TechAngel85

I still am finding it odd that people think STEP is a hard and tedious process. If you have to have ALL the knowledge, perhaps. However, users can simple follow the Guide straight down the page and never leave it (besides to look a detailed instructions for the mods that require it...which are usually just instructions to install the FOMODs) to install STEP just fine and rather easily. You don't have to have any "advanced" knowledge. As long as you can follow instructions (which everyone learns in school), you can install STEP fairly easily and quickly. Downloading the mods it the most time consuming part. Now if you branch off into the other guides which are linked, then yes, you can get into some advanced topics and more in-depth learning; however, those guides are there for the users that want that knowledge. They're not required to install STEP properly. You can also skip all the benchmarking stuff.

Just for the info here is my benchmarks from a few quick runs. This was a quick and dirty run... Vanilla: Frames: 4378 - Time: 74413ms - Avg: 58.834 - Min: 38 - Max: 62 Vivid Snow - Particles set to 10,000: Frames: 3851 - Time: 71495ms - Avg: 53.864 - Min: 37 - Max: 61 Vivid Snow - Particles set to 6,000: Frames: 3900 - Time: 71760ms - Avg: 54.348 - Min: 37 - Max: 61 This test was ran in Dawnstar using a predetermined path around the city in a STEP:Extended setup. My graphics card is a GTX 760 4GB. FRAPS was used for the benchmark. Two things I noticed: More stutter while panningIt still snows through everything just like vanilla. It would be nice to have a "Real Shelter" type mod for the snow.

We are getting spoiled. Sounds like we need a pack just for this stuff.

Are you running an ENB Preset? That sounds like letterboxing or vignette which is a feature in some presets.

I'm sure the tool hasn't been properly tested in Windows 10 as it's just been released. I'd used the greater number.

As long as there aren't any plugins present (ESPs) then you most certainly can just overwrite the files and rename it if you want. That is basically what mod managers are doing for you anyway.

It's really hard to tell the quality from the shots. It looks like the shots were taken with an ENB preset that is over saturated on the bloom so everything is a bit glowy. Plus, ENBs alter colors so this would have to be an in-game test on your own to really see how it looks. Currently, I don't have the time so this will have to wait.

For Skyrim you need to run the DX9 test and use that number minus 170. Or use TAGM -170....so 7924-170=7754. You should get a similar number from Boris's test result - 170. Remember that simply because you run SLi does not mean you have double the VRAM. When in SLi, VRAM is mirrored so you still only have 4096 total for your graphic cards.

Yeah, he seemed to have forgotten the description. ::

Sorry, I have no real experience with ENB in regards to FNV. If it was Skyrim I could possibly help.

Posting a topic in this forum is fair game for all. It's the main forum for all mod topics. Stuff specific to SR:LE is handled over in the pack forums in it's forums so that Neo will notice it. Perhaps just post in feedback for his Guide and direct him over here?

I've added my comments. Most of what you're suggesting should be over on the STEP Wiki thread and not on this Guide's talk page since they are wiki standards and not necessarily for that specific guides, but rather for all the wiki: WIKI: https://wiki.step-project.com/Guide:The_STEP_Wiki Forum: https://forum.step-project.com/topic/5020-the-step-wiki/ The talk pages are rarely used because the threads are more convenient and more widely seen and used. Not to mention most the staff will be notified one way or another that there has been a post in the threads. For the wiki, you have to manually follow all pages which is a pain. I only follow a handful of the wiki pages, and I never check my watchlist on there. Too much to keep up with on top over everything else around here.

There's no reason your ReservedMemorySizeMb should be set so high. That right there is using up just under a GB of VRAM just for texture swapping...meaning the game doesn't have access to it.

I want to clarify that I wasn't meaning to be rude. This has been talked and explained so many times on the forums that it's becoming laughable when I see it. Please utilize the search.

Simply because a user is a member here doesn't mean they're affiliated with official STEP. Most the staff have links in their signatures to their Nexus profiles. Simply because a Staff member writes a quick post (that was a reply to another user) doesn't mean it's anything 'official'. You seem like a good guy that's just worked up a bit too easily. I never even seen your posts or comment asking for feedback. My post was posted only after a very quick look over your archery section. I didn't look at anything else on your page. I'd be happy to work with you and provide you constructive feedback from my prospective. That would require me doing much more than a read over of one section on your description, though. Nothing in this topic is 'official', until it's marked for testing. That goes for any mod topic thread on STEP. Until then, the posts are the opinions of the individuals doing the posting.

Most reports I've seen have mentioned an increase in performance from upgrading from Windows 7 to Window 10; however, this is not surprising to me as there is an increase simply by upgrading from Windows 7 to Windows 8.1, as well.

This is absolutely amazing! I will be testing this FPS loss with a STEP setup as soon as possible.

