TES4View Advanced esp Viewer and Conflict Detector
Utility – Forget what I said yesterday about reducing complexity.
Use TES4View with all the mods you want active in your list. Study conflicts carefully (using the filtered view if possible) and reorganize your load order accordingly.
Tips:
– If conflicting values are the same, load order doesn’t matter
– Mods with Orange text win over mods with Red text. Pay attention to which value you want to ‘win’ in conflicts. An orange ‘winner’ may not be the solution you want to keep in your load order.
– Refine your load order by running TES4View after reorganizing your list. You may have missed some conflicts and new conflicts may arise from the new load order.
Using this tool, I was able to dig a lot deeper into the reason behind conflicts reported by OBMM, see exactly which record each conflicting mod changed and with which value, and finally, decide which mod I should load last.
For example it turns out some of the official plugins and mods from Unique Landscapes had undesirable overlaps with some of the other mods in my list. Instead of keep them together at the top or end of the list, I had to push some in the middle of the list, after some mods or before others.
This resulted into a new load order much more complex than usually recommended.