MUST HAVE Fallout 4 Stability Mods + How to Bypass The 255 Plugin Limit

hey what's going on youtube it's your boy brandy boy back at it again with another fallout 4 video and for this video i'll be showing y'all how to run fallout 4 with copious amounts of mods i've been getting a lot of comments asking me how i'm able to play fallout 4 with 600 plus mods isn't there supposed to be a limit and how is your game able to handle all those mods well i'll be answering those questions in this video and i'll be recommending some utility mods to use and i'll show tutorials on how to set them up properly so that your game can take on as many mods as possible if you're like me and you just can't get enough of those sweet fallout 4 mods then this video is definitely for you so firstly is there a limit to how many mods you can install well it depends if the mod comes with a plug-in marked with an esp file then yes you can only have so many of those but if the mod doesn't have any plugins such as a simple texture or audio replacer mod then no you'll be able to install as many non-plug-in mods as you want but that just won't do because the mods that have esp files are usually the bigger and more important ones sadly you can only have 255 of these esp files loaded at one time if you try to load up your game with more than that then it'll just crash on startup so if you're none the wiser then you just have to suck it up and uninstall some mods to trade it in for others however there is a workaround to this you see there is an alternative plugin file type which is the esl i don't know how everything works i'll be honest but apparently you can have up to 2048 esl files i don't see anyone ever hitting that limit so you should be good and yes you can convert esps into esls or at least flag them as such if you use vortex as your mod manager then the process is actually super duper easy all you have to do is go over to your plugins tab and look for any mods which have this little leaf icon if it does then that means it's eligible to be converted into a light plugin which means the esp file will be flagged as an esl without actually changing anything so yeah just look over to the right side scroll down and click mark as light that's all there is to it this specific esp file is now marked as an esl and it won't count toward that 255 plug-in limit go ahead and do this process for as many mods as you'd like you shouldn't have any problems with your game in doing so but if you do then leave your findings in the comments below if you're like me though and use mod organizer 2 then the process to flag esps as esls is a bit more complex but don't worry i'll show you everything you need to do for the rest of the video i'll be covering everything in mod organizer 2 because that's what i use for modding but vortex users should be able to follow along just fine and feel free to skip this segment if you've already used vortex to flag your esp files alright for all those mo2 users out there you'll first need fallout 4 edit i'm hoping you already have it installed but if not don't worry i'll show you how to do it real quick so go ahead and navigate to the fallout 4 edit mod page link in description and then download it manually once it's done put the zip file anywhere you'd like and extract it to a folder i decided to put mine on the desktop then go to your newly unzipped folder and launch fallout4edit.exe but after you do that you can close out of the application now since we're using mod organizer we'll have to add fallout 4 edit as an executable to the manager itself look up and find the little gear icons and click on it this is where you can modify and add executables click the plus to add a new executable and then give it a proper name then you'll have to click the three dots next to binary and tell mo 2 where the exe is located it's in the folder that we just made earlier once you've got that click apply and ok and you're good to go but that was just fallout 4 edit next up you'll definitely want to download this handy tool called eslify it automatically flags esp files as esls so you don't have to worry about manually converting all of them again you'll have to manually download this one and then extract the rar file to a location of your choosing take all the files from the eslife folder and drag them into the fallout 4 edits folder then go back to mod organizer and add eslify as its own executable you'll want to select the r88 eslify.bat click applied ok and that's all set up now finally we can launch the eslife tool from mod organizer when the command prompt shows up type f04 and then enter then fallout 4 edits will pop up using the eslifi script here is where you can select all the mods you'd like to flag as esls if you've done this process before then you may get a dialog box asking you to continue or revert the flagged esps back into normal ones i'm gonna click continue because i'm trying to flag my esps as esls once it's all done processing it'll ask you again which mods you'd like to convert choose which mods you'd like then click ok after that it should finish up rather quickly and all you have to do now is simply close out of the application as you can see here i've got a lot of plugins 462 to be exact and that's well over the 255 plugin limit but you see half of those are esl files which don't count toward that limit so without this handy tool i'd be missing out on a lot of mods okay so now that we're able to get past that 255 limit the next issue we may run into is that our game just won't be able to keep up with all that heavy workload if you're trying to play fallout 4 with 500 plus mods without any upgrades to the engine then your game will most likely be prone to crashes and infinite load screens so the answer to that is more mods of course what else would it be no but seriously there are some great utility mods out there which are must-haves for anyone who plays fallout 4 and especially for those who have large mod lists the first one is buff out four like the description suggests it's like buff out but for the engine don't ask me the details it just makes the engine stronger or something but yeah you'll definitely want to download this one the