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Erm, no. You don't need premium to download from here.... Millions of folks do it on a regular basis. What exactly does premium do? It's never been made clear to me. No ads, better download speeds, and a few other perks. I think download history since the beginning of time, is one of them. (for us regular folks, it's just a couple months, or something.)

A lot of your information is inaccurate at best. Even if humans detonated every nuclear weapon we have, the world will still be here. May not be much life left, but, earth itself will go on. (and the cockroaches will thrive.....) The NRA doesn't sell weapons. They simply support the second amendment to our constitution. I would also point out that gun laws don't make you safe. If you remove a few cities from the statistics, (chicago, baltimore, detroit, New Orleans, and Los Angeles..... all cities run by democrats, with rather strict gun laws......) the crime rate in the us would be lower than most of europe. A lot also depends on just where you happen to be. I can walk outside any time, day or not, with absolutely zero fear of someone robbing/stabbing/shooting me. South side of Chicago? Not so much...... The MAJORITY of the country IS pretty darn safe. There are just a few specific, extremely high-crime areas, that bring the stats down. As for our government here in the US, yeah, they are indeed bought and paid for by the 'special interests'. It has been described as "The best government money can buy." And that is, unfortunately, all to accurate. It would be nice to get the money OUT of the equation, but, the only people that can achieve that, are the very same people that benefit most from NOT changing it. I have seen politicians run on a platform of 'campaign finance reform', but, once elected, nothing happens. Why? Because ONE person cannot change a problem that has been ingrained in the system by the majority of participants for decades. So, I don't expect that to EVER change. (short of a second revolution......) Trump really isn't any different than any of his predecessors. He made promises to get elected, perhaps he even had every intention of keeping those promises.... (or, maybe he didn't expect to actually WIN???) but, once in office, very few of those promises are likely to ever see the light of day. He was going to pull us out of Afghanistan, but, got talked out of it.... Ostensibly for reasons of 'national security'..... But, we didn't have a presence there for centuries, and our national security was not compromised. Folks point at "a haven for terrorism'.... But, what is it now? One giant terrorist training ground, complete with real americans to shoot at, blow up, whathaveyou. We are accomplishing nothing. Just like every other would-be conqueror before us. Quite frankly, our government sucks. They are in the business of government.... and like any business, their goal is to make money. Apparently, it works pretty well, as if they aren't wealthy when they first get elected to office, they most certainly are by the end of their first term....... It is indeed the 1% running this country. They buy and sell politicians right along with their stocks on the stock market. Dems, Repubbies, they are all the same. None of them are honest, none of them have AMERICA's best interests at heart, they are in it for themselves, and their wallet. That's it.

If you took a modern jeep back to the early 1800's, (or earlier) you would be in serious danger of being burned as a witch. :) The 'lack of understanding' IS what separates magic, from technology. Granted, it would take a lot more to impress us in this day and age, as we are not quite so superstitious as we once were..... (for the most part.....) There was an episode of Babylon 5 that addressed this issue a bit. The 'techno-mage'. :D

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Erm, no. You don't need premium to download from here.... Millions of folks do it on a regular basis.

Uninstall the game thru 'programs and features'. Manually nuke the install directory, the directory in "My Games", and the directory in App Data. (will have to enable 'show hidden files/folders' for that one.) Empty your recycle bin, reboot. Now, install the game. JUST the game. (any dlc you also own is fine) NO MODS. NONE. ZERO. See if the game will now run. Something else to consider: If you can, install the game someplace other than the Program Files folder.... That's a protected folder, and Windows gets upset when you play in there.

So you consider a score that is an average of all the scores of the CPU benchmark from Passmark to be an actual indicator of how well it can play games? Passmark doesn't test games, so I guess actual benchmarks done with actual games means nothing to you. By your own standards I could post this and you lose your own argument. Any person could search for benchmarks on the i3-8350k and see it is a good gaming CPU. No. I it isn't. There is no such thing as a "Gaming" i3. They simply aren't designed for that. It's intels low-level (but, not lowest) processor. I build machines for a living, and even my least informed customers would look at me sideways, and walk out, if I suggested an i3 for a gaming machine. The price/performance value simply isn't there.

