Dweedle

Ive spent my whole saturday on this guide for my game. I am tryin to launch the game via mod organizer and the 4gb thing shows its loading bar.. then nothing. game does not even start for it to crash.. it just does nothing. No window, no anything! can anyone help me? feel so depressed now as I was hoping to spend my last day off playing the game.

I just went and looked again and I saw it in a very obscure place.. not sure how I missed it. However, still no mention of SUM.SUM is desperately needed to be added into STEP as once you lockdown your load order the Skyproc will not work.

(mistake noted, although I will say it needs to be put in a place where people can see it)Also, add in SUM https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/29865/? Because once you position your order and lock it down with Mod Organizer the Skyproc thing that comes with Dual Sheath refuses to work properly because BOSS does not work.Please consider this important update to the wiki.

Well good to know I can skip out on a sound card, saves me some time and $$. thanks for the tips guys but im still not sure about which motherboard, I mean, I dont know what im actually looking for.. like what specs etc.. im really confused

I don't really have a budget im just buying one part at a time when I have the money together. I'm hoping by the end of the month to pick up the CPU for example. I was thinking the AMD 8 core would be a good buy at first cos its only $350ish but I was told by friends to stay away from AMD in general..so yeah lol, I wont be touching AMD. Have what I got listed so far going to be good for ENB Skyrim though?

Alrighty! So I'm looking at the guide on STEP and it suggests that Intel and Nvidia are worth buying over their AMD counterparts.. This is a problem for me as AMD is incredibly cheap in my country and Nvidia and Intel are far more expensive. This worrys me a lot and I would like some assistance so I can get the best for my dollar. I don't mind spending big (as I'm saving approx $150 a week NZD) but I am hoping to have my PC done by my Birthday in February.. but that probably won't be happening. Anyway! I'm not a tech head so I don't actually.. at all... understand what I'm buying so with my limited knowledge I have put together a list of what I think will work well (except the motherboard, this is where im truly stumped). I want to be playing Skyrim with 2K Textures and with ENB at 60-120fps. I have already bought the Case but am sharing it so you guys know what size it is. Case (Already bought) https://www.mightyape.co.nz/product/Raidmax-Agusta-Titanium-Full-Tower-Gaming-Case/21723691/ Heres what I have yet to buy. GPU: https://www.mightyape.co.nz/product/Gigabyte-Geforce-GTX-760-4GB-Overclocked/21642607/ CPU: https://www.mightyape.co.nz/product/Intel-Extreme-Series-Core-i7-4820K-Quad-Core-LGA2011/21671337/ Sound Card: Unknown, can't decide. Motherboard: Unknown, can't decide. Hard Drive: https://www.mightyape.co.nz/product/500GB-WD-Black-WD5003AZEX-SATA-III-Hard-Drive/20903620/ Power Supply: https://www.mightyape.co.nz/product/Corsair-TX-850M-850W-ATX-PSU/20893629/ Ram: https://www.mightyape.co.nz/product/2x8GB-GSKILL-Ripjaws-1866MHz-DDR3-1866/21557170/ If anyone can point me in the direction of a motherboard that is compatible with all of this that would be excellent, same with sound card. And if anyone sees some glaring flaw in what ive listed please tell me as I am not knowing what half of the stuff im buying does.

Thanks for the info guys

So I could install stuff like Fallout Wanderers Edition and Darnified UI with Mod Organiser for Fallout 3? I've done some googling but cannot find an answer. Unfortunately the Fallout community does not have a place like STEP but I'm hoping that the crew here could help me with this query.

Hey guys you can mark this as solved if you like. I've decided I'm simply going to play a lightly modded vanilla game with some essential step gameplay mods (no texture mods etc, Skyre being the main overhaul). I think I was just running too much mods because vanilla runs fine. Thanks for the help :)

i'll try ENBboost later today. If I have issues with it I'll come back here and ask if thats ok because when I had issues with it before the author of the mod was very rude to me thus I gave up on that ENBBoost thing.

