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Sometimes, you may run into a problem or incompatibility with one of your mods and have no easy way to know what's causing it. In these cases, you'll want to use a '''binary search''', wherein you cut your list of mods in half, and then cut those halves in half, and so on, until you find your target mod. | Sometimes, you may run into a problem or incompatibility with one of your mods and have no easy way to know what's causing it. In these cases, you'll want to use a '''binary search''', wherein you cut your list of mods in half, and then cut those halves in half, and so on, until you find your target mod. If you have a large mod list, then this will still be a slow process, but it's ''much'' faster than enabling and disabling mods individually. | ||
== Conducting a binary search == | == Conducting a binary search == | ||
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You can generally omit mods from this process if they're obviously unrelated to your problem. For example, a retexture won't cause skeevers to react to your Amulet of Mara, and a perk overhaul won't turn trees into blobs of purple squares. | You can generally omit mods from this process if they're obviously unrelated to your problem. For example, a retexture won't cause skeevers to react to your Amulet of Mara, and a perk overhaul won't turn trees into blobs of purple squares. | ||
Keep the limits of a binary search in mind: it's best for narrowing down problems that are caused by ''one'' mod, so if your problem is caused by a group of mods, you may not be able to identify all of them individually through this process alone. | Keep the limits of a binary search in mind: it's best for narrowing down problems that are caused by ''one'' mod, so if your problem is caused by a group of mods, you may not be able to identify all of them individually through this process alone. It's also not useful for diagnosing the causes of corrupted saves. | ||
== Ideal test procedure == | == Ideal test procedure == | ||
These steps should allow you to run quick tests without having to sit through a long introduction | These steps should allow you to run quick tests without having to sit through a long introduction. It will allow you to test on a fresh playthrough; removing mods from an existing savegame often causes problems of its own. | ||
* Start the game, and open the [[Console Commands|command-line debugger]] in the main menu. | * Start the game, and open the [[Console Commands|command-line debugger]] in the main menu. | ||