Mods

[Chase]

I have roughly over 1000 mods and the mega map enabled, I wish to play with them enabled, but I’ve noticed that during the loading screen it stalls and I get a CTD, I can only have so many mods enabled, I have eliminated one mod that was causeing an issue, and so far the game has not said any mods do not work together. But i still cannot play with all 1000 mods, is there a limit?

[Autocoach]

There is no known limit . If the game crashes you can post the contents of the file stdout here as someone may spot an issue .

[Metacritical]

the limit depends on your system spec. you can only load as many mods as your computer can handle, otherwise it will exceed your amount of RAM and crash. megalomaniac maps also use more RAM.

[Metacritical]

well the fact that your system is crashing suggests you need more RAM, though that assumes by mods you are talking about vehicles, buildings, trees etc.

does the game load with all of your mods on a large map?

[Tsubame ⭐]

Giving a very rough estimate of 50 MB size per mod, that amounts about 50 GB of mods.

So in mods alone, you would need 50 GB memory. Again, that is just a rough estimate, and can be more, as trainset mods can easily surpass 100 MB+.

That does not even include the contents (buildings, assets, vehicles, etc. everything adds up) of the map itself.

Do you have enough RAM to cover that?

Page file will help cover what RAM cannot, but only to the extent of available free disk drive space. Also, for memory intensive applications like this, better to set up minimum/maximum page file allocation to manual, instead of letting Windows set it automatically. Details how to do that somewhere in this guide:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2760202773

[Tsubame ⭐]

Originally posted by Chase:

My drive alone has over 900 GB of RAM

You are referring to hard drive (HDD or SDD).

I was referring to memory. Ideally RAM. Most new contemporary computers have 8 or 16 GB RAM. Whatever RAM cannot handle, it goes into the page filing.

You can check how much RAM you have on by going to "My PC", and then right clicking it and selecting "Properties".

Anyway, 1k mods is way too many. Running 250 on highly developed megalomaniac map already makes me use 30+ GB RAM.

I suggest starting with few at a time, and slowly add them as you progress. You will certainly not use all 1k right from the get go.

Also, activating so many mods at once can certainly result in errors other than lack of memory - i.e. you may have missed required dependencies to run specific mods.

[Mackintosh]

All I can tell you is that on a 5900X with 32GB RAM and a 2080Ti (so not exactly a top end system any more) I run a megalomaniac map with 1100 mods. No crashes, but obviously there are performance issues and the save takes almost 5 minutes to load.

[Tsubame ⭐]

Yes, you can certainly run that many and more if you have the memory to do so.

But OP has not yet stated the specs of his computer.

Alas, no stdout or error message posted as well, so it could also be very well that he forgot to activate required dependencies for some of the mods.

[Mackintosh]

Yes, that was my point :)

In crashes where modded games are involved, the problem is almost always due to mods. If modifications aren't inherently faulty and work with each other, and your system meets the requirements, you can pretty much have them coming out of your nostrils and the game will still run - albeit poorly.

[Mackintosh]

My dude, there's no way you're running out of resources with that setup. It's definitely a mod conflict, or an outright faulty mod. Post your stdout.txt, maybe someone can identify the issue.

[Tsubame ⭐]

The stdout file is in the crash_dump folder located in the local game folder in the Steam installation folder. Something like:

Hard drive > Program Files > Steam > userdata > (your user ID number) > 1066780 > local > crash_dump.

Given your 64 GB RAM, you most likely have a mod issue.

You can follow the above, but the much simpler and recommended approach is to enable few mods at a time.

Now, ideally, you should read the description of every mod you activate, to check for missing dependencies.

If you do not want to do that, enabling few mods at a time will allow you to quickly start the game, try out the new activated mods, save if everything works out, and then you can restart and redo the process again.