if i remove some mods, will MO launch save games with Skyrim.esm and Update.esm like its supposed to?

 

I'm hoping, i can go through my existing profile, remove some unnecessary mods. and start up a game and clean the save.

 

Do you think that would work?

[GSDFan]

Once you get below the limit it should load those. As long as the ESPs you remove don't cause a problem that is.

[amourfou]

Thanks Guys. The problem was I exceeded the 255 limit. I cut back to 245 and tried to load a previous save.  I got the error message before launching the save, but It was a correct message telling me the files I just removed were missing.  It did not say that Skyrim.esm or Update.esm or any of the DLC was missing. 

 

Thanks for all your help, I was really pulling my hair out over this, I had no idea what was going on.

 

Now I just have to make a clean save and can continue with my adventure. Thanks again.

[amourfou]

The game is running properly now, my plugin list is around 245, I wasn't aware of the 255 limit.

 

Thanks for all your help.  And thanks for replying to me so quickly, simply awesome.