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Seems I should edit the title of this discussion because it looks like I will be using the Step CR Patch. I think I've managed to remove the need for the most of the Creations leaving just Survival and Saint's & Seducers. At Your Own Pace - College of Winterhold, Vrokii - Minimalistic Perks of Skyrim and Odin - Skyrim Magic Overhaul have also been cleaned from the patch after going through looking through it closely. Fingers crossed it'll hold up! I was planning to clean more but I learnt more about Atlas Map Markers so with the settings and a patch came to a way to use it. I also saw that with Alternate Start there is still an option to begin the game on the Wagon into Helgen... so if that's the case why am I trying to work to remove it just so I can start my next game that way? So far almost everything is Step Guide v2.3, except for a few skipped mods and none of the optional choices, and I loaded the game everything seems to be working. It is before Step 5 so there is no grass cache but everything looks good. I think the next steps before that are to now finish setting out the mods I'm going to use that come from outside the Step Guide, when that's all set up and my collection of Step Apocrypha is done and working together nicely I'll move on to Step 5.

All redone over the week and hopefully I paid more attention getting things set up. I also thought to try ENB for the first time if I'm giving this much effort to it and the performance test looks very good inside and outside Whiterun with the Step ENB - Heavy selection. After the cow tamriel -40 24 it was a little stranger outside Riften. I'm not sure if it's something with the ENB or if it's because I have not yet run DynDOLOD or if it's something with the precached grass but the ground looked like it wasn't up to it like it was outside Whiterun... maybe I'm just too critical here. I know I need to track down these because I'm learning that ENB needs more attention. I checked them with More Informative Console /Meshes/clutter/upperclass/upperbench01.nif /Meshes/clutter/upperclass/uppercupboard01.nif /Meshes/clutter/upperclass/upperendtable01.nif all had a blue showing like that and I could only find them with a mesh in SMIM - Quality Addon and no texture anywhere. Not sure if I should hide these meshes or if I should look for a mod with textures. I'll have to think about that while I double check everything is done right and then I'll run DynDOLOD and hopefully I'll have a good game to play over Christmas and New Years Edit: Loaded grass has purple hue at a distance this thread has given me some ideas to test out and see what I can do instead of turning off ENB Edit again: And another thread Weird ground textures in Riften before step 5 gives me some answers as I've been doing the performance tests before the DynDOLOD generation so Cathedral Landscapes (Temp) xLODGen is active. I'm just too nervous!

Another update: Starting from the beginning and reading through everything as I install it again I think I've found what may have been causing CTD Animation Motion Revolution It was installed because a couple of the other mods list it as a requirement, EVG Animated Traversal being the first since I am most interested in trying the "Ascend - Hidden Peaks of Skyrim" quest. I did not read the details closely enough when I installed it or I might have noticed it's a mod like Backported Extended ESL Support and is a requirement for older versions. Lesson of the day: Read everything before installing a mod.

It worked on the first try following your guidance. I can’t thank you enough it looks beautiful on the map. You’re the man, sheson shoutout from Brazil to you

Swapped to GE-proton9-27 and the game now launches Sorry for the slight waste of your time, and thank you for your help

I'm blaming x929669 that my whole weekend has gone to going over what I've now named Step Skyrim SE v2.3 Apocrypha because how much I'm deviating from the guide has put me many hours researching all the mods I'm using, skipping, cleaning from Step Patch - Conflict Resolution and looking for patches for holes that will be left. Not to mention loosing a few hours work when notepad closed before being saved! Or how Voices EN - Part 1 keeps aborting the download at around 40% because of an internal server error (401) and Nexus support email instructing me to instead open a forum discussion about that. These two short and direct YouTube guides from biggie_boss along with those forums threads have been helpful! Now I'm trying to alter things as well because even with Odin cleared as a Master for the Step Patch it is still referenced in a lot of places with Audible Overhaul... Honestly Thankyou to x929669 as much as it has given me headaches and confusion over the weekend it has helped me remember some of these things and learn some new ones. Also Thankyou Mercury71 for reminding me it's not just the CR patch I'll have to look over. This is the most work I've done since I had brain surgery a few years ago and it's taken quite some time to recover. I don't think I'll ever be able to do what I used to but it's good to try.

