The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - MODS & TWEAKS

badcompany said:
Brest textures
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UltraDad seems to know the most about that :rolleyes:

Seriously though don't trawl the thread just look at the first post and skim down it for the textures. In general the best place to start I would say is:

- Install the Official High-Res DLC (through Steam)
- Install SKSE alpha (which has the memory fix patch built in I believe)
- Install the Unofficial patch/es and Unofficial High-Res DLC patch
- Look at youtube videos and screenshots to help you pick and ENB that you like the look of (this makes the biggest difference to the visuals overall) and get that installed, tweak it if necessary to get good performance
- Then you can start installing graphical mods to your hearts content, stick to installing perhaps 2 or 3 at a time before checking your order or running BOSS then loading up the game and testing

My thinking behind this order is that the ENB has an effect on how the game looks overall, and is also arguably the biggest performance hog, so if you know you want to use one then installing it last is a mistake. You may end up with sub-standard performance and have to start pulling out other mods you already installed, or you may find that some of your mods don't look as good with the ENB turned on.

The absolute minimum you could do would be a few higher res texture replacers, plus an ENB (some of which do make the nights a lot darker) and possibly one of the lighting overhauls (not all ENBs play nicley with these though). I went with the "Serenity" ENB which works well with "ELFX" (Enhanced Lighting and FX) making the interiors and nights very dark (I also then installed "Lanterns of Skyrim" and "Wearable Lanterns" to help balance things out a little).
 
I've installed Skyrim for the first time. My initial intention was to play it through in a linear fashion, then restart it with mods, but the desire to change things in the world has proven too strong.

What would you suggest I add to my list of mods :

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arc@css said:
What would you suggest I add to my list of mods :
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Any reason why you are using Realstic Water and W.A.T.E.R?

Here's my list if you're curious (as I say above this is going for a "relatively close to vanilla" game experience, with a few small exceptions):

As I mentioned above I am also using the Serenity ENB and I have EWIs prefs.ini replacement from the Nexus

101BugsHD
Quality world map with roads
aMidianBorn Book of Silence x4 (Armors, Creatures, Unique items, Weapons)
aMidianBorn Caves and Mines
aMidianBorn Landscape
aMidianBorn Whiterun
aMidianBorn wolf armor + skyforge weapons patch
ApachiiSkyHair
ApachiiSkyHair Natural Re-texture
Auto Unequip Ammo
Bandolier - Bags and Pouches
Beards
Better Dynamic Snow
Better Sorting
Birds and Flocks
Birds of Skyrim
Brawls Bugs Patch
Brows
Climates of Tamrial - Weather Patch
Cloaks of Skyrim
Convenient Horses
Climates of Tamriel - Sounds of Skyrim - Patch
Detailed Rugs and Pelts
Distant decal fix
Dramatic Clouds Ultra
ELE - Interior Lighting patch
Enhanced blood textures
Enhanced distant terrain
Enhanced Lights and FX
Enhanced Lights and FX - SMIM patch
Follower commentary overhaul (FCO)
Footprints
Frostfall - Hypothermia camping survival
Glowing Ore Veins
Grass on Steroids
Guard Dialogue overhaul
High definition Ivy
High quality food and ingredients
High quality LODs
Immersive Armors
Immersive HUD (iHUD)
Lanterns of Skyrim
Lightning during thunderstorms
Lightning during thunderstorms - CoT patch
Night Sky V2 (Lorkhans)
OneTweak
Player Headtracking
Project Reality - Climates of Tamriel
Pumping Iron
Quality Snow HD
RaceMenu
Real Shelter
Realistic Boat Bobbing
Realistic Needs and Diseases
Realistic Water Two
Ruins Clutter Improved
Shooting stars
Skill Interface re-texture
skyBirds - Airborne perching birds
SkyFalls + SkyMills
Skyrim Distant Detail
Skyrim Flora Overhaul
SHD x5 (Dungeons, Landscape, Misc, Riften, Towns)
SkyUI
Sounds of Skyrim x3 (Civilisation, Dungeons, Wilds)
Splash of Rain
Static Mesh Improvement Mod (SMIM)
Supreme Storms CoT edition
The Choice is yours
The Dance of Death
Ultimate HD Fire Effects
Unofficial High Resolution Patch
Watercolor for ENB and Realstic Water Two patch
Wearable Lanterns
Wearable Lanterns SMIM patch
Wet and Cold
Winter Is Coming - Cloaks
 
