Beer, lightsabers, and Zoidberg! I broke my game

[unassumingashrak]

So I got my very first computer that is capable of running something more than age of empires II yesterday and I'm friggin pumped. Its a lenovo Y500 I managed to pick up for a reasonable price. Best part though, It got delivered on the same morning as the start of the steam summer sale. I quickly download steam and realize that the stars have all aligned and everything is right in the universe because the legendary edition of skyrim with all the dlc's is on a flash sale. It was meant to be. I download it, crank the setting to ultra, and start foos ro dahing everything off a cliff while im enjoying a six pack of some local ale. Basically the best Thursday one could possibly hope for. About the time I finish all my beers I start to grow tired of the game. I've put some serious time into vanilla skyrim on xbox, so this is more of the same, except prettier. Then I realize, holy crap I can have mods now! This game needs lightsabers and boobs! Don't judge, I was pretty buzzed at this point. Then I proceed to download my chosen mods and install them, but with out any luck. I just can not seem to get them to show up in the game. I head over to youtube and watch some tutorials, some by intelligent people who all seemed very knowledgeable and long winded and some were by loud, yet succinct mouth breathers. One of these folks suggested that my problems lie in the security tab of Skyrims properties window. Just go in there and change some permissions, its simple. So being a little tipsy I said f*** it, ALLOW ALL THE THINGS. This was not smart. Now skyrim will not launch, and steam keeps hitting me an error message say "failure to launch (app already running)". I uninstalled steam, skyrim, and NMM and then reinstalled steam and skyrim without trying NMM again but I still get the same error message. I have looked around and tried several other "fixes" but nothing has worked. Anyone have any pro tips for a drunk ass who messed up his game on day one?

[Mercbird]

Hi ... I'm just calling you Unass.

All you can do at this point is to get more beer. I'll go do that right now, too :biggrin: I cannot guess what yo did to the poor Lenovo but if Steam's already running leave it alone and have the beer we just got.

There are some very clever people on the hardware discussion forums that can surely help, but they are likely going to expect that you've searched the forums a bit.

 

PS. IIf it makes you feel better I cannot get through some of the mod descriptions without alcholic buffers ... :devil: Hope you get it running!