LOOT load order seems very counterintuitive : Fallout 3

» Mon May 18, 2015 9:23 am

After performing an automatic load order sort using LOOT, the results seem very strange to me. Here is what it returned:

Fallout3.esm

CRAFT.esm

CALIBR.esm

Enhanced Weather - Rain and Snow.esm

FO3 Wanderers Edition - Main File.esm

BrokenSteel.esm

Anchorage.esm

ThePitt.esm

PointLookout.esm

Zeta.esm

Unofficial Fallout 3 Patch.esm

DCInteriors_ComboEdition.esm

Mart's Mutant Mod.esm

Project Beauty.esm

EVE.esm

FO3 Wanderers Edition - Alternate Travel.esp

Enhanced Weather - Rain and Snow in Fallout.esp

Enhanced Weather - Weather Sounds in Interiors.esp

Enhanced Weather - Sneak Bonus during Storms.esp

DarNifiedUIF3.esp

Mart's Mutant Mod - DC Interiors.esp

Enhanced Weather - REBOOT.esp

FO3 Wanderers Edition - Main File.esp

Flora Overhaul.esp

Fellout-Full.esp

Fellout-pipboylight.esp

FO3 Wanderers Edition - Followers Enhanced (BrokenSteel).esp

FO3 Wanderers Edition - DLC Broken Steel.esp

FO3 Wanderers Edition - DLC Point Lookout.esp

Blackened FWE + MMM + EVE + Project Beauty.esp

Project Beauty- Broken Steel.esp

FO3 Wanderers Edition - DLC Anchorage.esp

FO3 Wanderers Edition - DLC The Pitt.esp

UUF3P - FWE Patch.esp

Mart's Mutant Mod - Zones Respawn.esp

FO3 Wanderers Edition - DLC Mothership Zeta.esp

Delay ThePitt + Anchorage.esp

DelayAnchorage.esp

DelaySteel.esp

DelayThePitt.esp

delayzeta.esp

delaypl.esp

FO3 Wanderers Edition - Optional Restore Tracers (automatics only).esp

Mart's Mutant Mod - Natural Selection.esp

Mart's Mutant Mod - Tougher Traders.esp

megalight.esp

Project Beauty- Point Lookout.esp

Merged Patch.esp

Total active plugins: 48

Total plugins: 48

Does this seem correct to everyone? For starters, it placed DarNifiedUI further down the list than is recommended. It also seems to me that the main .esm and the DLCs should all come first, but it placed CRAFT and CALIBR right after the main .esm. And it placed the Blackened compatibility patch before some the the .esp files from the mods that the patch is supposed to affect. Another questionable item is placing the enhanced weather mods above Fellout, which I've been told should be reversed. The whole order seems to go against the recommendations from the instructions of most of these mods. Should I leave things the way it set them, or does some of this need rearranging? Just how reliable is LOOT?

» Mon May 18, 2015 7:41 am

As I understand it, LOOT isn't recommended for Fallout 3. Use BOSS and tweak it with a user list instead.

» Sun May 17, 2015 7:01 pm

Ahhh. Thanks. This makes much more sense, although FO3 Wanderers Edition - Alternate Travel.esp refuses to be moved down with the rest of the .esp files. It thinks it's an .esm. Is this going to be a problem?