The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - MODS & TWEAKS

David_VI said:
Anyone recommend mods that improve the cities/towns? I tried the expanded series but it seemed like overkill!
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Someone made a list a few pages back with some brilliant recommendations for livening places up. I use Lively inns and taverns, Populated Cities, Travelers of Skyrim and Diverse Guards - they seem to work really well together. The inn one in particular is awesome, the city inns are literally packed in the evenings.
 
These are the ones I use, as posted earlier

Pighardia said:
I have been playing around with some settlement mods(new and overahuls) and there are some very good ones out there.

I would recommend the following if you think the smaller Towns and Villages are a bit lacking in Skyrim-

Expanded Towns and Cities (Morthal and Rorikstead especially are very well done)
Falkreath Expansion- Very good indeed.
Dawnstar Expanded
Light's Reach
Solitude Docks District (incredible)
Elvenwood
Pinewood Village
Cities and Towns Enhanced- Markarth Plus (adds more Dwemer ruins around Markarth, looks really good)
The Elder Scrolls Places- Laintar Dale and Oakwood.
Fleetford (with a nice player home)
CL Cities - Whiterun (a very nice overhaul of Whiterun adding a bigger market and things)

I tried Winterhold fully restored but didn't really like it tbh.
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I would also now add:

Forgotten Settlements(really is excellent, adds lots of little settlements, some inhabited, some abandoned throughout Skyrim)
Populated Cites and Travellers of Skyrim for more lively settlements.
Syerscote(nice new village, which tbh might look a little out of place to some)

They all work great together.
 
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Pighardia said:
These are the ones I use, as posted earlier




I would also now add:

Forgotten Settlements(really is excellent, adds lots of little settlements, some inhabited, some abandoned throughout Skyrim)
Populated Cites and Travellers of Skyrim for more lively settlements.
Syerscote(nice new village, which tbh might look a little out of place to some)

They all work great together.
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Thanks. Grabbing a few of em.
I tried Expanded towns and cities but turned it off as soon as I got to Riverwood, it felt really over the top, loads of trees and grass compared to outside of the village.. I'll give some of the other towns/cities a go to see if I feel the same way.
 
Are you sure it was Expanded Towns and Cities you used?...I didn't think it was OTT at all really. For most settlements it just adds a few houses and shops. I thought it struck a nice balance personally.

I have also just started using CK's Improved Windhelm which makes some nice changes to Windhelm, adding a few new shops and generally making the place look a bit better.

I love the settlements mods, I find them just as essential to gameplay ones in my game. I just find that some of them are a little too small, or too bare.
 
Pighardia said:
Are you sure it was Expanded Towns and Cities you used?...I didn't think it was OTT at all really. For most settlements it just adds a few houses and shops. I thought it struck a nice balance personally.

I have also just started using CK's Improved Windhelm which makes some nice changes to Windhelm, adding a few new shops and generally making the place look a bit better.

I love the settlements mods, I find them just as essential to gameplay ones in my game. I just find that some of them are a little too small, or too bare.
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I may be confused then, there's a few 'expanded' towns on Steam Workshop. Maybe there's two similar named mods. I'm trying this (http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/13608) now, which is the one you mean I think?
 
Yes sorry, that is the one I meant. That is a different mod to the ones on Steam Workshop. I don't use the Steam Workshop very often, so don't really see much on there.

BTW, Laintar Dale and Oakwood are 2 really nice little settlements, and they are only on Steam Workshop.
 
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I reinstalled Windows the other day and I didn't know Skyrim saves were only stored in My Documents - I thought they were in the Steam Cloud like all my other saves :(. So I lost them all. Apparently Skyrim saves are too big to save in the Cloud so it defaults to off.

I've restarted as a High Elf woman now. Was playing before as a warrior Norseman.
 
RCRN is a d3d injector. Similar to ENB in some respects but interacts with the game in a more intelligent fashion. It does impact FPS less, aye.

Dynavision can be pretty annoying in practice and it did wreck peoples save games in the early days.

HiAlgo boost dynamically changes the resolution of the game. Not recommended unless your PC is terrible.
 
yashiro said:
RCRN is a d3d injector. Similar to ENB in some respects but interacts with the game in a more intelligent fashion. It does impact FPS less, aye.
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Hasn't effect my FPS at all, makes the game look ten times better than vanilla, especially alongside RLWC and EnhancedLightingandFX.

yashiro said:
Dynavision can be pretty annoying in practice and it did wreck peoples save games in the early days.
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Fixed now though, otherwise it's pretty much the same as the DoF from the ENB, just slightly less intelligent.

yashiro said:
HiAlgo boost dynamically changes the resolution of the game. Not recommended unless your PC is terrible.
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My PC isn't terrible yet it's eliminated an annoying issue I had in first person where the game would shoot me forward slightly every time I ran in a straight line, so I'm happy with it.
 
My game keeps crashing when I use the vampire lord power. I did read that this is due to sounds of skyrim but this doesn't seem to make a difference. Anyone got any ideas?

My mod list is;

 
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I just got to Ivarstead and noticed this place is weird.. There are two of each NPC and a lot of the items have duplicates too. Any idea what kind of mod would cause this? Not noticed at any town other than Ivarstead.. I haven't got any mods installed that affect only Ivarstead!

Edit: Hang on I fixed it.. It was a mod, Expanded towns and villages was on twice for some reason... I'm stupid.

Thanks
 
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Is this my HDD or my GPU?

Recently remodded Skyrim, and on an old 6850 I was able to run with 1024x1024 compressed, modded textures with minimal to no stuttering, and since the upgrade to a 7950 I've gone with the biggest 4096x4096 textures, with some being 2048x2048 and the amount of stutter I'm getting has increased a fair bit. Is this down to Skyrim not being able to pull the massive textures off my HDD or running out of VRAM? I highly doubt it's a VRAM issue as I'm only at 1440x900.

Either way an SSD is required methinks.

Cheers!
 
Tons of people claim to be able to run everything I am, with heavy ENB effects and more graphical mods without ever dropping below 60fps though. You sure it wasn't just badly made for HDD's?
 
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