thunderwolf86

just looking for a recommendation, something mage friendly in the winterhold/windhelm/dawnstar area that doesn't have a torcher chamber and doesn't look evil. if it has shrines to the 9 divines or maybe the dragon priest mask statues all the better but not a must.

im just taking a wild stab in the dark here, but from the looks of it it looks like you have a lot of mods that affect the leveled lists of the game, but I don't want to make any assumptions just yet. could you possibly post your BOSS log?

I honestly don't know, I just went into my game to find out but I don't have the perk yet so I used the console, there is a section for Falmer in my smithing list, but I could only craft the weapons. im assuming however that the official patch did cover it.

(CRAP, had this whole blessed thing typed out then accidently hit back, thanks a lot stupid mouse) ok I will try my best here to explain this as best as I can but the honest truth here is that I am new to Wrye Bash myself. I am working to understand it better but the basics are pretty simple, here goes you see where in the boss log is says Bash Tag Suggestion and then beside that it says in those weird squiggly lines {{BASH: Delev, Relev}} now I don't know what a Delev is, nor a Relev, what I do know is that these are the missing components to make your leveled lists play nice together. this is what the bash tag is suggesting we add. from here launch Wrye Bash and at the top left there should be a tab called Mods. it should already be on that tab upon launch but just in case that's the one we want to use. when you click on the Mods tab you will get your load order. the first 2 things that require a Bash Tag on Archonis1's mod list are Update.esm and Dawnguard.esm so im going to tackle these guys first. what you want to do is highlight the Update.esm, just one click, and then at the bottom right of the screen you should see a small white box that has Bash Tags: written above that. all you need to do is take a look at your boss log, see where it says Update.esm and the bash tags it wants are both Delev and Relev. inside that little box under bash tags, right click and select both Delev and Relev. thats the basics of it. now all you need to do from there is go down your load order and check to see which mods require those tags, sometimes itll be both Delev and Relev, sometimes it might be just one or the other. thus far I haven't run into a situation where the other options in that right click menu are needed so don't even worry about them. then go back to wrye bash and add those tags to the mod. its the same method for ESP files as well, just scroll through, and add those Delev's and Relev's to each mod that BOSS says needs them. now this part im a little uncertain of but I believe that, once you've finished adding all those needed tags, down at the very bottom of your load order there should be a new mod listed there called Bashed Patch, 0.esp. im really hoping that its there as I cant confirm this but I believe that it should be. if it is there right click that "mod" and select Rebuild Patch. that should bring up a small menu that has a series of drop down menus inside a small box on the right, saying stuff like Alias Mod Names, Merge Patches, Tweak Settings, and Leveled Lists. if you can see that your on the right track. from there all you need to do is hit the box on the bottom that says Build Patch. and what that does is it creates a new mod type thinger in your load order that adds all those Delevs and Relevs to the mods that need them and creates a new Esp file. it will show you a little timer as this can take a second or 2 and once its done itll show you a list a new window,( I think it will anyway), all that really is is a list of all the mods that now have those tags added. kinda like BOSS, its just showing you whats been added. from there all you would need to do (I really friggen hope so) is just double check you load order, in NMM, and be sure that at the very bottom is the Bashed Patch, make absolutely sure its at the very bottom of your load order. and just make sure that the box is checked and it will load it in to skyrim. now its worth mentioning that for some reason or another, if you were to launch BOSS again and see your load order, it will still say Bash Tag Suggestion underneath the mods that need them. do not worry, BOSS just for some reason cant detect that you added those tags already. just scroll down to the bottom and make sure that the Bashed Patch is there and is Active. its also worth mentioning that any time you change your load order you must recreate your Bashed Patch because for some reason it doesn't like you fiddling with the load order. once you have the process down however, thatll just be another 5min out of your day (assuming I did this right). and you are done, at least I really bloody hope so, I really hope im not damaging anything here but this is the way I was taught how to use wrye bash so if im wrong, you can totally blame the guy I listened to and not me. what I can tell you however is that I am currently facing no problems with my mods and everything is performing a lot better so I truly hope this ends up working for you guys. best of luck.

