natranr

So I have convenient horses installed and when I talk to Skulvar he gives me the option to buy a horn, but I can't purchase the horse it self. I have the STEP Extended install and the Weather and Enviroment pack installed. Maybe it has to do with the main quest. Since that is being delayed and since I am not Thane yet maybe that is why I can't purchase a horse. It's been some time since I played Skyrim so I don't know if buying a horse is dependent on quests or being Thane.

Got down to the UI section and when I went in to test the game out, it would CTD upon loading a game. I am not sure what is causing it. I will try to do some work on my own in the mean time. Edit: So I found out the crashing was caused by Wrye Bash doing something to the INI, but now that I have that under control, it is still crashing. I have no idea why. I've never had this much trouble modding Oblivion. I wonder if its because of steam. I need to find my physical disc and try it that way.

Well since I wont be going to Anthrocon this year (was really hoping to go) I will be doing some serious PC upgrades. Going to get some liquid cooling for the CPU and bump that up to 5GHz if I can, get some higher clocked Ram at 16GB at least, and get a 4GB Video card. Probably a 980 since the 970 has Ram issues.

How much of an improvement will a 4GB card get me over my Radeon R9 270X 2GB? Should I get a card with 4GB of Ram? Or should I get a second R9 270X for Crossfire?

What do you mean by EFF? I'm not so good with acronyms. Also, the Memory Blocks Log shows block 1 at 512mb even though I have it set to 768. Why isn't it showing it as 768? Would setting it to 512 fix issues with random crashing with no errors?

Yeah, I saw that and clicked it. Also, I updated my previous post.

I seem to still be getting the ILS. It happens randomly when I go inside or fast travel. Is the memory patch not working? SKSE.ini: I'll start the memory blocks log up now and post that when it happens next. With my luck it won't happen. Edit: I also have this issue with MO. When I opened MO after forcing Skyrim to close after that last ILS, MO reorded my ESP's in alphabetical order and disabled them all. Edit 2: So I wasn't able to get the ILS, but it did crash randomly while I was giving my follower some stuff to carry. MBL: On another note, I was using 3DNPC, that NPC mod that adds in a ton of voice acted NPC's and I'm not sure if it was caused by that mod, or if it was something else, but the follower from that mod would refuse to follow me, I would start walking one way, then he would turn around and run away and hide behind a building. I wasn't able to see if Sven would act the same way as the game crashed before I could test it out. Could it have something to do with the pathing system, and JK's Skyrim adding in new stuff to the town?

After tweaking my shadows, I'm able to get anywhere from 39-45 fps with ENB enabled. That's good enough for me. I'll probably look into more ways to squeeze performance out of my game like Gamebooster or something. Maybe I'll try overclocking again.

The FPS with ENB disabled is decent. Depends on the area. With JK's Skyrim, cities are kinda laggy, but everywhere else runs great. Now what shadow settings should I try lowering? I don't want to screw up the ini.

Well using the lantern fix from SMIM fixed the purple textures. So far, the game looks amazing with Skylight ENB, but it's rather slow. I'm going to try disabling Vsync and go with the FPS limiter instead to see how it runs. I'm used to screen tears anyways. Any other tips on increasing performance?

Looking into this ENB over RealVision. I went ahead and got the appropriate ELE interiors mod, but is it possible to merge them? My load order is getting abit long and switching out 1 esp for 4 is not helping, lol. Also, what settings for CoT would be best? Default on dungeons/interiors/night? Or will any choice work? One last thing, I am very please you included a Lanterns of Skyrim preset. I was fretting that I wouldn't be able to find one that matched my mods, (CoT, ELFX, etc)

Should I install the lanterns from SMIM then? The wiki says not too. I'll go ahead and install that then.

Has any one had any experience with these two mods? Is there a delay when shouting into the mic to when the actual shout is done in game? Which one would be better on performance? Thanks.

This should be added in as an extended mod since it's kinda of resource hungry since it will slow you down in those areas.

So I re-installed the conflicting graphics and landscape texture mods and used the baseline options. Performance is much better now with less hiccups. I will probably go down the list and re-install the rest of the texture mods and bring those down as well. Now, I noticed lanterns from Lanterns of Skyrim are purple. Are the textures from the BSA not being loaded? Also, could you recommend a ENB preset that looks good and doesn't take up to much performance? With my current ENB (Grim and Somber Azura) I got like 18-25 in cities and up to 30 in the wilderness.