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I thought of that before, but it kind of slipped my mind. I'll give it a try, and hopefully I'll be able to find something. Thanks!

Thanks for the response. I found "bInvalidateOlderFiles=1" under 'archive' in SkyrimEditor.ini. I have four other Skyrim ini's - SkyrimPrefs, SkyrimEditorPrefs, SkyrimDefault, and SkyrimSewers (for a mod). I searched for the same text in all four other files and came up with nothing. Should I copy/paste the setting into any of the other ini's?

I've managed to get Skyrim running fairly well, even with 100+ mods currently active. I didn't experience any major issues until just recently. I'm not sure how many of you have heard of Skyblivion, but essentially, it's a project still heavily underdeveloped with the eventual goal of adding the province of Cyrodiil, in its entirety, to Skyrim. To accomplish this, you have to have Oblivion installed on your PC, unpack the textures/meshes, delete the ones that conflict with existing Skyrim files, and copy them into your Skyrim data directory. Anyway, I did this, and on the Skyblivion forums, it was noted that there was an issue with nirnroots, with links available to download fixed meshes/textures for the plants. The primary issue seemed to be limited to Cyrodiil, from what I could gather; if you so much as looked at a nirnroot plant, your game would crash. The fix was designed to replace the Oblivion nirnroot file with Skyrim's, thus eliminating aforementioned crashes. Only, I seem to be experiencing a bit of a dillema, and I'm really not sure what I did wrong. I followed the provided instructions (which were quite detailed and helpful) to a fault. And yet, I'm facing a rather unusual problem : the nirnroot in Skyrim has been replaced with the nirnroot from Oblivion, rather than the other way around. And I've tried just about everything I could think of to fix it. I tried de-activating/re-activating all the Skyblivion .esps/.esms, deleting the nirnroot replacer files from my Skyrim data folder, downloading them once again and putting them back in, then deleting them again once they didn't work...I've tried downloading mods that altered the properties of Nirnroot, such as one that eliminated the glowing and humming, and while it did just that, the actual nirnroot itself remained unchanged and would crash my game. I tried looking for any other nirnroot mesh/texture in my Skyrim data directory, to no avail. My brother has Skyrim on his PC, too, and I checked his data folder, only to find no nirnroot, either. My plan was to copy his untainted nirnroot files into my data folder and hopefully be done with it. But I couldn't find them anywhere. Are they named something other than 'nirnroot'? I've looked everywhere. Anyway, I'm really running out of options. I haven't played in a couple of days simply because I'm afraid of crashing whenever I explore and come across a nirnroot. It's aggravating, to say the least, especially since I've managed to run a more-or-less stable game with all the mods I have activated. I don't want to uninstall and reinstall, but I will if I have to. One more question - if I copy my entire Skyrim folder to a temporary folder in, say, my desktop, uninstalled, and reinstalled the game, could I copy my Skyrim folder back into place without having the uninstillation process affect my existing saves too heavily? I'm just worried about having my existing data compromised or mucked up, because, as mentioned, I have a lot of mods active. Does uninstalling the game deactivate your active plugins from the nexus mod manager? I figure if it doesn't, and I put all my resources back into place after reinstalling, I might get lucky. But I'm ill-informed and naive when it comes to computery stuff.

Again, thank you! You've been quite helpful indeed. I'm looking into cleaning my mods at the moment, hopefully that does the trick. :D

Thanks! I thought Boss sorted the load order, but the couple times I used it seem to either not do anything or de-activate a huge chunk of my list. I might mess around with TES5edit if I can't find a solution to this duplicate NPC issue. I'm not sure how I've managed thus far, but I've been able to get most of my mods working properly with only a few issues here and there. I'm a little wary about changing things up, but if I end up with more issues, I'll give it a shot.

I think I follow you. Truth be told, I just recently got Skyrim for the PC and started modding, so there's a number of processes I'm not familiar with whatsoever. I have TES5edit downloaded, as well as boss, and I've tried using both, but I couldn't quite grasp what to do with them. I do agree with you about the race mods, most definitely. I could certainly stand to remove a number of them, and I'll do that.

Alright; I must warn you, though, that it's pretty atrocious. I have too many mods for my own good installed, and the order's likely pretty bad. :P That being said, I manage to get everything working 99% of the time. Also, it's worth noting that I think I managed to fix the problem with lips not moving somehow. The duplicate NPC glitch still seems to be a problem, though. Load Order - Active Plugins -

I'm having some really bizarre NPC issues. Things like multiple copies of the same individual NPC spawning - in Solitude, I noticed three of Gisli walking around, three of one of the wizards in the Blue Palace, and two Erikurs. I've also noticed that, with some NPCs, their lips simply won't move. I managed to fix the issue here and there by activating/re-activating a couple mods, but now it seems to be quite random. Almost 50/50. And even with some of the NPCs who have proper lip movements, I still get issues, such as their mouth "locking" into place if I exit the conversation before they're done speaking. As in, I continue to hear their voice, but their lips freeze in a certain position. It's really unusual. I'm guessing I did something really stupid or something somewhere down the line. I've downloaded a number of body/skin/face/etc. retextures/meshes, and I've overwritten them, deactivated them, overwritten them with something else, and so on and so forth. It all seemed to be working fine until recently. Maybe that's the cause? I can't think of anything else. Any advice? Anyone else experience this?

