modorganizer VS TES5Edit

Use a mod manager – pick either Vortex : https://www.nexusmods.com/about/vortex/ Or MO2 : https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/6194

I'd grab the one from gog-games.to, I can't link directly as that's against the rules. It's compatible with MO2 (Mod Organizer 2) as well as having a version of skse64 (Skyrim Script Extender x64 available for it.

I highly recommend Mod Organizer 2, but Vortex is an acceptable alternative. As a rule of thumb, the more advanced you want to get with your modding, the more strenuously I recommend MO2 as there are some differences in its technical approach that make a bigger and bigger difference as the complexity of your build increases.

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I’m not running OBSE by itself. I’m running it alongside Mod Organizer 2. This script will setup MO2 for you and set it so that Steam launches it automatically when you press play. Then, you’ll need to follow this doc to install OBSE alongside MO2. Hopefully that would setup all of your pathing correctly.

MO2 is Mod Organizer 2.

See the The Case for Exclusively Supporting .esm Files in Starfield (midway on the page).

The Source Code Form is available at https://github.com/TES5Edit/TES5Edit

You can find it here, by the way. Just make sure to run it through MO2, otherwise it won't find your plugins.

I can see they use xEdit from NM (link) but they also mention only "-SSE" argument on cleaning. 4.0.4 NM version of xEdit also needs "-DontCache" argument, you can read issue 803, it was fixed in further experimental versions but not in the NM release. If anyone use 4.0.4 they absolutely need "-DontCache" to avoid missing parts of Soul Cairn and Apocrypha.

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xEdit is one of the main modding tools. It allows you to view and edit .ESP, .ESM, and .ESL files, view conflicts between these files, and a whole lot more (I'm really selling it short there). It's available here, with an installation tutorial here

Also I suggest updating your SSEEdit, it's up to 4.1.4 now https://github.com/TES5Edit/TES5Edit/releases

Download it from Github: https://github.com/TES5Edit/TES5Edit

First, "copy as overwrite into" in FO4Edit 4.0.3 gave me an "assertion failure in line 15543" and empty records, something like this https://github.com/TES5Edit/TES5Edit/issues/651 . Supposedly, it's fixed in TES5Edit 4.0.3h but I have no idea of how to build it from source and if it will work with FO4.