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This is why you shouldn't have said anything.

No, it's not necessarily a hardware problem. My brother's PC started to shut down randomly with the 1.3 Skyrim patch. It only happened while playing Skyrim, and never on another game, even though he played more stressful games than Skyrim. With the next patch after 1.3, his PC never shut down on its own again. At first I was sure his PSU was dying, but it was a new PSU, and it turned out to be fine. The same with his RAM. It surprised me that a game could shut down your PC with a bug, but clearly Skyrim's patches are to blame in some cases.

Certain performance ENB mods, yes. I don't think you'd be able to run the high quality ones though.

I'm working on SkyEarth, which adds hundreds of plants and thick vegetation to Skyrim. It'll cover all of Skyrim one day, but for now I'm focusing on gettings towns done. However, I need to ensure compatibility with as many mods as possible. I'm already making the main file and the towns separate. I'm going to modify each town, but I need to know how many esps I should split the mod into. For example, I could put in one esp for all the towns, but then if someone else has a mod that adds things to the towns they could conflict. I could give each town an esp to ensure maximum compatibility, but then people would need like ten esps just from this one mod. I could split it into one esp for exterior towns and another esp for loaded towns as a balance. What do you think? More esps and higher compatibility, or fewer esps without cluttering the load order?

:down: I don't think the point of the thread was to give amateur psych advice. Games are supposed to be fun. They're not supposed to be a mental test that subjects you to phobias. Nobody's forcing the mod on you, so there's no reason to argue that it's unecessary.

I wouldn't buy a wireless gaming mouse. You double the price and the quality and weight is still going to be worse. You'll want to get a gaming mouse pad of some kind though, because a good gaming mouse's sensitivity can be wasted on higher friction surfaces.

I doubt the gray face bug will affect it, seeing as modders are easily capable of fixing it. I doubt Bethesda has even seriously considered patching it since they can just export the data manually.

Have you tried starting a new game? I'm not saying you necessarily have to abandon the old save, but if a new game works that means the save is broken. If a new game is just as broken as the old save, that means there must be some pieces of the mod left over you could get rid of.

Those of you who have followed my woeful tales of poor pc performance, unbearable stutter, and ActiveX corruption know that my PC has had problems. Over the past months I've posted many threads asking for help, wondering why my framerate suddenly dropped to 4, why I go from 80fps to 1fps in an instant, and why files on my PC keep getting corrupted. I went as far as buying a 16GB flash drive to back up all my mods. Today my drivers kept failing, my games ran at 60fps but stuttered down to like 1 or 2 fps constantly, and my PC froze. Mysterious pop-ups kept showing up after each crash and then they'd go away too fast for me to see what they were. I ran Malwarebytes, Advanced Systemcare, Norton scans, etc, but they found nothing aside from corrupt files. I even entered several command lines that were supposed to fix a few of the problems, all to no avail. A while ago I bought BF3, which first forced me to deal with Origin. I like the game, and I bought it for $60. For that much I could have upgraded to 8GB of elite RAM. However, Origin is a pathetic piece of garbage and I don't think I can keep BF3 installed if it means dealing with Origin. The moment I played BF3 for the first time, everything was great. Five minutes later my game was a stuttery mess that couldn't be played. I found and fixed 27 corrupt ActiveX errors. I tried again. Within moments another 5 corrupt ActiveX files accumulated. Later, Punkbuster kept kicking me from matches. I have no idea why, because I don't hack or cheat, and there are plenty of cheaters that don't get kicked. Technically that's not Origin's fault, but whatever. It was pretty clear how that was going. I was playing Arx Fatalis when the Origin window started flickering in the lower corner of my screen. An instant later my game crashed. Suspiscion began to grow, as this was the first time I'd seen the source of the mysterious pop-ups that crashed my games. I ran Tribes: Ascend, and saw for an second that Origin launched itself. Why the **** would Origin launch itself when I play Tribes?? That's not even an Origin game! Needless to say, my drivers failed and I black-screened for a couple minutes. Hours later, my PC suddenly switched its theme to Windows 7 Basic. Wtf? I tried to reassign my theme, but it partially froze. Frustrated, I opened the task manager and started to search for anything running that could be affecting the theme. I happened to end Origin, and instantly my PC unfroze and my theme returned to normal. Origin keeps sticking ads in my games now. I think it's achieved sentience, because it's getting more bold. It literally closes the game and sticks the ad in my face, even if it's not an Origin game. That's not advertising, that should be illegal. Nothing I clicked in the user agreement said that Origin could close my games on a whim for advertising purposes. "Oh, I can get $5 off on Naruto Ultimate Pony Bloodbath." Why do I give a ****?? I'm never going to get another game from Origin, even if they pay me to play it. Before I installed Origin my boot time was about 25 seconds. Now it's over 60. That's still okay, but Origin more than doubled it. I've kept Origin off tonight so far, and so far there are no more corrupt files, no crashes, no driver failures, etc. OMG, I can actually play Skyrim for more than 10 minutes without lag spikes! I'm uninstalling Origin. That pos is not touching my PC again, and I don't care about losing BF3 if it'll get rid of this virus masquerading as a legitimate program. Edit. Oh God. I just checked my current processes. Origin showed up for an instant and then vanished. How can it do this? Please tell me it was actually still off but it just took a while to look like it's off? Equally importantly, why is it not crashing me now if it still keeps turning itself on? Is it just waiting, hoping I don't notice it? This is leaving my PC now. Purge the infection with fire. With FIRE!

