Error when running skyrim after installing xLODgen

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Error when running skyrim after installing xLODgen

 

Hi I hope you guys are ok.

I am new to modding and I downloaded xLODgen to use it in skyrim se, it turns out that I rushed and ran xlodgen.exe before following the installation steps, I tried to open the game and it didn't open, then I followed the installation steps but the game still doesn't open. Is there any way to revert the changes after running the program or fix the problem to be able to open the game normally? Do you know if the mod works for Skyrim AE?

 

Thank you...

[Algabar]

Good news first: XLodgen works for AE. No worries. It's just textures and meshes - and these haven't changed with the update to AE.

 

That brings me to my second point: From my experience, it's rather unlikely, that Xlodgen would crash the game. If you chose extreme settings, you can definitely loose performance. But usually, Xlodgen output shouldn't make the game CTD. So, maybe the crashes come from a different mod. I'd also check for other mods you installed recently.

 

Now to the bad news: Reverting changes done by Xlodgen is next to impossible, if the new meshes were created directly in the game directory. You woulld have to find and delete the single LOD files created by Xlodgen manually... If you simply started XLodgen and let the program run, your best bet would be to completely delete your Skyrim SE folder, reinstall the game and start over.

 

To avoid issues like this in the future, you can specify a different output folder for XLodgen:

1. Rightclick the .exe file, choose "create shortcut" (I hope that's the correct term in English - I'm on a non English version of Windows...).

 

2. Once you have created the shortcut, rightclick on it. Find the "target" entry (again, hoping this is the correct English term...). By default, this entry only shows the path to SSELodgen.exe. Now you can add a command line parameter: The command for the output folder is "-o" ("o" as in "output"). After the file path, add -o:"[path to your desired output folder]". Caution: The quotation marks are needed! In my case the whole command line (which I added after the path to SSElodgen.exe) reads -o "D:\Games\Utilities\SSELODGen.93\xLODGEN\LODGenOutput". OFC, you can choose any location on your system - mine is just an example.

Now save the changes to your shortcut.

 

3. Start XLodgen with this shortcut and let it do its work. After XLodgen is finished, zip up your output folder and install it with your mod manager.

 

This way, you can always revert changes by simply uninstalling XLodgen output, if something goes wrong.