By Nightmarecast. MO hangs on startup when the load order is locked.

[wolverine2710]

Originally Nightmarecast posted this in the Nexus MO forum. So that this discussion will not get buried on the nexus forums I created the question here and will respond to it here.

Hello, I just had an apphang problem with the latest version of MO, I fixed the problem which was caused by me locking my load order. I locked my load order last time I ran MO and it was fine, but when I tried to open MO just now it hang everytime and gave a not responding in the task manager, so I remembered that I locked my load order last time and went into the profiles folder and removed the txt file marked lockedlorder and it worked.

Just wanted to report this if it's a bug or maybe I locked a mod that shouldn't have been locked in the order, I dunno.

Also, thanks for this awesome program, it's much better than NMM.:)

I have to admit I didn't know about that feature. If you can reproduce the issue by locking the loadorder again and it hangs again then please create a ticket for it in the issue tracker .

 

Can somebody please explain under which circumstances you want/need to lock the loadorder of mods?

What are the advantages and/or disadvantages of this?

Also have more users experienced this issue?

[bitdman]

If you are intending to add more mods to a game that already runs well, one might want to lock the present load order so that nothing can change it. But with BOSS controlling the load order I don't see why anyone would want to worry about it.

[phazer11]

If you are intending to add more mods to a game that already runs well' date=' one might want to lock the present load order so that nothing can change it. But with BOSS controlling the load order I don't see why anyone would want to worry about it.[/quote']

Um... BOSS isn't infallible especially if you have a complex load order there are cases you should use BOSS Userlist Manager or set it manually. I would say that locking a working load order and even copying the profile are good practices.

[DoubleYou]

Locking the load order, unfortunately, doesn't work near as well as using BOSS in conjunction with BUM to manage custom load order placements (I have a 9.83 KB userlist myself). This is mostly evidently when using a SkyProc Patcher, as it will generally resort your load order using BOSS, and the locked thing is unrecognized by them, and has caused the patcher to throw a fit for me many times. Of course, this can easily be avoided by turning automatic BOSS sorting in conjunction with SUM during patching.

[deathneko11]

Also useful for locking mod groups. Used to have issues with my weather and lighting plugins getting shuffled and locking just those stopped until BOSS updated.

[wolverine2710]

Also useful for locking mod groups. Used to have issues with my weather and lighting plugins getting shuffled and locking just those stopped until BOSS updated.

Might I ask why you didn't use BOSS Userlist Manager - BUM for that. It looks as if it is the ideal candidate for handling such a situation. It allows you to create rules for BOSS in an easy way.