I forgot about Civil Unrest. Time to jack this **** to eleven.

Not really. Skittles in an Elder Scrolls game wouldn't be lore-friendly. Anyway, I broke my Skyrim install. I tried installing a novice mod to alter khajiit meshes and textures without working around UNP, and it didn't go so well. After that I turned my water white from messing around in the CK, deleted half the inhabitants of Skyrim, and erased part of the sky while tossing around sky textures. My Argonians are currently blinking from eyes on their noses. Every time I start the CK I end up with several ActiveX errors for some reason. I didn't even cause that. Then I did something, idk what, that caused my framerate to die as decals flicker in and out of existance and lod pops in four feet ahead of me. At this point I don't care, because I'm just planning on reinstalling. I have all my mods backed up, and everything (including all my favorite mods) is/are stored on a 16GB flash drive anyway, so I'm not worried about it. Now that I'm officially not worrying about breaking things, who knows about something insanely complex to toss on top of the install to see what happens?

I don't know... EA is pretty bad. Bethesda would practically have to release TESV-Gunz of the Nordz as dlc to be as bad as them. I do support the aforementioned changes though.

I was looking through the ini of an ENB mod, and I noticed a few lines about shadow filtering. I turned down my shadow resolution to 1024, and put the distance at 6000. Normally that would have looked terrible, but it seems like with the newer ENB mods there is in fact some kind of filtering, because it actually looked way better than expected. Can someone confirm whether I'm imagining the change, or is there indeed shadow filtering in ENB mods now?

Okay.

Oh, I think I can put fins in the mud crabs' inventory. I'll try that. It'll take longer though.

I can remove slaughterfish, idk about replacing them with mud crabs. I'll make the file to remove slaughterfish, but I lack the skill to find a way to replace them with something else. Sorry if that doesn't work out for you... If you need the slaughterfish replaced with something you'll have to have someone else do it. How many quests can there possibly be about slaughterfish? :confused:

A 550ti is about equal to a 460. While neither is a very good card, what do you expect on a budget?

Yeah, I've been getting a few of these since the patch. It's annoying because a few weeks ago I just got Skyrim running how I wanted it, lol. Hopefully it gets fixed, and if not, hopefully someone makes another patch for this similar to Vorontsov's antifreeze thing that was popular in the early months of Skyrim.

It's theoretically possible, but difficult. You may actually have to move some buildings outside the town depending on how much space the exterior buildings take up. In addition, you could maybe make stairways leading a short distance underground, so the real house would be below ground level and you wouldn't have to worry about fitting the rooms within the shell of the house. That would make sense for lore as well, as buildings in the tundra are often partially underground to help with insulation, at least according to TES lore. However, that would require mesh modification as the ground would need to be replaced and several buildings don't have real doors. You might also wind up swimming, because some towns aren't far above sea level and therefore would have very leaky basements. Skyrim's engine also only allows for 4 shadow casting light sources in the same cell, so you wouldn't be able to have many shadows at all. Nothing close to the original shadow density in town interiors. Then I imagine this would break just a few quests, but that'd be something to worry about later. All in all, it'd take months or years to get something like this off the ground and you'd almost certainly need a team. It would probably be more viable to get an SSD so that load times are reduced to the blink of an eye.

