David Incorporated Esq.
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So how much memory do you really need for hi-res textures? I've got 700mb or so and my game beings to chug after only 20-30 minutes if I have the HD packs on.
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Mod Discussion and News [Creation Kit released]
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I figured out the problem. The ENB is running on my integrated graphics card, and no matter what I do it won't use my 680m. Someone suggested using the injector version instead of the wrapper version of the ENB. Can someone explain which files from the injector version I would put in my Skyrim folder?
I know a girl who looks exactly like this. Feckin' creepy.
The correlation, not the face.
Face is pretty.
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A More Normal Bird
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Post version 119 ENB uses a deferred renderer. Activating MSAA disables SSAO and a bunch of other effects. So for the best visual results you're better off downsampling and using SMAA or ENB's edge-AA.
But in game AA is better performance wise correct?
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A More Normal Bird
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Than downsampling? Depends what levels of MSAA (incidentally forced AA from your GPU control panel is probably better than the ingame option, same with AF) you're comparing and what resolution you're downsampling from. Personally, if I had to choose between a little extra aliasing (say downsampling from 2240 to 1920 instead of 2560) but keeping ambient occlusion, indirect lighting and reflections or keeping MSAA but going without I'd choose the former. If you're deadset on staying near 60fps though it might be a different story.
Passive Assassin
Member
Any worthwhile quest/world mods other than Moonpaths to Elsewyr?
TheVampire
Banned
I think I got all the mods I need for Skyrim now.
About 340 mods!
The list in NMM is huge
About 340 mods!
The list in NMM is huge
Aaronology
Member
:O
I (think I) have around 100, give or take a dozen. And that feels like a lot. Jeez, TV.
Blue Ninja
Member
Getting the PC version once the Legendary Edition is out, and I'm already checking out some mods. I must have over 100 Skyrim Nexus pages bookmarked now, holy fuckballs.
Unknown Soldier
Member
You can actually play Skyrim with this many mods and it doesn't crash?
Vulcano's assistant
Banned
Well it shouldn't crash if most of those aren't scripts, I play with more than 140 mods, but about 80% are textures and graphical effects.
Okay,
First time skyrim player here and currently about 5 hours in, killed the first dragon. The modding has taken more time than actually playing lol. Nevertheless, i have found the ultimate skyrim mods and ENB, imo of course.
The problem with all other ENBS i have tried was that the DOF was often wonky at best and nighttime was far far too dark for my liking, even with two lantern mods trying to mitigate it. This is where project ENB comes in. In terms of color reproduction and nigttime lighting, this mod is without a doubt, the best. The DOF implementation used in the mod also works very well, the best out of all other ENB's i tried.
Video: http://youtu.be/7OoYe3amepY
Really recommend people try this ENB out in conjunction with "Climates of Tamriel". Performance is great on my setup too.
First time skyrim player here and currently about 5 hours in, killed the first dragon. The modding has taken more time than actually playing lol. Nevertheless, i have found the ultimate skyrim mods and ENB, imo of course.
The problem with all other ENBS i have tried was that the DOF was often wonky at best and nighttime was far far too dark for my liking, even with two lantern mods trying to mitigate it. This is where project ENB comes in. In terms of color reproduction and nigttime lighting, this mod is without a doubt, the best. The DOF implementation used in the mod also works very well, the best out of all other ENB's i tried.
Video: http://youtu.be/7OoYe3amepY
Really recommend people try this ENB out in conjunction with "Climates of Tamriel". Performance is great on my setup too.
TheVampire
Banned
TheVampire
Banned
Sometimes when Im playing I get these weird flashes of lights and colour.
Would anyone agree that its because I have way too many high res texture mods and my VRAM (1.5gb) is completely maxed out?
If I were to turn around really quickly that might happen but if i were to turn slowly it wouldnt.
Would anyone agree that its because I have way too many high res texture mods and my VRAM (1.5gb) is completely maxed out?
If I were to turn around really quickly that might happen but if i were to turn slowly it wouldnt.
I just installed Legendary edition and all the expansions with it. I've played vanilla skyrim unmodded but now I want to go all in with mods too, and I was hoping to get a few tips
I'm probably going for a stealthy archer type, going vampire lord with one of those expansions. Any essential mods for that kind of playstyle? Also how to pick graphics mods with minimal performance impact? My computer ain't the fastest anymore and it was chugging in that dwemer-based city when I played before the expansions.
