The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - MODS & TWEAKS

By the way don't use the Bethseda High Res textures, they are known to increase vram usage and cause problems such as stuttering and or lag. ( This goes to all ) I had to take them off on my 280X and I had plenty of VRAM to spare.

This is clearly explained in the op and hasn't changed
 
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OLD GUIDE :

To install : Start your skyrim launcher, set all to ultra, BACK UP both ini files! Overwrite your existing ini's with the Ewis enhanced ini files and use my Skyrim edits below. Make sure to read through both files to make sure that they are set correctly. Then set the skyrimprefs.ini to "read only". right click your skyrim.ini, properties, click read-only.

My settings that must be added in, read instructions above first

Skyrim.ini

[Display]
bAllowScreenshot=1
iPresentInterval=0 (0 Vsync Off Or 1 for vsync on)
fDefaultWorldFOV=90 (where XX or 90 is the FOV value you want to change to)
fDefault1stPersonFOV=90.0000 (where XX pr 90 is the FOV value you put in fdefaultfov)
[Grass]
iMaxGrassTypesPerTexure=7
iMinGrassSize=100
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SkyrimPrefs.ini

[Display]
bDrawLandShadows=1
iMaxAnisotropy=16 ( Don't use any Driver Control Panels or RadeonPRO for AF! )
bFloatPointRenderTarget=0 ( use 1 for ENB )
bShadowsOnGrass=0
bDeferredShadows=1
bDrawShadows=1
[Controls]
bMouseAcceleration=0
fForegroundMouseAccelBase=0
fForegroundMouseAccelTop=0
fForegroundMouseBase=0
fForegroundMouseMult=0
[General]
fdefaultfov=90 ( Change the FOV to suit your needs )
[Grass]
b30GrassVS=0
bAllowLoadGrass=0
bAllowCreateGrass=1
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CONSOLE COMMAND TWEAKS
( (To open the console press the button to the left of number 1 on your keyboard, press it again to close) ) - Tilde Key

"player.forceav carryweight xxxx" example = player.forceav carryweight 5000. I can confirm this one works, I also tried two other codes for this previously which were "player.setav carryweight x" and "player.modav carryweight", they both worked in-game but once you quit out and logged back in they no longer worked, so "player.forceav carryweight xxxx" is the only code that actually works and sticks.

"FOV 95" Use the console command and type "FOV 95" for a fov of 95, or any number you wish. Make sure to save afterwards so it sets it every time!
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MODS ( CLICK TRACK FILE ON THE ACTIONS TOOLBAR ON SKYRIM NEXUS MOD WEBSITE FOR ANY NEW UPDATES ) - IN FILE TRACKING CENTER ANY MOD FILE YOU'VE TRACKED WILL HAVE LAST UPDATES AND LATEST VERSION.

Mr Krugga said:
The easiest way to track the latest updates to your favourite mods is to add them to your tracking list.
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http://www.skyrimnexus.com/members/tracking/

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RECOMMENDED MODS BY MEMBERS 29/05/14 - USE AS A ROUGH GUIDE ONLY -

--> Don't install the Skyrim High Res texture DLC from Bethesda , if you have installed it, untick the high res texture pack ESP's <---

--> Make sure to read the compatibility listing in the mod pages <---

Add [Launcher] bEnableFileSelection=1 to the
My Documents\My Games\Skyrim\SkyrimPrefs.ini file before Data Files in Skyrim Launcher for ESP Mods
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0) Mod Organiser - NMM alternative with more options
BOSS - load order sorting

1) The Nexus Mod Manager (NMM) is RECOMMENDED for properly installing most mods
2) The Skyrim Script Extender (SKSE) , ALPHA VERSION IS REQUIRED FOR MEMORY PATCH and started for playing skyrim via Nexus Mod Manager

3) Unofficial Skyrim Patch - ( UNOFFICAL SKYRIM PATCH IS OPTIONAL, MAY SCREW UP SOME MODS AND NEEDS SPECIAL CARE WITH LOAD ORDER )

