need help to back up Skyrim 1.8

[Hoamaii]

Hi guys,

 

Anybody can help me find the right way to back up Skyrim 1.8 before going online with Steam and letting it update to 1.9?

 

"Skyrim Unplugged" doesn't seem to be working with latest Steam Clients Updates and my main concern is being able to return to 1.8 offline in case 1.9 screws up my modded game.

 

Many thanks in advance to whomever can help me :)

[VictoriaG]

Well I have a copy of the game at 1.8 on another drive, when I reverted back from 1.9 to 1.8 as far as I could tell the patch had updated these files so you could perhaps just take copies of these:

 

In the main Skyrim directory:

 

TESV.exe

Update.esm

Update.bsa

Skyrim - Misc.bsa

 

In Strings folder:

 

Skyrim_English.DLSTRINGS

Skyrim_English.ILSTRINGS

Skyrim_English.STRINGS

Update_English.DLSTRINGS

Update_English.ILSTRINGS

Update_English.STRINGS

[Hoamaii]

Thanks VictoriaG :)

 

I will try that. Once you've copied these to another drive, were you able to launch 1.8 again from the original drive after overwriting updated files with the backed-up ones or do you need to launch it from the drive where you put your back up?

 

(sorry for the "strange" English... not my native language).

 

Many thanks again!

[VictoriaG]

I am able to play the game as normal with the game reverted back to 1.8, you should note however that saves made with 1.9 will not work with 1.8.

[Hoamaii]

I just backed up the files you said in another partition - I was just unsure about the .exe, sometimes copying an .exe around makes it unlaunchable. And yeah, about the saves made with 1.9, it sure makes sense you cannot reopen them when back to 1.8.

 

I'll cross my fingers, hold my breath, and launch Steam online now... ;)

 

Thank you very much again, VictoriaG.