install may be a bit confusing because there's lots of requirements and such but i'll walk you through it real quick so first you can go ahead and download buffout 4 directly to your mod manager but make sure to get all those requirements like the mod says you should i don't think i'll need to cover how to install the script extender everyone should have it at this point make sure to download the tbb redistributables manually the address library can be downloaded to your manager but the plugin loader should be done manually and also make sure to get the microsoft visual studio executables both the times 86 and time 64. i don't know what this is supposed to do but i'm just following what the mod page tells me once you get everything downloaded run those executables and let them do their thing as for the other files we downloaded make sure to unzip those then take the contents of those folders and then put them into the fallout 4 folder which is where the fallout4.exe is located not the data folder back in our mod manager here make sure the address library is activated along with buff out 4 of course ok now it's all properly installed you should launch up your fallout 4 to make sure it's all good though to ensure buff out 4 is working you'll have to go to your documents folder my games fallout f4se and then look for the buff.4 log if the log is there then it's working this log is also used for crash reports so you'll be able to find exactly what is messing up your game also you may want to pull up the mods folder directly and look for the tomml file this is where you can configure a bunch of settings if you'd like you can go ahead and copy what i've got here or mess around with your own combination next up we'll want another mod called bacca scrapheap this one extends how much memory the game can use so it's really useful if you're running a ton of mods which eat away at your ram the vanilla game only utilizes so much memory and if you surpass it your game may crash or your next loading screen will simply just never load but with this mod you won't have to worry about that anymore as you can see it's got some of those same requirements as buff out four but we already installed those so all you have to do here is install the main file directly to your mod manager once it's installed you're all good to go but there is one change you may want to make open up the file location for the mod and then locate the tommle file here is where you can configure a couple of settings the one you may want to change is the scrap heap multiplier by default it'll be set to 2 but you can go all the way up to 4 if you're running a super heavy mod order like me it is considered experimental so be wary of any issues for me i notice after setting it to 4 i no longer have any issues related to infinite load screens which is an absolute blessing so yeah go ahead and make the change if you'd like just make sure to save before you close out okay just one more mod to go here the last one we'll need is called high fps physics fix vanilla fallout 4 has an interesting quirk that is the game's speed is tied to the frame rate so if you're playing at 200 fps then you'll be running around at light speed but this mod here fixes all of that i don't know how but it breaks that tie between the engine and the frame rate what's really neat about this mod is that it'll also speed up your loading times like i said the game speed is tied to the frame rate and that includes loading screens so if you're able to have the loading screens at 200 to 300 fps then your game will also load substantially quicker than normal and that's really helpful to know if you have tons of mods which gradually make your load times slower but again this mod fixes that and it's easily a must have if you'd like you can also go directly into the mods folder and edit some settings to your liking you may want to change disable black loading screens and disable animation loading screen to true which will speed up your load times even further personally i don't like disabling the loading screen animations because it just makes your loading screens look like they're frozen but hey it just might speed up your loading times by a few seconds if you really need it alright so finally after all of that our games should be running perfectly smooth with absolutely no issues whatsoever hopefully i still have some issues here and there but i can say with confidence that after installing all of these mods my game has been more stable than ever and it honestly surprises me that i can run 600 mods with hardly any crashes i'm still trying my best to iron out other issues such as micro stutters and fps drops in downtown but at this point i've come to accept the fate that fallout 4 is just a horribly optimized game and i question every day as to why i play it well actually i know the answer it's because of all the awesome mods but anyway the only other issue i have in my game is script lag so here's a word of warning for y'all watch out for those script heavy mods such as sim settlements if you have too many scripts running at one time it'll really lag your game and there's just not much you can do about it if anyone knows how to remedy that then please let me know i may have lots of experience with modding but i am by no means a master nonetheless i hope you all found this tutorial helpful and are looking forward to playing a heavily modded game with minimal issues if you liked the video and found it helpful then make sure to overload that like button and subscribe if you want to see more content like this and i'll see y'all in the next video so it's really useful if you're running a ton of mods which either [ __ ] hell this specific esp file is now marked as an esl and it won't 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Keywords: fallout 4, fallout 4 mod, PC, fallout 4 pc, fallout new vegas, fallout modding, nexusmods, stability mods, performance mods, buffout 4, baka scrapheap, memory extender, memory mod, RAM, fps, better fps, engine mod, engine, upgrade engine, HIGH fps physics fix, ESLify, tutorial, F04edit, 255 plugins, esp, esl

Id: 285spy0lUQI

Length: 11min 27sec (687 seconds)

Published: Mon Sep 06 2021