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thommaal - excellent suggestion to drop the shadow res. that helps a ton with FPS in general. So I re-activated the mod and was getting excellent FPS ~55-60 in most areas. So I say to myself, "well, I was getting really bad FPS up between Helgen and Riverwood before. Before I write off the mod as running really nicely now, let me just go back there and check it again." So I traveled up near the 3 stones and looked out in the direction of the falls. FPS went from 60 to 30 and even dipping into the low 20s. What?! So I moved my view around a bit and realized that the FPS drop SEVERELY any time I have Bleakfalls Barrow in my sight, even if I walk up near Helgen. MAJOR hit to FPS. Beyond STEP mods I do have a mod called No Snow Under the Roof installed that adds snow piles around Bleakfalls Barrow - a mod that I think a lot of STEP modders use. I don't know if this was the cause of it or not, but I suggest you guys travel over there in the game and check it out. EDIT: definitely not "No Snow Under the Roof", and I do not believe that it is any other non-STEP mod I have installed that is causing this. I'm removing this mod for now from my personal mod list until some of these things can be resolved - such as the Bleakfalls Barrow issue (or any other similar issue not yet realized - like the atomic bomb giant fire thing was also such an issue).

TechAngel85 - Thanks for the link. That really ticks me off that I was swindled into buying a CPU that wasn't designed for a desktop computer (that could be a gaming rig). Skyrim Performance Monitor tells me that only something like 30-40% of the CPU is being used though all the time. Is there a way to unlock the CPU so that it allocates more of itself to the game? I definitely do use higher textures than baseline - I always pick the 2K texture options (but not 4K). I have optimized all mods listed in the DDSOpt guide though to maximize efficiency at 2K. My Giant Campfires looked worse than that with the optional .esp file. Mine looked like big completely rounded bright glowing balls above the fire. 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I don't know about you guys, but for me, I ran a comparison of my FPS with SDO and without it. It drops my FPS from about 60 to about 30. That's pretty bad. It makes a lot of the distant details pretty, but kills the gameplay. And some people said they were getting only 2-4 FPS drop? Here's my computer: Intel I7 950 (3.07GHz), 8 GB RAM, 64-bit Win 7, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 4GB VRAM (EVGA FTW), 1080p resolution. My setup is pretty good...

I'm having a strange "atomic bomb"-looking giant fire (a big glowing ball where the fire should be) near Whiterun (don't know if all giant fires look like that in my game but I assume that are all doing it). I installed the main esp and the 4 optionals. When looking at the atomic bomb giant fire I get pretty large FPS drops. I do have some extra mods in addition to STEP Extended. Perhaps it's an incompatibility with RLO? That's the only mod I can think of outside of STEP that might affect the lighting of the fire and cause a strange effect on it. Anyway, I disabled the giant fire optional esp and the problem is no longer there - I guess my giant fires just don't flicker now when far away. Doesn't bother me. The FPS drop when looking at the normal-looking giant fire has gone away it seems. EDIT: and I cleaned the esps too, btw. after getting the problem I tried the non-clean version of the esp file and that was messed up also.

OK, I tried what you said, it didn't seem like "clean masters" did anything, so I must have did something wrong. In any case, the game loads this time and the ARS .esp and Diverse Priests .esp files are considered dummy files by MO because I removed everything that was actually in them. EDIT: ok, so I started a new game and got to Riverwood and smithing seemed to work OK and then I went to Whiterun to check out the priests of Kynareth and they were wearing green robes. I guess my shoddy patch modifications are working OK and are good for now. :)

Not trying to change the subject but just asking for some assistance with something just for a sec... :) EssArrBee - I like to look ahead to the next STEP version and add/remove/modify my mod configuration to the upcoming changes... Well anyway, I just saw the newest changes and I'm trying to implement them. Problem is, Diverse Priests and Ars Metallica are in the latest STEP Extended Patch. I tried to remove them using TES5EDIT, by removing mention of them from the header of the patch's .esp file (so they aren't listed as masters in there), but when I loaded Skyrim after doing so the game froze in the Main Menu. What is the proper way to modify the STEP Extended Patch in order to accommodate these changes? (I'm guessing it does at least involve TES5EDIT?) Appreciate your help.

OK... Here (sorry Rapidshare sucks, but it was the best I could do): https://rapidshare.com/share/CBBE22F8EA521C360ED0180138CDFC59

I'm having issues with this once again, but starting a new game is not solving the problem anymore.

So I tried reinstalling unaltered SMIM - didn't work. I grabbed the forge nifs from your WATER mod - didn't work. It must not be the mesh files.

Thanks, I think I may have found the forge mesh file: blacksmithforgemarkerwr.nif or blacksmithforgemarker.nif I'm redownloading SMIM. Going to try it without DDSOpt to see if it works, and if it does I will reDDSOpt it and then see if that works. If it doesn't, I might try the one in WATER.

I'll have to try wood chopping to see what happens now. :) EDIT: So far it just seems to be the smithing animation (wood chopping is ok). Where can I find the smithing animation file/files so that I can try to replace them or track what may be altering/corrupting them? Does FNIS control this somehow?

Wow - really frustrating. I uninstalled all the mods I installed (I think) since the last time it worked right. The smithing animation is still messed up? I don't get it. Only a few things I can think that significantly changed with mods is that I updated a few to the newest versions... I can't believe that no one here is having this problem and no one is talking about it. I have had this problem a while back when I first installed STEP Extended and it occurred after I redid FNIS and didn't restart with a new game. After I restarted with a new game all was good. This time it's just not fixing the problem.

