MacSuibhne
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What version is that and where would I get it? (For some reason, I thought the latest version was Vortex)
I have version 0.63.8.
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Thank you.
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I just did a clean reinstall and am wanting to reinstall my original mods. i still have NMM in my download folder. Can I still use it to install mods on the Nexus site?
I tried Vortex and couldn't seem to get immediately comfortable with it--the interface doesn't seem as intuitive as NMM.
Also while I'm at it...originally I had the following mods installed:
01 Update.esm
02 Unofficial Skyrim Patch.esp
03 ClimatesOfTamriel.esm
04 HighResTexturePack01.esp
05 HighResTexturePack02.esp
06 HighResTexturePack03.esp
07 Unofficial High Resolution Patch.esp
08 ClimatesOfTamriel-Sound.esp
09 Footprints.esp
0A Realistic Lighting Overhaul - Major City Interiors.esp
0B SkyUI.esp
0C WondersofWeather.esp
0D iHUD.esp
0E Helgen Reborn.esp
0F Realistic Lighting Overhaul - Dungeons.esp
10 Realistic Lighting Overhaul - Major City Exteriors.esp
SMIM-Merged-NoDragonborn.esp
11 Real Clouds.esp
12 Realistic Lighting OverhaulI am wondering about reinstalling 01 (the update.esm) as well as 02 and 07. Should I? Can I...? (are they still available?)
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Just wiped my old install of Skyrim (problems after playing Enderal) and started a new game. Now I want to reinstall some of my old mods--Better Jumping among them. Went looking for the SKSE folder (\Documents\My Games\Skyrim\SKSE\plugins) but the SKSE folder is nowhere to be found.
How do I install SKSE?
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I have a 64 bit windows 7 system (ultimate) on a i7 870 running at 293 khz with 8gb ram and a radeon r9 200 series with 3gb video ram, DirectX 11...very close to the makers minimum requirements (worried a little about the cpu).
Will I be able to play KCD?
Will I enjoy it (performance wise) if I don't expect too much?
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How do you disable "autosave" after fast traveling to a city?
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I've done that but not very intensely. It seems pretty straight-forward and do-able for someone of my limited expertise. But if i understand correctly, I would lose all my skills, perks armour, etc., as well as lose all my progress and have to abandon my save games.
As counter-intuitive or counterproductive as it may seem, I would rather not.
I was immersed and obsessed with the game first playthrough. In retrospect, it was pretty intense--a good thing in many ways. But, I guess bottom line is I feel like I earned level 55 and don't really want to rehash it.
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-> @wfandrews
Well thank you for your time and your generosity answering my question. Wish there were more like you on these forums.
I am afraid that starting all over again is probably your only recourse.
I was afraid of that. It's sad and frustrating. I wish I had never played Enderal although I enjoyed it. I am pretty sure that's what glitched my game. Just that I would enjoy visiting Skyrim occasionally and playing new quests, etc.. I like the Helgen Reborn quest pretty well and I enjoyed Falskaar too.
Bethesda or Steam or even nexusmods ought to make a utility that references the original gamefiles to clean and restore them to an non-glitched condition while at the same time allowing you to restore your progress and savegames. . I suspect it would "fly out the door." Probably someone will tell me that it's not possible but, given what has been done in the way of mods, additional quests, dlcs, etc., I feel certain it could be done.
Oh well, maybe TES VI?
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This is a dumb question...I'm almost certain (I've been away from Skyrim for a couple of years):
Is there any way, or a mod, to migrate my character--level, skills, weapons, armour, etc.--to Skyrim SE? I wouldn't mind getting SE I would even play the game all over again but I 'paid' dearly to get where I'm at and don't want to go back to rags and flint knives.
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Sorry for the long post folks but I could use some expert advice and figured some background would help...
Some years ago, I played Skyrim to its conclusion. I enjoyed it a lot...in my memory it might be the best game I ever played. I liked it so much I went on to play the Falskaar DLC and Enderal.
I have a Win7x64 machine with 3Gb video memory on a Radeon R9 200, 8GB ram and an i7 870. I played Skyrim with about 20 mods and with the help of Loot never had a conflict or a problem
I kept Skyrim on my hard drive along with my savedgames out of laziness, I suppose but as many know Enderal modified all that.
Recently I decided to get rid of Enderal, reinstall Skyrim and get back into Skyrim with Helgen Reborn.
Since then I have had some problems that I cannot seem to resolve:
I can usually play about 15 minutes or so and then suddenly, for no apparent reason, I will be thrown out of first person perspective such that my POV is about 10-15 feet above and behind my character. Hitting the "F" key does not bring me back to 1st Per. Nothing I can do will bring me back to first person. Nor can i play in third person as the movements of my character does not seem one-to-one.
