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I'm hoping that like you can currently with IE, all the extra fluff becomes part of Windows Features which you can disable / turn off .. Probably buried under other options with an obscure link, but at least the option being there would be nice. Hacks would probably break things long term ( where microsofts patchwork quilt is dependant upon all previous updates being in place, and borrows from expected installed software associated .dlls etc ). I have disabled IE once before, and because several major update procedures went past when it came time that I wanted to try a more up to date IE out of curiosity, the latest would not install without the full trail of updates having been performed on the machine first .. And unfortunately MS idea of the trail of updates for my particular setup just failed. Re-installing the OS from the ground up allowed me to get to a place where I could try IE 11. I just left it as is since then. Even if you disable IE windows still uses parts of its installation, otherwise for example Windows Update Service would not work. So if you get so out of date that other parts of the OS dependant upon it also become disfunctional / a security risk or just not recoverable .. I am expecting similar things of any future installations which become part of the OS that other parts become dependant upon them .. hence why I think ( as desireable as they probably will be ) hacks will probably turn out to be more trouble than they are worth in the long run. Best feature I have for a gaming machine is a wifi button. Switch it off for gaming on windows. Switch it on when browsing using dual booted Linux. Anyway : Reference the screenshot above - Has anyone seen a similar dialogue for disabling windows features in the beta Win 10 ?

Nope, Pro users will be treated the same way apparently https://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2015/06/26/free-windows-10-upgrades-danger/ Earlier it was mentioned that Pro and Enterprise would retain the ability to defer updates, now it looks like that was not quite accurate : So even Pro users will be spoon fed whatever MS decides they want on 'your machine' .. Skype WiFi with a rebranded name Microsoft Wifi .. Wonder why the rename :D .. Will no doubt be getting pushed. Lots of exciting tracking opportunities for MS aswell as the NSA / GCHQ, combined with Bing everything versus google, silverlight versus adobe flash spyware, probably a renamed skype app aswell .. and anything else they deem to be an "update" to windows

OMG. If someone on Reddit is only providing one of them, then the installation is going to be messed up for anyone using it with different versions of the rest. The UPP suite, is all synced to release at the same time for good reason, you cant just use one version of one plugin, and the rest from a different version set. :facepalm:

Yes, anyone who uses any kind of SkyProc will be affected, its a problem that has been dormant in SkyProc, and just needed a mod to take it to its limits .. The latest USKP makes SkyProc go weak at the knees :) See the Bug Report filed by Axonis Other records like large navmesh records are also affected. Apparently there are older versions of MO also have similar problems, which is kind of awkward for anyone stuck with an older Operating System and not able to update to the latest MO Its not USKP fault, just something that was not anticipated by SkyProc programmers, and just waiting to happen.

That will be the reason, I am probably not running the most recent old version of NifSkope, but one which is still compatible with some special scripts I found a few years ago ( may have been updated since but I havent bothered to check, the setup did what I needed )

Maybe thats because MO was providing the called for textures already extracted ? Old NifSkope on its own cannot extract resources from BSAs, they need to be pre-extracted and installed in the expected path as defined in the nif New Nifskope on its own .. Can I am not talking about via MO, nor was Zilav in this post You can probably appreciate during the course of making Vanilla Reduced Textures, and not being a MO user, I have had many an occasion where installing an original extracted texture to see how the original looks from every angle on its mesh has been a necessary evil to compare with my latest efforts on the mod textures. Where not having the originals installed for in game with VRT installed was the norm for a few years testing the actual mods textures in game.

No not at all, I would rather have a really well done nude body mod which does not require all the vanilla armour and clothing redone for it, thats the major downfall of all body mods. It was the same in Oblivion, and Morrowind. I would just love to have vanilla bodies redone nude, ( as you would expect the natives to be, not for glam or porn reasons ), and so there would be no need for the whole issue of Armour and clothing adjustments to fit it. Nor would there be any reason for Armour and Clothing to be redone using Unofficial patch fixes to the same meshes carried forward before the body mod adjustments were made - Which given how awkward it is apparently to adjust each one is unlikely to be redone ( especially when the experts on such matters like Exeter are unlikely to appear again - so all UNP armour and clothing meshes will forever remain as they are ).

