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Do you guys make a complet back up of your Skyrim files before going in and add mods?

For better graphics:

1. Mod Organizer
2. Follow STEP instructions, INI tweaks etc.
3. Add ENB (for better lighting and dof etc)
4. Add official high res texture pack (2k?)

And this is the basis of going on any further with mods, right?
There is no need for the memory fix as it was officially patched in (right?).

Did I forget something in that small list or got anything wrong?

 

[CarbonByGravity]

Does anyone eIse think that the combat in Skyrim is flawed? The floaty controls. The terrible hit detection.The abysmal controls in third person view. Wow, I picked this game up on stream for $5 thinking, "why not, i keep hearing great things about the game", but damn this game is fundamentally flawed when it comes to actually gameplay. Haven't the developers played Demon's Souls or Dragon's Dogma? That's how combat should be done. What a fucking embarrassment. I can't believe this came shipped like this. I can't believe these glaring flaws didn't show up in reviews.

 

[Remmy2112]

Does anyone eIse think that the combat in Skyrim is flawed? The floaty controls. The terrible hit detection.The abysmal controls in third person view. Wow, I picked this game up on stream for $5 thinking, "why not, i keep hearing great things about the game", but damn this game is fundamentally flawed when it comes to actually gameplay. Haven't the developers played Demon's Souls or Dragon's Dogma? That's how combat should be done. What a fucking embarrassment. I can't believe this came shipped like this. I can't believe these glaring flaws didn't show up in reviews.

The Elder Scrolls games in general are almost always viewed as the sum of their parts and not the strengths of any individual system. This plus the strength of its modding tools and community generally see the games improve as time goes on. Purchasing a game of this type from Bethesda at launch is always a buyer beware situation. Getting it years down the line for 5 bucks with thousands of mods available is simply awesome. I was the former, mind you.

As for comparing it to other games only Demon Souls was out for a long enough time for anything to be learned and it doesn't strike me as the type of game Todd Howard and Bethesda would look at for inspiration. Dark Souls came out about a month before Skyrim and Dragon's Dogma half a year later.

 

[Seanspeed]

Does anyone eIse think that the combat in Skyrim is flawed? The floaty controls. The terrible hit detection.The abysmal controls in third person view. Wow, I picked this game up on stream for $5 thinking, "why not, i keep hearing great things about the game", but damn this game is fundamentally flawed when it comes to actually gameplay. Haven't the developers played Demon's Souls or Dragon's Dogma? That's how combat should be done. What a fucking embarrassment. I can't believe this came shipped like this. I can't believe these glaring flaws didn't show up in reviews.

Game is awesome. Elder Scrolls aren't about tight combat mechanics. Few minutes of research could have told you that.

This is also not the right thread for this.

 

[Vice]

Does anyone eIse think that the combat in Skyrim is flawed? The floaty controls. The terrible hit detection.The abysmal controls in third person view. Wow, I picked this game up on stream for $5 thinking, "why not, i keep hearing great things about the game", but damn this game is fundamentally flawed when it comes to actually gameplay. Haven't the developers played Demon's Souls or Dragon's Dogma? That's how combat should be done. What a fucking embarrassment. I can't believe this came shipped like this. I can't believe these glaring flaws didn't show up in reviews.

The combat in the ES series has been ass since at least Morrowind. Find an attack method you like and spam it while you see all the lore.

Or, play Fallout for, slightly, improved combat.

 

[CountAntonius]

Yeah I'm thinking what route to go for my first play through. Warhammer probably. Kind of overwhelmed by the amount of mods available. Morrowing was my fav game of all time and I waited till I had a good PC to truly enjoy skyrim. Steam sale just sealed the deal.

 

[Empty Space]

Does anyone have the Weapons of the Third Era MoS edition downloaded and can upload it somewhere? That mod seems to have disappeared from the nexus and I can't find a mirror for it in English anywhere. I keep finding Russian versions.

 

[Auto-Reply]

Just wanted to say that Gopher on youtube is doing a great service to mod-beginners like me. I avoided some errors watching his beginners guide already.

 

[Seanspeed]

Just wanted to say that Gopher on youtube is doing a great service to mod-beginners like me. I avoided some errors watching his beginners guide already.

Was completely invaluable for me as well.

 

[McBryBry]

Just wanted to say that Gopher on youtube is doing a great service to mod-beginners like me. I avoided some errors watching his beginners guide already.

