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Try disabling the borderless window settings and see if things improve. I know my system doesn't like the borderless window settings for whatever reason.

I see it. That is most strange. I've never seen it before. Is it there in Vanilla?

Nvidia Optimus has always been a headache.

Perhaps a bad ini edit? I'm merely guessing with the info provided.

Try these shadow settings and see if the issue is resolved: fShadowDistance=4000.0000fShadowLODStartFade=200.0000fShadowBiasScale=1.0000iBlurDeferredShadowMask=4iShadowMapResolution=2048iShadowMapResolutionPrimary=2048iShadowMapResolutionSecondary=2048iShadowSplitCount=2iShadowFilter=3iShadowMode=3iShadowMaskQuarter=4bShadowMaskZPrepass=0bDeferredShadows=1bDrawShadows=1bFloatPointRenderTarget=0 Of course, change bFloatPointRenderTarget=1 if ENB is enabled.

1. You would merge. Replace would remove the non-patch files. Patches are optional. I personally rename such packages, but both merge and rename are valid. 2. The reason it installs with the same name is it is from the same mod! This is indeed different from NMM, which installs all optional files, etc., as separate mods. MO gives you the option to combine the optional files into the main mod.

If you rename Dawnguard.bsa to Dawnguard - Original.bsa, etc., you break MO non-MO mod functionality, which breaks the Unofficial Patches in MO.

Should just be able to tick and untick them.

Incorrect. The MO BSAs are loaded exactly as the order indicated by the archives tab, because they are loaded as registered BSAs (in practice). Therefore, your Dawnguard - Optimized.bsa shall be overwritten by Dawnguard.bsa. You have to place it as a mod in MO in order to load it after Dawnguard so that it provides the optimized textures (Dawnguard is merely the example here).

Updated Pack template to only show the Required Packs, Compatible Packs, and/or Required DLC(s) if they have been specified.

That is true. You don't have them making ini tweaks. I merely mention that as a potential problem. BUT you have MO users installing these to the data folder. If you do that, all DLC optimized textures will be overwritten by the DLC BSAs. And there is potential if for whatever reason the BSAs are sorted to the top of the list in the Archives tab, that it will be rendered completely placebo.

19 kb doesn't sound bad. It's when you have like 120kb for STEP Extended that you need to be wary. The only real way to know if you're good is to play the game and look for any bugs!

If there is one of these in your Plugins tab in the Right Pane, untick it.

What I will say is your instructions for installing in Mod Organizer are incredibly misguided. Indeed, in your way, it is likely that the optimized textures will not be used at all! And, you are doing a terrible disfavor by bundling the vanilla and DLC textures together. Installation for Mod Organizer should be as follows:1. Download Optimized Vanilla Textures.2. Install the mod four different times, using only the Skyrim - Textures.bsa for one, Dawnguard - Textures.bsa for one, HearthFires - Textures.bsa for one, and Dragonborn - Textures.bsa for one as follows:Vanilla OptimizedDawnguard OptimizedHearthfire OptimizedDragonborn Optimized3. Place Vanilla Optimized at the top of your modlist in priority.4. Place Dawnguard Optimized directly after Dawnguard non-MO mod.5. Place Hearthfire Optimized directly after HearthFires non-MO mod.6. Place Dragonborn Optimized directly after Dragonborn non-MO mod.7. Download Optimized High Res DLC.8. Install mod like any other mod, but place it after the HiResTexturePack non-MO mods.9. In the archives tab, make sure MO is managing mods and tick the BSAs.10. Do NOT do ini edits. MO manages the BSA ini edits automatically.Indeed, I think MO will totally wipe out any custom ini edits to the archivelist when it manages mods, even if you include it as an ini tweak. Indeed, using an ini tweak for this might break Mod Organizer functionality.

Fixed Pack/PostConfig template so that it wouldn't in some cases show the wiki code == Post Installation Configuration == at the bottom.

Updated the Pack template with a few changes: [*]Fixed the Required Packs, Compatible Packs, etc. to be able to show a large number of packs without intruding on the wrong lines by turning it into an invisible table. (example: https://wiki.step-project.com/Pack:Requiem) [*]Turned the main pack info box into a table of sorts, allowing its size to change dynamically upon content given. (See https://wiki.step-project.com/Pack:Requiem vs. https://wiki.step-project.com/Pack:Explorers_Guide) [*]Placed the link to the forum thread for the pack to be in front the main Pack Info via the table. (Compare https://wiki.step-project.com/Pack:STEP:Extended vs. https://wiki.step-project.com/Pack:Requiem vs. https://wiki.step-project.com/Pack:Explorers_Guide). Not certain if this will stay. [*]Fully backwards-compatible.

https://wiki.step-project.com/Guide:Mod_Organizer#tab=Installing_Mods

It's checking for 3.5 according to what I've only recently learned. It is because of the NMM code requiring dotNet. I still don't know if that is the actual version it uses, as I was under the impression that it required version 4+, in which case the warning would be looking for the wrong version. I'd have to research to find out if it actually requires that version or not.

Why was it held to be better to wait until after Helgen in that forum? What's so special about Helgen?

Currently it is redundant; however, if you used Core instructions, you should look at the mods in these sections in the STEP:Extended pack page: Modified from STEP CorePatches The STEP:Extended Pack is in development for 2.3.0, when all Extended mods shall be removed from the guide and implemented as a pack.

Use Github if you can't get it on Nexus: https://github.com/wrye-bash/wrye-bash/releases/tag/v305

The STEP guide shows all mods in STEP, both Core and Extended. The Core mods are indicated by the presence of a green-ish vertical bar in the row at the immediate left-hand column of the table.

MO updated recently and probably changed its method of checking for it, which is why the registry change wouldn't work.

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word-wrap: normal; or word-wrap: break-word; could be useful.