I Need a Virtual Hug from Those that Would Understand this....

[KurganSPK]

So I spent maybe 40-50 hours over the last month doing "one last Oldrim Build" for "one last epic playthrough".... finally got it all pretty much perfect with 400 mods and purring like a kitten. Played it for an hour or so last night and went to bed feeling pretty good about myself for getting it just the way I wanted it. Then this morning... the drive it's on dies... New machine, drive is only a few months old... DEAD.

 

Sigh... just had to share with folks that would actually understand the effort involved that are now wasted... unless I can actually remember some lessons learned along the way and muster the energy for another go.

 

I did copy over my MO install to another drive yesterday but it doesn't appear to have my profiles with LO.txt... that's what i really need.

 

8:45am is too early to start drinking... right?

 

 

[PeteriusProwler]

Damn that sucks i know exactly how you feel now :( stuff like that happens to me so often that i even learned how to flip off my emotions so i dont become hulk world breaker :D

[KurganSPK]

Damn that sucks i know exactly how you feel now :sad: stuff like that happens to me so often that i even learned how to flip off my emotions so i dont become hulk world breaker

thanks man :-(

[steamteck]

My sympathies. I had to leave a whole set of beloved playthroughs when my machine suddenly died a few years ago. I also did not have the LO.txt. Made me crazy.

[Evangela]

I can sympathize. I've had a drive die on me just a few weeks after buying it, and it turned out it was part of a bad batch released by Western Digital.

[KurganSPK]

Well the bright side is I grabbed a beer and sat down to do a speedy rebuild while my memory was still relatively fresh - and I now have what feels like a much better game, that I didn't go as nuts on with every texture mod under the sun. The result is, so far, a much smoother playing game with barely a hitch at all - 300 mods instead of 400. Most of that missing 100 were texture mods. And it only took about 10 hours to do the build, from scratch.

[steamteck]

Well the bright side is I grabbed a beer and sat down to do a speedy rebuild while my memory was still relatively fresh - and I now have what feels like a much better game, that I didn't go as nuts on with every texture mod under the sun. The result is, so far, a much smoother playing game with barely a hitch at all - 300 mods instead of 400. Most of that missing 100 were texture mods. And it only took about 10 hours to do the build, from scratch.

That's exactly where I am now. Took me pretty much the day also but its now much more stable. Silver lining and all that.

[saurusmaximus]

 

 

8:45am is too early to start drinking... right?

 

It's 5:00 somewhere my man :thumbsup:

 

Anyone who's been doing this for any length of time has had to go through the dreaded, reinstall-Skyrim-from-scratch-and-start-over at least once. I've had to do it twice, the first time when NMM switched to the profiling system it uses now, the second when my Data folder finally got so clogged up that nothing worked anymore. I switched to MO and spent the next three days picking up the pieces, but it was worth it in the long run.

 

Good luck to you!

[NaleX85]

Well the bright side is I grabbed a beer and sat down to do a speedy rebuild while my memory was still relatively fresh - and I now have what feels like a much better game, that I didn't go as nuts on with every texture mod under the sun. The result is, so far, a much smoother playing game with barely a hitch at all - 300 mods instead of 400. Most of that missing 100 were texture mods. And it only took about 10 hours to do the build, from scratch.

 

Definitely a silver-lining there! And my deepest sympathies, I know your pain all too well...