It looks like ambient occlusion of some kind. Idk how it's in Oblivion though, unless you use OBGE. OBGE could probably do that if you have ssao or hbao turned on. When I was using a mod to allow antialiasing and HDR lighting at the same time, while I was forcing AO through my Nvidia drivers, something like this happened as well.

What Werne said.

Idk if there's anything people haven't found in Dark Souls yet, but the people in this forum (big spoilers): http://www.preparetodie.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=21351 can't seem to decide on what exactly you can do with a certain pendant. I know every secret has probably been found by a few people, it was probably the same with KF4, but many of them aren't common knowledge.

You can't sell weapons. Of course it's the worst running game on the 360, that's like a 7 year old console, and it's ported from the PS3 version, so the 360 version gets compressed textures and no real antialiasing and still runs worse. The PS3 version slows down as well, but it's not as severe. I suspect that the PC version won't slow down at all for most people, considering the age of the consoles at this point. It's not a game you can really grind at, that's the point. You advance through skill or you can't advance. The game lasts about 80 hours on the first playthrough, assuming you don't try to find most of the secret places and lore, which are just as well hidden as the game is difficult. um yes you can sell weapons. you just gotta ring the Two bells first for Frampt. most sell for like 100 souls, but a couple sell for like 5000. and most of the boss souls sell to him for more then you can consume them for. as well as the lowest soul (consume for 200 and sell to him for like 400 i think. idr). and yes you can grind. the very first bonfire (after the firelink shrine) is a good place to grind early. then once you drop the ladder from the dragon, its a quick amount of souls if you run up and let the dragon burn the bridge. then Anor Londo with all the Silver Knights is where i grinded my first play through. and the most popular grinding spot, the Darkroot Garden. i forget how many souls you get, but its in the 5 digits.....and there is a walk through im currently watching on YT of a guy going through it. hes almost at 500 deaths nd like 300+ hours. he sucks as it. and the only reason hes finaly at Gwyn is because hes grinded soo much and is like 20 levels above the norm and using Magic, which is OP for PvE. so yes, grinding can cause the game to be much easier. ha yea, 80 hours for a first play through is actually pretty good. i think mine was just over 100. granted i did leave the game running at times. however, consecutive play throughs take an enormous amount of time less. idk how fast i can beat Dark Souls, as ive never really tried. Demons Souls however, i can now beat in roughly 7-8 hours. but ive played through that like 50+ times as opposed to my 4 (i think, not counting the couple of partials i have) play throughs of Dark Souls. just enough to platinum it. and Darks Soul's world is slightly bigger. plus all the running around you gotta do to get anywhere, where as in Demons Souls you can just warp to the place you need to be. so Dark Souls naturally takes a bit longer then Demons Souls Ah... I never found out how to sell weapons. I decided to wait for the PC version before trying to find everything, and that must have been one of the things I missed. I assumed it was like in DS. The few areas where you can grind though, you end up outlevelling pretty fast. Even in Demon's Souls, it didn't work for long to farm all the storm beasts in the Storm King Boss zone. At low levels you could get like 20k souls per run, but within a couple hours of gameplay you end up needing to grind again and hitting a wall when you can't find a new place. That's why I said you 'can't' grind, though it's not totally accurate. You can grind a bit, but even grinding is dangerous and it only helps up to a certain point. No amount of grinding will help someone who can't play the game anyway, so skill is definitely a key factor in progressing. One of the nice things about the Souls games is that if you're experienced you can level up very fast, and advance on skill to areas where you can level up even faster. It helps alleviate the 'just one more level' headache that you find in most rpgs, because you know that if you can just reach the next area you could discover something amazing and/or powerful and jump forward several levels very quickly. I've heard some people say they spent 140 hours on a single playthrough. Even then it's impossible to see everything in that time, because joining certain factions and doing certain things will change what's possible in a single playthrough. If it's anything like KF4, people will be discovering new things years from now and trading maps on fansites, lol.

I just made one. Never fail to shamelessly self-promote. :) It's not right for everyone, I imagine. http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/19595

Of course it's the worst running game on the 360, that's like a 7 year old console, and it's ported from the PS3 version, so the 360 version gets compressed textures and no real antialiasing and still runs worse. The PS3 version slows down as well, but it's not as severe. I suspect that the PC version won't slow down at all for most people, considering the age of the consoles at this point. It's not a game you can really grind at, that's the point. You advance through skill or you can't advance. The game lasts about 80 hours on the first playthrough, assuming you don't try to find most of the secret places and lore, which are just as well hidden as the game is difficult.