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Information of Service - Mods Conflict
🕑 Added 2019-12-04 04:04:42 +0000 UTCThis is more an informative post.
I don't know how many people know what really a mod conflict is about, so...
This is Loot:
Load Order Optimisation Tool for Skyrim and other games.
If you played the game in the past, you know that you don't just download mods and drop them in the mod folder of that game, because if you do, the game becomes unstable. you use Loot, or Nexus manager, to tell the game what order you want it to load your mods.
For example, the Unofficial Skyrim Patch always goes on top, this way, if another mod inside the folder needs to override one file that's present in the patch, it will be able to do it without problems. What can happen if you don't take this step, is that one time you load the game and the patch modifications gets applied, the other time, the game loads the mod that has the same files inside and its modifications work. And the mod will not work correctly in the first case. Another example is textures. I can have two mods replacing the same textures in game, like one that replaces all the textures and one that replaces only the rocks texture, if the one that replaces them all loads before the other one, that way, all the textures will belong to the first mod the game loads, but the rocks one.
Now you're thinking "good thing The Sims 4 doesn't have this stuff"... except it does...
A conflict between two mods is when they modify the same resource from the game:
I don't really know if the Sims, like Skyrim, loads mods the way it likes basing on how it feels that day. you're in fact causing a conflict every time you drop a mod in the folder that overrides a game resource, because the resource configuration file tells the game that the mod folder id an high priority folder and what's inside must override resources from the game. but that's all it tells the game. I don't know if there is a tool like Loot for the Sim able to generate a file to tell the game in what order you want it to load the files, or if the game would even support it, but if I put both files above in my mod folder, only the modifications in one of the two will get applied, because you can't partially override a file this way.
That's what a conflict is about and this is the way it makes the game unstable.
Now, we may not have Loot but we can have Coolspear's resource config and the overrides folder (needs registration). That would be a folder with an even higher priority,
So, if you suspect a conflict between a mod and another, the fasted way to find out is... Put one of the two in the overrides folder. If the mod suddenly starts working, then you have a conflict.
In such case, there is no need to do a 50/50 method, you can just start opening them up in Sims 4 Studio and look which ones have the same files inside.
Comments
I know this is like 2 months after the fact but pretty much the only way to get in is getting on their discord server and asking them to kick the registration through manually.
Cali Stevens
i've been trying to become a member since like october. i can't get an email at any of my addresses, and i have emailed whoever you are supposed to if you cant get it, and i am not getting any help with it, while i can see other people become members almost daily.
instantmagic
simasylum-coolspears mods and lots-more nesting depth for folders// I tried to copy paste it but could not since you have to be a member like me to do so. I recommend becoming a member, really cool people there. They also have a discord channel. You can download a new .cfg file with an override folder. It's not scary just make a copy of your older .cfg file from your EA folder before you replace it with this one.
Zero_
I'll put up the link as soon as I have bit more time to search for it! Finding the mod is another issue, I don't know if the conflict detector still works... it's faster to just opening up them one by one to search for conflicts than loading the game and testing them anyway.
Rebecca Isaac
awesome please do find the link and how do you fix or do you just get rid of one of the mods? I am learning so much - even though I won't mod but finding issues is very helpful
Zero_
I keep all coolspears mods in it, this way I'm sure his modifications will work in any case.
Athena Apollos
I actually do this. I have some default replacements that will ONLY load if they're in the Overrides folder.
