Maverick827

Occasionally I'll run into a mod that I like and when I go to select the file to download, I'll see something like: UNP Version 1.1 UNP Version - OPTIONAL Something UNP Version - Patch for Some Other mod CBBE Version 1.1 CBBE Version - OPTIONAL Something CBBE Version - Patch for Some Other Mod Am I missing something? What about people who don't run those mods? Can we just download either, or is this mod not intended for us? This is particularly grating because I had Better Females by Bella Natural Edition installed before. I nuked all of my mods and I'm doing a full re-install, but now the main files only list UNP and CBBE. Have "normal" people been relegated to using old versions? This has been happening a lot lately.

I've read this can cause all sorts of issues. It's not that big of a deal, I didn't get very far (maybe 30 side quests). My biggest priority right now is just to get a stable game and keep it that way. I've cut some admittedly unnecessary mods that I've seen in my logs/BOSS warnings here and there (Convenient Horses, Wet and Cold, Sounds of Skyrim, etc.). The only one I just can't do without is Dual Sheath Redux, as that is integral to the aesthetics of my character. Also, though I've never seen it in my logs, I've noticed some in-game issues with Ultimate Follower Overhaul, but I don't think I can do without that one, either. I've read that AFT or EFF are less glitchy than UFO, so maybe I'll switch to one of those.

Thanks, I didn't know that was possible. I don't think I'll have to worry about becoming burdened because I'll have chests in Breezehome to store things in when I reach the point of getting the bulk of my stored items. Here's another question: would using the console kill command to speed through quests break anything? I've used it before, but if I'd be using it hundreds of times in a row now.

Thanks to certain mods (as well as my lazy modding, but still) my save is now fairly dirty. I've managed to fix some CTDs, but I feel like it's a ticking time bomb. I want to start over and trim the fat a little bit, but I'm wondering what I can do to mitigate the damage. My game plan: 1. Create a new character. Last time I had Live Another Life installed, but since I plan on advancing to where I am in the main quest right away anyway, I guess I don't need it here. As soon as I get out of Helgen, I will open the console and use the "incPCS" command to increase my skills to where they were before (except for Enchanting, see below) and select all of the perks I had. 2. Use the console to restore all of my equipment, gold, and spells (except shouts). 3. Conjure a cheap item with each Enchant I had already learned and disenchant them all. I will then use incPCS to make up the difference in skill. 5. Do the main quest until I can buy Breezehome. I will have Breezeome Fully Loaded installed and I will use the console to give myself enough gold to fully upgrade it, which I had before. 6. Use the console to give myself all of the stored items I had, except for unique items, now that I can store them. 7. Start Dawnguard and get back to where I was. 8. Ignore all of the side quests I had completed for a while to avoid repetition. Revisit them sometime later. Am I missing anything? Will using the console so much break something, making restarting my game for stability's sake useless?

1. Stability. A house that lags a lot or conflicts with other mods is passed up immediately. 2. Look, style, location. This is pretty subjective. I prefer houses in cities, not alone in the wilderness. I don't have a preferred style, I'll just know I like something when I see it. 3. The right amount of good features. I don't like to be overwhelmed by a house, but I need more than walls and an enchanting altar. For the most part, I need something that sates the collector in me. Armor racks, weapon cases, book shelves, trophy rooms, etc. 4. A secret room. It just has to happen.

Title says it all. I have all of the official DLC installed and activated. I typed "StopQuest CH" and made a new save. I then uninstalled CH with the NMM. When I try to get back in game, it crashes at the Sklyrim logo (I have a mod that skips the Bathesda splash screen). If I re-install CH, then it starts just fine. How can I get rid of CH entirely? I get frequent CTDs in game because of it, so I want it gone. Why is such a buggy mod so highly endorsed? :sad: Edit: If the mod is installed but inactive, I can start the game fine as well.

That's subtle?

I was using Black Mage Armor (http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/9645/?) for a Battlemage for a while. I don't remember it being too difficult to craft, so you should be able to get it early.

Don't select upgrade, then both will be installed. Seems like a huge design flaw that I hope they're working on.

It doesn't sound like Vampire Ugly Face Remover will use the textures from XCE (which are Gennox), but rather the non-vampire vanilla male textures. I saw Normal Dawnguard Vampire Faces, but wasn't sure exactly what "base head reference" meant. It also says that it doesn't mess with any textures, and I was under the impression that becoming a vampire changed your face textures.