Woops, pardon me, my bad, I thought with the topic being titled [NSFW] STEP Female body replacer .. ( NSFW = Not Safe For Work ) .. I assumed that this topic was about a nude variety.

Will try it when not on shift work - If you can make a very nicely proportioned nude but vanilla clothing and armour compatible female mesh it would be very much appreciated. Prometheus did one but the butt looked odd, as did the breasts which had sort of a not so rounded shape. It was a good stab, did not increase the amount of poly's as much as the rest of the body mods do so it was performance friendly too. Its other failing was the vanilla flat pie feet with no soul .. .. For the last issue you might want to have a look at something I found recently - Based on Phygits Feet ( which are excellent if these ones do not turn out to be seamless ) - FemFeet Redesigned https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/37022/? I used Phygits originals which are seamless for the body mod I put together, but have yet to try the redesigned ones. Edit : Ooh and something else you might be interested in https://www.afkmods.com/index.php?/topic/4136-nifskope-20-dev/ Madcat used this recently to make his new Soul Gems mod.

Beware some old terminology though which may have been superceeded ( new knowledge / methods / game engine ) One example is Archiveinvalidation - Depending on the game there are various methods and recomendations - Oblivion for example has three methods, but the best of those would be BSA Redirection ( as used by Wrye Bash ) for that game .. .. Whereas for Skyrim, its not longer a matter for concern. Same as time stamps on files which at one point was important .. now load order is all you need to get correct. See BSAs and You sticky https://forums.bethsoft.com/topic/1354395-update-bsas-and-you/ And tools were very well developed for Oblivion, but for Skyrim they are still playing catch-up ( apart from TES5Edit which is superb ) No one site or topic covers everything you need - So feel free to contribute to the community and make one :D

A lot of this is also learned from the Bethesda forums Historically a lot of the game specific terminology comes from the official modding tools topics on BGS forums, like the Construction Set for Morrowind and Oblivion, and Creation Kit for Skyrim .. in the sub forums here https://forums.bethsoft.com/forum/13-the-elder-scrolls/ There are also some sticky topics which are hugely informative no matter how old they are, because a lot of the subject matter still applies, for example a lot of the material in Oblivion Mods forum, the sticky "Oblivion Mods FAQ" https://forums.bethsoft.com/topic/449239-oblivion-mods-faq/ .. is still useful for anyone starting out modding Skyrim To catch up on terminology that a lot of us have become familiar with over time ( for me personally I have been frequenting the official forums since 2005, and other support forums for Morrowind long before joining the official support forum ), will probably take a quite a bit of time, but you will pick it up with experience.

Affirmative I have done that linked guide everywhere else except here, thats why I am offering any resources used in it elsewhere for anyone here to also use.

Feel free to use anything from here https://www.afkmods.com/index.php?/topic/4110-manual-cleaning-skyrim-master-files/

I think you have assessed that right, I was looking at page 1 and replied it with the box at the bottom, so then all the page 2 posts I had not seen before came up in front of my post :facepalm:

Old NifSkope will only load textures ( defined by the meshes path for its textures ) which are installed as loose files So you need to extract the texture from the games textures bsa, and install them loose in Data \ with the same file path as it had in the bsa It will not load them from bsa. New NifSkope as pointed out by Zilav above, has acquired the ability to look in bsa for the required textures. Aswell as GitHub see also this topic https://www.afkmods.com/index.php?/topic/4136-nifskope-20-dev/ Something made quite recently with this new version is MadCats Soul gems https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/65531/? Edit : What happened to previous posts ?, this post does not make sense anymore because it was a continuation of the conversation.

For this kind of thing I think they may have poked it into Windows Components Open control panel, go to programs and features and check for something like "Turn on or off Windows features" and uncheck the Windows components you don't need. Same place you go to get rid of IE or Media Player, they probably want it to be a default install so that your search engine always adopts Bing instead of Google / Yahoo etc, and thus Microsoft gets to cash in on tracking your behaviour patterns instead of other third parties. Spartan will also have Bing as its default search engine, which you would need to make another search engine default ( like Adding Ixquick Search engine ) instead before you could attempt to remove it.

