Kaidonni

I'm looking into modding the player character's walk speed for Oldrim on PC, and I'm not having much luck searching online. I have found that the console commands for altering player speed are a bit of a tricky solution, and the less fiddling about with the console in-game, the better. I haven't used the Creation Kit before, but I'm perfectly happy with having to learn how to use it if it is necessary to achieve my goal. Basically, I just want to alter the player character's walk speed to be faster than the default (probably in line with what Skyrim Speeds offers), but I don't want this to alter their run or sprint speed, or for it to alter the walk or run speeds of NPCs. I just mentioned Skyrim Speeds, which I did try years ago (I've been away from Skyrim for about 5-6 years now). As the mod author advised, I avoided using it before the Helgen cart ride because it could mess up the scripted sequence. It did its job just fine after that, but I didn't exactly play that much of Skyrim. And it has now occurred to me that it still has the potential to impact other scenes with scripted dialogue throughout the game (possibly cutting dialogue short as the next part of the sequence is triggered earlier by NPCs reaching their destination sooner), something I wish to avoid. So...is there a way to modify the player character to walk faster, but not make them run or sprint faster, and also without altering the movement speeds of NPCs? Also, can this be applied to an in-progress play-through, without restarting? I don't mind if it's a constant magic effect, whatever gets the job done - I like walking everywhere, it feels far less rushed. Many thanks.

You can't say no, at least there's no actual option to do so. All you can do is exit the conversation by whatever button you usually use to forcibly end a conversation, such as 'esc'.

There is no way to discourage Aventus from wanting Grelod killed. Just avoid talking to him and you won't get the quest (although you'll still get part of it due to other NPCs talking about it within earshot). If you don't kill Grelod, then no one will - it's the only way to get the Dark Brotherhood's attention in the vanilla game.

No save in Skyrim is clean, so if you deactivate those mods and make this fall-back save, remember that you could have trouble later on if you change the mods or reactivate them while playing that save and any future saves made after it.

I'd advise going to the Wiki and typing in console commands in the search engine. There's a large article with the various console commands available in Skyrim (there are articles for the other games too); just select "Skyrim: Console" from the resulting list.

I choose female characters because they are not me and I am not them. I'm exploring the story and game through an individual completely separate from me. I've often felt that my attempts at playing male characters result in avatars of me, they are too close in one way or another to my identity.

Except mods can offer this kind of development. Just look at Nehrim for Oblivion, and the sequel the team is making for Skyrim. Look at Moonpath to Elsweyr. With a sufficiently motivated and skilled team, great improvements can be made to Skyrim's towns and cities. Don't doubt the abilities of modders. The primary issue is getting voice actors, and the fact that those voice actors may be limited to new NPCs to avoid an odd mix of different voices for characters we already know well.

It appears that, in over 29 hours of gameplay, I have encountered the infamous 'mesh corruption bug' on two occasions. No big deal, spaced in time very far apart. Only, last night I pointed the player character in the direction away from the visual glitch, saved, exited the game, then loaded Skyrim back up and reloaded that save. The bug was gone just like that, and I continued playing, but now I'm worried that I should have loaded a save a little earlier than that (since my reload, I've played well over an hour, and would really prefer not to redo what I have done, especially in Shrouded Hearth Barrow). No crashes or anything, just a little concerned. Is it safe to continue on my current saves, or should I have reloaded to before the bug appeared rather than using the save just after?

They only attacked you because they got in the way of one of your attacks, which counts as an assault on them, making them hostile and giving you a bounty. It happens in all sorts of situations. You'll just have to be more careful, or leave the hold and return (at which point guards will give you a chance to pay your fine or serve your time, or you can persuade them to let you go).

He's going away for 3 weeks...so I'm going to have to play it safe. If Driver Verifier picked anything up, or FurMark, I'd want it to do it with him around (despite me being the one who's looked online for info). If a BSOD does occur, I've had to leave the system turned off for a while, as it seemed to cause a cascade. I'm aware that the games themselves won't cause these issues, as there have been BSOD events of the exact same nature in Windows (just far more rare, so there is a specific trigger). I was simply running on the assumption Skyrim was the only game suspected to trigger whatever hardware/driver issue is at play here...I was wrong.