The only thing I can do is "exit" but even that glitches such that I cannot select "Main Menu" or "Desktop" with my cursor. The whole exit menu shifts upward. I can use the movement keys to get to "desktop" and then hit enter, and that will take me out. At which point, I can reload the game and play for a while before this problem reoccurs in a different place and scene. So i can make progress.It's frustrating to be in the midst of a battle and suddenly be thrown out of 1st. Per.
I have refrained from saving a game at the point where the problem occusrs but I do use quicksave a lot...as you might expect.
When I reinstalled Skyrim, several weeks ago, I had the same hardware and the same mods as I had when I originally played it. I reinstalled (or woke up) Loot and NMM.
Loot warned me that I had 97 dirty edits, etc. in Update.esm. Loot pointed me at TES5Edit Auto-Clean and I used it. I didn't understand either how to use it or the information it provided. Some "scripts' (?), "cells" (?) in the left pane were highlighted in yellow or green and frankly I didn't know what that meant either. But at the top of the left-hand pane i got this message:
"A filter has been applied. The treeview contents is fossilized and will not adjust structure to changes. Please remove or re-apply the filter if necessary."
But when I got done, Loot displayed a "waterdrop" icon next to Update. esm and that said the plugin has been clean and certified.
Subsequently, I have tried cleaning other mods even though Loot hadn't reported any problem with them. Sometimes I get pretty much the same results...including the message and the water drop icon...and sometimes, nothing.
I don't know how to fix this problem in the game and am not even sure it can be fixed, but I feel out of my depth with TES5Edit and wondered if it was telling me that the mods can be fixed and where and how.
Any suggestions / advice on how to fix this problem would be appreciated even if it doesn't involve TES5Edit. The only thing I am not prepared to do is wipe it all clean and start over. I have played the game to conclusion and don't want to do that again --for no real reason other than I am at level 55 and don't want to lose that (the armour, weapons and skills) and have "been there, done that and bought the T-shirt."
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Sorry for the long post folks but I could use some expert advice and figured some background would help...
Some years ago, I played Skyrim to its conclusion. I enjoyed it a lot...in my memory it might be the best game I ever played. I liked it so much I went on to play the Falskaar DLC and Enderal.
I have a Win7x64 machine with 3Gb video memory on a Radeon R9 200, 8GB ram and an i7 870. I played Skyrim with about 20 mods and with the help of Loot never had a conflict or a problem
I kept Skyrim on my hard drive along with my savedgames out of laziness, I suppose but as many know Enderal modified all that.
Recently I decided to get rid of Enderal, reinstall Skyrim and get back into Skyrim with Helgen Reborn.
Since then I have had some problems that I cannot seem to resolve:
I can usually play about 15 minutes or so and then suddenly, for no apparent reason, I will be thrown out of first person perspective such that my POV is about 10-15 feet above and behind my character. Hitting the "F" key does not bring me back to 1st Per. Nothing I can do will bring me back to first person. Nor can i play in third person as the movements of my character does not seem one-to-one.
The only thing I can do is "exit" but even that glitches such that I cannot select "Main Menu" or "Desktop" with my cursor. The whole exit menu shifts upward. I can use the movement keys to get to "desktop" and then hit enter, and that will take me out. At which point, I can reload the game and play for a while before this problem reoccurs in a different place and scene. So i can make progress.It's frustrating to be in the midst of a battle and suddenly be thrown out of 1st. Per.
I have refrained from saving a game at the point where the problem occusrs but I do use quicksave a lot...as you might expect.
When I reinstalled Skyrim, several weeks ago, I had the same hardware and the same mods as I had when I originally played it. I reinstalled (or woke up) Loot and NMM.
Loot warned me that I had 97 dirty edits, etc. in Update.esm. Loot pointed me at TES5Edit Auto-Clean and I used it. I didn't understand either how to use it or the information it provided. Some "scripts' (?), "cells" (?) in the left pane were highlighted in yellow or green and frankly I didn't know what that meant either. But at the top of the left-hand pane i got this message:
"A filter has been applied. The treeview contents is fossilized and will not adjust structure to changes. Please remove or re-apply the filter if necessary."
But when I got done, Loot displayed a "waterdrop" icon next to Update. esm and that said the plugin has been clean and certified.
Subsequently, I have tried cleaning other mods even though Loot hadn't reported any problem with them. Sometimes I get pretty much the same results...including the message and the water drop icon...and sometimes, nothing.