I'll probably comb through the whole thread later, too.
I'm probably going for a stealthy archer type, going vampire lord with one of those expansions. Any essential mods for that kind of playstyle? Also how to pick graphics mods with minimal performance impact? My computer ain't the fastest anymore and it was chugging in that dwemer-based city when I played before the expansions.
I'll probably comb through the whole thread later, too.
Dick Justice
Banned
Does anyone know of a mod that prevents unarmed civilians from pulling out blades when they become hostile? I want to get into some fistfights, but they always pull a knife out. Even if I use the console command to remove all their items.
Also, which is better, Dance of Death or Advanced Kill Moves? AKM doesn't seem to work for me, the kill moves don't activate even after raising the frequency to 120. But I've heard it has some new animations.
Also, which is better, Dance of Death or Advanced Kill Moves? AKM doesn't seem to work for me, the kill moves don't activate even after raising the frequency to 120. But I've heard it has some new animations.
Blue Ninja
Member
Decided to ditch DualSheaths redux and its related mods, since I found the results less than satisfactory. Got the game running pretty well with the rest of my mods installed, but things went to hell when I tried installing a new ENB. The game first refused to launch with the D3D9.dll file, and later refused to launch with the ENB presets from Project ENB. Ultimately I just threw the ENB stuff out of the window, but now the game just shuts down every time it's loading a savegame. Very weird. And annoying.
Think that tomorrow, I'm just gonna delete the whole thing and start over, only installing a few mods. No more messing with the graphics of this game.
Think that tomorrow, I'm just gonna delete the whole thing and start over, only installing a few mods. No more messing with the graphics of this game.
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A More Normal Bird
Unconfirmed Member
It's a good idea to delete renderinfo and backup/refresh the inis when changing ENBs. The saves themselves can't be corrupted by it but they can sometimes refuse to load. I've found that if you start a new game and then load the save that can solve the problem too.
Sometimes when Im playing I get these weird flashes of lights and colour.
Would anyone agree that its because I have way too many high res texture mods and my VRAM (1.5gb) is completely maxed out?
If I were to turn around really quickly that might happen but if i were to turn slowly it wouldnt.
I'm having light flickering issues too.
Apparently it's because of the nvidia drivers, ENB mods do not support the 310.0 drivers, as a result there are green/blue flickering issues as well as brightness/darkness flickering, which is what I'm having.
It's pretty annoying.
Blue Ninja
Member
Yeah, I just did a complete reinstall. Am now introducing mods one by one, and it looks like SkyUI is causing the crashes. I just don't get what I'm doing wrong.
I try starting new games occasionally, but with SkyUI installed the game doesn't even begin loading a new game.
EDIT: It's not SkyUI. I deleted the INI files in my My Games folder so the game could generate new ones, and it started running. I then installed the better quality map mod, got that running too. Unfortunately, when I tried some more mods, the game CTD'd during loading screens again. It wouldn't even load after I removed the mods that could've been responsible, but no dice. It just wouldn't work anymore.
EDIT 2: Looks like putting SkyUI dead last in the load order may have fixed something. At least it started to load my game with an extra mod installed, whereas it crashed when I tried to load with that mod behind SkyUI in the load order. I use BOSS, but it may not be doing its job entirely right, it seems.
EDIT 3: Seems like putting SkyUI last really did do the job, I managed to get a game going, carefully installing only a few mods at a time and constantly moving that .esp to the bottom of the list. There's still some issues, like Ralof of Riverwood being catapulted into space (which I recorded) and some lighting flickering, but otherwise it's working like a charm.
Skyfireblaze
Member
Okay after I finally got my my own copy of Skyrim and don't have to pester my friend anymore to use his PC I decided to start from scratch instead of porting his NMM folder over though I'm a bit stuck at character creation... I mean how do people get these characters?
The latter seems to be the Ashen race though even with said race, the CharGen UI, envision face, CBBE and a bazillion hair mods my Ashen race HD looks like this...
It looks like something is wrong with the meshes yet I did make sure there are no conflicts between anything and I also made sure that Ashen HD is last in the load-order but no matter how I tweak the values the only race I get to look decently is the Lunari race, every other just turns out ugly :/ Can someone help me here please?