I don't even HAVE a PC capable of what he shows, yet I've watched more of his videos than anyone else on youtube. He really is the best.

 

[Thorgal]

if anyone is interested i recommend watching his Skyrim and fallout nv lets plays . they are really great.

 

[Jimrpg]

I bought Skyrim during the Steam sale recently for $5, which is a steal. My friend said to install the mods, and now I've read on another thread in gaf that I need the skyrim DLC packs to install most of the mods. Gettting the DLC will cost me another $25 which seems silly at this point.

So are there any mods I can install to make the game look better? Any advice? Any areas of good information for mods. I've already read through the OP but it doesn't provide any advice on what mods are good for vanilla skyrim. Thx.

 

[Blue Ninja]

I bought Skyrim during the Steam sale recently for $5, which is a steal. My friend said to install the mods, and now I've read on another thread in gaf that I need the skyrim DLC packs to install most of the mods. Gettting the DLC will cost me another $25 which seems silly at this point.

So are there any mods I can install to make the game look better? Any advice? Any areas of good information for mods. I've already read through the OP but it doesn't provide any advice on what mods are good for vanilla skyrim. Thx.

The OP is outdated.

A lot of mods have both Vanilla and DLC versions. Check out Skyrim GEMS and the top files of Skyrim Nexus, there's a lot of good stuff there. Just make sure to check what each mod requires.

A few good ones, off the top of my head, are the High Res Texture Pack (which you download through Steam), the Unofficial Patches for Skyrim and the High Res Texture Pack, Climates of Tamriel and Realistic Water Two.

Yeah I'm thinking what route to go for my first play through. Warhammer probably. Kind of overwhelmed by the amount of mods available. Morrowing was my fav game of all time and I waited till I had a good PC to truly enjoy skyrim. Steam sale just sealed the deal.

Get Morrowloot for that authentic Morrowind looting experience.

 

[CarbonByGravity]

Game is awesome. Elder Scrolls aren't about tight combat mechanics. Few minutes of research could have told you that.

This is also not the right thread for this.

I see. It is universally known. I should have done more research. Let's hope they improve this aspect of the game next go around. PLEASE.

 

[Jimrpg]

Cheers. Thx a lot.

I'm playing on a MacBook pro Retina 15' from 2012... I think its an i7 2.3GHz with 8GB Ram, GT650M with 1Gb Vram. Do you think I would be able to run the realvision ENB? It says it needs a GTX660 minimum so I'm thinking not.

I also found this which I think is useful for newbs like me wondering what mods to install for a low-end computer.

http://www.reddit.com/r/skyrim/comments/1ttgm1/comprehensive_list_of_the_best_mods_for_skyrim/cebh54e

 

[Thorgal]

Cheers. Thx a lot.

I'm playing on a MacBook pro Retina 15' from 2012... I think its an i7 2.3GHz with 8GB Ram, GT650M with 1Gb Vram. Do you think I would be able to run the realvision ENB? It says it needs a GTX660 minimum so I'm thinking not.

I also found this which I think is useful for newbs like me wondering what mods to install for a low-end computer.

http://www.reddit.com/r/skyrim/comments/1ttgm1/comprehensive_list_of_the_best_mods_for_skyrim/cebh54e

I don't think that will be able to handle an ENB .let alone some of the most intensive ones like realvision .

Also if you want to play skyrim modded but want to keep it lore friendly try the S.T.E.P project .

 

[lazygecko]

I'll just take this opportunity to plug my own Skyrim mod Immersive Sounds. Strangely it doesn't seem to get much exposure outside Skyrim Nexus in spite of being rather successful on the site itself.

I don't think people truly realize just how gutted the sound in Skyrim was to presumably fit it in on the console RAM limitations (At most, I've seen people calling out the atriciously compressed soundtrack where you can clearly hear the difference in detail between the ingame music and OST). There are many underlying issues and compromises that not even other audio mods touch on, so I have attempted to adress those aspects.

 

[Trickster]

Anyone know of a good ENB that is low on performance cost? All the ones I can find gives me a huge fps loss. I just want a simple ENB that adds some DoF and more realistic lighting without making me lose 20 fps. I remeber I had an ENB like this back in 2012 when I last played skyrim, and my fps hardly dropped by using it.

 

[thekiddfran]

I just installed the resolution texture pack and it doesn't seem to have made a difference texture wise.

Is there something I am missing?

I can see the pack is activiated when I go to data files on the start page.