I don't know how to fix this problem in the game and am not even sure it can be fixed, but I feel out of my depth with TES5Edit and wondered if it was telling me that the mods can be fixed and where and how.
Any suggestions / advice on how to fix this problem would be appreciated even if it doesn't involve TES5Edit. The only thing I am not prepared to do is wipe it all clean and start over. I have played the game to conclusion and don't want to do that again --for no real reason other than I am at level 55 and don't want to lose that (the armour, weapons and skills) and have "been there, done that and bought the T-shirt."
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Thank you for that tip.
I did get a prtscrn shot :
(man the restriction on image size is a killer here)
I have not disabled SMIM but will try that next. Meantime loading directly through Steam seems to help but sometimes Steam seems to lag and doesn't fully load the game before it opens the play dialog. If I am careful about that I seem to be OK.
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here is a list of my mods:
01 Update.esm
02 Unofficial Skyrim Patch.esp
03 ClimatesOfTamriel.esm
04 HighResTexturePack01.esp
05 HighResTexturePack02.esp
06 HighResTexturePack03.esp
07 Unofficial High Resolution Patch.esp
08 ClimatesOfTamriel-Sound.esp
09 Footprints.esp
0A Realistic Lighting Overhaul - Major City Interiors.esp
0B SkyUI.esp
0C WondersofWeather.esp
0D iHUD.esp
0E Helgen Reborn.esp
0F Realistic Lighting Overhaul - Dungeons.esp
10 Realistic Lighting Overhaul - Major City Exteriors.esp
SMIM-Merged-NoDragonborn.esp
11 Real Clouds.esp
12 Realistic Lighting OverhaulI tried to take a screenshot with printscreen yesterday and got nothing but black. Is there another way to get a sceren cap while in game?
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I haven't played Skyrim in several years. I reinstalled it last week and got Loot going again because I wanted to do the DLC Helgan Reborn (?)
Anyway, when I was playing it originally everything was just fine--I have 19 or 20 mods. Now, after starting up again, I am getting texture problems where rocks and doors etc., are just kind of washed out fuzzy grey blobs. Not every where but often enough.
I opened Loot and sorted my mods and cleaned one.
When I look at Loot it says that HighResTexturePack01.esp, HighResTexturePack02.esp, and HighResTexturePack03.esp, as well as the Unofficial High Resolution Patch, are all "empty plug-ins".
What does that mean? Is it the problem? If so, what do I do to replace or reactivate the mods?
If not, does anyone have any idea what the problem is and how to correct it?
Thanks
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Is there one? Or even just a thread that includes tips and such?
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Orson Wells once wrote "Never has a revolution brought about lasting change for the better. You just end up with the same system, with a few new problems tacked on for good measure".
Your first point about instinct is simply wrong. If it were true we'd still be living in caves and democracy...no matter how flawed...would never have arisen. Everyday we get up in the morning and instinctively resist the oppression of time and age and disease and, yes, cynicism and despair.
Your second point is just more quibbling. You evade the issue--you cannot objectively apply any of those three attributes to any other faction than the one that it properly belongs to.
Your first third point is more of a simplification than anything I said. What I said is just a distillation of the motives of each faction. Most of which is supported by the Lore itself and the proclamations of the factions themselves.
Your second third point, is representative of a cynical POV: What I say or do doesn't breed gullibility, it's self-deception that breeds gullibility...imposing solipsistic fantasy and wishful thinking on reality.
But if I had to choose to between being "gullible"...and optimistic and believing in things outside of myself--aspiring to higher principles, holding to ideals that promise to elevate the human spirit rather than oppress it...if I had to choose between that state of mind and the cynicism of Orson Wells or the implied notion that nothing matters outside of one's self, I'd always choose to be "gullible."
The fact that the human race generates such notions...that we write documents such as the Declaration of Independence; that we sacrifice our lives to protect not only our families and ensure that the world they live in will be better but also other people who we may never know, to nurture ideals that we may never entirely see brought to fruition, and have done time out of mind...gives currency to the idea that some part of us ( or perhaps just some few of us) are moved by aspiration and belief and hope.
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth a war, is worse. . . .
John Stuart Mill
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It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion. W. R. Inge
Sorry, but that's the world we live in (as current events remind us time and again); that's base reality...even when expressed in a game.
No human being is perfect, no social or cultural system can address every problem with every individual perfectly. Sometimes individuals have to exert themselves on their own behalf...sometimes that lackadaisical, "compliant," "base state" comes to the fore and people just don't. Perhaps for the lack of something, some principle, outside of themselves to believe in.
