nosewings

Sorry -- I'm installing STEP, not Skyrim Revisited. LOOT just pointed me to that guide when I ran it with Distant DetailHF.esp active.

The guide for cleaning Distant DetailHF.esp says to copy the nodes 0002BAED, 0004302E, and 0004836B over from the Skyrim Unofficial Patch. However, the nodes 0005DA49 and 0009D4F4 are also showing up as dirty. Should I copy those over, or are their omissions intentional?

The STEP guide seems a little unclear about how I should benchmark vanilla, and what I should do in general before installing mods. I guess my biggest problem is that the main guide doesn't make a note of where I should first benchmark. So, for example, when the benchmarking guide says to first benchmark with "All DLC," I'm not sure whether that includes Bethesda's Hi-Res pack, and whether I should first run DDSOpt and perform the other optimizations mentioned in the main guide. Furthermore, the main guide says to simply accept Skyrim's presets for my hardware, but the detailed instructions actually tell me to tweak them in specific ways. Which one should I follow, and which one should I benchmark with? Should I benchmark with the INI tweaks? Thanks to anyone who helps.