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I made a new PC that isn't a potato so have been looking through Skyrim mods for the last year. I found this animation mod: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/108864?tab=description The gif which showcases the animation has a player character wearing some sort of glowing magic effect that seems to behave like a HDT enabled cloak. It looks really cool but I've not been able to find a mod which matches it, and the mod author doesn't seem to have responded to recent questions about it. Does anyone know what this mod is and where to find it? Or something similar?

@Purr4me: thank you for the reply. @DaddyDirection: Thank you, that was what I was wanting to know. My MO files are on the same drive I keep the mods on - so, separate drive to Skyrim installation/SSD. I'll be rejigging my MO installation shortly, hopefully I'll see an improvement in some area of performance.

Advice on SSD interaction with virtual file systems please. So I've always had Skyrim installed on my SSD. Unmodded, it performs as expected, with exceptionally fast load times. Modded, it often takes up to a minute to start up and all of the load screens are kind of immense. I'm not asking for help with that - it's my choice to mod Skyrim as heavily as I do. What I'd like opinions on is if there's any point actually having it on my SSD. I use Mod Manager at present, which naturally organises everything through virtual file systems. I don't have enough room on my SSD so MO and my mods are not on the SSD in the first place - does going through a virtual file system on a separate drive invalidate the SSD's speed? Do I actually get any benefit to having Skyrim itself on the SSD, at this point? Would it load more slowly were I to move it?

I'm rather excited to see how this new mod manager will turn out. I switched to MO around the time NMM started using profiling, because MO simply did it better, and I've since integrated its more complex systems. It will be interesting to see how the new one will go.

I'd like to report that while I once experienced slow loading times, this had more or less stopped for me. Today and yesterday, however, I've noticed extreme slowness again. I do access the Nexus to look at the hotfiles daily, so I likely would have noticed it happening before. I use the site several times a day, at various times, including morning, afternoon, and evening. At the moment images are loading extremely slowly for me, as they had approximately two years ago. In the intervening time images would usually load quite quickly, with the odd image taking significantly longer. Static 1: 42 seconds to load completely Static 2: 5 seconds to load completely Static 3: 47 seconds to load completely Static 4: 14 seconds to load completely 2 and 4 had a large strip loaded as soon as I accessed them, but took several seconds to load the rest. 1 and 4 took a very long time to load, the image appearing slowly in strips from top to bottom. http://www.speedtest.net/result/4780563372.png - download speed 14.76mb/s, upload speed 3.99mb/s I am based in the UK.

I've also experienced slow image loading for about as long as I can remember being on this site...which isn't that long. A couple years, maybe. My internet speed is currently at 144mbps. All the statics you provided loaded in 1-2 seconds. Likewise, I did a quick check of images on mod pages, and they also loaded much more quickly than I am used to. I would say that in general, images load faster than they used to. I had it as bad as Arthmoor a while back, but in the last year it has improved. Can still take upwards of 10-20 seconds to load some images, though. By the fast loading of images I'm experiencing right now, I suppose I can definitively say that I don't experience the issues all of the time. My apologies for not reporting sooner - I suppose it seemed a relatively minor nuisance to me, and I just assumed it was either a known issue or an extremely rare one. I should also report that I've gone through a change of locations and such in my time on the Nexus. Another note - loading times, right now, are very sporadic. I followed some of the links provided by an00bislite, and while some images loaded instantly, some took upwards of six seconds. Current time: 11:25 UTC

You will need to offer more information than your specs and installed mods if we are to help you. Do you use BOSS to sort your mods? Do you sort them manually afterwards to make sure everything is in the right place? Have you uninstalled any mods since beginning your save game? Have you installed any large mods, mods with scripts, or overhauls since beginning your save game? Have you used TES5Edit to clean your mods? Have you used Wyre Bash to patch your game? Have you made any edits to your .ini files which did not come from a foolproof source, or that you could have misspelled? Have you installed and used the Skyrim Script Scalpel to check for script problems and/or remove them? I understand that doing all of these things seems incredibly fiddly, time consuming, and annoying. But they are the price you pay to use many mods and keep your game stable.

Well, my Skyrim is still crashing, but much much much less frequently. And luckily I'm not one to be very bothered by the volume of my fan, so it can stay as it is :) thanks for the help!

Okay, holy crap, right now I can't say whether I'll still get crashes, but I can say that after a couple minutes of gameplay my fan is the loudest I've ever heard it by several orders of magnitude, so I have very high hopes. Many thanks for the recommendation! Hopefully now I can play for more than five minutes at a time.

Nvidia GeForce GTX 760. That's about all I know. I don't know who manufactured it - I had the PC built by a custom gaming rig company. I've installed the program and set a fan profile, for faster acceleration than yours. Let's see how it works. Thanks for the suggestions.

My fan generally operates at around 1800 RPM when the heat hits its top levels. Is that too little? It's not particularly noisy... I use a program called SpeedFan, freeware which analyses temperatures, fan speeds, and hard disc performance. I can't seem to get it to change my fan settings though. Is there software you would recommend for changing fan profile? EVGA PresionX, was it? My PC case has its main fan opening at the side, but there are also vents at the back and front. I've positioned it on my desk so that it should be getting excellent air flow - and indeed, since doing so my GPU idles at 8 degrees less than before, sometimes more.

Probably not. All you can rotate with the mouse in the racemenu is your head.

So, whenever my GPU goes slightly above 80 degrees Celsius, Skyrim crashes. Since Skyrim is the only game I have which makes it go to such temperatures, it's really the only issue I have with this. But in world cells I will generally CTD every five or so minutes because the temperature skyrockets to 80 very quickly. Indoors is fine, but outside? Whew. Anyone have an idea what could be causing Skyrim to crash when at ~83 degrees? Some driver or configuration option? It's very annoying, and I hear that 80 actually isn't that bad for a gaming PC, and 90+ is when you need to worry. I have GTX 760. The PC itself is less than six months old. Suggestions? I've put it up on my desk and it gets masses of air flow, it idles at 29/30 degrees, but all that has done is give me a few more minutes in game.

You're welcome :) hopefully it won't pop up again. Those INIs should help your general game anyway. Enjoy Skyrim!

It sounds like you're getting menu crashes now as well. Really, when this sort of thing is happening, your best bet is to make a new savegame and try the disable-mods-in-groups method to find the culprit.