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Thank you Chinese website. I managed to find the "Selene_v1-3-6N_CBBE-TBBP_BSA-36374-1-3-6.7z" file still up for download. Is it really a 120MB in size mod?

I had this bookmarked to download when I got home. But now I can't. Any knows of a mirror link to get this still?

I can confirm that running Steam in Sandboxie along with NMM works. There is no need to bypass Steams DRM at all. Tried several mods and when all done, I just close and delete the sandbox contents and all the changes are gone. Its like I never changed anything.

I know one thing, I'm not going back to a standard hard drive for a boot drive. I got a little 128GB ssd for my boot drive that I got on sale from Newegg. I had it in my old system with Win7 and it changed my 15 min boot time to about a 1 min flat. Major upgrade. I now have Win8 and its about 30-40 seconds from power off to Metro. I've been thinking of upgrading to a bigger drive but I'm waiting for another sale.

Not a mac person, but I have a friend with a mac that is bootcamped with windows 8 and it will run just about everything a max settings. That's a cool case. It reminds me of my old Shuttle XPC. I had a ATI x700 with 2GB ram that played everthing maxed when it was new and it was a little smaller than that Node 304 ITX-case.

If you mean to run your app/programs from the old drive, most of the time you can't do this. Reason for this is the Windows registry doesn't have the "keys" or registry values for the programs. You will need to reinstall the programs you want to use. Now you can install most programs to a second drive, in fact, my system has 3 hard drives in it. I have a 120GB SSD as my Windows 8 drive, one 1.5TB drive as storage and a 2TB drive just for games which is mostly filled with Steam games.

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How to safely test Skyrim mods without damaging your current setup. This is a tutorial on running Skyrim mods safely without permanently changing a single file on your current setup. This should work on any setup with Nexus Mod Manager installed. This is a great way to test, with or without, mods installed to save your current or new setup. This will keep you saves isolated from changes as well. First, I will not be held responsible for any damages, file lost, etc… of any kind if things go bad. They shouldn’t, but sometime they do. Things you will need: Sandboxie – The most important program (http://www.sandboxie.com/) Steam – Up to date Skyrim – Versions can vary, WILL NEED TO RUN ONCE AFTER NEW INSTALL FOR FIRST TIME SETUP Nexus Mod Manager – Yes, you will need to use it so get it if you don’t have it Mods – The ones you want to test Now download and install Sandboxie. Sandboxie is a great program to have. It will let you run just about anything in an isolated sandbox keeping any file changes made from being permanent. This means you can run an install program from within the sandbox, run the app it installed and after you’re done with it, just close it out and delete the contents of the sandbox. The program will be gone without the need of doing an uninstall or changing back any setting to your machine. You can read more on Sandboxie’s website (http://www.sandboxie.com/). After you have Sandboxie installed, run Steam normally so it will update if needed. It would also give you a chance to finish or stop any downloads running thou it wouldn’t matter if they are running in the sandbox. It’s just good practice to finish or stop any unneeded file changes before you continue. Run Skyrim now if this is a new install. You must do so for it to install its dependencies (DirectX, etc…) and to make the “SkyrimPrefs.ini” file for Nexus Mod Manager. Next, install Nexus Mod Manager. You will need this for this tutorial to work. Please refer to http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/modmanager/ to download NMM. Setup is pretty easy but if you need help, there are plenty of helpful users on the forums. The reason for NMM (Nexus Mod Manager) is simple. NMM (Nexus Mod Manager) simplifies installing mods. Since NMM is doing the mod install, Sandboxie can keep the files and the NMM mod databases separate. Yes databases, as in two. You have the real database and the one in the sandbox which will be deleted leaving the real database untouched when done testing. Launch NMM normally and update it if it asks you. You may get the update dialog box sent to the background. If you do, just hit alt+tab until you see it. You will know if it is in the background cause the “Progress” dialog box’s progression bar will look like it’s stuck. With NMM still running, time to get some mods. Go to http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/ for all your mod needs. You can use any mod that uses NMM to download and install. For this to work properly, the mods will need to be installed by NMM. Alright, now with Sandboxie installed, Steam updated, Nexus Mod Manager installed and some mods downloaded via NMM, you’re ready to test. Close Skyrim, NMM, and Steam. Make sure they closed. Now start Sandboxie. Since you installed Sandboxie, you should have a new shell menu option called “Run Sandboxed” when you right click on a shortcut or file. If not, skip to the end of this tutorial on how to start apps from the “Sandboxie Control” main window and come back here. Find your Steam shortcut and right click on it. Select “Run Sandboxed”, on the “Run Sandboxed” window, select “Default Box” and click “Ok”. Steam should start but it will have a yellow border when you click or hover at the top of the window. This means it’s in the sandbox. Do the same to Nexus Mod Manager making sure its yellow bordered too. If they are both yellow bordered, you’re set. Install any mod you have downloaded via Nexus Mod Manager and start the game using the mod manager. Be sure you started Skyrim from the mod manager so that it will be in the same sandbox. When you’re done, close Skyrim, NMM, Steam and delete the sandbox content. To delete the sandbox content, you have two ways of doing so. You can do so from the system try icon or by the main window. On the system tray, right click Sandboxie’e tray icon, select the sandboxes name (e.g. DefaultBox), and select "Delete Contents". On the bottom of the window click “Delete Contents”. The other way is from the “Sandboxie Control” window. Launch "Sandboxie Control" from the desktop or from the start menu. On the main window, right click on the sandboxes name (e.g. DefaultBox) and select "Delete Content". On the bottom of the window click “Delete Contents”. And there you go, back to the way it was before. This method should work for any game that uses the Nexus Mod Manager. In fact, you can use this for just about anything if you know how to use it. “Sandboxie Control” main window. If for some reason you didn’t get the shell menu option, here’s how to run a program in a sandbox. Launch “Sandboxie Control” from the desktop shortcut or from the start menu. Right click on a sandbox name (e.g. “Sandbox DefaultBox”), select “Run Sandboxed”, then “Run From Start Menu”, and navigate to the program of your choice then select it by clicking on it.