 

[cdyhybrid]

I just installed the resolution texture pack and it doesn't seem to have made a difference texture wise.

Is there something I am missing?

I can see the pack is activiated when I go to data files on the start page.

Did you have the Bethesda High Res Texture Packs already installed? They might have just overlapped a lot of the same things.

 

[thekiddfran]

Did you have the Bethesa High Res Texture Packs already installed? They might have just overlapped a lot of the same things.

I just bought the game in the sale today, installed the game around 6.4Gb then came onto this thread and found the link to the hi res pack. Downloaded around 4Gb worth of content aparantly

 

[Auto-Reply]

I have a question regarding the steam download manager.

Since I have a very slow internet conecction I stop and resume downloads a lot when I go to work or when I'm not home for a longer period of time.

Now I've wanted to download the High Res Texture Pack and I had a few Steam Sale games already in the list downloading. I stopped the Texture Pack download and now I cant resume it.... it's not installed yet as it tells me so looking it up in th properties menu.

I can replicate this with other games sometimes, I stop downloading them and then I cant resume the download, ususally (for some reason) they restart downloading after some time has past but I've had no luck with the texture pack.

Any ideas what to do?

 

[riotous]

Does anyone eIse think that the combat in Skyrim is flawed? The floaty controls. The terrible hit detection.The abysmal controls in third person view. Wow, I picked this game up on stream for $5 thinking, "why not, i keep hearing great things about the game", but damn this game is fundamentally flawed when it comes to actually gameplay. Haven't the developers played Demon's Souls or Dragon's Dogma? That's how combat should be done. What a fucking embarrassment. I can't believe this came shipped like this. I can't believe these glaring flaws didn't show up in reviews.

I pretty much stick to archery and find it just as fun gameplay mechanic wise as any other FPS style game... archery, resort to magic if I have to.. it's fun to me.

 

[Unai]

I love archery in this game. I'll be so happy if fallout 4 has a crossbow or something.

 

[Thorgal]

I have a question regarding the steam download manager.

Since I have a very slow internet conecction I stop and resume downloads a lot when I go to work or when I'm not home for a longer period of time.

Now I've wanted to download the High Res Texture Pack and I had a few Steam Sale games already in the list downloading. I stopped the Texture Pack download and now I cant resume it.... it's not installed yet as it tells me so looking it up in th properties menu.

I can replicate this with other games sometimes, I stop downloading them and then I cant resume the download, ususally (for some reason) they restart downloading after some time has past but I've had no luck with the texture pack.

Any ideas what to do?

Since this seems a Steam related issue i think it would be better to ask this in the Steam thread .

 

[Auto-Reply]

Since this seems a Steam related issue i think it would be better to ask this in the Steam thread .

You're right. But the problem is solved I hope, a simple Steam File Validation made the texture pack downloadable again. I hope it didn't mess with the patches and mods I've already installed.

 

[Mono]

Alright guys; I know nothing about CPU/RAM usage and what kinds of things are more taxing on a system than others. I installed some mods for Skyrim and now I get about 5 fps, so I'm trying to figure out which ones are lugging it down.

Here are the mods I'm using in their load order. The bold ones are new, and the non-bolded ones were the ones I was using before, where I got decent fps rates.

Skyrim.esm
Update.esm
Unofficial Skyrim Patch.esm
Dawnguard.esm
Unofficial Dawnguard Patch.esm
HearthFires.esm
Unofficial Hearthfire Patch.esm
Dragonborn.esm
Unofficial Dragonborn Patch.esm
ApachiiHair.esm

And here are the esp file mods:

HighResTexturePack01.esp
HighResTexturePack02.esp
HighResTexturePack03.esp
skyui.esp
better dynamic snow.esp
bigger and boulder.esp
Guard Dialogue Overhaul.esp
AchieveThat.esp
deeper snow.esp
lush grash and trees.esp
RaceMenu.esp
vAutosaveManager.esp
RaceMenuPlugin.esp
Cloaks.esp
MassiveCloudStorage.esp
TheEyesofBeauty.esp
vibrantauroras.esp
water.esp
Alternate Start - Live Another Life.esp

I have a feeling it's the official high res texture mods, but then again, I installed a hell of a lot of mods. Is there a way to figure out which mods are the most taxing on your system?

 

[Refreshment.01]

What happened to that mod that used all pc available memory to get rid of load transitions?

