The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - MODS & TWEAKS

Michaeljcox24 · 10 Aug 2013 at 22:54

Also, as tempting as it is, please dont use the console and trainers to level yourself up to a demigod quickly. You will screw up some quests, and loose out on a lot of the self satisfaction of building your own character.

Suarez7 · 10 Aug 2013 at 23:18

Michaeljcox24 said:
Also, as tempting as it is, please dont use the console and trainers to level yourself up to a demigod quickly. You will screw up some quests, and loose out on a lot of the self satisfaction of building your own character.

Never understood why people would play it like that, it's pretty easy anyway as long as you don't just flail around.

I'm having a very annoying problem with sound buzzing/repeating and it usually happens near water, water flashes grey as well. Had the problem with objects shooting all over when entering a room as well. Apparently it's linked to 120hz monitors but setting mine to 60hz just makes the game appear stuttery and horrible. I'd hoped one of the unofficial patches would have fixed it but nothing I've tried so far has. Shame as I'm really enjoying it.

Michaeljcox24 · 10 Aug 2013 at 23:31

They only way you fix that to use an enb and set fps in enb.ini to 60fps. Its like walking into a room full of ghosts. I get the flickering water, but it goes away when i disable sli.

Michaeljcox24 · 10 Aug 2013 at 23:36

Skyrim doesnt like 120mhz. And the water doesnt like sli. I can live with water flickering though. The ghosts were annoying though.

Suarez7 · 10 Aug 2013 at 23:38

I'll try that then Michael, cheers.

Michaeljcox24 · 10 Aug 2013 at 23:45

I havent had to change the enb.ini in the latest version of realvision enb. It really is the best enb i have used, and the dof is a perfect balance for not having ugrids locked at 5. On a single 680 it runs decently. You need 680 sli for it to silky smooth.

Suarez7 · 10 Aug 2013 at 23:46

I'm using a 7970ghz edition overclocked so should be good for most mods really.

Angst · 11 Aug 2013 at 02:34

Fun mod zombie apocalypse http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/9318/?

spengos · 12 Aug 2013 at 09:33

I'm trying to get into this modding shenanigans but it's all a bit confusing. I downloaded the high res texture packs from Steam, but many guides recommend installing the 2K texture packs. My question is do these replace the high res packs or do you need both?

Michaeljcox24 · 12 Aug 2013 at 11:16

- The 2K are better, but use a lot of vram. I found with all of them installed I was exceeding 2GB

- Are you using Nexus mod manager?

spengos · 12 Aug 2013 at 11:21

Yeah I'm using the mod manager.

So do I need both high res and 2k textures or just the 2k textures? Still confused :confused:

Suarez7 · 12 Aug 2013 at 11:22

spengos said:
Yeah I'm using the mod manager.

So do I need both high res and 2k textures or just the 2k textures? Still confused

lol no, I think it's pretty obvious with textures you either use one or the other.

agnes · 12 Aug 2013 at 11:25

Huh... I never thought about that! So with both installed, the official high res and 2k, the first in load order is the main one used. The other is killed off?

Well it makes total sense but I never thought about that haha. Will try tonight to see if I can spot a difference!

Michaeljcox24 · 12 Aug 2013 at 11:27

If you have the VRAM, I would use the 2K. In load order, all you have to do is untick the boxes for high res textures and run BOSS.

agnes · 12 Aug 2013 at 11:32

Michaeljcox24 said:
If you have the VRAM, I would use the 2K. In load order, all you have to do is untick the boxes for high res textures and run BOSS.

Yea, will give it a shot tonight. I have a GTX 670 FTW edition which only has 2GB VRAM... Might be pushing it then...

Michaeljcox24 · 12 Aug 2013 at 11:52

I have a 690, and I still can't use them. Really have to watch your vram when you start modding skyrim.

Pighardia · 12 Aug 2013 at 12:43

2k doesn't have an esp, so will not need to be loaded. Just overwrite the HD pack, and untick them.(or use the HD optimized thingy)

You can combine as many texture packs as you want without worrying. The worst that can happen is they get overwritten. It can't cause any problems, except with V-ram as mentioned

agnes · 12 Aug 2013 at 12:48

Well I have a tonne of mods at the moment and I don't think I've ever capped my VRAM.

Any tools that are good for monitoring it in game?

Omaeka · 12 Aug 2013 at 12:49

You can always shrink the textures if it's too much on your system, the 2K textures shrunk to 512px like vanilla or 1024px ('HD')' still look way better than Bethesdas creations. 2K Lite is 2048px and FULL is 4096px or it may actually be 8192px, can't really remember. There isn't a card on earth with the VRAM to comfortably run 8k textures though, not even the 4GB 7970s or 3GB 780s.

Suarez7 · 12 Aug 2013 at 13:00

agnes said:
Well I have a tonne of mods at the moment and I don't think I've ever capped my VRAM.

Any tools that are good for monitoring it in game?

Afterburner or even running GPU-Z in the background and set the memory usage graph to show the max reading obtained whilst playing.