True. I'm specifically speaking of the augmentation and damage changes to the perks: Archery 0 - Archery Mastery (2) - Bows and crossbows deal 20/40% more damage. (Okay makes sense as you get better with the bows you'd be more skilled to hit vital spots.) 20 - Wingstrike (2) - Bows and crossbows have 25/50% chance to/always deal 50% more damage to a target at full Health. (why? ...seems like cheating.) 30 - Clean Kill (3) - Bows and crossbows have 25/50/75% chance to deal double damage to a target at full Health. (same as above. The damage should be relatively the same regardless of NPC health. NPC health should have no relation to bow damage.) 30 - Long Shot (3) - Bows and crossbows deal 10/20/30% more damage for each 25 feet beyond the first 50 feet, up to 40/80/120%. (Makes some sense as the arrow hits is terminal velocity as it travels, thus doing more damage but I don't think this should increase. Should be a one tier perk.) 30 - Steady Hand (3) - Pressing Block while aiming will zoom in your view/ and slow time by 25/50%. (not real but in vanilla) 40 - Arrow to the Knee - Shooting a target within 25 feet slows them by 10% for 20 seconds. This effect stacks. (makes sense that taking an arrow would slow an enemy...you try to run with an arrow in your side!) 40 - Hunter's Discipline - Recover twice as many arrows from dead bodies. (vanilla) 40 - Thread the Needle (2) - Bows and crossbows ignore 25/50% of enemy armor if the target is standing still. (okay. Makes sense as you'd be able to aim for a weak spot on the armor better) 50 - Oath Shot - Shooting a target within 10 feet increases your damage with melee weapons against that target by 50% for 6 seconds. (what the....really? why? How is shooting a bow remotely connected to your melee damage with melee weapons?) 50 - Power Shot - Arrows briefly stagger all but the largest opponents 50% of the time. (vanilla) 50 - Ranger - Can move at full speed with a drawn bow. (vanilla) 60 - As The Wind - Move 5% faster for 20 seconds after shooting a fully drawn bow or crossbow in combat. This effect stacks. (again...why? makes no sense. If anything you'd be more tired from drawing the bow.) 60 - Quick Shot - Can draw a bow or reload a crossbow 30% faster. (vanilla) 70 - Hawk's Perch - After standing still for 6 seconds with a bow or crossbow out, it does 40% more damage until you move. (makes sense as your aim would be steadier than when in motion but 40% seems overpowered...maybe half that. Combine this with Long Shot and you're really getting overpowered!) 70 - Raven ****** - Enemies within 25 feet are disarmed when shot during their power attack. (yes and no...should depend on the weight of the weapon the NPC is welding and if they were staggered or not during the shot because realistically a power attack would still follow through simply due to momentum unless the NPC is staggered during the attack.) 80 - Hailstorm - Attack 15% faster with bows and crossbows for 15 seconds after shooting a fully drawn bow or crossbow in combat. This effect stacks. (huh? why? Drawing a bow in rapid succession if very tiring!) 80 - Lead the Target - Bows and crossbows deal 15% more damage to walking targets, 25% more damage to running targets, and 50% more damage and a critical strike to sprinting targets. No effect on massive targets. (this makes no sense whatsoever! Moving targets are harder to hit so why would you be able to do more damage?) 90 - Deadeye - Every fourth fully drawn shot in combat deals 250% more damage to a target beyond 25 feet. (.... ) 90 - Takedown - Shooting a staggered target within 10 feet is a critical strike and knocks the target down. (this makes sense as the target would be completely wide open for a critical hit) 100 - Perfect Draw - Bows deal 25% more damage if the shot strikes a target within 2 seconds after the bow is fully drawn. Does not affect crossbows. (...why?) All in all, this overhaul makes bows way overpowered, imo. Especially when you start stacking these perks. That's the problem with these perk overhauls and why none have ever been added to STEP. Instead of just fixing, adding in a few lore/vanilla-friendly options, and balancing them out, most of the overhauls tend to overpower the PC. Take Deadeye for example. Why in the world would every 4th arrow cause 250% more damage? What is so special about that shot over the first three?

You can disable it and then limit the FPS to 59.9 either in the drivers or in enblocal.ini.

I'm playing a Ranger/Archer character. To be honest, after looking over the perks for archery, they make little to no sense when it comes to realism (I used to be in archery myself). However, on that note, some of Perma's changes to archery do not make any sense either.

Well, I have a big notification to upgrade now. I'm still planning on waiting for a while though.

If you use Nvidia and unless you know someone that needs an upgrade, I recommend keeping your old card. Use the new one as the main GPU and use the old card as a physics processor. You'll see new life in your games that you couldn't use physics on before due to performance degradation and you'll see gained performance in those games that were using it. If you do this, turn your physics up too high in your games that support it. You'll be surprised at how the little details it add, adds to the game.

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Thanks guys. i just used the ones from the link that Ess posted.

Wow...loaded up New Vegas today modded with F&L. Needless to say that I'm lost! I'm so used to Skyrim controls and features that it's going to take me a while to get used to it. I'm thinking of setting most of the PN options back to vanilla until I get used to the game because most of those options seem to aim to make the game harder for experienced players. I'm also so used to Skyrim I kept waiting around for my health to regen only to find out that it doesn't. NOOB!