 

[GodParticle]

I was trying to find a mod to get better random items to appear. I tried morrowloot, but so far I'm still only seeing the same boring junk when I go through a huge area. I want a mod that adds a bunch of cool random enchantments to stuff you find in the world

 

[Mesoian]

What happened to that mod that used all pc available memory to get rid of load transitions?

Open Cities? I never got it to work correctly.

Alright guys; I know nothing about CPU/RAM usage and what kinds of things are more taxing on a system than others. I installed some mods for Skyrim and now I get about 5 fps, so I'm trying to figure out which ones are lugging it down.

Here are the mods I'm using in their load order. The bold ones are new, and the non-bolded ones were the ones I was using before, where I got decent fps rates.



And here are the esp file mods:



I have a feeling it's the official high res texture mods, but then again, I installed a hell of a lot of mods. Is there a way to figure out which mods are the most taxing on your system?

It's probably your texture packs. Uninstall them and try it. If that turns out to be the case, there are a number of better but not insane texture packs on the nexus that will serve you well.

 

[Mono]

It's probably your texture packs. Uninstall them and try it. If that turns out to be the case, there are a number of better but not insane texture packs on the nexus that will serve you well.

Looks like that was the problem.

Now, to install 50 more mods to ruin it again! \o/

 

[InaudibleWhispa]

Check out High-Res DLC Optimized. Lets you tailor the use of the HD DLC to find a better balance between performance and graphics.

 

[ffejeromdiks]

I'll just take this opportunity to plug my own Skyrim mod Immersive Sounds. Strangely it doesn't seem to get much exposure outside Skyrim Nexus in spite of being rather successful on the site itself.

I don't think people truly realize just how gutted the sound in Skyrim was to presumably fit it in on the console RAM limitations (At most, I've seen people calling out the atriciously compressed soundtrack where you can clearly hear the difference in detail between the ingame music and OST). There are many underlying issues and compromises that not even other audio mods touch on, so I have attempted to adress those aspects.

Great job man, I installed this a few days ago and it's great, I love that arrow whistle and divine restoration sound. It was the first audio mod I've installed though, but this is making me want more hah, since the creator of a great mod is here, what audio mods do you personally use in tandem with immersive sounds?

 

[789shadow]

I'll just take this opportunity to plug my own Skyrim mod Immersive Sounds. Strangely it doesn't seem to get much exposure outside Skyrim Nexus in spite of being rather successful on the site itself.

I don't think people truly realize just how gutted the sound in Skyrim was to presumably fit it in on the console RAM limitations (At most, I've seen people calling out the atriciously compressed soundtrack where you can clearly hear the difference in detail between the ingame music and OST). There are many underlying issues and compromises that not even other audio mods touch on, so I have attempted to adress those aspects.

Going on my mod list.

 

[lazygecko]

Great job man, I installed this a few days ago and it's great, I love that arrow whistle and divine restoration sound. It was the first audio mod I've installed though, but this is making me want more hah, since the creator of a great mod is here, what audio mods do you personally use in tandem with immersive sounds?

I don't really use much else than Audio Overhaul in conjunction with my own. I made mine to cover pretty much every aspect aside from ambient sounds, and you can customize the hell out of it with all the install options.
Another popular one is the Sounds of Skyrim series of mods, which adds a bunch of new ambient sounds on top of the existing ones. I'm not much of a fan though because the quality of the sounds are all over the place (There's way too many where you can clearly hear things like loud noise floors or heavy aliasing artifacts) and they are not always implemented that tastefully (common problem with these types of mods is stuff like going into towns, hearing background chatter as if you were on Times Square or something when you can really only see a douzen NPCs or so in your vicinity).

Honestly, the bar is set really really low for sound mods in general. Take Ultra Realistic Bow Shoot Sounds for example, which is just ripped straight from a YouTube video with lots of background noise. Or Improved Combat Sounds which just takes the Oblivion weapon sounds (which is against the Nexus rules actually. Not that they really care about ripped sounds compared to ripped models and textures), layers them on top of the Skyrim sounds and adds a whole lot of clipping/distortion. I think they're on top of the lists cause they had the benefit of being released very early when there were next to no other sound mods and have thus been grandfathered in.

In other news, I was going through my old screenshots and found this old WIP I had of a recreation of Scarlet Monastery from World of Warcraft. Maybe I ought to get back to working on it.

