cailil365

I agree with Tj_Nightbringer below. Some mods *are* worth paying for but pre-existing mods (even if its a new improved version) and single sword and armor mods are not. Also the Steam Workshop is a mess. You HAVE TO download to your data folder. And even if you use MO to handle the download it's really awkward because unless you unsubscribe it'll keep re-downloading and what happens if you unsubscribe from a paid mod - would need to buy it again? The workshop was a major part of the problem for me. The choice of mods to launch with was too. But the fact that the best mods relied on the work of other modders who released their work for free is/was the clincher. Mods like SKSE, SkyUI, MCM and FNIS should consider going to a GPL or Creative Commons licence - this would *legally* prevents ppl who use their assets from selling the derivative work. All that said if we are talking about paying modders I have no problem donating to people who are creating things likes Beyond Skyrim or Falskaar or Skywind. Or people like Chesko and Isoku and Laast who've made my Skyrim unbelievably better than the original but the way it was done was wrong and ultimately it was Valve who caused this problem not the modders and not Bethesda. It looks to me like Bethesda pulled the plug here not Valve so i agree with you Dark0ne even now we have a lot to thank Bethesda for.

I'm getting an alert from Malwarebytes for data.rtbfy.com ("data.rtbfy.com is attempting to make an outbound connection"). It happens after downloading anything from Skyrim Nexus (haven't tested this on other nexus pages yet though). What I do know is that it's a cookie and I've verified this by deleting all cookies and the problem goes away until I come back to the Nexus. MIght be related to this issue?

Just wondering if someone could mod Cassandra's hair to be more like a ponytail (like in the Dawn of the Seeker) similar to this mod for DA 2?

I had problems with Skyrim when Windows 8.0 forced me into updating to 8.1. But after a while I ironed it all out. TBH I think most people's 8.1 problems were because they updated not on clean installs of 8.1. If you're starting from scratch with 8.1 you should be fine. All my other games run seamlessly in 8.1 and I've had zero other issues since I fixed the Skyrim problems.

If you pick the lock on Hjerim the quest should start from the crime scene investigation point. My advice your friend should back to a save before the CK changes were made and try picking the lock.

Sorry if this sounds unresponsive but actually your Loot results should show you that you've got a number of problems (for running a stable modded skyrim). Your ESMs are not cleaned (this causes CTDs on occassion) and other ESPs need cleaning. You should back them up and follow LOOT's advice. There's good videos on youtube about how to clean ESMs and ESPs using TES5edit (see Gopher's video here). These 2 guides to safely modding Skyrim saved my life more than once: Skyrim Project Stability by GrandBulwark & Skyrim Stability Guide by FireFreak111. I highly recommend reading and following them.

The icons are probably from Loot and Degradation. There's a setting in its MCM to display them contextually, by hotkey or always on.

I've had a break through with this. The game is not running perfectly but much better after doing 4 further things Manually inserted the default papyrus settings into skyrim.ini. Although I never edited this and the Skyrim.ini was new with the freshly installed Skyrim and contained no "tweaks", doing this helped massively (see the Harmful tweak removal section here) Running CC cleaner (there were a number of invalid registries after the upgrade) and adjusting system properties to "best performance" in "Advanced System Settings" - "Advanced" - "Performance". In my other GPU's driver (integrated Intel HD 4000) I set its values to best performance (this has no impact on Skyrim but does decrease overall system load and that seems to help Skyrim performance). The gain was modest but every little helps. Removed CleanMem completely (this made no difference either way, but according to some guides Cleanmem should be redundant in Windows 8.1)The FPS increase is small but consistent some I'm averaging 12-25 FPS and the pausing issue seems to be gone. There are however random CTDs that I can't explain and that seem again to linked to papyrus but TBH these look like the old fashioned CTDs that happen anyway so I think at last this is resolved. Addendum: The only other thing that happened was a Windows 8.1 update on Sunday KB3008627, KB2976536 & KB3003667. The only update that might have had an impact is KB3008627 but I don't see how. At this point I think I can say with some certainty that the issue was caused by something screwy happening in relation to Papyrus in Windows 8.1. This was resolved firstly by manually inserting "fExtraTaskletBudgetMS=1.2" and the other default papyrus settings into the Skyrim.ini. Secondly (and maybe most importantly) using CCcleaner or (another trusted registry cleaner) to fix the issues caused by the Windows 8.1 update and what it does to your HDD. The other tweaks help but these were the core fixes.

Hi Amondra, the screen flickering does sound like a driver issue (but maybe not an installation problem). Are you using an AMD or NVIDIA GPU? If you're using NVIDIA follow my steps in my second post and see if it helps. Also maybe follow the STEP guide (http://wiki.step-project.com/STEP:2.2.9) it made my life playing modded Skyrim much easier, and improved my system's performance with the game so much. But that was in Windows 8.0 not 8.1. I would really like some help myself with this as I'm beginning to think this is an issue with 8.1 upgrades & papyrus. If the game runs fine with PCs that have full fresh installs of 8.1 but not on upgrades. And as specified the problem occurs independent of ANY mods, textures or ENB. However it is most obvious when the game is trying to play a scripted event (dialogue, Killcam, etc). If any one has any advice I'm all ears

I had a similar problem the "they will often only search for as long as it takes to draw their weapons halfway, then returning them to sheathed and acting like nothing happened" was followed for me with enemies returning to 100% health. It's happened to me with two completely different playthroughs on two different set-ups but both times updating USKP caused the bug. The only way to fix it was to re-install the older USKP and return to the save I made before updating. This only happened after the last 3 updates of the patch (after June 2014). Previous updates went fine. I was putting this down to issue with USKP (the unofficial skyrim patch) with trying to upgrade it. I have 7 or 8 other mods that rely on it (the other patches, bring out your dead and SkyTEST, along with alternate start mods). If you have any of these mods and tried updating USKP then I would put it down to this.

