WallRockTree Posted August 5, 2021 Share Posted August 5, 2021 Earlier today I used Steam's Verify Integrity to try to troubleshoot an issue. The check said all is well, but now when I try to launch Loot or XEdit, I get messages that they can't find my Skyrim SSE. Loot says run the game from Steam, instead of MO2, to reset it. I have not done that yet. I am concerned I could wreck my huge MO2 Skyrim SE build. Looking on the Internet I see that my .ini's may be messed up. I had used Bethini to make them over a year ago. What should I do? Is it safe to run Skyrim briefly from Steam? What should I backup before I do that? Is it already too late? Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wfandrews Posted August 5, 2021 Share Posted August 5, 2021 You must launch your game from the Steam launcher once so Skyrim can create the files needed and after that you can launch from skse or however you normally launch your game. You do not have to actually launch the game, just hit play, wait for a minute or two and then exit. There is no need to backup anything as far as I know. If you cleaned your DLCs and Update.esm you will have to do so again. From what you have said I am assuming you deleted your ini files before using the verify integrity option in Steam so if you made any changes to those files you must do so again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WallRockTree Posted August 5, 2021 Author Share Posted August 5, 2021 OK, thanks! I can re-clean my DLCs and Update.esm. 1) No, I did not intentionally delete any .ini files. I had just read somewhere that the process might overwrite some ini files. I am not even sure which ones. I would assume skyrim.ini and skyrimprefs.ini, which are in the MO2\profiles\ folders. Are you saying that neither running Steam's Verify Integrity check or starting Skyrim SE from Steam will harm any ini files? If that is the case that is good. 2) And if my ini files DO get overwritten, which ones do I need to back up or rebuild? Any others besides skyrim.ini and skyrimprefs.ini? Thanks again! I was afraid I had messed up my MO2 profiles! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wfandrews Posted August 7, 2021 Share Posted August 7, 2021 I am still unclear as to why you had to launch from Steam in order for LOOT and xEdit to find the path to your game if you did not delete those ini files. It might have something to do with MO2 although I do not know as I am not familiar with MO2. I do seem to recall that any changes to ini files must be done from within MO2 so that might have something to do with it. However I guess that is irrelevant if your game is running well now. As a side note, this is the Legendary forum you would probably be better off posting any questions on the SSE forum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WallRockTree Posted August 7, 2021 Author Share Posted August 7, 2021 Yeah, it was strange. like I said, I ran Steam's Verify Integrity. It said everything was fine. But then when I tried to run Loot or xEdit from inside MO2, they wouldn't load. One of them gave me a message that I might have to run the game through Steam once to re-set (I think it was) the registry. That's when I posted here based on an Internet search. I started the game from Steam (hadn't done that in over a year) and it seems to have fixed Loot and xEdit. BTW, when I went to re-clean the DLCs and Update.esm (which I also had done over a year ago) the file dates (created and modified) for those files were still the old ones so I am assuming I don't need to actually re-clean them. Is that correct? Holy cow, I can't believe I made such a rookie mistake to post in the wrong forum! Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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