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Excuse my hyperbole in the earlier post. While I might "threaten" going with cracks, it's actually against my ethics and moral nature. I still occupy the position that if you have legitimately purchased a copy of software, you should be allowed to do with it whatever you want, as long as it remains in your possession, but that's a debate for some other time and forum. What I'm basically saying is while I actually considered trying to get the game running again by switching over to Nexus Mod Manager, I honestly wouldn't go with a crack for several reasons - some of which are articulated above. Thanks for your patience. Thank you all for such awesome advice. After many hours of tinkering and trying different things I've got Skyrim with MO working again. What I actually did (or if any of these things helped) remains an exercise in confused head-scratching. I was able to get SKSE to launch Skyrim last night, BUT only when using the -forcesteamloader in a shortcut I made to SKSE. It only worked one time. After that it was right back to the "Steam needs to be running" pop-up error box. Putting the command line switch into the argument box of MO's SKSE executable only gave me the Steam Load error message. Weird, huh? It was the same when I tried it this morning, too. No luck. I spent a bit more time on the WIKI MO page (thanks phazer11 for that!) and if nothing else, I'm a bit better versed in MO than I was a few hours ago. So I restarted my computer just a bit ago, and had a surprise when Steam actually asked me to log-in to my account. That hasn't happened since this problem began. I thought to myself, "could it be?" Yup - SKSE and my modded Skyrim game are both working fine again. I've started and exited the game 3 times now and all is well. It's very strange to me - I've got several games installed on this "dream machine" but the only one I really want to fire up at all is Skyrim. I bet there are a few readers of this who can totally relate.

I've been searching for command lines (I'm assuming that's how one forces steam loader with SKSE) but have come up dry. I'm baffled as to what to do short of resorting to finding a crack and bypassing Steam all together. I'd rather not do that. Playing (and having to restart) the game without mods seems equally unreasonable. I tried making a text file in my Mod Organizer folder, "process_blacklist.txt" and put in "steam.exe" and "steamerrorreporter.exe" (no quotations) on separate lines. No help. What's happening is this: I attempt to fire up Skyrim using the SKSE launcher within MO. A pop up box appears on the desktop. The top bar of this box reads "start steam?" The box says "Steam is required to be running already to correctly start the game. Should MO start Steam now?" Steam is definitely running. I've pulled up Task Manager and checked, rechecked, and then checked again. If I say yes to starting Steam again, naturally it pulls up the Steam Skyrim launcher. I tried firing up a vanilla game this way to make sure it works, and no problems. However every time I try to start it with SKSE I get the same pop-up box message. It's got to be a Steam Update, right? I've done nothing to my mod list since early yesterday, and played the game in several sessions over the day and evening. I turned of and restarted the computer several times in that time frame as well. I had no problems until i tried to fire up the game earlier today. Hope someone out there knows the answer to this. I'd hate to have to resort to a crack to actually play a game that I own (+ 2 DLC's!) I've got Skyrim on disc even!

This began happening to me today. Even making sure Steam is running, SKSE says it's not. I've not been able to get the game to load at all. Has any solutions been found, or is it simply a case of wait until another Steam update fixes the problem? I tried the fix offered by Bug Genie, but have had no success with the process_blacklist.txt solution. I'm still getting a "Steam isn't running" error when I try starting the game with SKSE and MO. Any other possible fixes? I'm almost tempted to try a crack which indicates just how frustrating this is.

From 2.G: Landscapes & Environment I'm sad to report that SparrowPrince's Moss Rocks have disappeared from Nexus Forums. I did a google search and found it on a site posted by iwala, however my virus scanner (ESET) went crazy about malware and the download link there. Luckily for me I downloaded this months ago in anticipation of getting my new laptop, so it's not an issue for me. Rather disappointing seeing another mod author disappearing from Nexus. Edit: responding to Dragon King's post below - Thanks for posting this! My search for SparrowPrince on Nexus failed somehow. Good to see that the mod hasn't disappeared after all!

200 meg packets x 10 on Media Fire. I've assembled the thing and it turns out to be SRO + DG v1.6 Optimal (1K-2K). I probably should get over my fear of torrents - maybe I'll turn over my obsolete XP machine to such tasks and keep my new gaming laptop (MSI GT72 Dominator) dedicated to gaming and vector graphic work. Of course since the nexus page for SRO no longer exists, it looks like I'll have some detective work ahead in installing what I've downloaded. Should be worth the effort!

Thanks for the info and almost instant replies! The more I know, the less chance of being blind-sided! STEP is the single greatest resource I've found regarding modding Skyrim. Kudos to all involved! I personally would like to see the missing mods on the STEP list remain as it does allow searching for mods that otherwise would remain unknown to many of us (I'm talking specifically about noobs like me). I've actually done some searches for Skyrim Realistic Overhaul ONLY because I knew it existed after combing through the STEP mod list. Torrents scare the cr** out of me, and I was able to find SRO on a MediaFire downloaded from the torrent and put up in 200 meg 7zip packets (virus free according to AVG). I'll post the link if requested so others wanting to avoid torrents can get their download managers busy. Still no luck in finding those ellusive Mushrooms. Keep up the good work, and thanks from me!

Hello all, I'm so delighted to find STEP, and have been busy downloading mods in anticipation of getting my new gaming laptop after recieving Skyrim from my youngest daughter for Christmas. I thought I should point out that "Realistic Mushrooms" in Landscape and Environment no longer exists. If I'm understanding things here, it's been incorporated into "Skyrim HD - 2k Textures" now. Cheers