Nexus Mods Manager

Pros

• Allows gamers to enable or disable mods at will
• Provides support for several OS builds
• Speeds up game execution in some cases

Cons

• Mods might conflict with one another
• May not work with all games

Nexus Mods Manager is a gaming utility that lets players turn mods on or off for any of the games that they have interfaced with the Nexus Mods community. The Nexus brand provides a large number of mods for download online. When users install them, they can then use this manager program to switch them on or off as they see fit.

Some mods might conflict with one another, which makes it hard to try out too many at once. Gamers who want to experiment with a large number of them can install huge groups all at the same time and then check them in the list provided by Nexus Mods Manager. Those who find that their games suddenly won't start can troubleshoot the problem merely by going back over to the Nexus dashboard and figuring out which of the mods may be causing the issue.

Players of Elder Scrolls games will find the greatest amount of content bundled into the application. These games were among those originally supported by the Nexus community, which means that Nexus Mods Manager has been carefully tailored to work with these titles in particular. Nevertheless, the developers tried to be as inclusive as possible by making it work with a larger variety of games.

Many of the mods that the manager app supports are actually fan-made, which means that they could potentially be unstable. While the app doesn't provide much in the way of security, it does allow gamers to quickly reverse their decisions. If a custom mod somehow makes a game unstable, then all it takes to disable it is a single click. You're then free to start the game a second time and see if that solved the problem.

Those who haven't can continue to experiment until they get things working again. While this might not be an ideal solution, it does work reasonably fast enough. Few people are going to install huge numbers of mods at once anyway, which makes it a moot point for all but the most hardcore of gamers.

Though the manager's interface is extremely basic, there's no reason that the developers would have needed to over-engineer it anyway. The simple UI ensures that it always starts up reasonably fast, and it also doesn't consume vital system resources even when the program is running in the background behind a full-screen game. In certain circumstances, judicious use of Nexus Mods Manager can even help to speed up game execution.

Tech-savvy gamers can enable specific mods that switch off certain features of game, thus increasing the overall frame rate in the process. Though it might take some tweaking to get everything working just right, the result is usually more than worth it.

Pros

• Allows gamers to enable or disable mods at will
• Provides support for several OS builds
• Speeds up game execution in some cases

Cons

• Mods might conflict with one another
• May not work with all games