arc@css said:
Thanks for the suggestions. Initially, I thought that not a great deal had changed, but I think I'm starting to notice more differences now.
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One problem with modding the game the first time you play it (well, not exactly a problem as such) is that if you don't know what the Vanilla game was like then it can be hard to tell what is the result of a mod and what was meant to be in the game (particularly with the very good mods that integrate well or add features that arguably should have been in the game in the first place)

My favourite gameplay mods though are the Frostfall + Realistic Needs and Diseases combo... On the one hand you could say it makes the game annoying or changes what the game is about too much, but I really like it and I don't think it impacts on the experience

Instead of just walking from quest marker to quest marker and the food, cooking and sleeping mechanics being pointless distractions in the game just for a bit more immersion if you want it... you're suddenly having to make decisions like "I could push onwards up this mountain now, but it's almost night and about to get very cold, plus I could do with some food.... I think I'll just visit an Inn or setup a camp first and head off in the morning instead". Makes the game feel so much more like a real adventure where your character isn't just an unstoppable machine.

In the ~30 hours or so I've played so far I've only once ended up in a bad spot because of these mods - on the mountain pass up to High Hrothgar... I almost froze and just barely limped into the keep at the top, totally starving and tired - it made the trial of getting up there feel so much more difficult and it was so relieving to get out of the cold and find a fire to warm up by
 
uncle_rufus said:
One problem with modding the game the first time you play it (well, not exactly a problem as such) is that if you don't know what the Vanilla game was like then it can be hard to tell what is the result of a mod and what was meant to be in the game (particularly with the very good mods that integrate well or add features that arguably should have been in the game in the first place)

My favourite gameplay mods though are the Frostfall + Realistic Needs and Diseases combo... On the one hand you could say it makes the game annoying or changes what the game is about too much, but I really like it and I don't think it impacts on the experience

Instead of just walking from quest marker to quest marker and the food, cooking and sleeping mechanics being pointless distractions in the game just for a bit more immersion if you want it... you're suddenly having to make decisions like "I could push onwards up this mountain now, but it's almost night and about to get very cold, plus I could do with some food.... I think I'll just visit an Inn or setup a camp first and head off in the morning instead". Makes the game feel so much more like a real adventure where your character isn't just an unstoppable machine.

In the ~30 hours or so I've played so far I've only once ended up in a bad spot because of these mods - on the mountain pass up to High Hrothgar... I almost froze and just barely limped into the keep at the top, totally starving and tired - it made the trial of getting up there feel so much more difficult and it was so relieving to get out of the cold and find a fire to warm up by
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Thanks for the information.

That's a good point that you raised in your first paragraph. I've made a point of taking a good look at your list of mods, and will add some along the way.

I can see what people mean when they say that they're modding Skyrim more so than actually playing it. :D
 
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I wish there was a more immersive experience in skyrim, like the wind blowing through the tree's, the sound of rain pouring on the ground, the hustle and bustle of city folk etc
 
Neil79 said:
I wish there was a more immersive experience in skyrim, like the wind blowing through the tree's, the sound of rain pouring on the ground, the hustle and bustle of city folk etc[/QUOT


Yes me to. its got a lot going for it but there is still lots more they could do with out having to leave it to the modders.
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I use Realistic Water Two Neil and it looks really nice :)

Couple of quick questions in case anyone can help:

- I've run BOSS a few times before to sort out my load order, but lately it doesn't actually seem to *do* anything, I get the html output page show up but the order of the mods in my setup doesn't get changed like it did previously (I can see in the BOSS output that certain new mods I've added haven't been moved to the place it says)... What's going on with that?