I'm thinking of making my current male character a vampire, but I'm worried that his face will get messed up beyond recognition. I've found a few mods that sound like they'll reduce the visual effect of becoming a vampire, but I want there to be zero effect aside from fangs. I don't want a replacer for vampire faces, I want to use the face mods I already have installed (XCE, Eyes of Beauty). Does a mod like this exist?

Vanilla Skyrim is good enough to win awards, just not one for the entire generation.

Clean textures tend to look like smooth plastic.

One immediate problem I'm noticing is that vram isn't additive. Both of your cards of 2GB of vram, but this doesn't mean you have 4GB of vram. Your limit is still 2 GB. I play at 2560 x 1440p and with many texture mods and an ENB I regularly go above 2GB of vram, so you need to be careful at those resolutions. You say you're experienced with Eyefinity so you might already have known this, but I felt it was worth mentioning. I recommend you download Skyrim Performance Monitor to...monitor your Skyrim performance. This way you can see how much vram you're using and how much room you have to mod further. If no one else has listed it yet, you really should download and install Nexus Mod Manager (NMM). I'm extremely computer literate, and I always scoffed at people who needed something to help them copy and paste files, but it does so much more and it is very, very helpful. You just click the "Install with NMM" button and it installs the mod for you. You can enable/disable mods at your discretion, and it has a much better mod order list than the default game. Anyway, my list: Bug Fixes- Unofficial Skyrim Patch- Unofficial Dawnguard Patch (if you have it)- Unofficial Hearthfire Patch (etc.)- Unofficial Dragonborn Patch- Double Cursor Fix (if you tab out of Skyrim and then tab back in, sometimes you'll have the Skyrim pointer AND the Windows pointer; this mod fixes that) Gameplay/Balance- Deadly Dragons- Enhanced Enemy AI- Enhanced Mighty Dragons Skyrim is really swingy; you can be one shotting every bandit in a cave and then the Bandit Chief at the end just pummels you. Typically late in the game you'll just massively overpower your enemies, though, so it's nice to have something to make them more difficult. I've found that using mods like these to make the enemies more difficult but then adjusting the in-game settings from Adapt then gradually Legendary, or back and forth as needed, allow me to keep the game pretty consistent. GUI- SkyUI (better overall GUI)- A Quality World Map (better map)- Better Dialog Controls (when you're presented with a list of dialog options, sometimes what's highlighted and what you're really highlighting aren't the same, and this fixes that)- Better MessageBox Controls (this allows you to navigate yes/no popup boxes with your keyboard)- Customizable Camera (lets you adjust the offset of the third-person camera, if you don't like the over-the-shoulder perspective)- Immersive HUD (lets you toggle the HUD on and off, running around with no HUD really brings the experience together)- Main Font Replacement (I find the default font to be difficult to read at times; there's many types to choose from with this mod, I like Tara Type) Immersion- Live Another Life- Etheral Elven Overhaul (makes elves look better; I suppose it's more immersive for Tamriel that elves look like ass, but I'm putting it under immersion anyway)- Guard Dialog Overhaul (guard's ambient dialog often makes no sense; they might berate you when you're very powerful and well respected later in the game, this mod fixes that and opens up other lines of ambient dialog that are rarely used for some reason)- No More Glowing Edges (removes the glow around your character when equipped with a magical item or casting a spell)- Player Headtracking (allows your character's head to move and face other characters rather than stoicly look forward at all times)- Realistic Ragdolls and Force- Run For Your Lives (Important, non-combant-oriented NPCs will run and hide when dragons attack, not try to help with their Iron Dagger and then die)- When Vampires Attack (same as above, but with Dawnguard's vampires) You might not care too much about Live Another Life right now, but after you've made your fourth or fifth character, you might be sick of the way the game starts. This circumvents the main plot and lets you start in one of about ten pretty cool ways, like "I washed up on the shore" (you start on a shipwreck in the ocean) or "I'm a bandit" (you're put into a random bandit camp somewhere, and the bandits are friendly to you). You can always start the main quest when you want. I highly recommend this mod for subsequent play throughs. Lighting- Realistic Lighting Overaul- Climates of Tamriel Not much to say here. These just make the lighting more realistic. Certain settings can make your game too dark; some people like to walk around caves blind. Make sure you install these alone so you can see a good before and after to see if you even like them. Quality of Life- Auto Uneqiup Ammo (automatically unequips arrows when you uneqiup your bow)- Even Better Quest Objectives (makes vague quest directions better)- Faster Mining (typically while mining you have to tap a node 9 times for 3 pieces of ore; this is 3 for 3)- Follower Trap Safety (followers won't activate traps)- Glowing Ore Veins 300 (ore veins glow so you can actually see them)- The Choice is Yours- The Choice is Yours (Dawnguard)- Ultimate Follower Overhaul- Ultimate Follower Overhaul (Dawnguard)- Ultimate Follower Overhaul (Hearthfire)- Unread Books Glow (books you haven't read yet have a blue (regular book) or orange/red (skill book) glow around them; really helpful if you like collecting books) You might not want to get The Choice is Yours for your first play through. Normally when playing the game, you're going to pick up quest lines just by hearing random bits of ambient dialog. These quests can't be dropped so on later play throughs this mod is handy for letting you, as the mod says, pick which quests you want to do. If you plan on using some sort of master list for quests to 100% complete the game and you're typically OCD about things like quest journals, then you could pick this up for your first time playing. You'll just have to look up how to start some quests. Ultimate Follower Overhaul is also an iffy one for a first time player. It allows you to control more than one follower, which you might not want to do on your first play through because that can mess with the balance of the game (UFO allows for, I think, up to 16 followers - that many followers will kill most things before you even get a chance to attack). That said, there's also some handy things even for just one follower. It allows you to set your followers to be unkillable (when they die they'll just kneel down and be taken out of the fight until their health regenerates to a certain amount or combat ends) and it also sets you to let your followers not attack you back if you accidentally hit them in combat which is handy because followers tend to like to jump into the path of your arrows). TexturesI'm not going to list all of my texture mods (I think I have 70, and that's not even a lot compared to some people). I will say that you should try a few here and there and monitor your vram usage. If you can manage it, any texture with the name "aMidianBorn" on it is really good to pick up. Skyrim HD - 2K Textures is also a popular one. For some misc ones for you to try as you like: - W.A.T.E.R. (a water texture mod)- XCE - Xenius Character Enhancement (skin texture mod, among many other character-creation enhancements)- Brows (eyebrow texture mod - it's literally called just 'Brows')- Beards (beard texture mod - again, just 'Beards')- The Eyes of Beauty (eye texture mod)- Apachii SkyHair (hair style mod)- Apachii SkyHair natural Retexture (a retexture of the above mod to be more realistic and natural; default textures are glossy and "glamorous")- Enhanced Night Skyrim (night time sky texture)- Realistic Paper (makes reading books easier, what without cringing at the default paper texture) You should install Skyrim 2K Textures first and then let a 'specialized' texture mod override whatever it needs to. Essentially, you use 2K Textures as a catch-all for everything your other texture mods miss.

