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I've just been doing some housekeeping on my mods and noticed that LoS patch. Any news on this or should we just ignore it for now?

I'm using that too. Well, I'm using the "ELE_Legendary_Lite.esp" that comes with the STEP specific download.

Ah ok thanks Greg, as long as I know. Seems rather dark to me, can hardly see a thing in the Treasury House.

Hi all Recently reinstalled Skyrim after a long absence. This is one of the new mods to me. All seems to be going ok apart from when I reached Markarth. Are the interiors supposed to be this dark or have I gone wrong somewhere?

Just wanted to pop in and say thanks for the guide. Having a blast. New Vegas Bounties III has just been released if you want to consider adding it: https://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/55744/?tab=1&navtag=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nexusmods.com%2Fnewvegas%2Fajax%2Fmoddescription%2F%3Fid%3D55744%26preview%3D&pUp=1

I always build my own. My current house is an Orc stronghold. I've taken parts from Jagarsfeld. I'm a collector, I like to collect as much as possible. There are enough bookshelves inside for every book in the game and I'm trying to get them all in my library. The mine entrance leads to my underground armoury. I use Skyre and there is a mannequin and weapon rack for every craftable weapon and piece of armour all arranged into sections according to the material used. So for example, there are 3 different steel armours and 25 steel weapons so my steel section has 3 mannequins and 25 weapon racks. I want to have the entire hall filled. There is a door leading from the armoury to the trophy hall which is the trophy hall from Jagarsfeld which I've modified. So there is a place for all the unique items such as masks, artifacts, books, scrolls etc as well as another load of racks and mannequins for more armour. There is a mannequin for example for each different guard armour (only have Whiterun and Solitude so far). My current character is quite the poisoner so the cellar of the house is a large cave filled with all sorts of mushrooms and a few deathbell/nightshade.

I miss Oblivion. I'll reinstall it at some point and get it modded up. There was something about Oblivion that I fell in love with that Skyrim doesn't have. It had a Tudor/Elizabethan feel to it which I loved. I prefer the music too. Thanks also for that link WilliamImm, I feel a return to Cyrodil coming on.

By the way Allsunday, if you do go with CFM, I've customized my one for Skyre if you want a copy of it.

Hmm not sure then. I use MinimalHud. Works fine with that.

Qotsafans patch for Frostfall is for Frostfall 2.4, not 2.5 with the new meters. I'm not if 2.5 requires a patch.

No problem for me so far. ATI. Specs in my sig.

Should we not be using ASG any more?

Version 1.2 on Nexus now.

Looks more of a graphic card/driver issue to me. List your mods and hardware specs.

Hey rootsrat, thank you for your answer :).Install this mod with whatever option you need, according to your mod list. Thing is, there isn't a "book covers dawnguard, heartfire, dragonborn" option. I think the main problem here is that at this moment I lack the knowledge to see when a certain mod needs a compatibility patch :( That's good. That's where ReProccer is placing its file. Awesome. So I just let it sit there? Yes, it's best to rerun ReProccer after each mod change in your game. That was a stupid question because I knew that. Sorry, my mistake. If you aren't a seasoned modder, I wouldn't start with such a task as this guide. It's for more experienced players I would say. Start with something smaller (STEP? Smile ) and learn along the way. I did. Already used a lot of mods and alternatives and STEP was my guide. STEP gave me an idea of what my installation order should be and those mods were the base to finding good alternatives. I "restarted" my modding two times: the first time because I made stupid mod decisions and the second one because I was using NMM and I was hating it. That's when I edited my previous post and started using Mod Manager and selected the mods that I really wanted after a lot of testing. Now I'm happy with my mod list and the only mod that I didn't use is SkyRe, but I WANT IT SO BAD. Everything is in place now, everything but SkyRe :P I feel I'm so close to having the game I want to play if I can solve this thing :). Regarding the books patch, if you have Hearthfire, you just need the "Book Covers Skyrim Hearthfire" option. It doesn't matter if you have Dawnguard or Dragonborn.

A while. But I'm incredibly anal about these things. I haven't decided which one I'll use yet, I may just take parts I like from different versions as there's things I like and dislike in most versions. I'd be interested to hear peoples combinations with other mods though. I don't use any other grass mod at the moment so I'll be looking at combining SFO with Grass on Steroids etc to see how they work out.

I've been doing some comparisons. All these are taken with just the official High Res DLC and SFO installed. I don't use an ENB. The only INI setting changed is iMaxGrassTypesPerTexure=7 in Skyrim.ini. There are a ton of optional files available but I was only testing the main mods. Vurt states that certain versions are for ENB and others aren't but I tested them anyway. 187 Basic "Saturated colors for vanilla Skyrim, might not work well with most ENB's" 188b Regular "Not recommended for non-ENB" 189 Regular "For ENB users" The Reach The Rift Falkreath Tundra

You can open two instances of DDSopt and compare side by side. Rather clumsy I know but..

Been playing for about 10 hours today (being unemployed does have some benefits..). I have all the heavy graphics mods installed and a fair number of mods using scripts, Skyre, frostfall. Wet n Cold, RnD, CH, EFF etc. Not had a glitch all day, that's unheard of for my loadout. I'd love to know what this mod actually does but whatever it is, it seems to work.

Oh ok, good. I'm guessing you're not using ENB then since you are using Driver AA?No I don't like ENB. They look pretty and all but, I like a solid 60 FPS everywhere. Whenever I've tried an ENB, it just feels ever so slightly sluggish. I like my game to be as smooth and responsive as possible and it just doesn't feel like it is using an ENB. My game looks good enough for me anyway :)Are you using the basic version for no enb? How does that look?I'm in the process of trying different versions now (hence how I came across my sparkles problem) I currently have basic 187 installed. I'm pleased with how it looks, though you ENB guys may not agree :D

Oh ok, good. I'm guessing you're not using ENB then since you are using Driver AA?No I don't like ENB. They look pretty and all but, I like a solid 60 FPS everywhere. Whenever I've tried an ENB, it just feels ever so slightly sluggish. I like my game to be as smooth and responsive as possible and it just doesn't feel like it is using an ENB. My game looks good enough for me anyway :)

There's a patch for transparent pine and bent tree yes. My issue was the grass though. All sorted now anyway cheers.

Oh hang on. You were right about post processing Aiyen. My drivers are set to multisampling, changing it to supersampling gets rid of the sparkles so it must be that. I followed the AMD step guide that tells you to put it to Supersampling as well. It must have reset when I updated my drivers recently. Thanks for the help.. nothing to see here...

Do you mean things like FXAA? If so then, no, nothing. INI is default and I don't use ENB. It's odd. It's only the Vurt plants it happens. Rest of the game is normal. I was getting an issue some time ago with a certain AMD driver version that gave me black dots all over the place but that was everywhere, not just on certain meshes/textures.