Mod/Crashing issues? Try these tips
PSN ID: AlphaBack
Nuggets of knowledge…
*Creations is not communicating correctly with Bethesda.net to save your mod load order to their server so don’t even try it. Waste of time. Confirmed by Bethesda.
*The game/ps5 will remember your mod load order so set it and back out.
*If you’ve altered a mod load order always choose CURRENT when asked after selecting a game save to load.
Booting your ps5 into safe-mode and clearing cache then rebuilding the database will help performance but to be truly clean…
- disable and delete your mods
- load into your save file (choose no when prompted to download missing mods)
- create a new fresh save file…not a quicksave
- delete Starfield (but not your saved game data)
- run safe-mode cleaning
- reinstall Starfield and go to Creations, mod load list should be empty
- back out of creations, load your clean saved game file, fly to a system with NO DLC OR MOD AFFILIATION (that means no Sol, no Alpha Centauri, no Wolf, no Porrima, no Volii, NOTHING) and stay in space. Manually create a new save file. Quit to menu.
- go to Creations, library, redownload your mods one at a time. Let it download completely before backing out and selecting another. IF YOU CRASH DURING DOWNLOAD GO BACK INTO CREATIONs MOD LOAD AND DELETE THAT MOD if it’s there. Repeat.
*Mods are gonna crash the game, can’t stop it…”yet”, but the goal is to make it manageable.
*Stable mod load order requires two things. Compatibility and dependency. Pay attention to the mods descriptions/instructions.
The Fallout mod load order template is good to follow but Pay attention to the mods descriptions/instructions. Some mods will be an overhaul despite not labeled as such. File size and what the mod does will be the tell.
**Now…**here’s where the “yet” comes into play and if you’ve invested a lot of outpost or ship creation time this is going to hurt…Passing through the Unity after setting your mods will compress/restructure ALL the files for the universe, rebuilding the universe from scratch WITH the mods and 99% of your game crashing will stop.