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good to know, but now that i'm ready to uninstall it...HOW do i uninstall it?? lol. seems to be insanely difficult to remove. any tips Is it not under Add/Remove Programs (Control Panel -> Programs -> Uninstall Program or Control Panel\Programs\Programs and Features). Scroll down to "Microsoft Visual Studio", right-click -> uninstall.

You mean blurry stuff? :P Really can't stand that DoF. It looks "neat", but I want to stab myself in the eyes with it on. The lighting I am however intrigued by, although it seems to change the color palette a bit, which might take away from the original artistic choices.

Oh, gotcha. Yeah, uninstall away

It looks like most of the lifting would be done by the recommended mods, like thicker vegetation and higher resolution textures. What exactly does the ENB add?

Are you sure it's not a Visual C++ Redistributable package? Those are included as dependencies and are installed automatically for numerous pieces of software, e.g. many Steam games.

A somewhat simple and easy-to-follow, albeit time-consuming, guide which seems to be considered somewhat of a staple is the S.T.E.P. guide found here: http://wiki.step-project.com/STEP:Guide It's basically a long list of tweaks and mods for Skyrim to make it a visually superior game all-around. Included are UI changes, animation tweaks, texture and mesh modifications. I would personally avoid ENBSeries stuff mentioned in the guide as I found the drawbacks to outweigh the improvements. Otherwise, just go down the list starting with INI tweaks, and then one mod at a time all the way to the end. You can skip mods that do not have a green bar to the left as they are considered non-essential, but I see no reason to skip them otherwise. You could also pick which mods to install or which sections to follow, e.g. you could just do 2.F. Conflicting Graphics for textures and and 2.G. Landscape & Environment for some nice visual details. Some mods do overwrite certain parts of other mods, which is something I had failed to recognize originally and that caused me to waste a bunch of time, so it is imperative that you follow the exact order specified in the guide.

I find it funny that this exact issue has not been resolved with Skyrim. I remember finding it quite annoying in Oblivion and in fact quitting my attempts to mod it finding that Oblivion would inevitably run into a ~3.2GB ceiling in sufficiently cluttered areas. Having just started Skyrim I am quite surprised that Bethsoft never learned.

I don't ... think you can! :P Although, may be you can... I think he actually did get thrashed somewhere by enemy bazaars if I remember correctly, may be not. Also, for the stealthy of you - go down to the south-east-most city (forgot the name) and there will be a gun shop with 3 or 4 guards with bazaars and huge ammo packs. If you are good enough, you can pick all 4... if not, just get one. :) Oh and yeah... Fallout 2 is on my most favorite list! Definitely one of the best games out there.