4A) SkyFalls and SkyMills - Animated Distant Waterfalls and WindMills

4B) Better Dynamic Snow

4C) Ruins Clutter Improvement

4D) Ultimate HD Fire Effects

4E) Detailed Rugs

4F) High Quality Food and Ingredients

4G) Static Mesh Improvement Mod - SMIM

4H) Skyrim HD - 2K textures ( An SHD lite version is available ) ( Install all SHD Full's and also SHD lite Riften ) ( Overwrite all files )

5A) Ash Rocks ( Overwrite)

5B) SkyUI + Better Sorting + Categorized Favorites Menu - interface replacement

6) Randomn Encounters + Randomn Encounters Patch This mod adds 216 new spawn points into the wilderness of Skyrim ( YES to all - OVERWRITE in NMM if it asks)

7) Vandr Presents - HD Imperial Tower

8) Vandr Presents- HD Mudcrabs
Vandr Presents- HD Falmer Pod
Vandr Presents- HD Spider Nest

9A) Skyrim Flora Overhaul ( YES TO OVERWRITE )

9B) Grass on steriods ( Gives you lots of nice grass, but you MUST read the install instructions ) - Optional mod

10) Enhanced Lights and FX ( Overwrite + Install SMIM Meshes - untick ELFXEnhancer.esp )

11) Deleted

12) Enhanced BLood!

14) Dance of Death ( Make sure to pick the right install for what dlcs you have )

15) Conan Hyborian Age & Patch ( Excellent quest, new dungeons )

16) Sounds of Skyrim - The Dungeons ( Adds shreaks and screams and much more to your Dungeon experience * install the compatibility option ONLY if you have any issues * )

17) Sounds of Skyrim - The Wilds ( The Wilds focuses on adding sound effects in Skyrim's wilderness. With the 115 new sound effects * install the compatibility option ONLY if you have any issues *)
- Click NO to overwrite when installing ^, they share the same files )

18) Sounds of Skyrim - The Civilization ( The Civilization focuses on adding sound effects in towns and villages, an amazing experience * install the compatibility option ONLY if you have any issues *)
- Click NO TO ALL when given the option to overwrite when installing ^, they share the same files )

19) Guard Dialogue Overhaul

20) Alternative Start - LIVE ANOTHER LIFE ( Want to start as an Imperial or even a farmer, then use this! )

21) Quality Road Map - Better map with Roads!

22) Cloaks of Skyrim ( adds 100's of new cloaks! )

23) Realistic Water 2 ( The best water mod! )

24) Skyrim Immersive Creatures - As the name implies, immersive creatures for Skyrim! ( Make sure Rebirth Monster - SIC Patch.esp is deleted or skyrim will crash )

24B) XP32 Maximum Skeleton ( Enables better control of body animation )

25) DIMONIZED UNP female body - Gives a very realistic look, (can't link contains rude pictures ) & ( YES to all - OVERWRITE in NMM if it asks)

26) SG Female Textures Renewal - Overhauls the female textures to look more real ( Click the UNP NMM install : ( YES to all - OVERWRITE in NMM if it asks)

27A) Moonlight Tales - Werewolf and Werebear Overhaul - Overhauls the textures

27) Heart of the Beast - Werewolf Sound and Texture Overhaul - Extremely vicious sounds and executions with added bone cracking and blood splattering sounds ( YES to all - OVERWRITE in NMM if it asks)

28) combat sounds

29) Birds of Skyrim

30) DELETED

31) KenMOD - Lockpick Pro - Cheat

32) Skyrim Speeds ( Changes the Walk and Run speeds - Use the Optional application to change them yourself by loading the ESP file)

33) Populated Lands/Roads/Paths ( Install and select the no script version/no hirable mercenaries ( Second box I think ), scripts can cause too many issues! )

34) Immersive Weapons

35) Immersive Armours ( Make sure to install the UNP support :Instructions for file -> Simply enable with NMM(say no to update) or drag and drop into your data folder. )

36) Dynamic Loot

27) DELETED

28) Locational Damage (Optional - Want to kill someone instantly with a head shot? Now you can! *Warning, makes combat deadly with big mobs* )

