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I have just finished a play through of Biraitbec's guide as of the Nexus. I found his guide and mod choices opinionated and not always in a good way. He doesn't ask you to delete all the base textures just deselect the HD textures DLCs in Steam. Not one of his decisions I have an issue with. There are a lot of much better HD texture re placers than Bethesda's official poorly made and badly optimized sets.

Looking forward to playing it with my old ME3 multiplayer coop crowd, it should be fun. Not expecting depth or Fallout 5 TESVI or anything the next "single player RPG" is going to be Starfield and I am interested to see there take on that but I am expecting 2019-2020 before release. Next single player I am really hyped about is Cyberpunk 2077. I GMed the old 2013/2020 back in the day and loved that game sooo hard. I am guessing some of you weren't even born then.

Can I suggest you run something like OpenVAS once a month or more against your servers to make sure you aren't drifting into the long tail of vulnerability. You can run it from a VirtualBox install from a half decent laptop. Please note that you should check with your service provider, if, when and how they would want to be informed of any pen (penetration) testing. https://www.openvas.org/

The site is undergoing a major redevelopment, with new hardware, forum software and integration with Mod Picker. I am willing to wait for SSL/TLS to be included in that work. If you are concerned use a long unique password for STEP. I personally use a 24 character random string set by a password manager, which is certainly going to take longer to crack than my lifetime.

The hardware isn't up to it the a single 1070 isn't going to have the grunt to deliver decent frame rates at 4K, you need a minimum of a 1080, ideally a 1080ti with a factory overclock for decent frame rates from a single card at that resolution. Your CPU is good enough but even there I would OC with a AIO liquid cooler to keep things stable. My Specs: i7 6700K (4.7 OC, Bethesda games are often choking on single threaded performance due to DX9/DX11 and scripts) GeForce® GTX 1080 Xtreme Gaming WATERFORCE 8G (Factory OC and water cooling means it is stable at just over 2000mhz even during benchmarks and stress tests) 32GB of RAM 2 SSD one for OS and one for Games iiyama X4071UHSU-B1 40" ProLite 4K

This is still just a proof of concept for a PHD but very interesting. Be interesting to see if anyone runs with this. https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/77792/? The article where I first came across the mod. https://techxplore.com/news/2017-08-tool-autonomy-skyrim-nonplayer-characters.html

Hello, hope this is the right place for this but I wondered if it would be possible to add HTTPS and an SSL cert to STEP. Letsencrypt do a free automated cert service and updating the certs are handled with a simple script running under cron. I have used them myself for a while now and it has never failed to renew the certs in time. https://letsencrypt.org/

xEdit defaults to FO4 at least if you already have it installed. I added "-TES5" to fix it. You might want to add that to the docs.

Hello finally getting around to installing 2.10.0 from scratch. Heads up for the xEdit wiki page, the link for the forum is broken for me at least. https://forum.step-project.com/topic/1327-

Jar files shouldn't need decompiling they are simply archives .jar stands for Java Archive you will need a decompiler/editor such as JD-GUI to view the various class files you will find inside. In theory, it should be doable as both are Turin complete. If you give it a try, use a decent editor such as Atom it will make your tasks easier. Good luck :)

I accidentally completed the Mage's guild quest line in a recent play though. I felt like I had let myself down.

I have a Gigabyte 1080 Extreme AIO Waterforce. So for me it is wait and see what the 2080 is like vs Vega/Navi. However who ever wins the performance crown, unless the flicker face bug is fixed with AMD cards in Skyrim SE, I am stuck with Nvidia. I might swap out my 6700K for a Ryzen 1800X if the benches support it. However my big tech spend this year is going to be Unifi for the house and garden.[1] [1] https://www.ubnt.com/enterprise/

Sorry to ask this question and I am hugely grateful for your work on this but is there any reason you aren't using symantic versioning with Mod Organiser 2? https://semver.org/

Sorry for not replying earlier in the week as I have explained in other threads I only have a few hours at the weekend to spend on Step and other mod forums. Just want to second most of what Greg has said. The Netgear comments made me smile. I saw them being sold cheap a while back and was tempted but then read bad review after bad review. Again Greg's advise on using cheap drives is backed up by some hard empirical evidence from Backblaze's publically accessible reports.[1] If you do decide to go the home NAS route down the line do your research and have some Fun. If you settle on FreeNAS 99% of what you need will be available from the GUI. If you do need to speak command line *nix to it, immagine that you are speaking to autistic yoda and you won't go far wrong. [1] https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-reliability-stats-q1-2016/

