Populated Forts and Towers - Safe to use?

[Nichoice]

Less of a bug more of a very very rare occurrence which may be contributing to CTDS when fast travelling.

 

I use immersive citizens, and its taxing on the system to say the least when loading into town. 

 

I was wondering however if anyone has used populated forts and towers.

 

I understand that it is a rather old mod and has not been updated since 2014. 

 

Has anyone looked into the inner workings of the mod? How do the markers work? And how do they spawn.

 

Sometimes I CTD fast travelling into towns, which is no biggie.

 

However one recent fast travel I didn't CTD, made it into whiterun then realized that a whole brigade of Bandits spawned along with me INSIDE WHITERUN! It was fun to say the least and I crashed shortly after that. 

 

I think all those packages from Immersive citizens running crashed it. 

 

But I am 100% certain it was Populated Forts and Towers as the Bandits that spawn were from that mod. 

 

I was just wondering whats everyone's opinion on this or whether anyone has a alternative? 

 

I also use populated Dungeons Caves and Ruins.