Nozzer66

We're NOT adding Dawn of Skyrim, ETAC or JK's as they are an FPS hog and we can't afford to do it.

Crashes on launch are often to do with missing masters. Check your esp list in MO and see if you have ANY files that are showing a ! in a red triangle. If you do, mouse over that and it'll tell you want's missing.

Nope. Leave it ticked.

In case anyone's wondering: The reason why those merges have been added/changed is to ensure that after having done all the merges, the overall plugin count will be under 255< even with the CR, Relinker and Khajiit Ears esps added. This will ensure we don't get issues with Wrye Bash refusing to load the modlist cause esp count >255. After the Bashed Patch, you'll end up with approx 202 plugins. Which will give space for the Dyndolod esp and the two Sky Proc patcher esps for ASIS and Dual Sheath Redux. Some of the esps resulting from this merge will end up in the Bashed Patch. While this is nice and saves space, it's possibly not as efficient as just letting the individual esps themselves end in the Bashed Patch. Which is why some merges were removed in the first place. Unfortunately, due to the plugin limit we have to do some double handling. Sorry about that guys. EDIT: Look at that 2337 posts. I am 1000 greater than leet!

They've both been suggested before. Thus they're on the list to test.

^That. I have Lucidity installed above AOS. AOS wins conflicts. Lucidity still has over 3500 non conflicted files, with AOS overwriting about 585 in this set up.

We may not change that one to 2.7 just yet. Judging by a sticky in the mods posts, SirJesto's going through all the patches for consistency and such. Should be done in a few days. Will keep an eye on when that might be done. SirJesto's in here often enough to let us know when it'll be fine. I'd sooner not change the instruction now and then again in 24 hours if it could be avoided.

Which I did... Fixed.

Stay with 2.5 for now. 2.7 literally only came out 24 hours ago and we've not looked at it yet.

Actually that direction should probably be removed. It's a bit of a hangover from the days when this guide was an addon to Neovalen's guide and some merges were done differently to what he suggested. Hence making another profile. especially for the addon part.

Oh I know that. :) But that's a handy reference for anyone who's wondering. Just that I'm saying we now need to double check the merges to see if there's other esps we might be able to get into them, cause we'll be sitting on just about limit before running the Bash Patch. 1-2 extra esps people may add and Wrye will say you have too many esps to run.

Oh I see...

Well actually, what happened to the RS Children Merge?

Yeah, anything else we do add is going to have to go into a merge as we're right on the limit for esps after merging and doing CR and relinker etc, Any more and Wrye Bash will crack the sads for having too many esps loaded. I will likely add a quick check and fix the bashed patch errors instruction as well as clean up the instructions on running ASIS and DSR patchers.

Bingo. Once you've installed the UNPB body you need to install the skeleton else it'll spit the dummy like that. If you really want, just install the skeleton now, and then when you've installed mods down to where the skeleton should be, just drag it back down into place on the left pane. That'll be easier than unclicking a lot of stuff. Yeah I'll be a copy and paste mistake. Consider it fixed.

Both. I've never had an issue with Racemenu at all. I have heard of issues others have had. But either I'm extremely lucky or I'm just incredibly anal when I add mods, cause I honestly can't recall ever having a really bad issue with any mod ever being bad. Any issue's I've had have been my own. Things like unticked bsa's etc. EDIT: Woot 500 pages!!!1

I've never had an issue with Racemenu. As for Arthmoor's Villages and merging them. If you want to do it go for it, but I always tend to prefer what Mod Authors say about their mods. If Arthmoor doesn't recommend it then I'll go with his thoughts.

I prefer this way: Optimized Vanilla Textures - HD Unmanaged: Dawnguard Optimized Dawnguard Textures - HD Unmanaged: HearthFires Optimized HearthFires Textures - HD Unmanaged: Dragonborn Optimized Dragonborn Textures - HD Cleaned Vanilla ESMs Unofficial Skyrim Legendary Edition Patch Skyrim Script Extender One Tweak Grimy Plugin

Not as a guide mod, no. Both Lexy and myself are not huge hunters and on that basis we'll leave that for people who feel they want that extra realism. What may well be added is Art of the Catch, but we're waiting for Last Seed to bed down and become 100% finished before going to that sort of extent with realism mods like those. With Optional mods, the CR will be left completely to the people adding the mods. It'll be impossible to provide CR for every possible iteration of load order and additional/subtracted mods. If you're lucky we may produce a few things to look at in CR based on using the full guide and just adding onto it with the options you choose. However we can't even start on that till we've trawled through the 200 plus mods that have been suggested and seen if they're 1) Filling a hole in what we have, 2) Actually usable and not going to cause the whole shebang to fall down around our ears, 3) Any better than what we already have. I'll be looking at some of the Armor suggestions this weekend, for example. Realistically we just wont be able to add every mod that's suggested. Sorry but it's just an impossibility. We will at least look at all of them, though. Some of the ones we like but are possibly a lot of work to fit in may be on this Options Page. Plus some of what's suggested but we just can't fit in will be on this page too. Within reason, obviously, else every mod on the Nexus will end up on the list. :)

Black as opposed to gray is usually more a texture/memory issue I believe.

Merge all Wyrmstooth's patches first. I'd also merge the weapons and armor mods into the armor merge we suggest before I'd go merging all Arthmoor's mods.

Yep agreed. that Toccata as Elisif always made me go WTF...

Psst: Lexy's a sis. Just sayin. :D Glad it's all happening. And a video tutorial was considered by myself but has been shelved cause it's just not viable time or finance wise for me at the moment.

You will be allowed once me and Lexy have filled out our comments and made decisions. It's still a work in progress. I'll do more on it today if I can manage to get my frozen body to thaw and start working...

The armour and weapons it probably doesn't matter much. But we add a mess of armours and weapons in one section. Put them in there. I awould look towards putting all those stealth things in with some of the other Gameplay mods in that section. Towards the end maybe. You'd be looking for conflicts with things like Ordinator.