If your rig just can't handle the heavier scripted and performance demanding mods, it can be more enjoyable to find similar alternatives that don't give you a bad fps drop. I find that some mods play better together as far as conflicting and crashing, so I start making a list for new playthroughs while testing out load orders. I choose to use select texture packs along with terrain changing packs, and that can start to eat at your speeds in game along with mods that drastically change gameplay. Factoring in the size of the mod and the amount of assets it changes and newly implements is a biggie, and so is what kind of features it contains in the mod itself. I've read 139 is the hard cap for New Vegas, but that could literally be 139 single ESP files with next to nothing edited in them. It's more a question of which mods as even one can affect your performance or be considered too many.

Similarly, very intricate or poorly written scripts can hang or loop in the background and seriously impact your experience. There are also many mods that add tons of clutter to cells that can cause drag on your game and decreased performance. Adding texture packs to a game if you're low on GPU RAM is another way to affect performance. It's not a stretch to call ENB a mod and it's a very strong case for even one mod being more than a system can handle if you go overboard with it. You ask about performance and again, the answer depends more on the specific mods than the number of them. On my current PC (Win 8.1 圆4) my game flips out around 160, but on my old laptop (Win XP x32) I was well over 250 before the laptop itself gave out.Īssuming you're talking about Fallout 3 and New Vegas more than anything (this is a general Fallout forum so I have to specify) you can run the risk of saves getting corrupted and script errors the more and more complicated mods you add to your load order. For most folks it's around the 150 mark that things go funny, but it is unique to each machine. Fallout New Vegas, due to a sort of error in addressing can seriously freak out if the player reaches what is nicknamed the 'magic threshold'. As far as literally too many, it depends on which game you're playing.

Skyrim too many mods crash