Micro stutter is annoying, and not easy to solve as no one really knows what is causing it. You haven't given your system spec yet. A few things seem to help: - Running ENBoost - Disabling mouse acceleration in your ini. - Disabling CPU core parking. - An SSD hard drive. - Do not run SLI or Crossfire (makes it worse) - Enable Vsync. There might be more solutions, but this is all I know. I don't experience micro stutters anymore, however, I have not tested if any of the above has actually solved it. The list is purely annecdotal. Good luck my bad; My Computer is an Alienware X14 Laptop with 2.6GHZ Intel i5, 1GB Nvidia GT 650M and 8GB of Ram with 451GB HD (200GB free). So far i've tried CPU core parking disable, enable vsync and have done the mouse acceleration. I dont know what SLI or Crossfire is :( and i have tried enboost in the past and i barely got 10 frames. Im unable to upgrade parts due to budget. I am wondering though, should I do a defrag? i have not done one before.

So im running at 55 frames with draw distances reduced and with 1k textures. What was killing my performance before was the draw distances so with those on lower settings in happy and my game still looks good for me. But i'm having this weird micro stutter issue and its annoying. I only really notice it outdoors. Does anyone know what I mean? and possibly know a fix? Thanks.

I think my laptop is mid range, 1 gb vram 2.6ghz quad i5. i'll see what my game is like once my game is ready and able. thanks again for the help

Hmm, thanks for the info guys, I'll probably unpack BSA's a my hard drive is fairly decent and Skyrim is the largest game hard drive space wise I play (maybe second to The Sims 3) so i'm not too worried about space. If unpacking BSA's also means less strain on my CPU, which im assuming due to Tannin's post, is the case. I don't mind longer load times if it means I can gain a few frames ingame, which is what I hope the case is, I'll find out anyway once I test it all out.

should I unpack the vanilla BSA's and DLC BSA's as well?

Does unpacking the BSAs give me any performance increase? I'm just curious as I've never looked into it. I'm using Mod Organizer for the first time you see so yeah, just wondering if I should unpack BSAs or not.

My Steam name is Lord_Dweedle I'm keen for finding more players to play within the australian/nz region as its hard finding players. I dont know if anyone here in those areas has these games but if you do feel free to add me. I'm available to play often. I'm fairly new with Street Fighter 4 though so that wont be being played by me for a little while but Mortal Kombat I'm down and same with Civilization 5.

thanks :D downloading those right now

Oh! I thought the high res DLC was 1024k. Are they more? hmm, I will go download the one you suggested. Thanks for the feedback guys.

should i use the texture compressor before i play then as well? since it makes textures smaller? https://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/12801/?

So I'm attempting my best to follow all the guides for STEP and im still downloading at the moment the mods for STEP, I'm trying to make an attempt to download every mod as I want the full STEP experience but I have to come clean and say a lot of the tech stuff is going above my head and I'm terrified of screwing up and not being able to run the game. My Computer is an Alienware X14 Laptop with 2.6GHZ Intel i5, 1GB Nvidia GT 650M and 8GB of Ram with 451GB HD (251GB free). I don't know much of what that all means either (went alienware because I dont know much about tech). So I'm just wondering, overall, what kind of performance and experience am I going to get following the STEP guide fully with my system? Thanks.

Yep it did, I use Wrye Bash for my installing, I used to use NMM but never again... aaargh. Cool so now I can follow that optimisation guide. Hopefully after these optimisatoins I can get some more frames. Unfortunately I'm only getting 40 frames outdoors with all of the distance drawers on max... but that be another topic for another day haha

Hi guys. I'm using STEP for the first time and am downloading everything necessary as I type this but when I was reading about the optimization of the High Res DLC and about unpacking the BSA etc I am wondering if I do that do I still need the High Res ESPs and the Unofficial High Res DLC when I optimize it? Sorry if this has been answered before but I can't find an answer that I understand. Thanks.