SlizenDize

This issue is still very relevant, if anyone knows about how vampires work in Skyrim and why sometimes you look different i'd love to know. SOLUTION: Deactivate Unofficial Skyrim Patch

I have never used steam workshop in my life since I dont like how it changes so much without my knowledge. I tried deactivating better vampires, I tried starving myself with the mod on and off with no result. Don't get me wrong, I love that mod. It's one of the best mods made that fits perfect to Dawnguard. I am simply trying to figure out why my character looks different all of a sudden so that I can revert it. Here is my mod list as taken from NMM and Wrye Bash http://img840.imageshack.us/img840/4286/modlist.jpg Here is my load order as taken from Wrye Bash Active Mod Files:

SOLUTION: I found it! If you have the same issue as I did, the mod changing this was Unofficial Skyrim Patch! Remove this and you will look badass once again. http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/2454/vampirepm.jpg I used to look like the Before picture and now I look like the After picture. But I did not download a mod that changes vampire apperance. I want to look like the before picture! At least I want the eyes back, the blood around the mouth I can do without. To make everything even more confusing Serana still have the eyes I used to have while I don't. Also I found an old screenshot of lord Harkon and he seems to have the eyes I currently have way back when I did not have them.

Thank you, thats all I needed to hear. Was afraid a mod had screwed up my game. Now I can continue playing without fear of it getting worse at least.

EDIT: How do I edit the thread title? I meant to write VL as in Vampire Lord and not VR. I would love if a mod could fix this or this thread might get the wrong kind of attention. I just finished the Dawnguard campaign and now at Castle Volkihar if I turn into Vampire Lord form people who see me go hostile, (They don't mind me being a Vampire Lord but if they are nearby when I transform they go crazy). Also if I use deltect life spell as Vampire Lord EVERYONE turns hostile. I tried turning off every mod I have to see which one did this but it still persists! Have any one else had this similar issue? Or any clue what created this? I tried to google it but no help. Also I can not completely rule out that this morning before I started the game I installed better vampires mod and Vampire Lord Polished mods, however I deactivated both mods and uninstalled them using Wrye Bash AND loaded a save prior to using those mods and it did not help so I don't think they have anything to do with it. To me it seems more likely Bethesda did something with the Faction of the people in Castle Volkihar once you complete the Dawnguard campaign. If that is the case then I would love to hear someone else having the same issue so I know I did not screw up my game somehow. I have not played so much since I found this bug but I did load an earlier save to try detect life on other NPCs and they were NOT affected. Meaning they did NOT turn hostile on me. I'm not sure if it's only in Castle Volkihar but it seems like it so far. Any ideas? I'm afraid this issue might carry out further than Castle Volkihar and I will end up unable to use detect life at all because everything will just attack me or worse. Just the fact that I am no longer able to roam around as Vampire Lord in Castle Volkihar bugs the hell out of me.

I read somewhere that different mods who alter leveling list does not stack but instead overwrite each other. I would like to know if this is true because I have a few mods that add weapons and armors to the world and it would be a shame if only one works. The mods I want to use are: Axestaff Weapon Pack v2 Immersive Armors v4 Omegared99 - Armor Compilation Weapons of the Third Era 1.3 Anow I was about to install Extended Vanilla Weapons but there it told me about this leveling list thing and I do recall not seeing so many new items as I thought I did. Also if it is true what are my options to combine the leveling lists? Also noteworthy, I don't know any modding at all.

Quick question, anyone know of any mod that removes the red lines around the mouth when you are a vampire in dawnguard while still keeping the veins? http://img837.imageshack.us/img837/2463/veins.jpg I can only find mods that completely revert you to human looks

I'm making a new character just for dawnguard and so I have a few questions about the vampire lord skills. 1. What resource are the new skills using, magicka, stamina or why not, health? 2. Is there any skill tree bsides vampire lord that will improve on the vampire lord skills such as destruction to increase spell damage or illusion to better control your foes?

