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Apply Game Color Correction Tells ENB to use the game engine's colour correction as well as ENBs own. This lets full screen effects light Night Vision show up but will mess with the colour balance so you need to turn it off and on whenever you use Night Vision. This isn't the method that fireman's newer ENBs (Intrigued, NVT, and now Re-Engaged as well) work, as he now uses the method from The Truth ENB which sets a trigger condition in ENB which comes on when it detects a full screen effect like Night Vision being requested by the game, and switches on a similar filtering effect from the ENB itself. The bottom line is that this lets Night Vision work seamlessly with ENB and without screwing with the colour balance, but it can be slightly fiddly to set up if you aren't using vanilla Night Vision, and it occasionally gets frigged by non-Night Vision effects, for example it sometimes comes on when Frostfall does it's "I am Freezing" screen effect.

For what it's worth, I reported this issue on Discord on Friday, and the suggestion to make sure you load the entire LO when you create the pre-smash patch was the fix Lexy suggested. I can verify this does clear the "not resolved" errors which you will otherwise see in TGE.

When you create your pre-smash patch, are you loading the entire load order, or just the plugins to be merged (and their masters, and their masters etc?) I was doing the latter and noticed TGE showed a load of "could not be resolved" errors, but if you load the entire LO - even the mods which don't seem to be relevant - this stops happening and TGE shows no errors.

That mod was already added to the guide on 09/07.

Does anyone have any idea how I might try troubleshooting a CTD when entering Riverwood? Turns out my reproducible crash isn't of the "save the game right before the crash then reload and everything is fine" variety, but more like the "somewhere there's a bad mesh" type. I was running ok at the end of June but haven't played since (I was waiting for Obsidian to go in) though I have been keeping up with the updates. I'm stumped at the moment, but starting a new game and coc'ing straight to Riverwood is a guaranteed CTD, as is running over there. If anyone has any suggestions I'd be very grateful.

CTDs: I don't think there's any getting away from it, even with the most cautiously maintained mod list. It seems to be a weakness of the engine, and exactly where and how often it happens seems to vary from system to system, so I suspect it boils down to something like IO load or the like. Often if you save right before the CTD happens, when you reload you'll be able to progress fine. For instance, I have a 100% reproducible CTD at the start of the game as follows: Solitude boat start (original Relic Hunter alt start) Grab Fairy 12 and Dark Ship, head inside Solitude Watch execution scene, go visit Auryen, grab the spoon and sort away the few things I've already picked up. Leave Solitude, get a cart to Whiterun. Pick up Sofia and Toccata. (At this point I may go help Cicero out quickly as he's nearby, it doesn't make any difference to the CTD.) Head towards Riverwood.... CTD just after passing the large treestump immediately before the bridge into Riverwood. Reload save... enter Riverwood without issue. I think if you're modding Skyrim to any extent you just learn to live with this sort of thing.

Launching LOOT one time from *outside* MO2 will fix this. My MO2\mods folder is 90.6GB *but* that does include higher quality output from xLODGEN and DynDOLOD than the guide uses.

Any NIFs with problems are mentioned in the guide. You set up NIF Optimiser at step 9.

DRAUGR doesn't overwrite any files from BOS Dragonborn DLC. I guess it might if we included the Hulking Draugr option but you already have us disable that when we install the BOS fomod. It does overwrite 9 files from LotD - HiRes Textures though - is that what you're thinking of maybe?

Is there a reason DRAUGR is still in the Item Retextures section instead of the Creature Retextures section?

How on earth can you know that any save corruption is to do with this specific mod?

I've seen this bug crop up dozens of times and it's nearly always this. It's so consistent that I'd almost consider adding a "dismiss all followers before continuing" message to the previous dialogue to be a worthwhile endeavour.

There is https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/1778 for instance but it isn't "compatible" with the Frostfall stuff as they are just updates to the same .swf files. Someone would need to make a ultra-wide Frostfall version specifically to integrate both sets of changes.

Looks like everything but "Merge Patches" is now part of the default group setup in the latest masterlist.

Yes, there should be a whole bunch of groups set up by default in LOOT, not just "Default".