Sxio

Hi Guys. Tried again with about 95% of the step mods and success! Stable game. No crashes in over 2 hrs of play. I think the culprit might have been my .ini files. Does anyone have a link to a good ini editing guide? Also, on my last unsuccessful build, I tried realistic lighting but I found it too dark. Is enhanced lighting worth a try?

Thanks guys. That's really helpful. I think I might do that. Just install the mods that I want. Yeah I've watched Gopher's videos. I've spent hours on my load order. Boss says no issues. TES5 cleaned the stuff that needed to be cleaned. The only thing I didn't do was wrye bash. I just didn't want to post a load order post as I've seen a lot of them and it's gotta be boring for everyone to look at right? I've got an okay rig. 8 cores, 16GB memory. Yada yada. Doesn't really help if Skyrim's memory limit is 4gb. I mean wtf? I did only install the medium texture packs for that reason. But yeah, that was my first impression. But with this many mods, it's easy to get a bit bewildered on what to deactivate.

Because if I could get it to work, that'd be great. This is probably the 3rd time in 2 years I've installed Skyrim, used the STEP guide and had the result of a game that is so unstable, that in my mind, isn't worth playing. RPGs by their nature require great time investment and a sense of caring about your character. Who can chance that when they have random CTDs and often can't even reload a saved game? My problem is now, that I can only reload a game that was saved indoors. An outdoor save gives me an infinite loading screen. I've performed step many times now, never had a good result and I'm sure that this is my best install yet. And it's the same problem! So I was just wondering, how many of you with highly modified games, actually end up with a stable game at the end? Because in the last 3 weeks, I'm pretty sure I've wasted at least 20 hrs installing and modding skyrm. That's not a good use of my time.

I've got the same problem. It's really frustrating. I liked the default 3rd person camera view for Skyrim. But following the step guide, it recommend changing the view to a directly behind and above view. Which means it's hard to see anything of my character below their face. And now I can't change it back. No matter what numbers I put into the ini, no change. I can even del the ini's and start again. No change. I'm locked into this stupid camera view that I hate. How am I supposed to check out my characters behind when running if the camera's 8 feet off the ground? Really frustrated. I've spent hours stuffing with the .ini and no result whatsoever.