do you happen to have any kind of anti-virus protection programs that suddenly decide they have a problem with SKSE? I only ask because I faced that problem before, with AVG, it said that SKSE was a virus and removed it, without removing the shortcut I had created on my desktop, and I wasn't even aware that happened. instead I would just click my launcher shortcut and it would say that its not connected to anything. I had to redownload SKSE again to find out that AVG doesn't like it. im just curious if it might be something similar.

oh wow. ok this could take a minute here but yeah there are a number of problems that you sir are facing. just about everything in your mod list contains dirty edits which in a situation like this could cause a lot of problems. additionally Update.esm Unofficial Skyrim Patch.esm Immersive Armors.esm and Immersive Weapons.esm all require a bash tag from Wrye Bash, which basically means you do have conflicting leveled lists. further more I noticed that you have the Weapons and Armor Fixes mod, which was already fixed by the Unofficial Skyrim Patch mod so you no longer need that one. lastly you have a few mods there that start with Headbomb Better Sorting, now I don't know what that mod is but it is saying that it "Contains out of order or unexpected records," now I think that means that this is a mod that came out before the creation kit, so a lot of the stuff that went into the making of those mods are a bit out of date (at least that is what I have been told that means). thankfully there has been a Compatibility Patch that operates just like a mod, http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/26230/ all you have to do here is go to the files page and download the patch called Better_Sorting_v-2-06_Compatibility_Patch it should be the third file down that list, just download through NMM and activate. that's the easy part out of the way. now about TESVedit and Wrye Bash, these tools im afraid are a must have when modding out skyrim. I strongly advice you to look into these programs and figure out how they work, the video I sent you in my previous post about TESVedit is pretty easy to follow and straight forward but wrye bash could be a problem. I will look into it further and see if I cant find a decent tutorial and get back to you on that. for now concentrate on downloading that patch for the better sorting mod and TESVedit, and I will see about finding an easy to follow video tutorial. also too I think its worth mentioning that there shouldn't be a need for deactivating the enhanced blood textures mod, I cant speak for warzones as I don't use it, but the blood mod is one that I do use and after fiddling with TESVedit and wrye bash I got it to work without problems so far (heh famous last words), going through your mod lists load order again I see no incompatibilities but we wont know that for certain until those programs have done there thing to sort out your situation, removing those dirty edits and creating a bashed patch, and all that other good stuff. so again for now just concentrate on cleaning your mods and we'll get to the next step.

going through your mod list i cant see any incompatibilities, however if you haven't used TESVedit or wyre bash before i can only assume you have dirty edits and conflicting leveled lists. the dirty edits don't really seem to cause CTDs but im pretty sure that a conflicting leveled list will. when you run BOSS does it say anywhere in your recognized plugins that a mod contains "dirty edits" or "bash tag suggestion"? if it does then that's a good place to start looking for problems. Gopher did 2 tutorial videos on youtube on TESVedit that was very informative and easy to follow http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Re8YBJm9l64 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOQO2S6HDBw as for wyre bash, i couldn't really find a decent video tutorial on how to use it, it took me a while to understand the basics and i still don't know much but there are a couple videos on youtube that could be helpful to you. just to a search on Skyrim Wyre Bash Tutorial, or creating a Bashed Patch, it should turn up something helpful. also there is this pictorial guide that i followed that did help a bit. http://oblivion.nexusmods.com/mods/35230/ don't let the fact that its on the oblivion nexus fool you, im pretty sure it works the exact same for skyrim. beyond that im not too sure what the problem could be but it sounds like conflicting leveled lists. all the best.

lol you're welcome, im relieved that that's all it was, sometimes these things can be mod related so i was a little nervous i was going to cause further damage. glad to see that was not the case.

