How to.

[Blinkybubs]

In the comments for this mod it says to disable borders. To do this do I save the line into the skyrim folder or the skse folder and how do I put it there. I need stupid simple clarification please.

Don't forget to unlock the Skyrim borders.
To do this, go to your Skyrim.ini file in Documents > My Games > Skyrim. NOT the ini file in your load order where the game
itself is installed. Open it, put the line: bBorderRegionsEnabled=0  , then save it and the borders in the game are disabled.
After installing, save your game and restart your saved game. Otherwise you won't hear dialogues from NPC's

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/4018?tab=posts&BH=0

 

[7531Leonidas]

33 minutes ago, Blinkybubs said:

go to your Skyrim.ini file in Documents > My Games > Skyrim.

Once you are in that folder (NOT either of the locations you proposed), open that Skyrim.ini file.

35 minutes ago, Blinkybubs said:

Open it (the .ini file cited above), put (type out) the line: bBorderRegionsEnabled=0

 

35 minutes ago, Blinkybubs said:

then save it

 

[Blinkybubs]

The only thing in that destination is a skse folder. Where do I type the command and how do i save it?

[Guest deleted80903]

33 minutes ago, Blinkybubs said:

The only thing in that destination is a skse folder. Where do I type the command and how do i save it?

If you have OneDrive running... well, it messes up Bethesda game modding like nothing else, as your Documents folder stuff might actually be on OneDrive somewhere.  I can't help you with that nonsense, it's a pain to turn off and elements of it still work when it's turned off.

Here's a couple workarounds, though.

Mod Organizer 2 has custom profile INIs that you can setup instead of the default INIs.  If you use it, google profile specific INIs and you can put those INI lines into that INI.

Alternatively, and this is what I do, you can create a custom INI in your game Data folder and name it the same as one of your mod plugins.  It will load when the game loads your plugins.  For example, I have a "Alternate Start - Live Another Life.INI" file in my Data folder... I just used that name since it puts it near the top in Windows Explorer.  This custom INI doesn't get overwritten when you change your game settings like the default INIs do, and it will OVERWRITE the default values on game load.

Put this in a custom INI:

[General]
bBorderRegionsEnabled=0

Make SURE that you have the appropriate section heading when you add settings to this INI ( [General] in this case) and that you don't have duplicate sections within the file or things will get messed up.

I use this custom INI as my master INI file in my game build.

[7531Leonidas]

My Documents-My Games folder has a Skyrim Special Edition folder, and the skyrim.ini is in there.  Go look.

[Blinkybubs]

This one? Where do I type the command and how do i save it?

[wfandrews]

I doubt if it would hurt anything if you put it in Skyrim.ini and SkyrimCustom.ini. I do not know if the Custom.ini overwrites the Skyrim.ini which is why I would put it in both.

Just put it under [General] as melvinius said. If you are running Windows 11 you will probably have to click on the "file" at the top of the page and choose "save" from the drop down menu. If you are running Windows 10 it will ask you if you want to save the changes when you exit out of the file. This presupposes that you opened the file in Notepad, which I would highly recommend.

If you are running Windows 11 you may run into problems playing TESV as Onedrive is an integral part of that OS and has a tendency to slap files into the web with Onedrive willy-nilly. I never did understand what criteria it used so finally got tired of fighting it and installed Windows 10.

[7531Leonidas]

If you are nervous about making a mistake, just make a copy of the skyrim.ini, and save it.  Rename it to something like "skyrim.ini.orig" (for original) and save it.  That way, if you make a mistake, you can just copy that .orig file, and rename it by dropping off the .orig.  You have to edit the skyrim.ini in the documents folder to get any permanent changes, as skyrim.ini elsewhere is intended to be a backup for installation purposes and will be forcibly renewed/restored periodically.

[Guest deleted80903]

On 12/31/2024 at 8:56 AM, wfandrews said:

I doubt if it would hurt anything if you put it in Skyrim.ini and SkyrimCustom.ini. I do not know if the Custom.ini overwrites the Skyrim.ini which is why I would put it in both.

That's why I use an INI that has the same name as one of my mod plugins. (in the Data folder)

When you change certain game settings, Skyrim itself will overwrite your skyrim.INI and your skyrimcustom.INI which can mess up your custom settings.  I used to make these files read only but it was such a pain because then you can't change settings in game and have those changes saved.

The INIs in your Data folder WILL overwrite skyrim.ini and skyrimcustom.ini