TechAngel85

I updated my post while you was replying and answered the second question. There is no advantage or disadvantage with this when using MO. That would be a different story with another mod manager, but the way MO handles BSAs is basically treating them like loose files so there are no priority issues like there are when using WB. The only advantage would be to reduce your plugin count. I personally use the Hi Res Pack as loose files (extracted).

Moved to Support. If the Hi Res Pack files are in BSA format, the plugin must be ticked (activated) no matter what. The plugins are used for reading the BSAs so the textures can be loaded into the game. So unless you extract the BSAs, you're going to have to use the plugins for the textures to load in-game. Unticking the BSAs in the Archives tab is telling MO that you do not wish to load them period. Both BSA and plugin have to be ticked for the BSAs to load in-game. This goes for any mod installed as a BSA and not extracted. That "sweeper" icon is only telling you that IF you extract the BSAs, then you don't need the plugin. If you didn't extract them, then the plugin is required. If you want to extract the BSAs, there are three ways of doing this. 1) Install the Hi Res Packs via MO. Take each Hi Res Pack and add them to their own archive using 7-zip ( highresolutionpack1.7z ). Now you can install them in MO just like any other mod. When MO asks if you'd like to extract the BSAs, you simply say yest. 2) Extract them manually in MO. 2) Manually extract them in your Data folder using BSAOpt. This Guide will help with the second and third options above: https://wiki.step-project.com/Guide:BSA_Extraction_and_Optimization So in summary, you're either going to have to play with the plugins ticked (activated) or extract the BSAs and use the loose files that result in the extraction. These loose files can be archived using 7-zip and installed in MO just like any other mod.

Drive was shipped today. Now we wait...again.

You can always do a page edit, copy & paste the page in your external editor, and when finished edit the page again to copy & paste your edited version. Might not be ideal but it works for when you need to do things like find & replace.

I'm planning on getting one in the future, but for budget reasons I've had to go with a HDD for now. It's a WD Blue 1T drive and has been nothing but trouble. Data Lifeguard has ran all night on the drive and has been stuck on the same sector for 7 hours. I have my shipping label already printed. It'll be a UPS truck tomorrow and out of my hair.

For those of you not being able to keep up with this on other forums.... The hard drive has been a nightmare! I RMA'd the first one and just received the replacement today. It at least went two steps farther than the first. The first wouldn't even pass POST. The replacement is recognized and will even partition; however, it will not format. It fails Western Digital's Data Lifeguard Diagnostic software tests. So at this point the drive is losing it's value because of return shipping cost on products that are defective. This isn't right from a customer service standpoint. So I contacted Newegg and told them just that. They're covering the return shipping cost on this drive and sending a second replacement free of change. Now that's better. :: However, if this third drive is DOA I'm going to find the first Western Digital exec I can and place the drive where the sun doesn't shine so he'll be motivated to fix the quality assurance and control issues of his product. WD used to be top of line hard drives. One DOA is reasonable and understandable....two in a row is not or perhaps unlucky....three strikes and you're out. Product will be labeled as crap and I'll move on to your competitors.

It's official. Someone must die! Been testing for 3 hours and can't get the drive to formatting. It's only went two steps past my last drive. First drive wouldn't even pass POST. This second drive will get recognized, will partition, but will not format. Running WD Data Lifeguard Diagnostics on it now. Fail the SMART test. Will be running the Extended Media test until morning to see if it'll do anything at all. It's been running for 7mins now without reading a single sector. To RMA again...or get my money back and go with something else...this is the question. WD used to have the best drives until this "blue, red, green, black"...pink, purple, rainbow crap. Even though the data connector is broken off my Caviler drive and it's "hillbilly rigged", it's still kicking strong after years of abuse! Excuse me while I go find someone from WD to murder. EDIT: Newegg is going to RMA the drive for free. Darn right!, because I was going to raise Hades if I had to pay out another $12 to ship it back with no guarantee of the third drive working or not. If the third one doesn't work I'm going to require them to either test it before they send it or refund my money with free return shipping to them and I'll go with another brand. Probably Seagate. I miss the days when hard drives were made to last!

I don't remember either but I know it's been restarted since then because I moved the computer downstairs recently. Oh well. One of those weird things I guess. Now commencing my hard drive test... (and praying Windows install as well...if I have to RMA another drive it's not going to be pretty)

I did as S4N suggested and it's back to normal. Restarted with add-ons enabled and still normal....weird. The only add-on I have installed currently is Adblock Plus. It's never given me any issues before so I'm going to chalk it up to something bad in memory because I also cleared the cache to no avail. I never did close and reopen the browser though. Never even thought about doing that because FF never gave me such a problem before when I'd kept it open for weeks on end. Haha!

I haven't changed a thing in FF in the since I installed it you guy did the forum switch. It ran smooth until a couple days ago when some forum changes hit. Haven't changed anything on my end and other sites work fine. Just the STEP forums that are sluggish while scrolling in the last couple of days. I haven't tried other browsers yet. I'm actually about 3mins away from sticking in my new hard drive to see if it works and if so I'll be installing Windows 8. So I may be gone for a bit.

In the Network tab and only choosing JS the GETs take over 1600ms to complete; however, the longest individual one takes 63ms to load. Not sure if that is what you were talking about. I didn't even know this thing existed. EDIT: The long page load time I've found is 1.5 seconds. The front page loads in .56 seconds. It's not the load times really. It's the scrolling. Scrolling with a mouse wheel it terrible. it's smooth as silk on all other sites I've visited. This has only started happening in the last couple of days so I don't know if it has anything to do with edits that have been done on the forum in that time.

Not sure how to use it, but there are a ton of CSS "unknown properties"

I would have to test to order to be able to tell and am currently not setup to do so. I will be in a few days if no one else is able to get to this.

I believe it's the latter, in case someone doesn't install SRO; however, I could be wrong.

It's still sluggish. I'm on a 25Mbps line so it's not the Internet. I'm using Firefox. I currently do not have any other browsers installed to check and you can't pay me to open up IE. Just got my RMA drive in today so I'll be setting up my system permanently (if the drive works this time). I'll try it on the new install once it's complete.

I just got in from work. Checked again and am still unable to edit anything in the STEP namespace.

Are you able to edit the proposal?

It's in the STEP namespace meaning that only those with the privileges to edit in that namespace should be able to edit it. Same with the Guide.

You're not getting it which tells me you're not entirely sure how DDSOpt works. Just take my word for it. The optimized version is just as good as the 2K version of the mod with less VRAM usage. Hence why it's called "optimized".

These posts aren't useless. Some users may not have mods tracked on Nexus; therefore, a post about an update may be entirely useful to some. Stop making waves.

Since some of the tweaking and the slight downtime last night for a few minutes the forum has been very sluggish on user's systems. Two have confirmed so far. Using the mouse wheel to scroll down is like using a Windows 98 computer and watching it react in slow motion. The pages seem to also be loading up slower.

Sight is very sluggish! I'll open another thread for that.

Apparently I no longer have "higher" editing privileges on the Wiki... Can't edit and vote on the Extended Proposal or edit the main guide.

The pop-out box looks similar to a jQuery gallery. If it is, it should be pretty easy to add in a scroll feature. There are hundreds available around the Web that do this very thing with the ability to cycle images.

I don't see any reason to drop it atm.