Restarting from scratch; change of tools needed?

[GrabaK]

Hello there!

 

I've been delving in Skyrim and modding it until moreless half 2015. Due to many RL changes, I was stupid enough to completely part from it for a bit more than a year, until I came back and realized how much of a confusing mess it would be to try updating it. Some mods were too outdated, others merged and gone, simply gone and others simply made obsolete. On the last week of 2016, I took a week off to fix all that, clean the game, and try to keep everything amid the 255 plugins updated, but once again, I made my second big mistake, which was to try doing that before logging on the game: just me, LL, Nexus, and NMM, over the course of 5 days. I tried to savage stuff from previously backeup game versions and mix it with new stuff, and made things worse, too.

 

Needless to say, I broke the game which was outdated but playable and quite fun into something unplayable, thus making me avoid it all, until now.

 

After recently upgrading my 7yo PC, and being ready to play a terribly longed and absurdly modded Skyrim again, with more than the usual 12 FPS, I really want to go back to it and to modding.

 

I don't know when or if I'll still try to find the old load order, or if I should just start from scratch and try to grab what I can't find anywhere later on, but, since I'm now free of any clusterfuck of data, folders and .inis, I wonder.. I always made use of NMM, but it seems it went bonkers in the most recent updates (which made me use an outdated version; prolly what I'll need to do, once again, if using it) - should I keep using NMM or just go for MO? Or is there a more reliable alternative to these, possibly? Is MO more stable than NMM by now?

 

Thanks in advance! 

[w5byy5b]

MO for life. Mod Organizer keeps your data folder clean. It is such a handy tool to use and once you get use to using it, you will wonder how you ever got on prior. There are some great youtube tutorials regarding setup and using. Probably the best tutorials you will get would be from GamerPoets, they can be long and tedius but they are packed with very informative details. Micheal does a lot of reasearch for his videos so anything he has you can be sure to be true.

[GrabaK]

Thanks! I'll try it then

[Nazzzgul666]

Downside is that you'll actually need those tutorials, MO is a bit confusing at the beginning. I'd say it's slightly more stable (also depends a bit) but much easier to fix things, the time you need to learn to use it will probably pay off quite soon. Just don't be afraid because of how difficult it might appear when you start, it isn't that difficult and you'll probably get used to it soon.