I did DDSOpt SMIM. I don't think DDSOpt does mesh files though. I think it just does texture files. Why would you assume it might be SMIM, btw? The other thing is I don't remember having issues with the smithing animation prior to recently - the installation of SMIM was a long time ago and the animation worked properly before. I'm wondering if it could have something to do with FNIS and Skyrim Immersive Creatures (SIC). Is the "Creature Pack" for FNIS supposedly to be installed and used with SIC? I really have no clue what some mods or mod patches are for sometimes - sometimes people say "you need this patch, or that patch" so I get it and use it but don't really know why. :)

I am at the point of wits end. 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It's really weird. I thought that maybe it was a problem with my FNIS output at first, so I re-created a new one. I created a brand new game. As soon as I got into Helgen Keep I switched on no collisions and ran straight to the Helgen cave exit. Left Helgen cave and ran straight to the Riverwood forge. The animation worked fine. So I assumed that I fixed the problem. So I reloaded back to the beginning of Helgen Keep. Then I went through the game like normal. Eventually Hadvar and I get to Riverwood. I immediately check the forge and WHAT? The animation is messed up again!?! I can't figure this out.

Wow - version 0.8.1 is great! This mod just keeps getting better and better. :D

Hehe - maybe if instead of post-processing, just replacement processing. So things don't get processed twice? :) So take out the original glass and install the new glass instead. ;)

Version 0.8.0. just came out.

What about shelters added by the upcoming STEP 2.2.9 mod: Cutting Room Floor? Personally, I feel that if a couple shelters don't follow suit but most of them do it's still better than none of them.

I use Skyrim Performance Monitor as well when I want to review VRAM usage, CPU/GPU usage/temps, and FPS... yet when I was reviewing ENB settings I tended to just use the ENB GUI's FPS meter instead. Definitely wasn't a VRAM issue - I got 4GB VRAM... lol, and I don't use any 4K textures in my config (everything is DDSOptimized to 2K max). Yes - it may have been some of my enb .ini file settings or even NVIDIA Inspector settings... I don't really know for sure. I'd check on the Edge AA settings to see if that removed the blurring issue if ENB was easy for me to switch back to, but it's too much of a pain in the a** to make the switch back regarding modifying mod configuration, graphics card configuration, and ENB configuration files, so I'll just stick to non-ENB for now, unless someone comes out with some revolutionary way to make post-processing not cost any FPS. :) One thing I liked about using ENB though, was that I saw that it really put my graphics card to work. Usage was up near 100%. Currently, without ENB, it's usually closer to 60%.

The processing of the vanilla texture files have not been given the exterior/interior distinction, but processing of the STEP mod texture files have (at least about 4-5 of them, anyway...). You may have been thinking about the tab in the guide labeled "Optimizing the STEP Mods". Kelmych (aka Gandalf lol) will have to help you with your inquiry about the types of texture files though, as my knowledge is also pretty limited.

"I was initially put off by the need for so many patches & compatibility concerns" redirishlord - that's exactly the reason I don't install certain mods that I want to install, like SkyRe. What's so great about AOS is that it's part of STEP and it seems to have INCREDIBLE support by this community. Those compatibility patches and the update on the STEP guide were very fast. The guide explains very well how to properly install the patches (or STEP patch). I kind of wish some of the STEP Packs got updated as frequently (like the ones that include SkyRe - lol... or some other non-STEP mods that aren't even in any of the STEP Packs, like Pure Weather), but some of them have not been updated since a few STEP versions ago. Anyway, AOS is one of those mods that has the potential to conflict with many other mods, YET it gets great support - so it's worth using.

Manga - another issue I had while running either CoT, Pure Weather, or Vividian ENB were lots of seemingly random CTDs. I don't know if it partly had to do with starting up saved games that were originally saved with different lighting mods installed, or not, but it did happen with new games from time to time as well. Whitestar (and Manga) - CoT looked pretty and went very nicely with Vividian. Pure Weather still needs some work I think (refinement of some of the aspects of the mod itself and also compatibility patches for other popular mods). If I was able to get excellent framerates with ENB (above 50 minimum), I'd still be using it. I could only get 40-50 with performance Vividian ENB. What I didn't like about it was that it seemed to smooth out all medium-long distance textures so much (and pine needles on trees) that the textures just looked worse than without it, even if the colors were better and extra graphical effects. One thing I could do to increase the distant texture quality was switch on the LOD bias ENB option, but that ended up dropping me an extra ~5 FPS lower.

I ran into a problem myself trying to get the newest version of BOSS to load properly (version 2.2.0). It turned out that I didn't have the Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable Package properly installed. I think it's important to mention the proper way to install the new version of BOSS in the "detailed instructions" link in the STEP guide. At first, I didn't even have the MSVCR installed at all. Then I checked out the BOSS download site again and saw that it was mentioned there as being required, so I downloaded it. I still could not get BOSS to load properly. Then I realized that it was because I downloaded the x64 version instead of the x86 version (which was the one mentioned on the BOSS download site). So after uninstalling the x64 version and installing the x86 version, it now works. I think this can be easily overlooked though, so that's why I think a note should be placed about it in STEP's detailed instructions.

Hooray!

Please let us know when STEP Extended Patch is updated too. :)