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I've benchmarked twice since following your directions, seems to have worked fine if you were wondering. Maybe add those directions to the wiki page for EDT so people have a heads up about the issues a bit later on in STEP? I'll post again after I have some more playtime, I might CTD later on, a few minutes of play time by one person isn't the best guarantee that something works, especially a newbie like me lol. Just wanted to let you know that those directions are good so far from what I can tell. Thanks again for all the support.

Very much appreciate the quick replies, you guys rock!

Pretty basic question here, I tried to search and didn't seem to find anything about this specific topic. I'm trying to use LOOT to setup meta rule instructions for realistic water two. According to the wiki page, I need to set RealisticWaterTwo.esp to load after FarmhouseChimneys.esp. The problem is that this esp doesn't exist. I checked the filetree for the farmhouse chimneys mod, and the only esp there is HearthfireChimneys.esp. Should I just follow the directions using HearthfireChimneys.esp instead of FarmhouseChimneys.esp, or do I not need to worry about it since I dont technically have the FarmhouseChimneys.esp that the wiki refers to? Thanks! :) Edit: I followed the directions using HearthfireChimneys.esp instead of FarmhouseChimneys.esp, seems to work fine when I benchmark but I'm not sure if the chimneys in question are involved at all lol :P

Thanks Xaviien, just finished step 4, will install moss rocks - dragonborn later. Edit: I just got to terrain bump on the guide, the wiki page says: hide the following files: textures\landscape\fieldgrass01_n.dds textures\landscape\mountains\mountainslab01_n.dds textures\landscape\mountains\mountainslab02_n.dds You already mentioned fieldgrass01_n.dds, so that is already hidden. The mountains folder isn't there at all, I'm gonna assume it's safe to not worry about hiding those since they don't exist, just wanted to clarify :P. Hopefully this works, sketches me out when I can't follow the directions exactly lol.

I'll make a copy of my MO profile and try messing around with it tomorrow. Thanks for the reply :)

I just decided yesterday that I should install skyrim since it's been a while. I was lucky enough to find out about the STEP, have been going through the 2.2.9 guide. So far so good, despite never modding skyrim at all until today. I just got to Enhanced Distant Terrain, and the link didn't work so I searched around a bit and found out it is now a part of The Ruffled Feather mod collection. I was just wondering how I would go about proceeding at this point. Seeing as how I have no idea what I'm doing, I really don't want to have to make any judgement calls and risk screwing up the process of getting STEP up and running. I just double checked on the MO, it says I have "Enhanced Distant Terrain" and "Enhanced Distant Terrain 2 - Dragonborn", but I'm pretty sure that's just how it named the two files I was supposed to download from the EDT 2 page on nexus. Should I just hang tight until you guys update, or is there some kind of simple workaround that a newbie like me could manage? Thanks! BTW, very much appreciate the effort you guys have put into this, certainly makes it easier to get into modding when I have a detailed guide to follow.