I am assuming this might be hard to replicate. It appears it ran out of resources because of starting too many threads trying to update too many things at the same time. If you can repeat it with some regularity, use the test versions instead https://mega.nz/file/oZpSjYCD#G0x8e2t1QRKkYftfT5Ut6arTLv1MiHMMTfRguX3P074 to see and report if it makes a difference.

Finally able to take a screenshot and show how the 2K option looks for Aspens Ablaze. Taken on the Ivarstead bridge at about 11am game time with the Step's Cathedral Weather and ENB. I haven't played with Aspens Ablaze's default 4K but I think it's new 2K option looks great

Everything is now working. I've made a couple of small patches for some of the mods I've added and there are a few things that need to be looked at but it's safe to say I am using the Step CR Patch along with the Step Lighting and Weather patch, Post Processing Patch and Heavy ENB Patch. It's taken a long time but hopefully getting a few small things looked at everything will be done Thankyou everyone for the support and encouragement.

Version 3.1.23 Frost River Mead will now be sold in each inn a delivery has been made to. Navmesh edits outside of Kynesgrove in cell 32,4 have been removed due to errors. The argument scene between Olaf and Vignar should now only trigger after Armen, Adrianne, and Fralia have all had their scenes with the Battle-Borns. This will resolve them not being where they should be for those more important things. Habd's Death Letter should not respawn as it's a unique item. (Bug #36054) Patches for RS Children and Skyrim Bridges are now included as part of the download with installers. [PC Only - not on Bethesda.net]

Sorry for the late reply! I'm back now and followed your advice! It worked. With how messy they both were I got rid of the Ninirim and Paraglider mods entirely. I was able to completely clean Jk's Riverfall Cottage Tweaks.esp completely and got through generated object LOD no problem! Thank you so much for your help.

Read the first post and/or https://dyndolod.info/Official-DynDOLOD-Support-Forum#Post-Logs which entire DynDOLOD log and debug log to upload when making posts. Use search to find existing posts/threads for a message as explained in https://dyndolod.info/Official-DynDOLOD-Support-Forum#Use-Search https://dyndolod.info/Generation-Instructions Disabling plugins, mods, meshes or textures is a troubleshooting step and not a fix. Whenever you read someone suggesting to disable temporarily something is a fix, ignore them as that does not actually fix anything. https://dyndolod.info/Messages/Property-Not-Found-In-Scripts A property (variable) is defined in the reported plugin and record for a papyrus script, but its definition does not exist in the script. A plugin is setting a variable that does not exist in a script. Whatever the plugin sets is not relevant and can be removed if the script/mod/plugin works as intended. This can happen in case scripts are updated or being overwritten. It can be a sign of load order conflicts of two mods requiring different versions of a script or of a mod author not properly error checking and cleaning up after making changes. With MO2 you can quickly check if a script file has conflicts with other mods. Otherwise, the property names (caelia, caeliadress, caeliashoes for example) might help with testing if that part of the mod works as desired or come back to the messages for troubleshooting if you run into a problem with the mod and script related actions. Missing properties are also reported in the papyrus logs as "X does not have a property named Y, property skipped." In case the script property does not exist in the script anymore intentionally, remove the no longer needed entry from the script properties on the mentioned record with xEdit. Usually that would be the mod authors job, but some do not care about their mods filling papyrus logs etc. with error messages they already know not to be relevant. See https://stepmodifications.org/forum/topic/20485-property-not-found-in-scripts https://dyndolod.info/Messages/Duplicate-Reference Showing the same model twice with exactly the same properties is just wasting resources, in case of animated objects or trees it might even be visually noticeable. If you want to fix that is your choice. The page explains how. Using xEdit that way often becomes second nature when modding for a while. You can always restore a plugin from back up or the download archive. https://dyndolod.info/Messages/Reference-Attached-to-Wrong-Cell That would be good to fix to address visual issues, especially if you notice issue with the reported references in the game. While running the xEdit script on plugins to fix it is trivial, it would be best if the mod author addresses it. https://dyndolod.info/Messages/Potentially-Wild-Edit-Reference In case the reported reference is not a wild edit but its position is intentional, make a post about it on the official DynDOLOD support forum. Thanks for reporting. The references in NightmarePlane.esp are not wild edits and the next alpha version will not report them anymore. Do not disable the plugin when generating LODs, since it is obviously wrong to disable a plugin just to avoid seeing a warning message about something being potentially a wild edit. It would also be wrong in case they were wild edits as disabling a plugin does not remove the wild edits either as explained. https://dyndolod.info/Messages/Textures-Do-Not-Match If and only if there are obvious differences of the textures between full models and LOD models, the log messages can aid in quickly finding the reason. It seems likely you are using ERM which changes a lot of those full models to use different textures. Use https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/88754. See https://stepmodifications.org/forum/topic/20475-textures-do-not-match. If mountain LODs for LOD level 4 look fine in game, nothing needs to be done. https://dyndolod.info/Messages/Filename-Does-Not-Adhere-To-File-Naming-Conventions Typically the filename of normal map textures ends in *_n.dds. You have RW2 installed that replaces the reported NIF files. Checking the mentioned texture RWTCalmWater.dds in an image viewer shows us that is it is a normal map texture. Either the mod author made a typo when naming the file or does not care about file naming conventions. You could rename the texture and edit the couple NIFs with NifSkope if you do want to see the warning.