Just a thought. I would have tried this when I tested out Sandboxie. You should be able to close out Steam and relaunch it through Sandboxie in the same sandbox with NMM. If everything is running in the same sandbox, they all should be able to see each other. This should remove the need to temporarily bypass Steam's DRM. Thou, if any patches, downloads, installes, etc.., are made from within the sandbox, they will not be saved. Sandboxie will ask you if you want to recover files, just hit no and then delete the contents of the sandbox after you close Skyrim, NMM and Steam.

Wow. It works! I just run NMM with Sandboxie. I installed a couple of mods that I would immediately see then started Skyrim from NMM. I did have to temporarily bypass Steam's DRM due to Sandboxie blocking access to it, but it worked. I closed out Sandboxie which in turn closed NMM and delete the "temp" files (NMM data base of current installed mods, files of the installed mods, etc). I then removed the Steam bypass and launched NMM without Sandboxie, launched Skyrim from NMM and there was no trace of the mods. Even the save I made when testing Sandboxie wasn't there. So this is great. That means I can test mods without worrying of damaging my current mod/save setup.

Yes, I just thought of that but then I would probably have to deal with file over writes, deletions, and most of all, saves. If Sandboxie works like I'm hoping, all I will need to do is start NMM and Skyrim with Sandboxie in the same sandbox. Then just delete the contents and no changes were made.

If you ever used Sandboxie, then you should know how it works. If not, then here, let me explain it. Sandboxie makes a space on your hard drive for "temp" file changes. The app you want to run in the sandbox will have access to any files and folders, including the registry, but with read only rights. Any changes to files are made in the "temp" location wile Sandboxie manages everything. This will let you install an app and test it. When your done with the app, just delete the contents of the sandbox and your done. No changes to files, folders or the registry are made. I have used this for several apps that I needed for a one time use. This is great for apps that want to change settings on you PC that doesn't clean up after itself. Check it out at http://www.sandboxie.com/ Anyway, Steam has just finished downloading Skyrim. So I will try this out for myself and report back.

Like the title says. I was just thinking of a way to test a mod with out really installing or modifying any files. I have used Sandboxie to test out software/apps and it works great and was wandering if it could be used to test mods without changing any files at all. I haven't tried this out yet due to redownloading Skyrim via Steam, but was wandering if anybody has. Thoughts?

Found some more pics of the armor in question. http://www.gameswallz.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Spellforce-7-Mage.jpg The one below is a mirror image. http://www.gameswallz.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Spellforce-10-Female-Knight.jpg http://www.gameswallz.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Spellforce-8-Defence-Stance.jpg I would try to make this myself, but I have no idea where to start.

Hello, this was asked back in the day for Oblivion. Here is the original post - http://forums.nexusmods.com/index.php?/topic/695581-spellforce-cover-armour/ I would love to see this armor made for Skyrim. The armor in the picture is what I'm interested in having. http://i486.photobucket.com/albums/rr229/OniIgnasha/Girls/spellforce-1-cover.jpg