Heh, I may have them on other games now... A new thing happened tonight, testing out another game for the time being that has never caused issues. This time it was Empire Total War, I left the room for 15-20 minutes while the screen to choose to initiate battle, autoresolve or withdraw was up (as I have done in the past - it's even safe to alt-tab while the screen is up, and you can exit to the menu, etc). When I returned, the game had frozen and the sound had hung. I tried alt-tab, nothing happened, and worried I rebooted. If this was a crash of the application, I'd expect it to have crashed to Windows (never tried ctrl-alt-delete, which I wished I'd tried). However, no BSOD, and the BlueScreenView shows nothing for it either (neither does Event Viewer - the game did create a crash dump log of its own, but the system had hung). The game had run fine for 2+ hours earlier, including in a number of battles. I'm really hoping this is somehow connected and not just a random error of another type. On trying to boot into safe mode, however...BSOD. This was a new one, it was DRIVER_CORRUPTED_EXPOOL. I turned the whole system off anticipating it would keep doing it, came back about 40 minutes later. My brother had installed an application to monitor the temperature of the components, but it had frozen at 47C.

I forgot to mention the following often pops up in the Event Viewer for Diagnostics - Performance... The Desktop Window Manager is experiencing heavy resource contention. Reason : Graphics subsystem resources are over-utilized. Diagnosis : A consistent degradation in frame rate for the Desktop Window Manager was observed over a period of time. The Desktop Window Manager is experiencing heavy resource contention. Scenario : The Desktop Window Manager responsiveness has degraded. So far, both Skyrim and Star Trek Online cause this, Empire Total War (with mods - Darthmod 8.0) does not...well, not exactly. Empire seems to cause it at some weird timing, certainly not while the game is running, whereas the others cause it when they are running. It isn't always caused by Star Trek Online either as I just tried it out, but it was on the 15th February.

You might remember my previous topic on sudden BSOD errors occuring with Skyrim. The harddrive certainly looked to be a possible problem with it's bad blocks and failing both the manufacturer's Windows and DOS diagnostics. Cue replacement harddrive and full reinstall of OS, and on the 13/2/13 I thought my troubles with Skyrim were cured...until 27/2/13, when it all started up again. On 23/2/13, it happened outside of Skyrim on the internet, and Skyrim worked fine. It was a PFN_LIST_CORRUPT, 4e, 8d. Tried Skyrim, played it all day and the next, it was fine. Next day I reinstall so I can try out some mods for my new playthrough, but I don't quite get anywhere until Wednesday evening when, during Alduin's attack on Helgen, a BSOD struck... SYSTEM_THREAD_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED, 0x1000007e, ffffffff`c0000005 Last night, again... DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL, 0x000000d1, 00000000`00000004 Then in Windows *twice* after having to reboot (I will note that it didn't reboot - I had to turn the power off then back on, it was hanging)... PFN_LIST_CORRUPT, 0x0000004e, 00000000`00000099 SYSTEM_THREAD_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED, 0x1000007e, ffffffff`c0000005 I'd attach the W7F diagnostics that contain my dump files, but even just one is too large...ow! As for my system... AMD Athlon II X4 640 Processor ASUSTeK Computer INC. M4A78LT-M-LE BIOS Date: 06/11/10 09:58:21 Ver: 07.04 Total Memory 4.00GB (Usable 4.00GB) (1) SAMSUNG HD502HJ ATA Device (2) WDC WD5000AAKX-00ERMA0 ATA Device (1) NVIDIA High Definition Audio (2) NVIDIA High Definition Audio (3) NVIDIA High Definition Audio (4) NVIDIA High Definition Audio (5) High Definition Audio Device (6) Webcam C170 NVIDIA GeForce GT 240 Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit 7601 Multiprocessor Free Service Pack 1 EDIT: Because it might be helpful, my dxdiag...

If alt-tab doesn't work, have you tried ctrl-alt-dlt in order to access Task Manager?

Anyone? I'm anxious about my saves since I won't be able to test them out until the middle of next week...