 

[Mesoian]

MXR weekly put out a nice little mod organizer intro that works pretty well. Made me want to jump back into skyrim and clean up my existing config.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qxltdw8VXsI&list=LLW0Pxle6RGaN-xl6kbYNbJA

 

[Thorgal]

I am using Audio overhaul

Gophers vid and lets play convinced me .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8A7cMHHbgoo

 

[Spacecowboy77]

New development video for Skywind -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmB6wMp-gP0

Public alpha testing coming soon!

 

[Mesoian]

New development video for Skywind -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmB6wMp-gP0

Public alpha testing coming soon!

Looks like it's all coming together.

 

[Thorgal]

Video removed

 

[Spacecowboy77]

Video removed

Re-uploaded for some reason -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoETrlXkhfs

 

[Head of Vengarl]

So I have Skyrim installed and SKSE + a bunch of mods. I've already done one playthrough.

My friend just bought me the legendary edition as a gift because I didn't have any of the DLC. Am I going to have to change anything with SKSE or my installed mod locations (I use Nexus Mod Manager) since I'll now be playing the legendary edition?

*Edit - Wait a sec, I'm installing it right now and it looks like it's just adding the DLC to my existing Skyrim game? I thought the legendary edition would be treated as a completely separate game.

 

[Mesoian]

So I have Skyrim installed and SKSE + a bunch of mods. I've already done one playthrough.

My friend just bought me the legendary edition as a gift because I didn't have any of the DLC. Am I going to have to change anything with SKSE or my installed mod locations (I use Nexus Mod Manager) since I'll now be playing the legendary edition?

*Edit - Wait a sec, I'm installing it right now and it looks like it's just adding the DLC to my existing Skyrim game? I thought the legendary edition would be treated as a completely separate game.

Nope. It just activates the dlc. You should be fine.

 

[ab.aeterno]

Anyone have any idea where to find this armor?

 

[oatmeal]

Okay, I feel dumb...

I installed NMM and downloaded several mods and I'm not sure if I have to do more to install them or not but I don't think any of them are working. What am I doing wrong?

I bought Skyrim vanilla on steam, I even downloaded the High Res Texture pack for free and I don't really notice anything with that.

I'm on Ultra High everything and it's running buttery smooth, but I feel like I did something wrong here.

(EDIT)
Oy, I have ot double click the mods to make the X a checkmark.

 

[Thorgal]

Okay, I feel dumb...

I installed NMM and downloaded several mods and I'm not sure if I have to do more to install them or not but I don't think any of them are working. What am I doing wrong?

I bought Skyrim vanilla on steam, I even downloaded the High Res Texture pack for free and I don't really notice anything with that.

I'm on Ultra High everything and it's running buttery smooth, but I feel like I did something wrong here.

(EDIT)
Oy, I have ot double click the mods to make the X a checkmark.

Yoy can als o use the blue button on the left to activate the mod .

Also , be sure to use LOOT to sort out your load order or you will encouter CTD's .

Check gophers video about it .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzoyWugzZAw

 

[oatmeal]

That's me right now.

These are the mods I downloaded:

A Quality World Map
Alternate Start
Convenient Horses
Enhanced Blood Textures
Footprints
Interesting NPC's (preparing still, taking forever)
Project Reality
Pure Waters
Winter is Coming
XCE

Any other visual mods that are easy and will boost the graphics?

 

[BigDug13]

Anyone else use the "Vilja" mod? I think she's the most fleshed out NPC companion I've ever experienced. Her Oblivion version I felt the same way. Thousands of lines of voiced dialog, comments on your quest and actions and locales, you can tell her to lead the way and customize her actions extensively, and has her own extensive quest line and backstory that she slowly reveals to you.

http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/26393/?

 

[Dr.Acula]

That's me right now.

These are the mods I downloaded:

A Quality World Map
Alternate Start
Convenient Horses
Enhanced Blood Textures
Footprints
Interesting NPC's (preparing still, taking forever)
Project Reality
Pure Waters
Winter is Coming
XCE

Any other visual mods that are easy and will boost the graphics?

Please get SkyUI. Pretty much unplayable with the default menus

 

[oatmeal]

Please get SkyUI. Pretty much unplayable with the default menus

I use the 360 controller and haven't had an issue...I read on the reddit breakdown of mods that that just makes it easier for KBM...

Or am I thinking of something else? (EDIT: I was...)

Downloaded LOOT, when these mods install I will play with it...YouTube is at the point where I'm at. Thanks!