I had what sounds like the same problem as the OP before and disabling mist worked for me.

Hi Fallen12899, yeah I did this but unfortunately it didn't resolve the issue. I also made sure all the Windows 8.1 updates (including the one for the memory leak hotfix) was installed (it didn't help either). So I started looking at the Nvidia control panel and changed the settings of Skyrim for Power management mode to "Prefer Maximum Performance" and Texture filtering to "High Performance". I also dropped my quality settings in the Skyrim launcher to Medium and now at least the game is playable as long as I don't leave it paused for more than 3 minutes. BUT even with these tweaked (lower) settings the game will occasionally stutter and drop to 0 FPS outside and then suddenly recover for no clear reason. What I can't understand is that this FPS drops happens in exactly the same way for Vanilla non-HD Skyrim (with no SKSE and no ENB) and for ultra modded, HD Textured, SKSE launched Skyrim. So that means it's not textures, scripts or mods causing the drop All my other games are fine and Skyrim will run so it can't be the driver. All the updates are installed. And all my settings are giving Skyrim highest priorority and performance. I just cannot account for the loss in FPS - indeed I know I should be getting a gain of 2-4 FPS with 8.1. One piece of progress is that if I pause and alt+tab out of the game and then hide the window I can leave it paused for as long as I want 20+ minutes. But if I leave it paused and "on-screen" the game will slow to 0 FPS within 4 minutes and not recover.

19 November 2014: I finally solved this problem - see my last post Hi, I'm sorry to be opening yet another Windows 8.1 / Skyrim compatibility thread but I'm loosing FPs after pausing for 3-5 minutes. The game runs fine but as soon as I leave it paused for more than a few minutes its FPS reduces to an unplayable 0.4 FPS. I've tested this with vanilla unmodded, no ENB skyrim and have the same problem. My rig is a Dell Inspiron 17r SE 7720 with an 1.5 G20 2.60 GHZ CPU, a Nvidia Geforce 650M 2gb VRAM GPU, with 6Gb RAM, and a 600Gb HDD, with Windows 8.1 64 bit. It was running Skyrim comfortably yesterday in Windows 8.0 (with 150+ mods, ENB and HD textures) at 19-20 FPS (Ultra High settings). Today in Windows 8.1 with vanilla Skyrim it has an unplayable 0.4 FPS after pausing for 3-5 minutes. My issue started on Sunday when Windows forced me to upgrade from 8.0 to 8.1 (it's a known issue and has been happen to a people recently see: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_8-windows_update/forced-windows-81-update/73e135af-4566-4e9f-a001-686b1b2fe75c and http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows8_1-windows_update/ms-forced-install-to-windows-81-after-i-click-on/98113c9b-0057-435b-9e24-07f8165fb829). I'm using the latest version of the game (1.9.32.0.8. ) with all DLCs (including HD textures) and have it installed in the usual location: C:\program files(x86)\steam\steamapps\common\Skyrim. I'm using SKSE 1.7.1 (ref 46) and the latest version of Mod Organizer (v.1.2.14), FNIS (5.1.1), Loot, Bodyslide (2.0), TES5Edit and the DualSheath redux patcher. However I have replicated this problem on vanilla skyrim with no mods (only the 3 DLCs, Dawnguard, Hearthfires and Dragonborn), no enb, no skse, nothing (launching with MO & outside MO). Every time I pause for more than 2 minutes the game becomes unplayable. I've already: re-installed the Dot Net 3.5 from my install media (and enabled it, along with Dot Net 4 in Programs and Features). flashed my BIOS to the latest version, and have all the most recent chipsets & drivers (for everything) all installed after the 8.1 update. re-installed VCRedist & DirectX10 from the Skyrim folder. reinstalled Skyrim and made sure that it, its launcher and MO are all using my Nvidia GPU (not my integrated Intel chip). set the applications to run in 8.0 compatibility mode, and I'm already running Skyrim in windowed mode. checked my power settings and the laptop is set to High Performance with PCI E set to off, and left plugged in while playing. made sure that none of my CPUs are parked and have CleanMem installed (set to trigger and repeat every 2 minutes) as per STEP’s instructions. I've also tried giving the game "high" priority in Task manager and this hasn't fixed it. The game starts fine and works perfectly with a good FPS (25-34) until I pause it. Once paused its FPS slows to a crawl (0.4 is the average) and does not recover. I'm testing this with Vanilla Skyrim - no mods, no ENB, nothing, except the 3 core DLCs (which are TESVedit cleaned). What really annoys me is that this is only the case with Skyrim. All my other games (all of which I didn’t need to reinstall after upgrading to 8.1 btw) are fine: Arkham Origins, Deus Ex Human Revolution: Director’s Cut, The Witcher 1 & 2 (Enhanced Editions), Dark Souls 1, Even Fallout: New Vegas is fine. This problem is Skyrim specific. Does anyone have any other advice on this issue? I have literally tried everything I can find on fixing the compatibility between Skyrim and Windows 8.1 and literally nothing has worked. As above the game runs well for a while but once paused it slows to an absolute crawl. Alt tabbing out and back in after a few minutes doesn’t help. The computer isn’t over-heating and the motherboard is new (July 2014) so this is not a hardware issue. I’m desperate for some help on this. I would go back to Windows 8.0 but I suspect I'll only be forced to upgrade to 8.1 eventually so I'd like to get this sorted.