so I have had that annoying glitch where dead dragons follow me around all over the place and have basically been putting up with it because I couldn't find a fix and I don't think there even is one yet. I have also played for a very long time without using wyre bash, I had a lot of trouble understanding it so I just didn't bother for quite a while. just recently however I tried it again and this time successfully created a bashed patch (finally). all the delev's and relev's are in the right spot and the game is performing just fine with the exception of a slight frame rate problem, but no CTDs, no missing textures, and also no more dead dragons scattered all over whiterun, or anywhere else. now it might be too early to tell but is it possible that this glitch has something to do with the leveled lists or something that the bashed patch fixed?

have you tried waiting inside high hrothgar for a few days and seeing if they return? iv had something similar to that happen to me before, granted I didn't find them half way across the province, but after a few days in game they returned there and all was well with the world. id suggest making a new save, just in case im wrong, and then waiting for a while to see if they return.

oooohh ok that's a relief, thanks for clearing that up, that had me worried that I was bugged or doing something really wrong, especially seeing as this is the first time iv tried wyre bash. thanks a ton.

so I recreated my bashed patch after I added the needed Relev and Delev things (whatever that means) to the mods that needed them but BOSS is still saying that I need bashed tag suggestions. I really don't know what im doing wrong as I followed the tutorial I found on youtube exactly so I don't know whats wrong. here is my load order if this helps please help as I don't know what im missing but im certain this is whats breaking my game.

so I am still playing around with wyre bash and am still not fully understanding how it works as some of the pics in that guide don't match what im seeing, but that isn't a big deal at the moment. I will figure that one out eventually. as for the quick save problem, I played for about 2 and a half hours today and didn't experience that glitch so I don't know, maybe it fixed itself, maybe I needed to play longer, I have no idea. but the other glitches remain. the most important one to me is getting rid of those blessed dead dragons as now theyre appearing all over the place. I saw one today climbing the 7000 steps, got to the point where that ice troll is, and the dragon from the western watchtower showed up dead when I got close to that area. and then again, during the same save sequence he decided to teleport just in front of the fort to the right of whiterun, the one that has a bridge over the river, I didn't enter any cells, didn't save and reload, I was just going from high hrothgar to whiterun and that same dead dragon managed to spawn in front of me twice during the trip. please help, there has to be a fix for this. a quick google search determined this is a problem other people have had, but I cant find the fix. thanks.

well I am really nervous about trying out wrye bash again but im willing to give it another shot. thanks for the guide I haven't seen that yet, ill take another look at it tomorrow and see if that helps. if not well then ill be back here again tomorrow night. I make hard saves everytime I exit the game for that exact reason, just in case, but the quick save thing really has me bugged. I remember I tried that once a while back and I think it worked until I re-entered the cell again, I think, it was quite a while back when this mess started happening.

lol if this is what I think it is, its a small problem but one that I really wish the game would inform you of. see the reason delphine went nuts outside of solitude is because you have a bounty in whiterun. talk to one of the guards and if he says the usual "wait I know you" theres the problem. see riverwood is part of whiterun hold as well as rorikstead so if you have a bounty in whiterun those 3 areas will become hostile. what I mean when I say I wish this was something the game would inform you of, I was referring to when you have a bounty in a hold. this happened to me before and it drove me nuts, mind you I hate her so I did feel a bit better getting into a fight with her.

the magnus mod is one of confusion because on that mods page it says that the unofficial skyrim patch doesn't cover the staff of magnus, so I cant confirm if it is needed or not. as for the lanterns of skyrim, that was an oversight, I forgot about that when I reinstalled my mods last time so thanks for pointing that one out. as for mods that need cleaning, which ones need cleaning? the boss log doesn't say anything about that so far, that I can see.

