MadWizard25

Wow, had to re-read your post several times lol. Are you by any chance fluent in latin or have studied lit/ language? Had to laugh after that entire paragraph ended up with the conclusion; my characters name is Lady Smeg'Ma. Was expecting something totally different :D And how does cheesecake become Placentia in a dialectical form? Im think of something else than a cheesecake...

Damn, ya'll have played way more games than me on average... I think i just tend to stick with 1 or 2 games for a very long time, a year or 2. Had a stint on WoW, got bored. And was mostly playing CSS exclusively since Hl2 was released, just stopped a year or 2 ago. Thats about it, on top of previous list. Back to Civ 4! It certainly takes time, a spare weekend is about the right amount :P And thats in quick mode with plenty of breaks. Well, i dont use any mods for Civ4 BTS, since i think i would find it even more difficult. I also always play quick mode, huge maps (lake + low sea level). 12 civs to compete against. I like to play as a warlord, so i almost always pick a civ that has units for an early rush (incans, native americans, sometimes roman for pret, but thats stretching early rush), and can usually take out a neighboring civ before turn 25. And i never go beyond 4 cities initially. Perhaps i should take a less aggressive approach...

Let me know how DDSopt works with tree popping. I DDSopted several tree mods, and it resulted in less LOD popping, but more tree shadow popping, oddly enough. To clarify, i use the STEP recommended tree textures with a few extra tree mods.

Ah, good news then. I had never noticed this in game either (not that i have played much lol), but i was about to go looking for it.

This stuff is spot on, im gonna go ahead and say im a mix of texture connoisseur and the masochist :D

Worthy of a laugh :happy: Keep em coming!

After some limited testing of some new stuff, i can say that morrowloot and economics of skyrim dont exactly work. It wont crash your game, but im still getting high level vanilla armor and weps in merchant vendors. The only two mods that could cause this are ML and EoS. Bashed patch does not help. Maybe i need to try different bash tags.

Has someone been sampling the aqua vitae? Please tell me thats your skyrim characters name as well, and you joined the Imperials in the civil war :D

Wow, didnt expect so many people to enjoy civ! So a quick question, i have been playing civ 4 on and off since the release of the Beyond the Sword expansion. Put maybe 150h into over since then. How do you get past Prince difficulty? I cannot win a game. Ill survive, and never get wiped out, but i cant actually ever win at prince and higher. I always play domination and/ or conquest. Im not a tactical genius, and neither do i play any other rts at all. Anybody else stuck at around this difficulty level as well? I see people on CivFanatics beating Deity quite often.

I would also like to let people know that the individual and older versions of this mod, when the two were separate, have been causing crashes as of 1.6 This version has promised to reduce that, but the SoN Fire and Water should probably be removed from the next STEP update

I remember similar mods in Oblivion, and this def needs to happen in Skyrim. My shop inventories are a mess, not least helped by armor and wep mods, and have not had the time to tweak that. This should help!

Allowing skyrim to use 4gb of RAM? Via ini tweak? Do tell :) As far as im aware, the LAA issue was fixed in patch 1.3, and letting skyrim use up to 4gb is not possible via ini tweaks. You sure yu know what you did? Maybe you changed iPrelaodSizeLimit or iMaxAllocateBytes? Because those are not really RAM tweak :P In any case, bleh, another heavy work week. Su much for summer holidays :( I think this weekend i will be able to pintpoint which textures are causing the odd looking trees. It will just be a process of elimination. Some other things i have noticed, tree LOD popping has changed. Now trees pop from LOD texture to full much more frequently at a shorter distance. I have traced it to the set of DDSopted tree textures again. On another note if Cloaks of Skyrim is installed, do not DDSopt those textures either. It will make the cloaks look like reflective plastic.

Yeah, i have checked this out and WB does not use much memory in the background when launching skyrim from it. Its probably good practice to close it though :P

Gorgeous pic! But whats with the weird black outlines around some fingers on her right hand?

Ok, thanks for this one. Very happy you brought it to my attention :) Dont have enough time atm to check for great mods that slipunder the radar.

Just curious as to what other games STEPERS play regularly. Currently, apart from skyrim, I play; Battlefield 3 Civilization 4 Rts, rpg, and fps, got it all covered :P No sports games though, blegh.

I dont actually see a lod bias clamp option in NI? Well the shimmer is very subtle, and i actually enjoy it atm. It may also be an effect of the ENB i am using, i know it adds glossiness to textures, so it may just be that and a little bit of texture shimmer. In any case, the shimmer is only really obvious on some armor in the loading screen.

The lists i have posted are textures that are present. So no overwrites (cut that all out), all these textures are in game for me. Ok, so to begin with Trees. Snow and Rocks next. Bit of a problem here, im not exactly sure which textures im seeing in the picture, Neovalens comment means its either un optimized SRO or another texture from a diff texture mod maybe? For completeness sake i will also list rock and mountain dds files from other mods. Edit: Was checking out the new version of Enhanced Blood Textures (v1.8), and i noticed that the author mentions not to use DDSopt on the blood textures because it corrupts them. Another one for the exclusion list?

Well put I prefer to think that my cummulative brain chemistry dates back to squids, with super fatty myelin sheaths on axons, you can have your jellyfish ancestry and suffer the slower consequences :hurr: Shame that the Tragedy of Common is still considered a theory (although its one i believe in), and not a fact. Too bad there is not definitive way to prove it on a global scale. But then again, even if it was proved on such a scale, half the world would end up denying it anyways :><:

Good advice z92, however, for completeness sake i will need to retest in any case due to the intervening patches. With all the optimization they have been doing with patches, who knows if these values still behave the same way?

I recently tested out a 0 value for the lod bias (was uysing -.25), and had no effect on z-fighting that i can tell. Close of texture shimmer was reduced however. I have now settled for -.125 lod value.

One i know off the top of my head is that Ars Metallica has been updated for 1.6, the fix did not involve anything game breaking though. Some other i think might need to be updated are iHUD, Enhanced Blood Textures, and Burn Freeze Shock Effects.

Yep this mod is great. For some reason i could never get versions 0.5 or 0.6 to work, but 0.7 works great. I use the swords on back version, so there is clipping issues thin cloaks. Looks great with thick cloaks though.

Yep, a little too much in your face. SLOD potions is still perfect.

With Vibrancy i never really noticed overcast skies as gray-whitewash. However i have experienced the issue before and was due to RLwC. I opt not to use RLwC for Vibrancy in any case.