Thanks. That's what I was thinking of doing as an alternative. :D But, since I'm already at Alftand and close to the scroll, I think I'll just continue on and see what happens. I still have my back-up save just in case.

I'd personally recommend the Nvidia GTX 650, if you don't want to spend a lot. Relatively cheap (around $100 when I got it), and I've had no issues with it. Any performance hiccups I have seem to be linked to everything but my graphics card, but my computer's also old, too. I believe it requires a power supply of 400w. Considering the performance I'm able to squeeze out of my outdated PC with the 650 (I could barely run Oblivion on medium-high with my old, integrated card), I'm guessing you'd get a pretty nice boost out of it, too. I've actually just recently gotten into PC gaming, though, so at the same time, I might not know what I'm talking about. Just my two cents. *shrugs* As for PCI, I really couldn't say. I know the 650 is PCI 16. I'm also not sure how your existing graphics card compares to the 650, being the noob to PC gaming I am.

As far as I know, this is a fairly typical performance issue on Skyrim's part. I get stutters here and there, too, and it often seems quite random. Initially I thought it was because I had way too many mods enabled (which I did - around 200. o_O), and while cutting down on my active list helped, it didn't completely alleviate the issues. I get solid performance in almost every interior location (anywhere from 40-60 FPS), but outdoor locales are a bit unpredictable, performance-wise. I can be running along without any issue one moment, and then get struck by stutters and drops a moment later. It's annoying, but it usually sorts itself out. The problem's definitely not your specs. I just recently got a new graphics card and decided to get into PC gaming; my computer's 3-4 years old, and wasn't purchased with gaming in mind at the time. I only have 3 GB of ram at the moment, though I'll upgrade to the paltry maximum of 4 that my AMD Athlon x2 maxes out at soon enough. But, to my surprise, I can still run Skyrim on very high settings with HD texture mods, graphical mods, etc. Your PC's more than up to the challenge. Optimization with Skyrim just seems to be a hassle. I tried downloading something called the TESV Acceleration Layer, which I had heard was supposed to greatly increase performance. I thought I noticed a boost in my performance after implementing it, but I dunno. I just looked it up again and it seems to have been discontinued some time ago. I did come across similar mods designed to optimize and boost performance and stability, which you might want to check out. I'll likely give them a download myself. Skyrim Performance Plus Skyrim Boost More FPS Skyrim Stutter Fix I haven't used any of these personally, so I can't vouch for them, but hopefully they'll prove helpful. :D

So I've decided to run through Dawnguard before the main story, and I was just wondering if there are any possible quest-related conflicts. Seeing as how you have to get the elder scroll through Signius' quest and all, just as in the main game for Paarthurnax. I can't imagine it being a serious issue - the way I see it, I'll have knocked out one objective early on. However, I just thought I'd make sure. I have a back-up save just in case, too. I don't want to inadvertently throw something out of whack, as I know that some of Skyrim's quests can end up conflicting and/or broken.

Haha, thanks for the tip. I did try running it before, but I didn't really bother trying to figure it all out. I've decided to cut back on mods for the time being, though. So far I've deactivated probably over half this list. I'm hoping that'll do the trick.

I'm confused. I was afflicted with vampirism as a custom race (was playing as a Succubus at the time), and no one acknowledged my vampirism. So, using the 'better vampires' mod, I reset my variables, re-acquired vampirism, and rested for three days to re-awaken my powers as a vampire. Which seemed to work, but they STILL wouldn't recognize me. Determined, I kept trying, and even tried switching to other custom races. No luck. Finally, I gave up and switched to a Nord, thinking that it would surely work. Once again, I've run into a dead end. I'm now a Nord with vampirism that no one acknowledges. So I can't advance with the quest with the Vampire faction. Any fixes/help? I'm tempted to just join the Dawnguard, but seeing as how I already joined the vampires, I'm not so sure they'd take me in. Plus, I like Serena, so I'd like to be able to continue on the side of the vampires.

I've gone overboard with adding mods lately, and while my performance overall is surprisingly good in most aspects (some stutters here and there, occasional frame-rate drops, etc, nothing too frustrating), I have been getting CTDs at seemingly random intervals. Sometimes I'll get them in quick succession with no apparent correlation (i.e; I talked to an NPC , the menu froze up, and I crashed - rebooted, talked to the same NPC with no problems, exited Dragonsreach, ran around the city, and all was well until I took one look at the map, then it crashed again) and sometimes I'll be able to play a quest or two or wander around the world with 0 problems, fast travel around without much difficulty, and then, for example, get locked up in a menu or something like that. I looked up a few random fixes online, and one that seemed to work very well for a lot of people was looking in their appdata folder , finding that they had a duplicate 'skyrim.esm' written in their plugins document, and deleting it. I gave it a look, and didn't see any skyrim.esm located anywhere in the document. Which I assume isn't a problem, in that case, seeing as how I can run the game. So I thought I'd come here and ask for any feedback, fixes, work-arounds, etcetera that anyone has to offer. I'll post my load order list for reference. I'm aware that the order is most likely atrocious. I'm also not sure it's entirely up to date or reflects my most current order, since I copied it from the appdata folder and it was last modified two hours ago. I'm pretty sure I've made changes since then. I tried using BOSS userlist manager, but I can't say I really have a handle on how it works. Half of the time it didn't seem to change anything, and other times it deactivated almost all my active plugins, which I would only discover upon loading my game and finding myself in a random location with no hair, clothes, or eyes. Load Order