this is going to be a bit long so I am sorry ahead of time but please help me with this, it has gotten kinda ridiculous and I am completely out of ideas and exhausted from researching help. I cannot find the solutions to these problems. I should also mention the fact that I cant seem to figure out how to use wyre bash, or even what exactly it does, I followed a few tutorials but it didn't help much. at the moment I don't even have it installed anymore. first of all, the most recent one is a quicksave bug, where the game CTD as soon as I quick save. so far it has been outside when it happens. this started about 2 days ago and only occurs after about an hour of gameplay. the next one is a dragon bug where dead dragons are spawning in whiterun once I enter the city, sometimes on the road by the honingbrew meadery and also in riverwood. sometimes they also show up with severly bad textures, seemingly not fully loaded. the bad textures also appears on living dragons from time to time. http://img5.imageshack.us/img5/1692/c7ai.jpg http://img818.imageshack.us/img818/903/fc9a.jpg http://img802.imageshack.us/img802/6552/gtbb.jpg http://img829.imageshack.us/img829/3483/rkme.jpg now I have the new version, I think its V7 of Deadly Dragons installed along with Dragon Combat Overhaul, but this was also happening with DD V6-3-5 as well so I don't think theres a connection to these mods. the next one is a series of what looks like stutters happening near towns and villages, but I cant tell, what happens is that near towns the game will freeze of half a second and then jump a little and keep doing that while im outside, say around whiterun or when im in riverwood. I have a feeling this might be due to my lousy pc, I have a great graphics card but I have also been running Windows 7 32bit and that has caused problems in the past, I really only bring this up just in case it might be something else as I have seen other players saying on 32bit they run skyrim fine, even with a thousand mods installed. the next glitch on this laundry list is a small graphical flicker that appears on the screen, its very fast and I couldn't get a recording of it, but it is noticeable and can at times cover the whole screen. its kinda like looking at the mountains and how they flicker from a distance only its very close up. only 2 more to go, this one is a small problem, not even all that noticeable but kinda annoying. my shadows are kinda weird, its only on my character and on npcs, the ground shadows look ok, but the ones on NPCs are kinda tetris shaped, very blocky and appearing where there doesn't need to be a shadow. http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/2527/0x66.jpg http://img405.imageshack.us/img405/1165/qnc0.jpg you can kinda see it behind the lantern on her hip, its not game breaking but it looks awful. these are the issues that are giving me the most trouble, below are my system specs and my BOSS mod order list. some of the mods listed are adult mods so just a heads up there. its also worth mentioning that BOSS doesn't recognize Deadly Dragons V7 at this point so I don't know where to put it in the load order. but again those problems I mentioned before where happening with the previous version. Boss log System Specs I know im asking a lot of you guys for help with these problems and I am sorry for that, but if you can help me with this that would be much appreciated. thanks. (this took me an hour to get all this ready, im beat). UPDATE: MORE GLITCHES..... ok so after playing for a bit for the first time today in about 3-4 days I caught a couple other glitches that I missed, I wont bother listing off ones that really aren't important but the one that is standing out here is a lip sinking bug where the dialogue isn't matching the lip sink. not a big deal but annoying nonetheless.

sold! thanks for clearing that up, steam stores never do a good job at making things like that clear. appreciate the help.

I am a little confused because, in the steam store, I see 2 versions, the game of the year version and the game of the year deluxe version, and I am just curious about the difference?

im not sure about the second request as I haven't seen anything like that so far but you can customize claralux to remove those extra lights, I believe it comes with a power menu where you can customize it ingame. now I haven't downloaded that one in a while so it might have an MCM menu, but I don't know that for certain.

im only making this post because I haven't really found anything along these lines, but at the same time I don't really know what to look for. i was just curious if there is a mod that makes the combat AI for followers smarter? i know there is a few for enemies but i cant seem to find one for followers.

is there a mod out there that adds a male healer as a follower? preferably human race but I have seen only but females. just curious is all.

georgiegrill - ill give that a shot and see if it helps, thanks. I honestly didn't even think that was in any way important when making an NPC billyro - lol, yeah its pretty weird, his mouth moves like he's speaking and everything, kinda embarrassing to see an orc hum. shadowjin - its the character himself doing it, male orc, but I think I have heard a female follower I made recently do the same thing, though im not certain and only heard it once. the orc however cant shut up.

so I made a follower in the ck, and every now and again he hums. I know it seems like a weird thing to make a post about but im an evil warlock character, iv got daedric armor and flames surrounding my body...and a humming orc barbarian??? this guy is completely ruining my image.

im afraid not, unless that's a feature of Skype that I don't know about, I don't have the software.