- There's something weird going on with my weather still, it works for the most part but occasionally the transition is really jarring - For example it can be bright sunshine one moment and then I get a message at the top of the screen that says something like "A thick mist blankets the forest" and a few seconds later all of a sudden the weather changes to mist/fog as if someone hit a light-switch. Anybody know what might be causing that?
 
BOSS has been replaced by something called LOOT.

That Real Shelter mod seemed to cause my weather transitions to break, dunno if you're using it.
 
Here is the link for Loot http://loot.github.io/, i have had no problem with it. Here is what my load order looks like with loot

GameMode=Skyrim

Skyrim.esm=1
Update.esm=1
Unofficial Skyrim Patch.esp=1
SMPC.esp=1
Dawnguard.esm=1
Unofficial Dawnguard Patch.esp=1
HearthFires.esm=1
Unofficial Hearthfire Patch.esp=1
Dragonborn.esm=1
Unofficial Dragonborn Patch.esp=1
HighResTexturePack01.esp=0
HighResTexturePack02.esp=0
HighResTexturePack03.esp=0
Vivid Landscapes.esp=1
Remodeled Armor - Vanilla Replacer.esp=1
Guard Dialogue Overhaul.esp=1
SkyRealism - Grass.esp=1
Remodeled Armor - Vanilla Replacer - Dawnguard.esp=1
BVFE_Serana.esp=1
Better Skill and Quest Books Names.esp=1
imp_help_dbrn.esp=1
Dark Dungeons for Dragonborn.esp=1
AzarHairPonyTail 03 - Havok.esp=1
Dark Dungeons for Dawnguard.esp=1
Atlas Compass Tweaks.esp=1
Betterland.esp=1
RaceMenuPlugin.esp=0
Skyrim Expanded Loot Tables.esp=1
Remodeled Armor - Vanilla Replacer - Dragonborn.esp=1
dD - Realistic Ragdoll Force - Medium.esp=1
Beards.esp=1
Auto Unequip Ammo.esp=1
RevampedExteriorFog.esp=1
imp_helm.esp=1
Brows.esp=1
imp_helm_dawn.esp=1
towConversation.esp=1
Further Dark Dungeons for ENB.esp=1
RaceMenu.esp=1
mintylightningmod.esp=1
Remodeled Armor - Underwear.esp=1
Perks Unbound - Merged.esp=1
randomthunder.esp=1
dD - Enhanced Blood Main.esp=1
Improved Combat Sounds v2.2.esp=1
dD-Dragonborn-Dawnguard-EBT Patch.esp=1
EnhancedBlood-ImprovedCombatSounds.esp=1
SkyFalls + SkyMills + DG + DB.esp=1
Distant DetailHF.esp=1
WATER DB Waves.esp=1
Atlas Legendary.esp=1
DungeonQuestAwareness.esp=1
ethereal_elven_overhaul.esp=1
Feminine Females.esp=1
Orc&ElfFix4TBBP.esp=1
ERSO 09 - Vendor Trainer Quest-giver protected USKP.esp=1
GrandMaster.esp=1
SkyUI.esp=1
MinimalHUD.esp=1
The Dance of Death - Ultimate Edition.esp=1
WATER DG.esp=1
WATER.esp=1
Alternate Start - Live Another Life.esp=1
Bashed Patch, 0.esp=1

As for the problem i would say Real Shelter as well. If anyone fancys a play through using unarmed combat then Grandmaster - True Unarmed and Unarmored Combat http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/13281/? and The dance of death mod make for a good laugh :)



 
Thanks very much guys will take a look, I'll also try disabling real-shelter and see if it makes a difference :)

Is the reason BOSS doesn't work for me now that they've stopped maintaining the lists or something like that then?
 
Anyone know of any mods that make my house a little more lively? Currently kitting out Windstad Manor and want a few more people walking about.
 
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