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I'm thinking I want to start using Tes5 and MO; but I have tons of NMM mods that I'd prefer not to redownload. Any ideas?

I'm a guy and I find that playing as a girl is more immersive (I'm heterosexual T.T). TBH I've never felt that making my character reflect my real self is better.

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Did some extensive web-digging for tips on cpu optimization (I'm bottlenecked like f****): One disables the grass swaying animation, and the other tree swaying animation. If animations would use any resource out of ram, gpu, or cpu, I'm guessing it would be the CPU right? Skyrim.ini (must add) [Grass] fGrassWindMagnitudeMin=0 fGrassWindMagnitudeMax=0 SkyrimPrefs.ini [Display] fLeafAnimDampenDistEnd=4600.0000 to 500.0000 fLeafAnimDampenDistStart=3600.0000 to 0.0000 Ater implementing these tweaks,my grass stopped waving and trees only at short distances. Skyrim Performance Monitor said my average cpu usage went down from 78% to 73%. I have 3 questions: 1. Can someone try this, and see if their utilization improves better/worse? 2. Why is my cpu bottlenecking my GT 640 when it rarely goes above 90%? 3. From what I've seen on various forums, am I correct in concluding that shadow resolution is not taxing on the cpu, but only the the distancel ; and I am safe is keeping shadow res at 2048? ----------------------------- Athlon 64 x2 4400+ @ 2.76 GHz GT 640 @ 1181/1016 4GB DDR2 667 @ 393.2 Mhz HP L1906 1280x1024

I have an extremely bottlenecked system that needs an upgrade. I KNOW THIS; so don't repeat to me 100 times. To the problem at hand: Are there any ways to improve performance (ie. reduce cpu usage, optimize functions, etc) My rig is: Athlon 64 X2 4400+ @ 2.73 GHz Galaxy GT 640 @1171/1000 4GB DDR2 667Mhz 1280x1024 and 1366x768 Monitors Win7 64 I uninstalled my previous installation and benchmarked Skyrim on high with the HiRes DLC and benchmarked with Skyirm Performance Monitor: I achieve an average of 39 fps but it is not very playable in Whiterun/Riften or when fighting 15-20 npcs.