The more the merrier :), a new build is up

306.201506140625 is now on the streets for testing - Focus on Profiles

Just an advert for Utumno and Sharlikran needing experienced Wrye Bash testers See this post by Utumno on BGS Oblivion modding forum - He has been doing an amazing job of refactoring the code, and is looking to release version 306, maybe with more patchers .. .. Depends on feedback and a lot of testing. If you go to the second post in that topic you will find rebuilds from his latest code ( which are being rebuilt as new feedback brings bugs with the code to his attention ) I cant find anymore but more eyes on would be appreciated. If you are a member of BGS forums, feedback would be preferable in that topic, Utumno is following that one the closest He is on the brink of starting to address the patchers for Skyrim now for main releases - So you can probably appreciate testing now and more help would be very beneficial for the community --------------- For more advanced mod authors and Wrye Bash users, Sharlikran is similarly using Utumno's latest refactored code, and adding to it his own work on Patchers in this topic on the BGS Skyrim Modding forum. --------------- IMHO - Utumno's latest code is excellent, I am using the Standalone build off of the Oblivion topic, dev version 306.201506132055

I have done the same myself before .. Right files updated - Check moduleconfig re-written with new installer options - check wrye bash wizard also amended for new options - check images updated - check readme and descriptions in everything and all sites updated - check update included documentation - check check for dirty edits with TES5Edit - check pack the zip compatible for all mod managers - check upload went fine, test download is good - check update sticky posts and changes for this version - check ... Aaaagh ! that damned info.xml version number - Why does NMM not have the version in moduleconfig.xml I completely understand Thank you for the update JawZ. ------------ I have a quick question reference the optimisations you will be doing I think I understand that you will be strategically placing objects in the game, which would enable you to also add more room bounds and or occlusion planes .. .. My thoughts are I hope they do not impair any navmeshing and NPC pathing in any way. I think you will have already thought about this, but thought I would mention it just in case

Something else to note for those of us who will be Dual booting Win 10 with Linux at some point in the near future This topic on the EasyBCD tools forum also applies to Win 10 aswell as Win 8 ( EasyBCD Forum https://neosmart.net/forums/forums/easybcd-support.7 )

I resemble those remarks After Edward Snowden the word paranoia = Healthy suspicion imho Anyway, Facts, not paranoia, but thanks for the personal pickup Octopuss, it expanded on the awareness somewhat more than I ever would have bothered to do in contributing to the knowledge of a free Windows 10 potential "features". Other parents who may also be concerned with future developments for their children may read this topic too, whether you care or not is irrelevant. //offtopic hopefully

Here Are the Features Windows 10 Will Remove When You Upgrade from here .. https://www.thurrott.com/windows/windows-10/3881/here-are-the-features-windows-10-will-remove-when-you-upgrade Note the last one You lose control over what windows updates get installed unless you are on Pro or Enterprise .. MS says bend over. Questionable software "updates" like the NSA / GCHQ security bypassing paedo viewer Skype, and Silverlight, wont have to be a toss up between Important or Optional OS updates anymore, MS will just install what it regards are OS updates without giving you a choice to disable and hide them. True Colours of a "free" Windows OS becoming apparent there I think.

Reference for Windows 10 being the last ( hell theres loads of them if you google ) arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/05/windows-10-to-be-the-last-version-of-windows-until-the-next-version/ Reference for Windows possibly locking down the boot up SERIES: Security Now!EPISODE: #500DATE: March 24, 2015TITLE: Windows Secure BootARCHIVE: https://www.GRC.com/securitynow.htm PODCAST: https://twit.tv/show/security-now/500 So actually my memory failed me a little, but the machine has to be setup that way by OEM, I dont think the OS install itself could do this. So watch out for new machines not being able to dual boot in future if you are buying.

Excellent find DoubleYou, just had a look at falloutPrefs.ini and concur Being pretty much the same game engine and very similar bunches of settings it would make sense that similar settings would have the same values .. So 8192 kilobytes would equal 8mb, 4096kb = 4mb The default 262144 kilobytes 262mb That sounds about right to me for handling the games sounds