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When something breaks
Crashes and odd behaviour almost always have a simple cause. Work through these in order.
- What changed last? Switch off the mod or mods you added most recently and try again.
- Requirements. Open the mod's page and check every required mod is installed and switched on, and up to date.
- Load order. In Bethesda games, plugins load in an order. A patch must load after the mods it patches. Your mod manager can sort the order for you.
- Versions. Some mods only work with one version of the game or of a script extender. The page says which.
- Read the Talk and Issues tabs. Someone may have had the same problem, and the author may have answered.
Asking for help
Post on the mod's Issues tab with:
- what you did, and what happened;
- your game version and the mod's version;
- any crash log your setup made (a crash logger mod writes one).
Authors fix problems much faster with that information.