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Not sure if this was ever resolved for you, but I had a similar issue where terrain LOD textures were rendering in extremely low res, or so it seemed; There are some mods that inject a "noise.dds" file in your data/textures/terrain folder, and if that file is extremely tiny (like 32x32 resolution) your terrain lod will turn to low res mush. I deleted the file and that fixed the problem hope this helps someone

It also broke a lot of Dyndolod resources, obsidian weather clouds.... probably a lot more. SMH. Edit: It also causes dead NPCs to scream over and over again by simply looting dead bodies in the vicinity. And apply even more gore. Uninstalling this and going back to the AIO. That one actually WORKED. Edit2: This one actually still makes NPCs scream just by looting. Just a warning to users wanting to use these files for SSE, chances are they are going to break numerous aspects of your game and not work properly. I'm uninstalling and reverting back to using Enhanced Blood Textures and VioLens

The last one there broke my dual sheath redux install just FYI.

So I tried using MO2 after Vortex based on the suggestion in the STEP guide to go forth with it. After trying it and ultimately preferring Vortex, I disabled the API key in MO2, disconnected download association from MO2, logged out of MO2, logged back into Vortex, reset download association, tried downloading a mod, "Download Failed" repeatedly. I am obviously connected to the internet. I am logged into my Nexus account. I am NOT logged into MO2. Again, I have disassociated myself from MO2 and then requested a new API key from Nexus so I can use Vortex again, but it isn't giving me one. Not sure if that's the problem. Anybody know what to do?

Similar situation as OP. Been a while. It's easy to see why initially people are hard to switch, or resistant to change. Coming from the days of Daggerfall and Morrowind, I've been modding ES games for almost 20 years and we all started in far worse conditions than MO2 but it just pales with antiquity compared to Vortex, and it doesn't look like Vortex will become deprecated any time soon. Objectively speaking: LOOT built in. Natively supported by Nexus. Somehow knows about version discrepancies that MO2 doesn't. Also knows how to handle redundant filename issues. Infographic that visualizes circular dependencies as well and allows you to break them with relative ease. Will suggest load orders with incredibly intelligent accuracy. Can drag and drop modularized multi-mod zip files into the downloader and Vortex handles all of it 100% reliably within seconds and a couple of clicks instead of a half an hour of dealing with outdated UX and a click-fest. Probably less intuitive to the non programmer, but more Skyrim modders who are just installing other people's mods aren't programmers or actual modders. Allows you to manage the overwriting of specific files in a mod that MO2 doesn't. The list goes on. The only reason why I started to try MO2 was after coming back and reading into the STEP guide - which is a great guide but their suggestion to start installing old software is based on resistance to change. You don't need BethINI if you know what you're doing. It's a good tool to use maybe once just to see what it does, or get a better explanation of which ini settings do what. You should know what to do if you read the STEP guide - then you don't need any of the chain of 3rd party software to use with MO2 that they are suggesting. Just establish a good weather+ENB+ini setting you like and then go from there. If you care more about stability and playing the game heavilty modded 100% through without addressing every potential script failure in the game that will cause a crash, just keep your ugrids at 5 unless you are doing ONLY screenarchery (it has nothing to do with vram, fps or other performance issues in 2020). Vortex will handle the rest and take you to new heights effortlessly. I might also be saying this because I have an RTX3080 and... well... this card is just stupid. The only "3rd party" software I recommend is a LODgen of sorts like DynDOLOD. Cheers