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.~Theodore Roosevelt
I doubt there's a resolution here. It is a sentiment I expressed in my first post a page or so ago. It is a conflict of Weltanschauungen--world views.
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Actually, Chamberlain made the mistake of thinking that war could be avoided entirely through appeasement. The Empire is under no such illusion, as evidenced by statements made by basically every Legion commander in Skyrim. Instead, their use of appeasement is similar to that of France towards the end of the 100 years war, After which we saw France reclaim the entirety of the mainland and drive England back to the isles.
To my way of thinking, that's just quibbling. Appeasement is still appeasement no matter how you rationalize it. And no matter how you rationalize it, it's always ugly.
When I look at the factions in the Civil War I see three impulses...each clearly represented by one group. (Not surprising if you think of Skyrim as kabuki or a morality play.)
1) The drive to subjugate, enslave and eventually exterminate.
2) The instinct...the determination...to resist subjugation, to defy oppression.
3) The will to placate--to acquiescence, equivocation, and complaisance.
I suspect that it would be difficult to objectively ascribe any of those impulses to any other faction than the one it properly belongs to.
That said, it may be hard for some people to choose among those impulses...which to admire, which to reject...but, fortunately (or not) I don't have that difficulty.
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Chamberlin made the same mistake. Tullius is just following suit. It's an old, old story that plays out over and over again...usually to no good end.
Beyond that, if might is right in the world of Skyrim...and I accept that...then all the hoohaw about Ulfric's dual and even the outrage over the way other races are treated, is bogus.
Players should take a leaf from the "normal citizens" and accept things as they are.
Again, the point is that we impose our own conventions and perceptions on a world that objectively doesn't conform to our notions of right or wrong. And you can play the game like that but you can't have it both ways. Perhaps the designers of the game wanted us to examine our own motives for believing one thing or another--the excuses we make, the rationales we concoct, to justify appeasement, for instance.
Perhaps...
The White-Gold Concordat has little to do with Tullius, still, l do think you make an excellent point with your last paragraph, I've never thought about it that way.
Well, one amendment...I should have said "you can't have it both ways," without a whole raft of cognitive dissonance.
Which is, I suspect, why this subject keeps coming up time and again. why it is such a bone of contention and angst--because at some level we know that we're arrogantly imposing our own fantasies and wishful-thinkings on top of this world...where they have no place.
We want Ulfric to "play nice" when he's clearly a man with a vision in a world where war and violence is the only lasting means of negotiation. And then we turn around and want negotiation to work with folk that historically have never negotiated from an honest position. We want everyone to get along and treat others fairly when, in fact, no one in the game...no faction...even begins to see either the sense nor the utility of that concept much less understand it. We think that if the Empire "appeases" the Thalmor...for how many more centuries??...the whole issue will go away, despite the Thalmor culture and religion being diametrically opposed to tolerance or deviation from their stated goals.
How much of this--these obviously irreconcilable notions that we bring to the game--is actually in the game and not forced on it by us?
How much...when we really stop and think about it...is any different from our own world and our own way way of distorting reality for the sake of convenience and comfort?
People talk a lot about "immersion" but how can you be immersed in any setting/situation/game when you can't accept it for what it is?
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The problem with all that is that we don't stop believing because we've lost our freedom; we lost our freedom because we stopped believing.
People who support the Empire are the ones who accept that the ban on Talos worship is purely a transitory arrangement to temporarily appease the Thalmor -
Chamberlin made the same mistake. Tullius is just following suit. It's an old, old story that plays out over and over again...usually to no good end.
Beyond that, if might is right in the world of Skyrim...and I accept that...then all the hoohaw about Ulfric's dual and even the outrage over the way other races are treated, is bogus.
Players should take a leaf from the "normal citizens" and accept things as they are.
Again, the point is that we impose our own conventions and perceptions on a world that objectively doesn't conform to our notions of right or wrong. And you can play the game like that but you can't have it both ways. Perhaps the designers of the game wanted us to examine our own motives for believing one thing or another--the excuses we make, the rationales we concoct, to justify appeasement, for instance.
Perhaps...
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Thanks again gromulos.
NMM or Vortex?
in Skyrim LE
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Thank you but part of the puzzle is missing--I downloaded and extracted to a folder/NMM and that in turn made a new folder: nexus-mod-manager-master. In that folder was a bunch of other folders, one of which was Setup but there is no setup.exe. either in the SetupfFolder or in the Nexus-Mod-Manager-Master folder. There is a "setup.iss but windows doesn't know how to open that.