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Thanks for the reply. The issue with Windows 8 that you mentioned doesn't seem to be causing the problem I'm experiencing. I think it has something to do with Skyrim not detecting my mods through MO. Alt-Tab doesn't work for me, and the game runs fine when I launch vanilla Skyrim outside of MO. And again, even when I disable all my mods, the game still only works when run outside of MO, and not from within it. This is an issue that is basically popping up every other day now. The issue resolved itself again two days ago. But I just loaded up the game a minute ago and the problem is back. I haven't touched any of the settings in the game or in MO at all since I last played, so there's seemingly no reason for my game to be acting up like this. Is it possible that I have some kind of virus that's changing my settings without my knowledge? Or maybe just browsing the internet affects my settings some how? Otherwise, it just doesn't make sense for my game to constantly stop working on its own, and then magically fix itself after a day or two.

The same problem is happening again. Last night my game was working. After I finished playing I did absolutely nothing to my game at all， but when I loaded up my game today my start menu wasn't working again. What's going on? Edit: I ran the Skyrim Launcher through MO, and it looks like the launcher isn't detecting my data files. And using the game configuration utility doesn't help in that regard. Not sure what to do.

I've had this recurring problem which has been bugging me again these past couple days where starting up Skyrim through MO causes me to get stuck at the start menu. The "continue"， "new", and "load" options are all there, but I can't click on them with my mouse, and I'm unable to scroll or select them using either my keyboard or Xbox controller. So I'm totally unable to start any kind of game. The game works fine when I run it outside of MO, and here's the weird thing: Skyrim still won't work using MO, even after I disable all mods and plugins. When this happens, Wrye Bash won't be able to detect my MO mods, but BOSS can. TES5Edit will display my plugins, but when I try to clean one, it will say something like "Could not find the file specified". This is so bizarre, I spent the last two days trying to fix this issue, and nothing worked. But then the issue magically resolved itself literally as I was writing this post! My game was working just a few minutes ago, and now it does work even though I made absolutely ZERO changes. What the heck is going on? Any ideas on how to prevent this issue from happening? Or is there at least a way to fix it right away when it happens? It's really annoying, and when it happens, it seems like there's nothing I can do but wait it out.

What is the "game configuration utility"? Wrye Bash isn't loading my mods either.

I had the same issue and installed the green water fix for it. The mod lets me see underwater, but it also removes all of the underwater effects so that the water becomes 100% clear, which definitely takes away some of the realism. Any ideas on how I can add some of those effects back in?

Great to know. Thanks a lot.

I've just finished up installing most of the mods I'll be using for STEP, and it turns out I'll be using all of the STEP Core mods except for Bethesda Hi-Res DLC Optimized. The thing is, I've also installed many of the patches that the STEP patch includes, such as the AOS patches. Would I get any benefit from installing the STEP Patch at this stage, or should I just forget about it? Sort of a tangent, but would it be okay to install the Bethesda Hi-Res DLC Optimization mod out of order? I'm using Mod Organizer, so would I be able to use it without overwriting any of the STEP textures that are supposed to be installed later?

Thanks, I reverted some of the changes I'd made to Nvidia Inspector, and that gave me a 5-7 FPS boost. Turning off Ambient Occlusion might have helped. I turned off AF everywhere except for in skyrimprefs.ini. In skyrimprefs.ini, every time I changed 'iMaxAnisotropy' to '0', it would revert back to '16' after I booted the game. Maybe it's because I have AF set to '16' in Skyrim Launcher. The really annoying thing is that 'sD3DDevice=' keeps reverting to "Intel® HD Graphics 4600" instead of "Nvidia Geforce GT 755M". Why can't I make my changes stick?

Does that mean I should leave ENBoost on even though it lowers my FPS? I don't expect ENBoost to make my game prettier, but I thought it would make it run faster.

Forgot to mention that I'm also using UsePatchSpeedhackWithoutGraphics=true. I'll try to lower to grass resolution, etc., but wouldn't my FPS still be higher without the FPS? I'm reading about people getting a 10-15 boost in FPS and even more from ENBoost. If I can get a 10-15 FPS increase, I'd definitely be willing to play on Ultra. I'd also like to take advantage of ENBoost. With regard to graphics, would my game look better if I ran the STEP mods, but on medium settings, or if I ran Ultra on vanilla?

How do I know whether I need it? I have never heard of any Optimus issues with ENB, so can you please tell me more or direct me somewhere were it is described in more detail? Also per pm if you want to. If ENBoost is using your integrated graphics card instead of your high performance, dedicated card, then you should check out Optimus fix. You can find the Optimus fix here: https://forums.nexusmods.com/index.php?/topic/939886-optimus-fix/

Yes, I should've mentioned that as well. I'm already using the Optimus fix. Without it my game would just crash on my Integrated Intel card. Right now my FPS is at 17-20 FPS, but it should be much higher

ENBoost is lowering my fps. I have an i7 4700 with an Geforce GT 755m. With ENBoost disabled, my game runs at about 22-25 FPS on Ultra. With ENBoost enabled, it runs at 17-20 FPS. I guess with my hardware, I shouldn't expect high framerates no matter what, but ENBoost shouldn't lower them, right? I've tried disabling vsync, as well as the enblocal.ini from the Nexus, but that didn't help. Any ideas?