Dubnoman Posted June 13, 2012 Share Posted June 13, 2012 (edited) There is quite a bit here to read, but I think it is good to be thorough with the details. I could probably find the answers if I read enough read me files and did enough google searches, but I don't have time for that now and for a large part of the day, so I think if I leave these questions in this topic, I can have the answers I need later on in the day. All help will be greatly appreciated. Okay, so I haven't played Skyrim in over a week. After last playing the game, I installed some mods. Then apparently there was a new update recently. So I go and load up my latest save, and my character and a NPC are acting totally wrong (the character models are wonky and moving all about in weird ways). I go into NMM and disable the latest mods I installed. It doesn't fix the problem, so I go into NMM and just start disabling mods left and right. That was probably a mistake, as some mods have special instructions on how to disable mods. I was very impatient because my CPU had been running pretty hot while playing Skyrim, I just went through cleaning the inside of my PC, I wanted to play the game to test out how the CPU temperatures would be, and I was just making haste on getting rid of the problem, thinking I'll disable a mod that is causing trouble and then I could re-add mods later. So yeah, well, now NMM is screwed up. For any mod that gives the ! sign that indicates there is a newer version of the mod, the version I have is the higher number and what is said to be the latest version is a lower number. Also, for any mod I try to download with the manager, it won't load at all and I just get an error message where the mod downloads in NMM. I just wanna start things from scratch. Do you guys think that if I disabled the rest of my activated mods, do a complete reinstall of Skyrim, and do a complete reinstall of Nexus Mod Manager, I can fix the NMM issue and possibly fix the issues I had with the game (although it might be problems from the latest update)? That might be my only chance at correcting things. So, I wanna back up my saves. If I do it through Steam, it takes care of everything? It is as simple as a few mouse clicks? And then, I want to disable the rest of my mods. Just deactivate them via NMM, or should I do it manually for the rest of them since NMM is acting badly? Does it even matter since I'm gonna just do a complete reinstall anyway? And then, would I uninstall NMM first, and then Skyrim? I have this tool for when I uninstall a program, it gets rid of any trace amounts of the program if any are there, so I'll use that for NMM and Skyrim. Now please bare with me on this, but could you guys give me the guidelines on uninstalling NMM and Skyrim? I don't wanna just do things haphazardly. I'm sure uninstalling and reinstalling NMM is straightforward, but I recall with uninstalling and reinstalling Skyrim, you have to delete a certain folder or folders at a certain point in the process. And then you have to use the tool to remove trace elements of programs at a certain point (surely, that is the last part of uninstalling, I figure). When I reinstall the game and get NMM working properly again, I'll make sure to update my mods. Edited June 13, 2012 by Dubnoman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chikawowwow Posted June 13, 2012 Share Posted June 13, 2012 Installing/uninstalling mods without reading the readmes is a very bad idea if you have a lot of larger mods, armor additions not so much.It is very ill advised to 'start from scratch' yet keep your old saves. Potentially you will carry the problem on and if not 99% of the time your saves will become broken anyway from the now missing mods. If you want to TRY and keep your old saves make a clean one and hope it works and doesn't mess your new installation up. To uninstall Skyrim in Steam: right click on the Skyrim tab/icon, click delete local content, afterwards manually delete the Skyrim folder in "program files/Steam/Steamapps/Common" as any mods files will remain. If you installed anymods that work outside of the Skyrim-Data folder you will need to follow the individual guides for each mod I'd imagine. If you're concerned about other renegade files you can use the windows search feature. You can back up your load order if you did it manually and plan to install some of the main mods, it's located in C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\Skyrim. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bitdman Posted June 13, 2012 Share Posted June 13, 2012 There seems to be a problem with the Steam update. There's nothing we can do now but wait untill it's cleared up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hangarspace Posted June 13, 2012 Share Posted June 13, 2012 There seems to be a problem with the Steam update. Care to elaborate on that a bit? Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bitdman Posted June 14, 2012 Share Posted June 14, 2012 I noticed since the last Steam update a lot of people have been posting "sudden" game problems that have resulted in weired graphics, game Freezing and of course the usual CTDs. My own experience was that a game that was running very well one day, without changing anything except for the steam update, The game would not even start it would stop in the middle of loading and there was a "game is not responding" message in task manager. However! I have start game save from before the update that playes well so far except when I go to cast a spell with my right hand a spell in my left hand gets tossed in the air and caught like a juggler. Strange! I now have "Skyrim unplugged" installed. Hopefully no more supprises from Steam :armscrossed: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dubnoman Posted June 15, 2012 Author Share Posted June 15, 2012 (edited) So, NMM is working just fine now, it seems. I didn't uninstall or reinstall anything. NMM seems normal at the moment, and I'll keep an eye on it. Should I reinstall NMM anyways, just in case? I'll read the read me file for NMM to see how to uninstall. So, my game is probably running funny because of the 1.6 update for Skyrim. Where can I download the 1.4 version of Skyrim? I disabled maybe 10-15 mods without seeing if they have special instructions. So I may have set myself up for more problems. I don't believe I'd have to do a complete reinstall of Skyrim, though. I backed up my Skyrim folder a couple or few weeks ago. How do I switch in the old folder for my current Skyrim folder? Do I first delete my current Skyrim folder, and then copy paste the previous Skyrim folder? Also, how do I avoid problems with NMM? Do I just disable all mods first, and it doesn't matter if I just click the uninstall mod button since I'll delete that folder and replace it with a previous Skyrim folder? If I set myself up for problems by deleting a dozen or so mods without reading their uninstall instructions, swapping in a previous Skyrim folder should take care of any such problems, right? Also, when I use a previous Skyrim folder, would my latest save work fine with that previous folder taking over for the current one? And actually, when I was at level 1 and with no mods installed, I backed up the Skyrim folder then, too. Should I just replace the current Skyrim folder with that and then I can install the mods I want with NMM? Edited June 15, 2012 by Dubnoman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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