The latter seems to be the Ashen race though even with said race, the CharGen UI, envision face, CBBE and a bazillion hair mods my Ashen race HD looks like this...
It looks like something is wrong with the meshes yet I did make sure there are no conflicts between anything and I also made sure that Ashen HD is last in the load-order but no matter how I tweak the values the only race I get to look decently is the Lunari race, every other just turns out ugly :/ Can someone help me here please?
Quick question about the weapon mods;
Are these weapons only available for you through blacksmithing? I'd really like it if these weapons are out in the wild, so to speak. Specifically, I'd like it if the enemies used the modded weapons and dungeon chests contained them.
Do these mods offer that?
Are these weapons only available for you through blacksmithing? I'd really like it if these weapons are out in the wild, so to speak. Specifically, I'd like it if the enemies used the modded weapons and dungeon chests contained them.
Do these mods offer that?
Skyfireblaze
Member
Well the only other way to get them I know is cheating and getting them via the console :/
If in the mod description the author talks about them being added to the leveled list they can be found in containers and on npcs.
Welp, I've got an excuse to go back to Skyrim. Are any of the DLCs required for these? I'm running Vanilla. Dragonborn was just about the only thing I cared about for the Steam sale, and I completely forgot about it!
Were all of the characters you showed in the reference post created with these mods, or just the red-haired lady?
PepsimanVsJoe
Member
Nope. No DLCs are required for those mods.
Speaking of Apachii Hair mod, has anybody had success for that mod on NPC characters? I've tried several times, removed other mods, installed the dark face fix files, and still have the weird looking dark faces. I'd rather have correct skin tone than nice hair, anybody else have better luck or any tips to help?
Guess I'm spending a night in character creation, then. I'll have to update my other mods, as it's been a while.
I imagine using showracemenu to edit my existing character would fuck shit up.
Blue Ninja
Member
Huh, weird. I had a few texture mods installed (amidianborn's, to be specific), and whenever I tried to update my load order through BOSS it just wouldn't do it. BOSS would run, but my load order wouldn't change.
I decided on a whim to get rid of most of them (only keeping his fantastic skins for the Ebony armor), and bam, BOSS does its work again. I think I must've hit a spot where I had too many mods installed, or something.
I decided on a whim to get rid of most of them (only keeping his fantastic skins for the Ebony armor), and bam, BOSS does its work again. I think I must've hit a spot where I had too many mods installed, or something.
PepsimanVsJoe
Member
It depends.
Your existing character might look radically different once you install all those mods, especially if they add/change things like eyes/lips/noses/etc. Make sure you install via Nexus Mod Manager so that way if things don't look right you can easily uninstall and keep your old look.
If you grab RaceMenu be sure to also grab the fixes. Apachii is known to be pretty crash-happy without them. Also don't change your race unless you want to lose all of your skills.
EDIT: My minus image gallery includes a ton of modded Skyrim screenshots. I use Steam for the screenshots most of the time so the quality isn't the best.
aside from this one I grabbed with Fraps said:
NMM is not an option as I manually installed everything and don't want to start all over again. Chances are slim I'd want to go back, and if I do I know what to delete/replace anyway.
I don't know what RaceMenu is, but I'll look it up. I recall a lot of CTD's in dungeons back when I was playing, however, and I do have Apachii installed.
Edit: Just looked it up. Doesn't appear to do anything I personally care to do. I just wanna make sexy lady-warriors.
Thats a really weird problem there, since most of aMidians stuff is just texture replaces with nothing to sort except his glass variation esp. Ive only had a problem with boss when using the GUI version, so I only use the cmd prompt version and use the GUI to sort my userlist. Also when using Boss close down NMM cause it won't refresh with the updated boss log. Wrye bash does though.
Also just a little note don't go overboard with Texture mods because they will eventually cause you to crash. I have every 2k texture packs installed and am teetering on the edge at 3gb of ram use and crash every now and then in some areas because the game can't handle it so I am in the process of lowering some of my textures to 1k versions.
Skyrim Nexus has really gone to shit since I last used it. What happened? Has Skyrim grown in popularity?
1. Doesn't the Mature Skin/Body mod conflict with the Coverwomen mod?
2. Are your characters' faces presets, or are those your results post-tinkering?
3. What are the respective races in each example?
4. How do your characters look in normal gameplay? The screens you've posted look like some photo-mode wizardry.
Really appreciate any help you can provide.
