Removal of Creation Club ...

[langnao]

Pretty weird ... You don't even have to modify any SWF file.

 

Just go into your Skyrim Special Edition\Data, extract "startmenu.swf" from "Skyrim - Interface.bsa" into Skyrim Special Edition\Data\interface and you remove the CC. The button, News ,etc...

 

Anyone else can verify?

 

[glaseye]

It does.....

But it also removes the 'quit' option from the start menu

[langnao]

It does..... But it also removes the 'quit' option from the start menu

Its still there for me, under "credit".

[AleCuneo]

 

Just go into your Skyrim Special Edition\Data, extract "startmenu.swf" from "Skyrim - Interface.bsa" into Skyrim Special Edition\Data\interface and you remove the CC. The button, News ,etc...

 

 

How do you extract startmenu.swf?

This update has destroyed my game,

[glaseye]

@langnao - yep, you're right... had to scroll down - so I overlooked it......... :)

 

 

@AleCuneo - you have to use a program like BSA Browser (for SSE) to be able to extract it.

 

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/1756/?

 

- or use this mod :)

 

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/12628/?

Edited October 4, 2017 by glaseye

[Vyxenne]

Back on the original topic, you can remove the Creation Club Update if you have backup copies of the files it replaces- just copy the old ones over the new ones.

 

Files replaced by Creation Club Update:

 

..Users\[username]\Documents\Games\Skyrim Special Edition\
SkyrimPrefs.ini

..Steamapps\Common\Skyrim Special Edition\
SkyrimSE.exe

..Steamapps\Common\Skyrim Special Edition\Data\
Skyrim.esm
Update.esm
Dawnguard.esm
Dragonborn.esm
Hearthfires.esm
skyrim-patch.bsa
skyrim-shaders.bsa

 

To prevent Steam from re-applying the Updates:

1) Right-click on ..Steamapps\Common\Skyrim Special Edition\SkyrimSE.exe and select 'Create Shortcut,' then move the shortcut to your desktop

2) Right-Click SSE in your Steam Library and select Properties, then on the Updates tab set it to only update when you launch the game

3) Click Steam > Settings > Downloads and tick 'Only auto-update games between' then set it for a time your computer is always off and click OK

4) Click Steam > Go Offline and click the 'Restart Steam in Offline Mode' button, then close Steam after it restarts

5) Play SSE via the shortcut you created- Steam will pop up a dialog box saying 'Play in offline mode?' so answer yes

 

If you ever slip up and launch SSE via the Steam Library instead of the shortcut, Steam will update SSE whether you want it to or not, and hitting 'Cancel' will merely pause the update- you must let it finish the update before you will be able to play SSE again.

[Mudran]

nice, thanks! I was afraid that it will be there forever when I will go online on Steam.

[Mudran]

I did that mistake that I went online and then tried to fix skyrim to the previous state, and I did something wrong or it looks like Bethesda is trying hard to enforce their Creation club even through offline Steam - cooperating with Steam. I guess there was ticked - sync with clouded version of the game in Steam setting, even though I didn't do it (I think) and now I have a problem.

 

I rewrote back the old version, deleted Steam manifest, but Steam kept putting all of it back (with that cloud ticked I didn't know about) and now it refuses to go offline - it simply stops working.

 

I guess there is no solution to that or does anybody know which Steam files I can delete or rename or something, so it would stop rewrite my Skyrim files or requiring download?

 

EDIT:

It is even better - my Steam have Skyrim set on auto-update no matter what I change... Does anyone else have the same problem? I tried to update steam - in the case when I would delete some important file, but it says that it is up to date.

 

EDIT:

it is ok now - I just did the official way described here again and stop deleting download cache.

Edited November 23, 2017 by Mudran