How many mods do you run???

[smokeybear187]

pushing 900 mods(many, many merges) and counting.

[xpoverzion]

Running about 900 mods on Oldrim.  I would say about 450 of those mods are 2K-4K textures.  530  plugins merged down to 223.  Game is perfectly stable. Ok, maybe a random CTD every 30hrs of gameplay or so, but I can live with that.  The game is now 185GB in size and it can often gobble up 9-10GB VRAM and anywhere from 15-22GB's of System RAM depending on the scenery.  But damn does it look great!! One thing that really helped me a lot to was to install the game on a 500GB NVME SSD.  With random read speeds at around 1GB/s, this greatly reduced load times with all the HD textures, and it has also substantially reduced stuttering issues.   Running everything with a 5820K CPU at 4.2GHz, 32GB's RAM, and a 1080Ti GPU.  

[FauxFurry]

Thanks to the addition of the esl format for Skyrim Special Edition, I have around 200 or so smaller mods while I only have 115 plug-in slots occupied in the mod organizer, most of which were merged before esl was introduced. If they were not merged, then it would be around 150-175 plug-in slots taken up right now. I might try to squeeze another few in there, risking the precious stability that I just managed to regain recently.

As for mods without any esp or esl files, I use bits and pieces of hundreds of other aesthetic mods to customize everything to my liking.

I like to keep a separate folder with all of the assets inside of it just in case I accidentally overwrite something or have to re-install and don't want to go through the trouble to mixing and matching everything all over again.

[badumtss]

Around about 115-130, which is pretty tame lol. But I barely know of any mods outside Nexus so... No crashing due to using crash fixes and cleaning out my saves with Save Tool, also keeping backups for my cleaned master files so no extra work. ? 

[goldust]

thank you everyone for sharing ❤️ skyrim just wont die...till the next one comes out   

[wokking56]

Well LOOT tells me I have 207 but I suppose that if you count all the merged mods and the several that don't use an esp or esm probably somewhere around 270 to 280 in Oldrim. 5 houses merged into 1, 36 followers merged into 2, 12 weapon/spells into 1. So 52 mods reduced to 4.