The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - MODS & TWEAKS

Pighardia · 26 Jun 2013 at 18:13

agnes said:
Any ideas why the d3d9.dll file would cause my game to crash to desktop when launching? It's the 0119 version. Trying to get climates of tamriel and project enb to work.

It clashes with some oeverlays such as Afterburner, maybe Fraps.

Amraam · 26 Jun 2013 at 18:14

Pighardia said:
It clashes with some oeverlays such as Afterburner, maybe Frpas.

FRAPS works fine

agnes · 26 Jun 2013 at 22:05

Ah, D3doverider was running. Totally forgot I had that installed

Used it for smoothing out Borderlands 2.

Anyway, nope, I don't like the bluriness. And the performance impact

Any other suggestions? I just want darker nights and general better lighting.

Edit, anyone know of a mod that keeps buffs like the light buff on perm? I hate having to play a mage character and constantly rebuff every 30 seconds.

Edit 2: http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/11397/?

Mr Krugga · 26 Jun 2013 at 23:57

agnes said:
Any other suggestions? I just want darker nights and general better lighting.

Try CoT weathers with RLO or RCRN on its own.

agnes · 27 Jun 2013 at 08:22

Mr Krugga said:
Try CoT weathers with RLO or RCRN on its own.

Will do tonight

Cheers

I have a new found love!!! So, last night through testing on different mods, I'm up at a staggering amount of mods and I'm loving it

Looks amazing now. I also spent a good hour or so tweaking the ini files. Although I dropped a setting down from 8000.000 to 2500.000. Stupidly following a guide without realising it's the shadow draw distance for sharper shadows. Now I see the line infront of me cut in and smooth out the shadows. Doh! Need to revert that back.

Anyway, the reason I didn't instantly revert it, is I created a conjurer, which I have never played before. Now I have a mod to keep up ironflesh and such. And with SkyRe coming in and sorting out the tree. I thought I would give it a try.

So I'm loving it! Bound dagger, my summoned wolf at my side and my left hand spewing out flames when ever I don't want to get involved. Wolf die? Just summing it and fear everyone haha.

It's very good fun indeed

If anyone knows of any decent conjurer mods? Remember I have SkyRe so don't want anything that will conflict with that.

Tackle_Berry · 27 Jun 2013 at 10:44

Thinking about going back to this game, and using the STEP manager and using lots of mods. Do you think installing everything on a SSD is necessary to run everything at maxed settings on 2560x1440 or could I get away with it being on a decent mechanical hard drive?

Whats the size of the game with all the DLC's on vanilla?

pooley · 27 Jun 2013 at 10:51

Ash2097 said:
Thinking about going back to this game, and using the STEP manager and using lots of mods. Do you think installing everything on a SSD is necessary to run everything at maxed settings on 2560x1440 or could I get away with it being on a decent mechanical hard drive?

Whats the size of the game with all the DLC's on vanilla?

I would recommend using a ssd just because of the faster loading times.

Tackle_Berry · 27 Jun 2013 at 10:58

May have to pick up another SSD then, anyone know the total size with DLC's without mods?

Mr Krugga · 27 Jun 2013 at 11:43

Ash2097 said:
May have to pick up another SSD then, anyone know the total size with DLC's without mods?

Around 13 GB or so.

Tackle_Berry · 27 Jun 2013 at 11:48

Thanks, not as bad as I thought.

agnes · 27 Jun 2013 at 12:05

My folder is way over 20GB at the moment, with DLC and mods, my poor SSD, had to remove Grid and a few other 'new' games from it to clear space. Don't know why but I don't like filling a HDD up. I always like a nice chunk of space spare lol.

Rezident · 27 Jun 2013 at 13:13

agnes said:
My folder is way over 20GB at the moment, with DLC and mods, my poor SSD, had to remove Grid and a few other 'new' games from it to clear space. Don't know why but I don't like filling a HDD up. I always like a nice chunk of space spare lol.

Me too, I get nervous when my SSD starts to fill, especially since a massive steam update of shogun 2 filled by SSD even though I actually have the game on a different drive through a steamtool junction. Definitely safer to keep some free space at all times.

Mr Krugga · 27 Jun 2013 at 14:07

It's good practice to leave about 10% free space on the drive for temporary files, recycle bin, restore points, moving files around, page file, TRIM, defragging, etc.

Darujhistan · 27 Jun 2013 at 19:44

Hi just got my new HD, and I'm ready to get back to SKYRIM. I have deleted every mod etc that I had, and want to start afresh after encountering problems trying to go back to what I had a while ago.

I want it looking great, and would like to use an ENB or another at some point.

Can someone give me a textures etc install list and maybe a piece of software to manage it, I have lost confidence in Nexus Mod Manager despite uninstalling etc several times, I still keep getting the same stupid error, something to do with a log list in documents or something. I've deleted several times, makes no difference.

The STEP guide looks like a nightmare but I'm prepared to give it a go, if no-one can suggest a more simple process. I intend to get it looking how I want and then go for gameplay type mods.

Thanks.

Mr Krugga · 27 Jun 2013 at 19:49

There's no alternative to STEP if you're looking for a comprehensive guide. You could always use Skyrim Revisited for a more subjective guide, but it's even more detailed and complex.

http://wiki.step-project.com/User:Neovalen/Skyrim_Revisited

Voltage · 27 Jun 2013 at 21:41

grr, my skyrim wont start at the right resolution even though its in the right resolution in the launcher :mad:

Pighardia · 27 Jun 2013 at 21:59

agnes said:
Edit, anyone know of a mod that keeps buffs like the light buff on perm? I hate having to play a mage character and constantly rebuff every 30 seconds.

http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/11397/?

I don't use anything that does that specifically, but how about Wearable lanterns?

Amraam · 27 Jun 2013 at 23:25

Voltage said:
grr, my skyrim wont start at the right resolution even though its in the right resolution in the launcher

What's it set as in the ini files?

Amraam · 29 Jun 2013 at 00:37

306.97 cured my sun problem perfectly thanks! I'm not seeing and sun shafts despite it being enabled though?

KatanaDV20 · 29 Jun 2013 at 23:32

Can anyone please advise me?

All of a sudden Skyrim has started crashing - but this is a horrible crash because it completely and utterly and totally disables Windows and the only way out is a hard-reset & Windows reboot.

It happes about 5 mins into a game. The game just freezes. The image stays onscreen accompanied by a buzzing noise.

Thanks for any ideas.