Worked like a charm, thanks again!!

I uploaded a new test version that hopefully should run through.

Yeeees, it seems to work!! I did a quick test with just Tamriel LOD (without occlusion) and I'm getting perfect results with LOOT/autosort, no cyclic rules whatsoever! Thank you so much!!

Get the test version from https://mega.nz/folder/JdpU1KZB#cYTSPK6NW2CSbGrvQ-w_6A. If the issue persists, upload new logs and DynDOLOD.esm. A somewhat quicker test run with just Tamriel, object LOD, standard tree LOD and dynamic LOD would be enough.

https://imgbox.com/jvGhQ6zP Ok noted, mountains are good now thanks . Now just time to figure out why my distant grass cache is really bright/ washed out ha. The grass cache loaded the models but I seemed to have mess the textures up.

The log still reports deleted references for a handful of plugins, including Jk's Riverfall Cottage Tweaks.esp. In case cleaning does not remove them, remove the deleted references manually from the plugin with xEdit (right click, remove). https://dyndolod.info/Messages/Deleted-Reference If a master record is deleted (or permanently disabled via the enable parent opposite to player) and it is not referenced by any other record, it can most likely be removed from the plugin entirely.

This timely article may help you get an idea of what you'd be getting yourself into, if you're contemplating a DIY SteamOS or Bazzite on a cheap hardware box: I’ve already been using a “Steam Machine” for months, and I think it’s great [link to arstechnica.com]. The article also references many other articles and resources which you may find useful. If you're considering switching to Linux for gaming only, SteamOS or Bazzite would seem to be your best bet with the least fuss, assuming you get the proper hardware for it. Once your DIY "Steam Machine" is setup, installing and playing SteamOS-compatible games should be relatively painless. If on the other hand you're considering switching to Linux as your general "computing" platform, for productivity and other non-gaming activities, that would be an entirely different kettle of fish. It could be very painful and time-consuming, depending on which applications and hardware you need to use. I'm very familiar with Linux but only on the server side (no GUI). Last time I used Linux as a desktop platform was decades ago. So please take anything I say on the subject with a big grain of salt...

I will have to look into this, just starting out my research so that is helpful. I kind of expected having to build up a learning curve. That is why I want to build a modest rig so I can tinker and not worry about anything if I screw up. I have not got that deep into research on hardware just yet, but that will be one of my focuses going forward.

When I was looking over what SkyPatcher could be put to use for I was very impressed with SkyPatcher - NARC Remade - No Animals Report Crimes. Replacing the CrittersAintStitches.esp with an ini and the FOMOD offering a few interesting choices that all seem good lore choices I'm going to use it so Bandits won't report crimes except for werewolf crimes, the Companion Circle won't report werewolf crimes and the Dremora Merchant won't report any crimes when I summon them into a mansion so I can sell them the things I've stolen from the noble I've just killed.

Mod updated: Version 2.39 Added 2k resolution option. Edit: Just adding I haven't completed the new installation of this collection yet so I'm not sure how the 2k option looks. It'll probably take some time but I'll pick it and visit those trees to see when I get everything sorted.

Thankyou for this! With the discussion threads linked to mods in the Step Guide it is so helpful to see what and how things are being done with them. Because I'm deviating from Step's SkyrimSE v2.3 from 10-17 I won't be able to use the CR Patch from what I've read here I'll keep ELFX Fixes Ragged Flagon Fix.esp active.

