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Along with the aforementioned tools learn all about TES5edit for how to make your own patches as well as merging non-script dependent ESP's. Having patches for your patches makes Skyrim so much more stable.

Ore Smithing is the only one I could find in a short time. Not finished and has not been updated in a while so probably not the one. Is a very interesting idea. If someone finds a complete mod based on this concept I'd like to take a look at it considering ZenoMax appears to whisper rumors about a similar concept in the TESO crafting system.

Did you try this fix? Deadly Dragon edit

Be aware that not all mods are truly compatible with each other, some patching may be in order like Alternate Start - Live Another Life. A link for patching it and a few others - http://wiki.step-project.com/User:Neovalen/Skyrim_Revisited#Alternate_Start_-_Live_Another_Life It also appears you are missing a few other patches already posted on Nexus. Search for "patch" and "compatibility" and you should find all the patches to make some mods play a bit better with others. The Wyre Bash "Bash patch" will merge a few of these for you.

Thanks, mindricofix! That did the trick. Was ready to point my fingers at 3DNPCs since this was was unspoken dialog ("Just watching the towns. Wanderring arround."). Strange it was MT. Now, about those slave dealers. :P

The game "should" be able to be quite playable in the low to medium settings range based on this spec sheet. The 1MB of video ram will be your main bottleneck tho' the cpu is "okay". As Skyrim is still heavily cpu bound you can adjust settings using the old "stand on the stairs leading up to Dragonsreach" trick; Download FRAPS or similar benchmarking software. Start it up. Start a new game with only the official DLC (Dawnguard, etc.). Not the Hi-Res texture packs, of course. Before you hit Play go to Options and select Low. Get to Whiterun and go up the steps as if to see the Jarl. Stop at the second turn and turn towards the big tree down below. Note your frame rate as people and guards walk around. Save the game with a memorable name (ex. "FrameRateCheck"). Quit and restart, go to Options and under Advanced adjust one or two settings up (or later, down) one place. Reload/restart your game and note the frame rate. Repeat until you get approximately 30fps as fights dealing with three or more actors will bog down your cpu. Never save over this save point and you can use it to test how mods affect your computer.Beware of any mod that uses more memory. This includes; Hi-Res texture packs. Additions/changes to towns and villages. Scenery and animals texture mods. Additional "actor" mods (More Travellers, etc). TL:DR Keep it simple and the laptop should do well. Not great, but well.

Which Anti-Virus program do you use? A couple of them see the changes that NMM makes to files as "suspicious" and block the write function causing NMM to crash. Try temporarily turning off your anti-virus program when using NMM. If the crashes go away then either get another AVS or disable it when using NMM. If NMM still crashes try a clean install.

After installing Interesting NPCs I find one needs to just stop sniping everything that moves and at least try to talk to the "scenery" before unleashing Oblivion on them. Some of them wander the wilds and a few are even nice. So, no. Never really did but more careful now.

Trend Micro AV is notorious for generating this type of error. Anyone getting a similar error should experiment with installing and removing mods with their AV temporarily turned off. If the error goes away they should open up their AV and under settings (usually) add an exception for "NexusClient.exe" as well as the data folders NMM uses.

When you re-installed Skyrim did you delete all your old pref files prior to the install? If you don't know then you probably did not. Most likely they were over written but one way to check is to go into your user folder and delete them. Search for "SkyrimPrefs.ini." and "Skyrim.ini" in a "My Documents" (or similar name) folder. When you start the game again they will be re-installed. Make sure it was a clean install - Go to Steam / Library and right click on the Skyrim entry in the upper left corner. Go all the way down to Properties and choose that. Third tab, "Local Files", choose the last option "Verify Integrity...". This will take a while. Once it is done it will install good files in place of bad ones next time the game is started. When you say you install .esp files are you saying that you are manually installing mods? If so, follow the readme's very carefully. Nexus Mod Manager or other mod manager will do this for you painlessly. After (if) you install mods are you using B.O.S.S. (Better Oblivion Sorting Software) to sort the mods? It will also warn you of conflicts and/or missing parent files. If you are using mods which ones are you using? SKSE (Skyrim Script Extender) is needed for a few. BOSS will warn you of this, iirc. Could post much more but there are already full blown posts on this so I'll leave it at that. Hope this helps.

Better Oblivion Sorting Software. Once you read thru it, use it, and find out what it does you'll wonder how you ever did without it.