olnorton Posted August 18, 2014 Posted August 18, 2014 What is the recommended way to get a completely clean installation on Skyrim? Do I need to uninstall steam as well? Windows 7
Hyacathusarullistad Posted August 18, 2014 Posted August 18, 2014 (edited) Your best bet is to disable cloud syncing, uninstall the game through Steam, then navigate to Steam>SteamApps>Common and manually delete the Skyrim folder. Then download the game fresh. I force it to install the base game from disc instead of downloading it by disabling my internet connection. It just speeds the process along, that's all. Once your download is complete, clean your Update.esm and the DLC .esm files with TES5Edit, then zip the whole Skyrim folder into an archive and keep it somewhere for use later. It makes reverting to a fresh install in the future much easier. I'd also include manually installed copies of Better MessageBox Controls and Better Dialogue Controls in the archive as well. Objectively speaking they're a must-have for anyone, regardless of what other mods one may or may not use. Edited August 18, 2014 by Hyacathusarullistad
camaro_69_327 Posted August 18, 2014 Posted August 18, 2014 the STEP WIKI has a good guide for getting "Skyrim vanilla" again. What most guides forget to mention is the "other" folder that Skyrim uses..."AppData". So 3 Folders for Skyrim.... ......\Users\[your use name]\Documents\My Games\Skyrim......\Steam\steamapps\common\Skyrim.....\Users\[your use name]\AppData\Local\Skyrim All three folders will have crap leftover if only doing an UNinstall with steam. :)
olnorton Posted August 18, 2014 Author Posted August 18, 2014 (edited) I never had cloud syncing enabled, I just uninstalled all mods with NMM & uninstalled Skyrim & reinstalled without manually deleting the skyrim folder. (I thought the uninstall program would do that) But the bug that had made my old game unplayable has reappeared by level 4 of a new game, which made me think it was carried over by something that didn't get replaced ( maybe from a cache ). What is left in the Skyrim directory after you uninstall the game? Thanks Camaro_69_327, looks like another uninstall is in order. Edited August 18, 2014 by olnorton
Hyacathusarullistad Posted August 18, 2014 Posted August 18, 2014 On 8/18/2014 at 1:33 AM, camaro_69_327 said: the STEP WIKI has a good guide for getting "Skyrim vanilla" again. What most guides forget to mention is the "other" folder that Skyrim uses..."AppData". So 3 Folders for Skyrim.... ......\Users\[your use name]\Documents\My Games\Skyrim......\Steam\steamapps\common\Skyrim.....\Users\[your use name]\AppData\Local\Skyrim All three folders will have crap leftover if only doing an UNinstall with steam. :smile:It's the last of those folders that's easiest to forget about, as it's not normally a visible folder. Camaro's right, you should clear those locations too.
olnorton Posted August 18, 2014 Author Posted August 18, 2014 (edited) I uninstalled everything including all the above & steam, Cleared all from registry & rebooted. I tried to reinstall from my retail disc & I get Steam is temporarily unavailable. Edit: I can't install from my retail disk because the Steam updater won't update old versions of the Steam client (only recent versions) Edit 2 Well it was all for nothing, I've still got the arrows dropping short bug & I'm not even out of Helgan Keep. Edited August 18, 2014 by olnorton
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