NIKITAzed

again love the modpack and I imagine this is something that requires a lot of knowledge and a lot of super annoying testing to put together, mad respect for the work you and everybody else does on this site one thing I thought was a bit confusing for a potato like me, the way you described the cleaning of Obsidian Mountain Fogs, I realised it eventually that I needed to remove the 020012e5 but for a while I thought I only had to remove the <INV_SkyrimCloudDistant01_50> part inside of it and I am having a slight issue, it's slightly annoying but nothing game breaking for me, some NPCs have black face and white body, not sure what would cause that as, from what I can tell, I followed the guide pretty well, I did add a few mods of my own, but nothing that modifies the bodies or body textures, if there is something obvious I missed I would appreciate someone pointing it out, otherwise I'm not too worried about it here's my thing https://modwat.ch/u/NIKITAzed/plugins P.S. didn't do the great equalizer, pre bash, smash, and LOD stuff yet as last time I did I was getting infinite loading screens even after disabling equalizer and everything after it (and re enabling the ESPs that went into pre smash)

been playing with LOTD for a bit, haven't had any issues yet, yet is a good word, loving it so far, my personal preference is this animation mod https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/77343 converted with HKX conversion https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/2970 just thought I'd suggest it since I do love that mod and it seems to be stable also do hope Racemenu gets released soon, and bodyslide for UUNP, since I made the rogue set and was a little sad when it didn't seem to have CBP physics, could also have been something I messed up during installation though

I got impatient and already started redoing the entire thing, I didn't do a clean install from my previous modding adventures so there were one or two things in my skyrim folder that should not have been there, I doubt it would have affected it much but better to do it twice than three times lol, I did disable the smash bash and all the ones that happened after Consistency Patch Merge and re enabled all the ESPs that went into the pre bash and it was still maxing my GPU if you still have the original merge folders saved in Merge Plugins it saves some version of it, tried using them and LOOT doesn't see them, but it tells you which ones need to be enabled The profiles tip sounds good, will definitely do that but since I feel like something may have messed with something else I think I will also just copy all the contents of the mods folder somewhere else before doing the equalizer (which I am also a bit unsure if I installed correctly because it says to extract it into SSEEdit/EditScripts, but if I extract things that are in "The Great Equalizer - Lexy Special Edition" folder there, it will have a single pas and the great equalizer folder, and last time it was complaining about something like that, honestly forgot) so if something goes wrong I can just delete them and go back to previous, if nothing else I will know that's not the problem

I had it all working just fine with 224 ish esps then I did the Pre Smash Patch, Smash Patch, zEdit, xLODGEN, TexGen and DynDOLOD all in one go instead of checking if it was after each one which was not very smart after getting all of them done I get an infinite loading screen as Skyrim maxes out at 80% GPU usage of my 8Gb gtx1070, after closing it would still be open in the background using up everything MO2 would get sluggish and unresponsive Disabling the LODs the patches and zEdit and re enabling the ESPs that Pre Smash Patch combined didn't solve it, in fact, that made my LOOT 0.12.5 not open properly, then open but not see any of my ESPs other than dawnguard.esm update.esm etc. after trying a bunch more times it actually loaded them, still infinite loading screen though, I feel like smashes and LODs are not the problem, but I felt like Idiot Checks were very useful for me so what do I know here's the modlist before I started undoing things, I did add a couple of mods to the load order that are not part of STEP, but again, it was working just fine before Pre Smash Patch https://modwat.ch/u/NIKITAzed/modlist the ones I added are Is it fixable or just start from scratch (probably would be a better idea to redownload SSE)

Another idiot question, once I make the Mator Smash patch, I activate it and de activate all the other ESPs ? since from what I understand it is a combination of them all Idiot question it is, the answer is no

P.S. I am very thankful for the "Idiot check" messages, they saved me once or twice

I am at the "Finishing Line" part of the process right now, and for the love of me can't find how to set Global Priority, as far as I understand it's supposed to be in LOOT (duh) -> Edit Metadata -> Main but I don't see it there, there is probably a setting or something I have to turn on for it to show up, but I tried searching online and couldn't find it If I want to install a few mods on top of the STEP, do I need to run the equalizer after them ? if you happen to know, would any of these mods have any terrible issues or should they be safe ? Not sure how important the rest of the steps are to do after the loot order and equalizer so haven't touched those yet