The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - MODS & TWEAKS

Vern1961 · 14 Feb 2012 at 14:24

I finally decided to play out the "main" dragon quest, having been on the game off and on for nearly two months.

Bit of an anti-climax, TBH, no credits or anything to mark the achievement like you get in Fallout, you are just left in the game world to carry on.

Still it's interesting to reflect back on all the different missions and places visited over my time in the game. I know it's not really over as probably still loads to do but as always when you finish the main story the motivation to continue the side quests dries up. Time to go off and take a look at SR3 and get ready for ME3. I'll undoubtedly return to Skyrim at some point, certainly no denying the huge value for money the game has given.

jonneymendoza · 14 Feb 2012 at 15:40

Vern1961 said:
I finally decided to play out the "main" dragon quest, having been on the game off and on for nearly two months.

Bit of an anti-climax, TBH, no credits or anything to mark the achievement like you get in Fallout, you are just left in the game world to carry on.

Still it's interesting to reflect back on all the different missions and places visited over my time in the game. I know it's not really over as probably still loads to do but as always when you finish the main story the motivation to continue the side quests dries up. Time to go off and take a look at SR3 and get ready for ME3. I'll undoubtedly return to Skyrim at some point, certainly no denying the huge value for money the game has given.

tbh some of the side quests are bette rthen the main quest

Rezident · 14 Feb 2012 at 18:26

jonneymendoza said:
tbh some of the side quests are bette rthen the main quest

Definitely agree with that, keep meaning to do the main quest but keep getting sidetracked, often for days at a time, sometimes when I'm actually on my way towards the main quest marker. This is the first proper adventure game I've played in ages. So much fun just exploring and, well adventuring, and now that I've installed a few mods they're really freshened the game up and now it looks incredible too.

Pighardia · 15 Feb 2012 at 02:47

Skyrim Monster Mod has been released - http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=9694

Personally I would like some kind of installer with a bit of customization, there are a lot of new creatures and I'm not sure all of then are really needed tbh.

Also, here is an interesting mod for any mages - Time Freeze Spell

weeble · 15 Feb 2012 at 15:34

Anyone used SBMS - Skyrim Balanced Magic System?
http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=5586

Just wondering what it's like compared to the Balanced Magic one.

Pighardia · 15 Feb 2012 at 22:39

I really don't understand performance in this game at all. I was running around Riverwood getting dips to around 18fps, it was unplayable. I alt-tabbed out of the game to make a cup of tea, came back 5min later and I am now running around the same area getting constant 60fps, and these are exactly the same areas, exactly the same scenes! No matter what I put on screen I can't get it to dip below 55ish! It is incredibly smooth

If only someone who knew what they were doing could get to the bottom of it!

Mr Krugga · 15 Feb 2012 at 23:07

Pighardia said:
I really don't understand performance in this game at all. I was running around Riverwood getting dips to around 18fps, it was unplayable. I alt-tabbed out of the game to make a cup of tea, came back 5min later and I am now running around the same area getting constant 60fps, and these are exactly the same areas, exactly the same scenes! No matter what I put on screen I can't get it to dip below 55ish! It is incredibly smooth

If only someone who knew what they were doing could get to the bottom of it!

What's GPU usage like in that area?

ChrisJSY · 16 Feb 2012 at 09:02

Pighardia said:
I alt-tabbed out of the game to make a cup of tea, came back 5min later and I am now running around the same area getting constant 60fps

Yeah it's been like that since day 1, the alt tab bug.

Mr Krugga · 16 Feb 2012 at 09:56

I realised yesterday that the game was using close to 2GB VRAM.

matt_fsr · 16 Feb 2012 at 10:50

Mr Krugga said:
I realised yesterday that the game was using close to 2GB VRAM.

This makes my 460GTX 768Mb card cry

But it runs fine for me off my SSD, when its' behaving itself and not thrashing my mechanical HDD for some unknown reason!

Sleepery · 16 Feb 2012 at 11:06

matt_fsr said:
This makes my 460GTX 768Mb card cry

But it runs fine for me off my SSD, when its' behaving itself and not thrashing my mechanical HDD for some unknown reason!

Your windows paging file might be on the HDD - see if moving it onto the SSD makes a difference.

Fanatic · 16 Feb 2012 at 15:50

Thar be trees in towns. Maybe too many, but it looks nice

http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=9558

Also installed this mod for glass weapons: http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=9892

But not found any glass weapons to take a picture of

Mark A · 16 Feb 2012 at 16:49

Looks nice ^^

Whiterun looks very bare without any trees. I went for the mod with deciduous trees.

freebooter · 16 Feb 2012 at 16:54

How do I install mods from Steam Workshop? I am logged in to Steam. The Workshop shows up in the Steam browser and I have found the mod I want but can't see how I am supposed to install it?

thanks

Narj · 16 Feb 2012 at 17:06

That trees in towns mod looks awesome. What does it do to frame rates, considering that Whiterun can be a bit heavy as it is...

Fanatic · 16 Feb 2012 at 17:10

freebooter said:
How do I install mods from Steam Workshop? I am logged in to Steam. The Workshop shows up in the Steam browser and I have found the mod I want but can't see how I am supposed to install it?

thanks

With Steam Workshop you "subscribe" to a mod, nothing as plebeian as "installing" a mod

. There should be a green button with subscribe on it to install the mod. Then you have to load Skyrim with the Skyrim Launcher so it downloads the mod.

PianoBasher said:
That trees in towns mod looks awesome. What does it do to frame rates, considering that Whiterun can be a bit heavy as it is...

Maybe a bit of FPS loss, depends really how high detail trees you have and what levels of shadows you have on.

Mark A · 16 Feb 2012 at 17:40

I didn't notice any difference in fps.

freebooter · 16 Feb 2012 at 19:50

Fanatic said:
With Steam Workshop you "subscribe" to a mod, nothing as plebeian as "installing" a mod . There should be a green button with subscribe on it to install the mod. Then you have to load Skyrim with the Skyrim Launcher so it downloads the mod.

Thanks. Why did Steam decide to use such daft terminology? I saw the Subscribe button but never thought that it really meant install.

Mr Krugga · 16 Feb 2012 at 20:16

freebooter said:
Thanks. Why did Steam decide to use such daft terminology? I saw the Subscribe button but never thought that it really meant install.

Subscribe because you get regular updates.

NMM, Mod Organiser and Wrye Bash are still miles ahead of the Steam Workshop in many regards.

Vimes · 16 Feb 2012 at 20:32

@Wrye Bash-I'm not really sure what I'm supposed to do when using that.

I tend to use NMM and then check out the load order using BOSS.

I have read that using Wrye Bash has certain advantages but I have never understood much about it. When I open it up it shows a bunch of my mods highlighted in red stating that they share the same load order as another mod but give little else to go on ot what, if anything, to change.