Yeah, I saw that too..... Imagine my surprise when I have a boatload of naked traders..... (well, in their undies.....)

And this is why I NEVER give 'companions' area of effect' weapons. (grenades and rocket launchers being right at the top of the list.......) Of course, I don't like companions in any event. They tend to get in the way, and cause more problems than they are worth.

A possible reason your system is slow on games is that you likely installed them to your 1TB drive, and if it's pre-built, it might one of the re-branded Green drives that are 5400RPM; the Blue series were "historically" 7200RPM but now come in both 7200 and 5400RPM. *Edit* Newegg and Amazon have the Samsung 860 Evo 1TB for $128 right now on sale. I'm not sure if you are being sarcastic, but that i3-8350k is essentially a rebranded i5-7600k (quad-core at 3.8Ghz) Have a look here. I do not consider that a 'gaming' cpu....... considering it rates worse than a THIRD gen i5........

Update your bluetooth drivers?

I am not exactly sure how NMM deals with that... Does it actually copy the files to the right spot? Or are they just symbolic links? If they are just links, then, yeah, the game is trying to read them from the HDD..... I have two SSDs, (no mechanical drives.....) so for me, it just doesn't matter where they are.

Well, so much for that thought......

Processor is weak for a 'gaming' PC....... an i3????? You should be able to upgrade that without changing the system board..... an i5, or i7 would certainly wake it up. :smile:

SSD won't make those kind of noises. No moving parts. :D Sounds like your mechanical drive may be having some issues. Would your machine be trying to read anything from that while you are playing? O/S installed on SSD as well?

Just think of all the bandwidth I am saving you by NOT having to serve all those ads to me. :D

Oddly enough, the times when you are experiencing the stutter, is when the game needs to load some new textures. I would be that the stutter while turning, only happens once, in any particular area, and then not again until you move to a new area. I see this on my machine, and I don't use any texture enhancers at all. It was DRAMATICALLY reduced to moving from a mechanical HDD, to an SSD though...... With high res textures, I could see that little problem being exacerbated by the larger than stock files.

Have you tried it without the hi-res textures? I wonder if that isn't at least part of it.....

You ARE a Somebody here. :D Your title will change with your post count. Once you get to a certain point, (no clue just what that is though...) you will gain the ability to edit your title. :D

Welcome Mark! You are spot on. I will warn you in advance though, (and I suspect you have already discovered this....) Modding is ADDICTIVE. Once you start, you won't be able to stop. You will be browsing thru mods, looking for some other incidental tweak to your game. You will spend more time tweaking your load order, than you will playing. :D And what's even worse is, with that shiny new gaming PC, you will have the ability to run the construction kit...... and you can tweak and mod the game to YOUR will and vision. Then, no one outside your home will hear from you, or see you, for extended periods of time. Folks will call/stop by, "just to check on you", as they haven't heard from you in a while. Etc. Welcome to the world of Mods! We are HAPPY to have you. :D

Keep in mind, energy weapons are exactly that. Directed energy. Metal armors may absorb more of that energy, but, they have to dissipate it somewhere. Generally, that's in the form of heat. A laser heats its target. Metal will absorb the heat, and then radiate it in every direction. Including back at the wearer...... Sure, a laser may 'burn thru' leather faster, but, then its just a bit of a whole, while metal armor will scorch a significantly larger area of skin. And all of this totally ignores laser trauma. After all, a laser thru flesh will flash boil any fluids it encounters, with devastating affect. (considering the human body is about 98% water...... you can see how this could be a problem.)

Possibly a plugin causing issues......

Check the link in my sig. We have classes there for the various construction kits. :) It will get you familiar with how things work. It's a start. Word of warning though, once you start, it becomes an addiction, and you will spend FAR more time in the CK, than you will playing the game. :D

Need to post this in the site issues and suggestions forum.

That's actually a highly effective method. :)