29) Book Covers Skyrim ( Overhauls the book covers, they look like real books! )

30) Fantasy soundtrack ( Want some more epic music from battles to taverns? )

31) DELETED

32) Quality Snow HD 4K ( Can choose between 1k and 4k, make sure you have a good pc for higher textures - OVERWRITE ALL -

32B) Quality Snow Flakes

33) Vivid Landscapes - All in One ( High quality textures combined with UV improved, parallax enhanced meshes ) - INSTALL UPDATE/OPTIONAL FILES - NO TO UPDATE IN NMM & OVERWRITE ALL -

--NEW MODS JAN 2014--

34) Immersive First Person View ( Look down and see those boobies as they should be seen! )

35) Deleted

36) FemFeet Redesigned ( Makes feet look more life like and not vanilla ) - ( Select FFR For UNP, UNPB, SevenBase Original/Natural, and Vanilla Female ) ( Yes to overwrite )

37) Better Hand Mesh for UNP UNPB UNPC ( makes hands look more life like ) - ( Yes to overwrite )

38) DELETED

39) Throthgar- A Fully Voiced Follower (recommended by UltraDad)

40) Skyrim Realistic Texture Overhaul Dragonborn ( Just the Architecture )
Skyrim Realistic Texture Overhaul Mountains

41) Ash Rocks - Skyrim Realistic Texture Overhaul Dragonborn Addon -- fixed ( Overwrite)

42) Climates of Tamriel( Lighting and Weather ) ( Recommend Dungeons and Caves - Hazardous / Vanilla Nights )

43) Supreme Storms - Climates of Tamriel Edition

44) Expanded Snow Systems ( Make sure to install the patches for SOS )

43) Climates of Tamriel Weather Patch ( Untick Climates of Tamriel Nights esp in NMM before use if you have it, select Level 3 nights if you wish)

44) Audio Overhaul for Skyrim AOS
( Install the full version + Climates of Tamriel patch + CTD Fix )
( Both patches need to load after CoT and Audio Overhaul and requires all files of both mods - Click NO to upgrade - )
( Warning * You must Click NO to overwrite Improved Combat Sounds * )

45) Interesting NPCs

46) Inconsequential NPC's

47) Better Dwemer Spider Textures

48) Crime Bounty Decay

49) Realistic Aspen Trees ( Make sure to select the create file depending the mods installed! )

50) Minimal Hud

51) Remove Interior Fog V2 ( Full version = All DLCS )

52) Fair Skin Complextion ( Yes to overwrite )

( You *may* have to re-enable "Read Only" in skyrimprefs.ini and skyrim.ini after or before using Nexus Mod Manager! )


STEP GUIDE

For those that don't wish to use my mod list and prefer something else, then try the step guide

Created by TheCompiler, STEP is a collaborative project with input from the modding community, technical volunteers, and project administrators. The goal is to provide tested and validated methods for establishing and maintaining an enhanced modded Skyrim. Thus, the Guide provides detailed, well-tested build instructions for a solid modding template. New modders can follow STEP explicitly, or more experienced modders may use it as general guide.
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Link

UPDATE : SKYRIM MEMORY PATCH - ( NOT NEEDED ANYMORE, USE SKSE ALPHA)

You can now download an already updated and patched dll ("Memory Allocation Patch") if you don't want to compile one yourself. Patches Skyrim engine memory allocation to allow for larger reserved blocks, to eliminate a remaining cause of ILS/CTD issues that ENBoost didn't handle. Replaces the Safety Load plugin for SKSE.
Download-Unpack to main skyrim folder and overwrite previous!
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Download


UPDATE - SKYRIM CRASH ON STARTUP FIX!




UPDATE - SKYRIM CRASH ON LOAD GAME FIX!