"It's Skyim, any ol' video card will do!" is not really accurate. I upgraded from a GTX 670 to a GTX Titan and noticed a huge difference in performance with full texture mods + ENB. The 780 should be fine at 1080p.

Some opinions: 1. Case definitely does matter, but it is unlikely that someone following the standard "go to NewEgg, filter best rating, and pick something near the top" methodology would pick a bad one. You can't just go around sticking high performance, heat-generating parts into your 10 year old dell case with 1 fan, though. 2. I wouldn't spend more than $200 on a motherboard unless a specific feature or number of slots is needed, which is almost never the case. My recent $3,000 build has a $135 motherboard (that came with a free 8GB stick of RAM!). 3. An Intel i5 3750k is $219 and (technically, though you really won't notice a difference) better for gaming than an AMD FX 8350. 4. A 1200W PSU is overkill for pretty much every realistic GPU configuration. 1200W is the recommended amount for three GTX Titans. It's true that you don't want to skimp on your PSU, but you could shave off at least $100 by getting a Gold 750W instead. Also, PSUs degrade over time, so you shouldn't use one for too long. I've read that they're rated for 80,000 - 100,000 hours, which is longer than you'd probably use one anyway.

Apparently both AMD and Nvidia cards are bad for ENB, so I guess we're all out of luck. ;D

Well, I guess I'll just have to deal with it. It would be nice if everyone had a commitment to honestly representing their mods, but I can understand the "advertising arms race" situation.