The following time-saving procedure allows for adding new worldspaces to an existing grass cache, or for updating the current grass cache of specific worldspaces, without re-generating the cache of all worldspaces from scratch, which as we all know can be a very time-consuming process. This is not a guide about precaching grass from scratch with NGIO. It is assumed you have already precached grass with NGIO successfully at least once, and know how to repeat the operation. The procedure assumes Mod Organizer 2 is used as the mod manager. IMPORTANT: Grass Cache Helper NG is required for Skyrim SE/AE 1.6.x players. The existing grass cache must have been generated with Grass Cache Helper NG activated, and it must remain activated at all times for incremental precaching, and for playing. Step 1: Note the Editor ID of the worldspace(s) you want to add or update. Figuring out which worldspace(s) and their Editor ID is a task left up to the reader. See some suggestions at the end about finding out this information. Step 2: EXTREMELY IMPORTANT. Disable your existing grass cache mod[1] on the left side of MO2. Failure to do so will wipe out the entire grass cache during the later steps, which will then need to be exhaustively re-generated from scratch, which would make this tip completely pointless. Step 3: Edit NGIO configuration and specify the list of worldspaces to add or update. The NGIO configuration file is [..]\NetScriptFramework\Plugins\GrassControl.config.txt. Edit it with a text editor. You may want to make a backup copy of that file before editing it. Search for 'OnlyPregenerateWorldSpaces' or scroll down until you see it. Then comment out the line by prepending it with a # character. Add a new line like this, containing the Editor IDs you gathered in Step 1: OnlyPregenerateWorldSpaces = "Worldspace1EditorID;Worldspace2EditorID;Worldspace3EditorID" The list of worldspace(s) to add or update must be enclosed in double quotes, multiple Editor IDs separated by semicolon. Example showing the result of editing and specifying only one worldspace: Step 4: Launch the NGIO precaching process from MO2 as usual. You may need to make preparations[2] specific to your mod setup before launching the process. The process should only take a few minutes[3], more or less depending on the number and size of specified worldspaces. Wait until it completes successfully. Step 5: Move the grass folder from MO2's Overwrite folder to your existing grass cache mod. If you are updating the grass cache of worldspace(s), you will be prompted to confirm replacing the existing cache files with the new ones. Step 6: Undo the NGIO configuration changes you made in Step 3. If you made a backup copy of GrassControl.config.txt as suggested, simply restore it. If you added new worldspace(s), don't forget to edit GrassControl.config.txt and append their Editor ID to the existing OnlyPregenerateWorldSpaces line. Otherwise they'll be missing the next time you re-generate the entire grass cache from scratch. Step 7: Re-enable your grass cache mod on the left side of MO2. That's it. Enjoy[4] your updated or added grass. Notes [1] Your existing grass cache mod is the mod containing the grass folder, not the mod containing NGIO (inside a NetScriptFramework folder). If you have merged both mods, then you're doing it wrong. Split them into two separate mods. [2] Preparations such as reducing Skyrim's display resolution, disabling mods that may interfere with the precaching process, switching environments/profiles... Anything that had to be done when generating from scratch. [3] If you're updating Tamriel (Skyrim's main worldspace), the largest of all worldspaces, it will take quite a while, but it will still be faster to process it individually than processing all worldspaces in the entire load order. [4] You're not yet completely done if you use the grass cache for grass LODs. You'll need to (re-)generate LODs with DynDOLOD for the specific worldspace(s) you added or updated. Refer to the official DynDOLOD documentation for details: Updating or Updating. How to find out the Editor ID of worldspace(s) with grass Method 1: Recommended when adding new worldspace(s) for its accuracy. Requires xEdit, basic knowledge of its operation, and Worldspaces with Grass SSEEdit Script for No Grass In Objects. Install 'Worldspaces with Grass SSEEdit Script for No Grass In Objects' as instructed on its mod page. Load up in xEdit the plugins of the mods adding new lands, as well as any grass/landscape mod plugins. Omit other plugins. Run the 'List worldspaces with grass' script. When it's done, copy the resulting list and paste it to some place where you can edit it. Remove all vanilla worldspaces from the list. The remaining worldspaces are the new ones with grass. Example with Wyrmstooth: AlftandWorld;Blackreach;BloatedMansGrottoWorld;BluePalaceWingWorld;DarkwaterWorld;DeepwoodRedoubtWorld;Dimfrost;EastEmpireWarehouse;FallowstoneCaveWorldEnd;FallowstoneCaveWorldStart;FrostmereCryptWorld;JaphetsFollyWorld;KarthspireRedoubtWorld;KatariahWorld;LabyrinthianWorld03;LabyrinthianWorld04;MarkarthWorld;RedEagleRedoubtWorld;RiftenWorld;ShadowgreenCavernWorld;SkuldafnWorld;SolitudeWorld;Sovngarde;Tamriel;WhiterunDragonsreachWorld;WhiterunWorld;WindhelmPitWorldspace;WindhelmWorld;WyrmstoothWorld Method 2: Suitable when adding or updating worldspace(s). Physically go to the place in-game where there is already grass to be updated or where there should be grass to be added. Use fast-travel, coc or cow console commands, whatever works to get there. Open the (More Informative) Console and press the Tab key until the Worldspace & Cell information card is displayed. Ctrl+Click the 'World Space' field in the information card, to display more details. Note the Editor ID. See following screenshot for illustration: Method 3: When adding new worldspace(s), less accurate than Method 1. Requires xEdit and basic knowledge of its operation. Load up the plugin of the mod adding new lands in xEdit. Expand the Worldspace node. Select a new worldspace entry (i.e. not vanilla), and check the 'DATA - Flags (sorted)' section on the right panel. If it contains 'No Grass' then skip it, go to step 6. Otherwise note its Editor ID. Repeat from step 3 for each new worldspace entry. Illustrated example showing the first two worldspaces from Beyond Reach:

