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Sorry, I've got no clue about 3). I don't use immersive armor. You could try asking on the nexus thread for Mod Organizer?

Okay, once again, thanks. You've answered all my DDSopt and VRAM questions and everything is clear now.

I think I can help you with 2). First off, I'd recommend using the DDSopt guide: https://wiki.step-project.com/Guide:DDSopt I didn't manage to figure out how to do Optimize Textures with MO, but DDSopt gives you a lot of control with which you should be able to do what you want. Basically after you follow the guide, you've got optimized textures, and you can easily use MO to overwrite the unoptimized ones, either by installing it as a different mod (what I did with the High Resolution DLC and default Vanilla Textures) or (and I'm not sure about this since I'm busy with it myself) by copying it over in the mod folder in your Mod Organizer folder. As an added benefit, DDSopt should be even better then OT.

Thanks for the reply! For the first point: The STD folder in "Vanilla Extracted" is empty. I probably made a mistake while extracting that, because all the other folders do contain files (and took quite long to process although the third HRDLC3 not so long). I'll redo that step then. Second: Thank you, that is exactly what I needed to know. Third: I actually mostly used the 1Kx1K textures, except for textures which are rare and infrequent, hoping to leave enough space for ENB in advance. Regardless, I'll test if I've got enough VRAM now. Are there benefits to keep reducing VRAM usage however? Or is the performance difference between a usage of 1.5GB VRAM and 1.75GB VRAM not really worth the effort of combing through all the mods? Fourth: Thank you for the suggestion, I'll look into that!

Hi, I'm currently working on DDSopting my Skyrim files post STEP install but working through Mod Organizer causes some confusion so I have a couple of questions. First question: I followed the DDSopt until completion of the Optimization section. This resulted in 4 Archives (I didn't touch the DLC ones). Of these archives, the last one, the STD, is empty. Don't know why. I'm unsure what to do with the other 3 archives. At the moment I've added them as mods and giving them the highest priority through Mod Organizer, it is done like in the included screenshot:Â Second question: I've got a HD 6970M with 2GB VRAM with an i7-2630QM (up to 2.8 Ghz). I've done a mostly baseline STEP install with a couple of high quality options for rare textures (like maps). This together with Phinix ENB and CoT caused me to exceed my VRAM limit and have bad performance. Should the DDSopt of the HD DLC give me enough leeway to stay under my 2GB VRAM, is it worth it to keep doing DDSopt? Would that keep improving my performance? Third question: If so, what would be the recommended procedure for regular STEP mods? Copy it to the in folder, ddsopt into the out folder and copy/paste the contents of the out folder over the original folder in the Mod Organizer file structure? I'd appreciate any and all help you guys could give me. STEP so far has been a wonderful experience, but modding remains somewhat confusing.