PsylentFox

Hello everyone, I am stupid new to Skyrim for the PC, and I decided that after years of playing Vanilla Xbox 360 Skyrim I would try my hand at playing Skyrim on the PC with mods! I spent *hours* pouring over all of the different Mods that are available on the website, and I selected the ones that I really wanted; a vast majority of them are immersion/weapon/armor mods with a few personal mods thrown in. So I downloaded them using NMM, installed them, and I used LOOT to build a load order for me. It literally took me hours to get everything done, and once I had the task completed I booted up Skyrim to see my handiwork first hand... and it Crashes to Desktop before I can even get to the main menu. I believe it has to do with the load order of the mods, and since I'm a complete noob at this whole mod'ing thing I let LOOT pick a load order and assumed that it would function properly. A few notes, this will be a new game (I don't have any saves on my PC version of Skyrim). This is the list of mods with the load order as prescribed by LOOT. If there is something funny that isn't right please let me know! (Instead of Hand Jamming the LOOT order for all 82 mods I selected, I made this beautiful paint .jpg that has the LOOT load order. Laziness at its finest...but in my defense I *was* up all night! If I need to edit this post and manually enter the load order I can. Just let me know!)

Hello everyone! I am looking to start modding Skyrim for the very first time, and seeing as this will be my first time playing Skyrim on the PC it will be very interesting to check out the difference between Vanilla Xbox 360 skyrim and this modded experience. These are my specs for my computer, and I know that the Skyrim launcher has already put everything to Ultra settings. As for my system this is what I'm working with: CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 965 @3.4 Ghz GPU: AMD Radeon 7870 2GB GDDR5, Core @ 975 MHz, Memory @ 1500 MHz Ram: 16GB OS: Windows 7 Home 64-bit Some of you might look at this and say "Wow! This was fairly good... 4 years ago." To that I say you would be right, because this was a budget build for me when I was in college. I pretty much have everything running at stock clocks, especially the CPU because I only have the stock heat sink fan, and the GPU I boost from time to time, especially since I play Star Craft II and when it gets to late game things want to slow down... but I don't let them! Overall I think even by todays standards this build I have is fairly good, as I can run Tomb Raider at the highest settings averaging 50 FPS now that I had it optimized. I have my eyes on about 30 mods, mostly texture updates (Skyrim HD - 2K Textures, SkyUI, Smile in HD, Enhanced Blood Textures), Model updates (CBBE, Feminine Argonian/Khajiit, More Freckles, Dimonized UNP Female Body), and some weapon and armor mods (Immersive Weapons, Immersive Armor), with various miscellaneous other mods (HD Maps with Roads, Natrual Realism) to fill in some space. The above are just a few of the ones that I would like to download and use, but there are *so* many mods to sift through that its probably going to take a while for me to get through them all. But now that we have that out of the way, lets focus on getting a few questions asked. - About how many mods do you think I could run with my current set-up without sacrificing performance? I'm looking for Lore friendly mods, and nothing that will break the game. - Do mods like CBBE and Dimonized's UNP Female Body complement each other? Do they overwrite each other? Do they cancel each other out? This same question goes for Natural Realism ENB and lets say the Skyrim HD - 2K Textures. Do they cause any conflict or do they work together? - From what I understand and see everything looks like it has to be manually downloaded and copy/pasted into the game patcher. Is this true? - I see a number of mods use the LOOT system. I take it that would be a good download to grab? - And what mods do you recommend that are immersive and lore friendly? As for me, I'm a college graduate and an officer in the US Army Reserves. I'm 24 and I currently work as a Security Contractor for G4S Secure Solutions assisting with the inprocessing and detainment of prisoners for the El Paso Police Department. I'm currently working on getting a parts list for my Dream Machine with custom Water Cooling. Hell, I might even post my dream build in a separate post to get thoughts and opinions. For now I'm going to go get some food, so I hope that when I come back I'll have some awesome feedback from you guys! ~PsylentFox