Anyone know if there is a mod that allows you to use different body types of different types of NPC? For example I would like for Nords to have a stronger body physique than other races and I would like to be able to have different bodies of mage NPCs vs warrior NPCs etc.

I followed your link and guide by the dot and I have good and bad news. The good news is that the latest driver had an update for skyrim so Skyrim now runs at about 45fps instead of the old 30 (yay). However the downside is that when I turn on ENB it returns to it's previous 15FPS. I'm starting to think this is an issue with ENB itself, maybe it's not well compatible with my graphics card?

Ok I found a GPU monitor gadget and I also activated my CPU monitor and it seems the GPU is working at 99% all the time while playing, while the CPU is barely working at all (13-14%). Is there a way for me to force some of the work on the CPU instead of the GPU? I take it ENB is very GPU heavy for example.

I feel a bit stupid but here is my problem, I want to play skyrim with ENB shaders but my game ran on only 10-15 fps with ENB on and around 30 with it off. I found this very low so I recently reinstalled skyrim to use only ENB without any additional mods, assuming texture mods and such sinked my FPS. Lo and behond my FPS was the same, 30 without ENB and 10-15 with, depending on the area. My question is, would you say there a bottleneck in my systemspecs or could this issue be due to some software problem I am not aware of? Is ENB really that demanding that it cuts your FPS in half? And if 30 FPS reasonably with my system specs? I tend to think I have a decent computer that run games very smoothly yet I tried turning down graphics settings on skyrim and use High Performance options on ENB with no change in FPS. High and low performance both give 10-15 fps. Here are my specs Intel Core i7-2630QM GTX 560M 1.5GB GDDR5 DDRIII 8GB ram memory 1TB 7200RPM harddrive (Thinking of getting SSD but not sure if it would help in this case) Win 7 64bit Update: I put skyrim settings on lowest settings with everything off and the game was still playing around 15FPS with ENB.

This thread is beautiful, I never had a doubt in my mind that the age span of todays games is vastly greater than it used to be but see it black on white is really cool. At work most people I talk to that play games regullary are married and over 40, it's their way to dream away a bit I guess. I am 25 myself and my dad who is 68 is mostly stationed in front of the TV or computer. Problem is he doesn't know english very well so I can't introduce him to some brilliant games like Skyrim. It's a shame though because he is also a hunter (And a pretty active one) and there are some amazing games out there I know he would just love. One day, before you know it, you shall be old and wonder "How did all those years just fly by?" That should scare you more than anything. Tip from an "older" person. Do something with your life before you get too old to be able to do it. :thumbsup: Ok that did scare me. Stop saying those things >< I still feel like it was yesterday I was 18.

I smell awesome druid mods as well as vampire mods coming up. I always wanted a new spellschool that instead of focuses on summoning creatures actually twists your own apperance. Maybe this could be it?

This thread perfectly illustrates a bief I have with a lot of the "better something" mods that are out there. Because most of those mods actually do not make anything better, they just make it different. And it's pretty self loving and disrespectful to bethesta to argue that your mod you made single handedly is way better than what they can come up with. In some cases it's true, but to call your mod "better" it needs to actually have higher quality or improve performance somehow, not just make it different.

It could very well be a finishing move, provided that Master difficulty dragons can finish me in one hit which frankly wuold not surprise me if they could. My hp is around 450 and just recently I started to wear heavy armor before that I had maybe 30 armor so maybe my character was viable for dragon finishing moves even when in full HP. Still it is scary as hell to face one :) The issue with the difficulty slider in Skyrim is unfortunately that it adds a lot more HP than it adds damage to enemies. Also it does the same to friendly NPCs as well as enemies so in context it just make you suck more as a character rather than making your enemies stronger. Playing on master a guard for example have a lot more HP than they would be on novice but a dragon have not had an equally major increase in damage allowing the guard to take a lot more hits before it dies. Sure it does make sens that companions must be stronger to prevent a certain amount of frustration when playing harder difficulties but they should not be better at killing than before. For example, Conjuration is as easy on novice as it is on master assuming you don't get hit by mobs simply because your summons get so much stronger from the difficulty slider.

