Newbie Diving In - Feedback on Install Order

[parsetdx]

I'm new to Skyrim, but I've played TES 3 and 4 with numerous mods and tools.

 

I've spent the last week reading, watching You Tube videos, reading more, downloading, installing, and generally educating myself and getting things setup.

 

I would greatly appreciate feedback on the load order in attached screenshot I came up with (after interpreting numerous data sources) with the objective of making the game look fantastic while also making it playable. I decided to skip ENB Series for now and see what I can do with adding high res textures, mesh refinements, and lighting to the original game.

 

After a whole lot of reading, it generally seems like if I wanted to build up meshes and textures on top of each other, I could use the following order and arrive at a nicely merged together game experience.

- SMIM

- ELFX

- Sky HD

- Noble Skyrim

- AmidianBorn Book of Silence

- Realistic Water

- Vivid Landscapes

- Flora Overhaul

 

Again, I tried to come up with an order to overwrite things in the best way possible. I had an idea of how some mods relate to each other, but not all of them. For instance, I wasn't sure what to do with Better Shaped Weapons with respect to Weapons Armor Fixes Remade and perhaps SMIM.

 

Any feedback on my install order would be greatly appreciated. LOOT gave me a load order that seems to work - I did clean files with TES when requested. The game starts and plays fine - even through the full intro tutorial - and everything seems to run very crisply so far. One thing I haven't done yet is run TESLODGen.

 

Any other thoughts on order, something I'm missing, etc. would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

[WsElite]

things are too good, yep its good enough for newbie. well i suggest you get "DynDOLOD", it's a great mod/tools for Dynamic Distance Object LOD, why do you need this ? because Vanilla Skyrim LOD is *suck* :p, and you need "Dual Sheath Redux" it's a great mod. as far as i can see there is no problem with your mod too, but for side note, if you want to use ENB make sure you read carefully about "incompatibilities" and "requirement" in the ENB page, because most ENB use their own lightning and weather system, so if there is any ENB says "don't use this with ELFX or RLO" then you'd better stay away from that ENB or uninstall your current ELFX as it can conflicting each other and making problem with lightning system. also where is "Climates of Tamriel" ? :3. it's a great weather mod, many ENB support that weather mod you should get it. hope this will help you and happy modding !