1)
Sometimes due to so many mods certain save games can corrupt which means they wont load when Skyrim is started up from the get go. I've found the best way around this is by starting a new game, saving that then loading the corrupted save. Whenever you load Skyrim again, load the fresh new game save then load the corrupted one, this will fix the crashing :)
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2)
Make sure that you are not forcing AF, either through your Driver Control Panel or using RadeonPRO (Application Preference Only). I've found through testing that this can cause saved games not to load and you will crash to desktop! To use AF, go into your Skyrimprefs.ini file, located in Documents/My games/Skyrim and set iMaxAnisotropy=16. You might also be able to manually set this in an enbseries.ini if you are using any ENB's
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UPDATE - SAVE GAME SCRIPT CLEANER!

Located HERE

1. Click open, choose a save game file.

2. Click a "Fix all #->" button to remove all scripts, that are detected as orphan.
It can take a while if there is lots of them.

3. Click "FixScriptInstances", it removes all orphan script instances.

4. Push Save button -> overwrite.. -> yes (only if you have a backup)
Load a save in game, and save it again. Now it should be fully cleaned.
Re-saving removes script names etc.
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Clean Install Guide ONLY

Mr Krugga said:
For anyone looking to clean up their Skyrim install, you don't need to reinstall the whole game, in fact you won't have to redownload most files.

To completely get rid of mods altering the game, you'd need to dig into 3 folders, the main Skyrim folder, Skyrim/Data and Documents/My Games/Skyrim.

1) The vanilla folders in skyrim are Data, DirectX10, DotNetFX, lex, Logs, Papyrus Compiler, reslists, Skyrim and VCRedist.

Files are: Archive.exe, atimgpud.dll, binkw32.dll, CreationKit.exe, flowchartx32.dll, high.ini, low.ini, medium.ini, readme.txt, RendererInfo.txt, Skyrim_default.ini, SkyrimEditor.ini, SkyrimEditorPrefs.ini, SkyrimLauncher.exe, ssce5432.dll, steam_api.dll, TESV.exe, and VeryHigh.ini.

You can safely remove all other folders and files created by third party applications, FXAA injectors/ENB configs, etc.

2) The only essential folders in Skyrim/Data are Interface, Strings and Video.
The rest are added with mods and scripts so you can safely delete them.

Since some mods can modify files in Interface and Strings folders, I recommend to remove them all and recover afterwards, the files are small in size anyway.

Essential files: Skyrim - Animations.bsa, Skyrim - Interface.bsa, Skyrim - Meshes.bsa, Skyrim - Misc.bsa, Skyrim - Shaders.bsa, Skyrim - Sounds.bsa, Skyrim - Textures.bsa, Skyrim - Voices.bsa, Skyrim - VoicesExtra.bsa, Skyrim.esm, Update.bsa, and Update.esm.

You can safely remove all other files and folders.

3) Documents/My Games/Skyrim includes your save games (make a backup!) and two config files, SkyrimPrefs.ini and Skyrim.ini.

Remove these files and let the game rebuild them on launch.


After you've gone through these steps, launch Steam, right click on Skyrim, go to Properties, Local Files and Verify Integrity of Game Cache.

Once the game has finished downloading any remaining or broken files, you're done, your game is as good as after a fresh install!


Clean Save

How to Do a Clean Save
Some mods require a clean save when you uninstall them or when you upgrade to a newer version.

Follow these steps:
1.) It is generally best to go to an interior cell, and smaller cells are best. An interior cell is apparent because you have a loading screen when you "open" the door from the outside (such as when you enter most buildings).
2.) Save your game to a new save slot (do not overwrite an earlier save) and quit the game.
3.) Uninstall the mod.
4.) Start the game and load your last saved game.
5.) After the game full loads, make a SECOND new save (do not overwrite an earlier save) and quit the game.
6.) If you're upgrading the mod that you uninstalled, you can now install the new version.
7.) Start the game and load your previous saved game.
8.) Just to be safe: make one more new save (do not overwrite an earlier save).
9.) That's it!
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Skyrim + ENB + Crossfire Fear.EXE profile is now running atleast double in frame rates, much nicer.

However the VRAM usage is up to about 3600MB! Which is far more than my GPU memory, so I'm going to have to lower it some how. Any ideas?
 
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