In case anyone ends up here to solve grass not appearing in their new land mods, like Beyond Skyrim: Bruma, Beyond Reach, Wyrmstooth, etc. after following step, here's a quick note to expand on "Method 1" of Mousetick's post. I'm sure I'm not the only follower of Step who doesn't know much about xEdit. 0. Install all your new land/worlds mods. 1. Install Worldspaces with Grass SSEEdit Script for No Grass In Objects by pasting its script (it's only contents) into the folder: Tools/xEdit/Edit Scripts/ 2. Run xEdit and be sure to check all the worldspaces you want to generate for. You can use Mousetick's method of only doing the new .esp's added by your new land/world mods, but I re-ran it all because I had to redo DynDOLOD anyways. 3. Select all the files in the left panel (CTRL+A), right click, choose "Apply Script". In the next screen that appears, use the drop down at the top to find the script "List worldspaces with grass" and then click ok/run. 4. When it is done, it will literally present a list of all the worldspaces, formatted correctly to be added to your NGIO "GrassControl.ini". There's even instructions in this window to explain these steps. Copy the list. 5. Double click the Step mod "SKSE64 Output" in MO2 and go to the INI tab. Choose GrassControl.ini. Replace the text in "quotes" after the line: Only-pregenerate-world-spaces = argument with your new list that you copied from the xEdit script. Be sure to keep/add the quotes around the list you paste. Be sure to back up the old list to be safe (though it can be found in the Step 2.3 guide, under "No Grass in Objects". 6. Save and close everything. You'll need to repeat the steps from the Step guide for LODgen, TexGen, and DynDOLOD (basically everything in Step 7). Mousetick's post basically answers this already, but like they wrote for Method 1 "Requires xEdit, basic knowledge of its operation" - this should cover the solution for anyone who is less knowledgeable with its operation Cheers!

To comment on my own comment, i've been playing these last couple of weeks with the 'NVCS Vanilla Weights' main file, which seems to be working fine.

Hi, Hackfield here! First and foremost, thank you for accepting my mod, it's a huge honor to have a place in the list that taught me how to mod my game back in 2013. Second, a couple of news: I'll soon release version 0.9 of the mod, including the ability to set Confidence and Aggressiveness of owned horses in the MCM (defaults will be Cautious and Unaggressive, just like in vanilla) Also, in version 0.9, I'll be finally adding the ability for horses to equip given saddles. Nothing fancy tho, horses will equip the last saddle you place in their inventory, kinda like what followers do if you give them a better gear than what they have. This feature will require Keyword Item Distributor and Papyrus Extender to work, however, they're completely optional, in the case someone is not interested in saddles, they can just skip these two requirements and the mod will work as usual. I'm always open to feedback and suggestions, and thanks again for considering my little mod.