I don't know Amahi home server, their "Greyhole" technology isn't something I have used, so I can not speak about it. Personally I use FreeNas and have used Zentyal in the home as well the later being more an equivalent Windows SMB server than a home NAS. FreeNAS is based on FreeBSD which is a UNIX operating system similar to the Linux Amahi and Zentyal and would be my choice if your old hardware supports it (FreeBSD is abit more restricted than Windows and Linux for the hardware it runs on). A home storage machine doesn't need to be that powerful my current FreeNAS box is a circa 2007 Asus P4 board with a q6600 cpu and 8GB of ram and 6 2TB disks of various vintages in RAIDZ2 config. The operating system runs from a 16GB flash drive that was a freebie at a conference. Power consumption is not the best but I have a 100% green energy tariff with "Good Energy"[3] so my guilt is assuaged. For Backups I use rsync.net[4] to backup my FreeNas box and use the Bacula plugin to backup the Windows, Linux and Macs at home. You would need another box for a "file director" which for me is a very cheap NUC clone or take a look at the Crashplan[5] plugin, which I haven't used. I hope that helps, I am not sure if I am the best person to ask about home stuff as my own setup is pretty non standard and my job makes me tend towards unnecessary over engineering at home. [1] https://www.freenas.org/about/features/ [2] https://www.zentyal.com/zentyal-server/ [3] https://www.goodenergy.co.uk/ [4] https://www.rsync.net/resources/howto/freenas.html [5] https://www.crashplan.com/en-us/

You have my sympathies. As a professional systems engineer I can only keep repeating the sage advise I was given many years ago when I started out and that is "If it is important have a disaster recovery process in place". Get a Windows backup utility that works for you, there are lots of free versions out there.Alternatively use an off site service but these tend to cost a monthly fee.Buy or repurpose a dedicated backup drive note RAID is not a backup it is redundancy and resilience. You can payout for a dedicated NAS box, build your own or simply add an external USB to your Router (if supported) or PC.Setup your backups and once you are happy schedule them ideally daily but no longer than weekly.Once you have your backup solution in place it is time to test and practice recovery. There is nothing worse than coming to your backups when you need them and finding they don't work.Test and practice at least once a month.

Filled out the review makes sense now. Sorry it took so long. Contract work keeps me from modding and gaming except for a few hours each weekend.

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/3118/? Is hidden https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/5673/? This seem to be by the original author. Looks like one got taken down or it was renumbered?

I think you are misunderstanding the purpose of the 8 core chip. For AMD similar to Intel's approach will use their enthusiast processors as a testing ground for the 8,16 and 32 core server chips. There may be a 6 core Ryzen processor that clocks around 3.8 and maybe a 4 core that clocks around 4ghz. My guess is that AMD will release their quad core processors as APUs in the Raven Ridge family. There are some good margins to be made there. Especially if they can release a decent 14nm quad core APU that supports 32GB of RAM and USB 3.1. Since Apple stuck with AMD graphics for the new Macbook Pros, I would say it is a least a possiblility. AMD could be in a good position to take a chunk of Intel's laptop market. What ever happens AMD back in the game is good for everyone's business except Intel and Nvidia.

Struggling to submit a review on the mod picker page the submit button is greyed out.

Brigandage This mod adds 36 new armors designed for bandits, brigands and thieves. The visual design is meant to show they cobble together parts of all the armor and clothes that they steal. The default version of this mod adds the 36 armors to the world via the Bandit's leveled lists. There are alternate versions where the items are craftable only or craftable in addition to the leveled lists. In all versions, the armors are Temperable.

Go for a 1080p screen if you can find one. Avoid DDR3 if battery life matters, look for a minimum of 8GB of RAM. Avoid built in optical drives, instead get a machine with USB 3 support and use a detachable drive for those times you need an optical port. If you can find and afford one get a machine with a Thunderbolt port so you could consider an eGPU. Don't get hung up on brands or models, let the requirements guide you. Once the requirements have led you some where read all the professional and amateur reviews to see if it is a good choice.

Old thread I know but I have to be pedantic and say it is free and open sourced under a number different licenses including MIT, BSD and GPL, not sure why so many? The process is a standard Git flow process. Fork the main repo, create a feature branch make your changes commit to your own branch and fork and send in a pull request to upstream. Pretty simple especially if you have ever used SVN, Clearcase, Perforce or God have mercy on your soul CVS. Github makes the whole process point and click.

Not tried it myself but... https://www.thewindowsclub.com/10appsmanager-windows-10