Is Sim settlements mod truly game-breaking ?

[dukx]

On nexus it seems to have a mountain of crash reports regarding countless serious conflicts and bugs. Considering how rigid Fallout 4 is regarding modding, is it better to skip this one ? any alternates ?

[rjrc]

I tried Sim Settlements, it is a great mod but ... when you have a lot of settlements you take a heavy hit on game performance. 

I had to remove it.

You can use it, just keep a clean save before installation in case you want to rollback

[razzor69]

Im aware of this when first time seeing this mod in some youtuber review, as usual it will hit the game performance and of course the engine limit of Fallout4 itself

[ralfetas]

I use the 1 and indeed put a hit on the performance.

After some years, now i am back to fo4 and i try the SS2, i think the settlements are more light to handle, i don´t see major performance hits with the SS2.

But... in SS2 there is a lot of bugs, now there is a quest, that is pretty nice, don´t ask me why, but i got a lot of CTD´s because the quests, i think is their fault because when i end the chapter 1, the CTD´s stop.

The quests itself has a lot of bugs too, is best to read the forums first to see what not to do.

[NickosTyr]

SS2 just posted a Beta update that fixes a lot of stuff people were talking about as far as the building/questing stuff.  Also I wouldn't run more then one settlement with in an area as a Sim Settlement if you have a performance issues.   I tend to do sanctuary as a sim settlement and make a minimal one at RR, Abernathy and Starlight.  Ones further away i do a few more as sim settlements.   That way i don't make my game have to load multiple locations with the SS scripts running in the background.  

 

With SS1 i used to have constant ctd's when i had RR, Abernaty and Sanctuary as SS rise of the comonwealth settlements.   It may help your performance issues if you kinda space Sim settlements out.