I think this thread is an excellent example to the fact that there is no perfect way to go. There are indeed some ways that are trickier and some that are outright impossible (Illusion, Alteration build works fine til you meet a dragon). But generally there are three major choices. Do you want to play melee oriented, stealth oriented or magic oriented character. Mixes are viable but then it's good with a general idea of what the skills and perks does. For example conjuration and sneak might not be the best combo as your summons will attack on sight ruining your element of surprise. Also every orient have a specific craft suited to it's playstyle. Melee have smithing, Stealth have alchemy and Mages have Enchanting. Same rule here though, you pick what you like the most. A heavy armor, sneak, illusion, one hand fighting character is most viable. Heavy armor give sufficient defence for retreats, illusion magic will remove any sound made by heavy armor and to provide insibility and the ability to calm enemies who have seen you. Combine that will silent spell casting and you got a deadly combo. Sneak to sneak of course and one handed to dish out more damage on those crits. Just an example of unorthodox build.

On my 46 mage I consider Dragons the hardest kills, mostly because of their one hit kill attacks and the fact that they keep killing of my brokers! >( Soon I have no place to trade. They also have a bit too much HP on Master but the breathe damage is perfect. Giants and Mammoths pose quite a challenge, at least they used too. Haven't found any for a while but I noticed that Mammoths vary a lot from creature to creature. Once I faced two mammoths at once and smacked them good with Ice Storm to see one fall while the other took around 5% damage and raped me :( Now Trolls... People have issues with trolls? I always thought they were low level creatures, you face them pretty early in the game and they almost always die before they reach you. They are on par with the Draugs for me but then again I've never tried to melee one (But I probably could not melee a Draug either :P).

Good point, would add a lot to immersion. I can already imagine hardcore mods using this as a feature. "You have been in the freezing cold for too long, your bodytemperature has dropped two more degrees and your health and stamina regen is halved. Find warm food or shelter to regain strength."

I don't know what game you guys have been playing but Skyrims dragons are HARD. Now I can agree that they aren't perfect and the attacks are so frequent it becomes dull but in challenge there are some variables you must consider. I play a mage on Master difficulty. Sure a warrior with skills that raises resistance on shield blocks can take some fire or cold breath but I must put my enchantment points on lowering magicka cost. Dragons breath one shots me, thats right one continous breath and I am dead. Now that doesn't mean I will die every time a dragon breathes fire or ice on me though. No I just have to be quick with the heal before my HP gets too low, thats is excitement to know you have ~1-2seconds to heal up or your dead, possible longer if you find a pillar to hide behind. As for dragons being weak when it comes to physical fighting i'm also not sure what you are talking about. At least on Master if I get too close to a dragon he will grab me by the neck and throw me in the air assuring I die. The same goes if I am on an open field and a dragon comes flying I need to find cover Quick! Or he will do a glide and grab my character, take me up in the air and let me fall like a rock. Also instant death. This is without even mentioning all the NPCs that dragons kill for me if I do not kill them fast enough. I've already had the blacksmith and blacksmiths wife killed in riverwood due to dragon attacks (I tried to load the game to prevent the blacksmith from dying but he died again and again :(). But even so it's quite remarkable with a game that allows that type of freedom for NPCs. I'm not trying to defend dragons in Skyrim because I would have prefered that they arrived way later in the story as now they are just tideous with their constant spam if I may call it that. But I really must disagree with the easy part, dragons are anything but easy :)

Am I the only one who thinks this armor looks awesome? Or is it that everyone else already has it? :(

Looking for this armor. If anyone know where I can get it I will be very pleased :) http://www.fallout3nexus.com/imageshare/im...-1250715014.jpg