Downloaded all of the mods in your post and have a few questions:Awhile back I ran into some nasty hardware issues and was forced to give up the Skyrims for a little bit. It's been amazing seeing how much the mod community has put out in the several months I was on hiatus. Just bought all the DLC and I'm super excited being able to play again. THIS time I'll actually finish the MQ!~
I'm in still somewhat in the character creation process, though.
It's pretty amazing how different ENBs can drastically alter the feel and look of Skyrim. I haven't settled on one out of the three I'm very in love with.
1. Doesn't the Mature Skin/Body mod conflict with the Coverwomen mod?
2. Are your characters' faces presets, or are those your results post-tinkering?
3. What are the respective races in each example?
4. How do your characters look in normal gameplay? The screens you've posted look like some photo-mode wizardry.
Really appreciate any help you can provide.
Blue Ninja
Member
Exactly, there was only one .esp active that I know of, but the moment I turned it off the game started sorting itself fine again.
I usually like to stick to developer-developed textures, since they feel the most authentic. But some of the stuff amidianborn did for armors was really cool. I'm still rocking his Ebony skin, though because of Morrowloot I've only found a shield so far. :lol
Aaronology
Member
1. Yes, but I don't remember which files overlap between the two. It's been a long time. I do know I always installed coverwomen first and then mature skin afterwards.
2. My friends joke that I spend more time in character creation than some people do playing the whole game. That really isn't far off. I don't use presets. There're several good mods that extend the creation options via additional sliders, though this character in specific was (initially) made with the vanilla race menu.
3. Those are all the same character! Aha, just different hairstyles, brows, makeup and enbs. She's nord, though her race didn't affect much.
4. That *is* normal gameplay, just with the fov set to 30-50 and the hud turned off. A good enb config can do amazing things to the way Skyrim looks. Specifically, the bleak/unbleak enb is the one being quoted most. Ironically that's the config I moved on from the quickest as I felt it only excelled at amazing skin tones. You should definitely check it out though, Takuan! The last two screenshots are from the Goddess Enb 3.0 config.
This is what my game looks like in general.
Also, yes, Nexus is super slow these days.
Gopher has a video about whats happening.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFhh4U55KMc&feature=youtube_gdata_player
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFhh4U55KMc&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Perfect Cha0s
Member
That's a buff timer from SkyUI. You can turn it off in the mod manager (the one in the Esc menu, I forget what it's called.) I believe.
Got it! Thanks!
I don't mind a buff time but that symbol is completely abstract lol.
Lion Heart
Banned
What can I do regarding save files? I migrated over from the PS3 version and I want to pick up roughly where I left off, which is about 50% of the main quest. Can someone who is about that far (or maybe 40%) give me theirs?
I think that might be apart of frostfall maybe? They are just buffs and or debuffs.
WELL I WAS TOTALLY WRONG
Get iHud (immersive hud by gopher) so you can turn the compass and or buffs off with a push of a button.
You could skip some quests using console. The console command to use is: setstage <quest ID> <stage #>
Main quest list: http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Main_Quest
Console command list: http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Console
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A More Normal Bird
Unconfirmed Member
Sites like the nexus are absolutely full of save files. Might be worth having a browse.
Unknown Soldier
Member
So has anyone ever found how to mod Skyrim to add martial arts combat?
I know there are limitations to what animations you can alter but I've always wondered.
I know there are limitations to what animations you can alter but I've always wondered.
Most of the animations are idles only, there is one for more acrobatic jumps that look weird.
This is my unarmed idle stance
It looks better with a 1 handed sword in my left hand though.
Thanks for the response! I have the day off and will be using it to experiment. I suspect you're using different eyes than me since I don't have Dawnguard. As for ENB, I like the warmer look of Unbleak for now but may try Bleak sometime in the future.
Lovely gallery, btw.
Deaf Spacker
Memb
Is my load order okay? Call me paranoid but I think everything ingame looks blurry, I was using the Unreal Cinema ENB but I couldn't get it to look anything like the author's screenshots so I uninstalled it. Since then everything looks a bit shit, it could be a mod but I thought I'd ask you guys:
Load Order by Tyzer Tiger, on Flickr
Screenshot by Tyzer Tiger, on Flickr
Load Order by Tyzer Tiger, on Flickr
Screenshot by Tyzer Tiger, on Flickr