Nozzer66

Either/or really. I tend to just sort masters in TES5Edit, after having a good look at the LOOT suggested load order and making sure there's not an easy fix there.

Having your Steam install in Program Files(x86) likely isn't helping either. I'd consider moving Steam out of that directory into something non UAC.

Should be fine.

That always happens. Not sure what file it is, likely one of the inis/ As long as you have your update.esm back you should be OK still.

Aside from what Greg says, if you add all the mods that add locations and worldspaces and areas first, (like REGS) it's a lot easier when adding over-reaching lighting/weather mods to know what patches etc you'll require.

The black bars on male bodies is almost always a archive invalidation issue. Double check you have all your bsa files ticked in MO and MO is managing archives.

No they mean this one: https://wiki.step-project.com/STEP:2.2.9.1 The Patches section in particular.

Um... wow... that's one weird looking Brahmin. There's got to be some corruption somewhere causing that is all I can think of right now.

Directly under the mod from whence they came, usually. IE: Mod X Mod X's Optimized Textures. Mod Y Mod Y's Optimized Textures. etc etc.

Have you ticked the option to do Invalidation on your profile? Do you have any BSA's that have Invalidation in their title? If you do, then make sure that BSA is first in the list it appears in.

Yep. Copy the downloads, mods, profile folders and any ini files from your old install. Keep them safe. Then uninstall the old version. Download and install the new version. When you've done that, paste the folders and files you copied above back in. You may need to reorder the left pane back to suggested guide order. Easy to do via drag and drop. Once you've done that, LOOT everything again and you should be golden.

The one that's in the TES5Edit backups folder is the original uncleaned update.esm. The other one directly in the overwrite is the cleaned one. Easiest way to find out is to check the file sizes. What you want to do is take the ones that show up in the backups file and put them back in the Skyrim/Data directory. Renaming to remove the additional characters where needed. The other file directly in the overwrites folder is the one you then put in the Cleaned Update ESM folder as per STEP. This is behaviour that's only started to show up in newer versions of MO. You'll need to repeat the same basic way of going around things for Dawnguard.esm, Dragonborn.esm and Hearthfires.esm as well.

No worries. That little move probably fixed other texture issues you'd not even noticed yet as well.

Do you have any bsa's with the word Invalidation in them at all? And if you do, are they on top of the list in which they appear? If you don't have you clicked the box on the profile you're using to enable archive invalidation?

As I understand it the Med X Fix just lessens the chance of addiction straight away.

You can, at the possible inconvenience of having to redownload if you want to reinstall. I'd make a copy of the downloads directory and compress it, saving it somewhere on a non SSD drive. Then empty MO's downloads folder if you wished.

If it specifically doesn't say in the guide to NOT clean them than they are OK to clean.

With the PSU, I always over spec on them. Check what your graphics card is asking for at max load and then add a safety factor of about 20% on top of that. Whether you need to upgrade here will depend on how old the current one is and what it's had to drive in the past. But that's just the Electronic Engineer in me showing out here.

There's always going to be a certain amount of neck seams in the game, unfortunately. have you done the bloadfacegenEGTfiles ini changes?

It can do that on initial start-up. Often takes a while to start the first time.

For something like that a screenshot or two would help, yes.

OK, must have just been the monitor cause now back on my home machine and close examination, there's no difference in the first two. Still prefer either of those to Millenia's on this occasion, though. Must be one of the first times I actually prefer a texture other than a Millenia one. Scuse me while I go take my temperature and see if I'm feeling unwell...

Sounds like you probably don't have some of the lighting and appearance mods the ENB suggests. Most ENBS suggest mods you may wish to install to get the same effect you see in their screenshots.

If you're not interested in doing things like making your own mods and editing existing NPCS for example, then just skip it.

No, I get that they SHOULD be the same but I can definitely see a difference. The original one has a more weathered look, at least to me. I guess eye of the beholder and all that...