I can't help but feel like most texture, lighting, ENB, etc. mods never live up to the screenshots provided by the author. Textures are never as crisp, even though I'm positive I downloaded the highest resolution. Lighting and ENB mods are always too dark, too light, or generally just not quite as good as the screenshots. ENB mods can be a bit tricky to install sometimes, but I've nuked all of my mods and installed everything correctly from scratch for various ENBs (Sharpshooter's, Project ENB, RealVision, Project MATSO, RealLike, E ENB Final...), including whether or not the author recommends RLO/ELFX/CoT, required ini settings, etc. It just doesn't look as good. Don't get me wrong, my game still looks really nice. Just never as good as some of the more popular screenshotters(?), like some of the people who take official screenshots for aMidianBorn's textures. I have really no hardware limitations (GTX Titan, 1440p), I don't know why I wouldn't be able to achieve the same results. Sometimes I'll see a screenshot of someone's character and it will look amazing. I'll try to recreate something similar in game, just to see that I'm not going crazy and that my game will look as good as his. The author will usually provide a suspiciously small list of mods used to take his screenshots, but I'll install them all and try it out. It's close, but still never quite there. When I use the Apachii hair type they did, I'll get these faint-but-noticeable jagged shadows on my character's face cast from the style's bangs or whatever. Flowing strands of hair will look aliased, even though I'm quite sure there's no new super secret anti-aliasing technique that they have but I don't (I'll try Skyrim's, Nvidia's, SweetFX, ENB, etc.). I haven't tried it yet, but one of the recent Hot Files, Seranaholic caught my eye today (not to single out any specific mod/author). It looks amazing, but I'd be willing to bet that if I installed every mod listed on that description page, Serana would look nowhere near as good as in the mod's screenshots, and certainly not the main one on the front page. Am I seeing things that aren't there (or, rather, not seeing things that are)? Is there a bit of a bait-and-switch with visual mods (as there is with pretty much all advertising in the real world) that I'll just have to accept? Does anyone else feel this way?

This just happened to me last night. I'm able to tab to different windows, but my mouse pointer is gone and I can't select "End Task" in the task manager. What I ended up doing was choosing "Log Off" after hitting ctrl + alt + del, and that closed Skyrim automatically. Then I just signed back in.

Immersion. Got it.

Probably the most striking effect of using an ENB in my opinion is to get a nice, rich blue sky. After going through more than a few different ENBs, I eventually settled on RealLike ENB. It had the best looking skies and its colors/shadows were pretty close to Sharpshooter's, too. The installation directions say to use ENB v0.113. Here's a screenshot of it (I added SweetFX, as RealLike doesn't have it by default): http://i.imgur.com/otRsEHt.jpg I noticed that some ENB videos had this handy little GUI where you could change settings while in game, and I thought that looked interesting. I found out that you needed to use a newer version of ENB to get this, so I installed ENB v0.168 (the absolute latest version had some shenanigans of requiring another mod to work and I didn't want to have to deal with that). This is what the game looks like now: http://i.imgur.com/NvGncFy.jpg So some things changed. First, the AA seems to be better (look at the roof of the house above the lantern). I have SMAA turned on with SweetFX, but I guess this version of the ENB adds it's own? Anyway, that's a plus. It also seems to add this blue hue (with the new GUI I can see that this is EnableImageBasedLighting). It tones down some of the darks, but I actually like it better (you can actually see the finer details of aMidianBorn's Ebony retexture now!). The problem is that the sky is now a very annoying teal color. Looking out my window now, t's probably closer to a realistic sky color, but I just don't like it as much. I tried disabling SweetFX and ImageBasedLighting but that had nothing to do with it. In the ENB GUI there's a whole portion dedicated to the sky, but I can't seem to figure out how to make it a darker blue. Can I edit RealLike to have bluer skies with this version of ENB? Is there another ENB I should try instead? I've tried Project ENB (Cinematic, Fantasy), Sharpshooter's, RealVision, BLEAK/UNBLEAK ENB, and E ENB Final Edition, and none of them have that deep blue sky that I'm looking for (and also just didn't look as good otherwise, in my opinion). I feel like even when I copy someone's mod/ENB list I don't get the same result. Do some people secretly touch up their screenshots to mess with us? :confused:

I'm not sure what you mean by "for each application (if there are any) of the Soul Trap effect." Can you post what you already have that isn't working?

I didn't play with followers for the longest time, but now the game is just too boring/depressing to play solo. I'm more of a party RPG (i.e. BioWare) fan, so it's tough because most followers have the personality of wood.

I just tested it and that script worked for me. In what way does this method not work for you? Does the sound just not play?