Holymartyr

Yes, I have seen that. The problem with that, is the linking of a second d3d9.dll file doesn't work with the injector version. I like what ENB has done, but I'd much rather use SMAA injector over ENB. Still, thanks for pointing that out Vond.

All I think. I followed the guide to the dot. Every step.

Just started running DDSopt from the Wiki, and just got to the point where it is optimizing everything. Anyone have an idea on how long it will take? DDSopt is estimating a full 24 hours ATM I have a AMD Tri Core 3.5GHz OC (Phenom II X3 720 Black Edition) and 4GB of 1333 MHz DDR3 Ram. Seems a bit long imo, but I've never done this before. Any feedback appreciated =)

Ok, thanks for the heads up Bealdwine. Very new to the forums (within the past week or so), decided to become a part of the community to try to help out seeing as there was no direct line to TC himself, and I wanted to try to help other users. One thing I'd like to mention is I've been looking for a workaround for alternate d3d9.dll files for laptops running Nvidia OPTIMUS, and one thing I found that actually worked is by getting a hex editor, going into the TESV.exe file, finding d3d9.dll and rename to something such as d3fx.dll, then renaming the alternate d3d9.dll file to d3fx.dll. It would load the d3fx.dll file, and use the Nvidia powered GPU instead of the intel GPU. (This solution was NOT originally found by me. I found this by someone else on another forum months back. I'm sorry I cannot give you credit, if someone knows who I'm talking about please let me know so I can give him credit) Problem with this is that for some reason, when you rename the d3d9.dll from injectSMAA by Andrej Dudenhefner, the d3d9.dll file no longer works. The game loads, it uses the alternate file ON the Nvidia GPU, but the AA doesn't load for some reason. I've tried to get a hold of Andrej, but to no avail atm. But if you have a normal computer WITHOUT OPTIMUS, then all you have to do is drop the d3d9.dll file from injectSMAA into your TESV.exe folder and the AA looks great. I haven't tried with ENB yet. (I reformat my computer every few months because of how slow windows gets. Keep all the data on seperate HDD and just re-install. So I haven't had Skyrim installed for a while. Works out I guess since the next STEP will probably have everyone re-install from scratch anyways.)

Wanted to post this here for people to look at and figure out if they want to use this, instead of the games internal AA. (This description was taking from Andrej's site - link at bottom of this post.) I haven't tried Skyrim with the new 301.24 NVIDIA Beta Driver AA, so I can't offer a comparison as of right now. Also don't know if the new STEP update will use the FXAA injecter (which SMAA is based off of BTW), but once again posting in-case people would like to use this. When using injectSMAA over the default AA in Skyrim, I got an incredible performance boost (upwards of 20~ FPS in certain places in-game). The quality of the AA as well is very, very good imo. Try it out and give it a go! You might like it. Original site link found: here.

Luckily that isn't too hard. Little php script to stop hotlinking and have a download counter that is saved right into the DB this forum uses. (I've always hosted my own sites/db's/servers so to me it's that easy. Not sure what hosting service you are using) - If you were to host any files on this site instead of Nexus.

Ah cool, ty for getting back so quickly. Hope to see the Wiki idea go through. =)

Has anyone (not sure who this idea would go to, or who would be responsible for it), thought of setting up a SVN or FTP site for STEP? The SVN or FTP would just include the latest changes to the STEP pdf. TC (since if I understand right is the only one who changes the pdf), could just setup a SVN or FTP client to automatically upload the contents of the folder to the site at a certain time in the day, say 12:00 PM or something, when he's done working on it. That would allow people to get changes on a daily basis, or however much TC works on STEP. (Not sure if he makes changes directly to the PDF, or saves random txt documents - no clue whatsoever; but you get the idea) Reason is I for one would love to setup my Skyrim to look like the Facebook pic does atm. Whether TC, or anyone else deems STEP ready for the next update or not, isn't on my mind. I would love to just play the game and have it look that great (even if the STEP pdf is 'beta' if you will). Not trying to be self centered here, but I would hazard a guess that there are many more out there like me who don't mind minor glitches to run the game at such a great level of detail and realism. Hoping this is taken as a helpful idea, and don't come back to this post in a day or two to find me flamed and whatnot, but i'm incredibly anxious about this new update. That pic looks much better than any of the past updates imo. P.S. Great work TC and everyone else who has put work into STEP. Follow it almost exclusively due to how well the game looks after followed. Thank you very much for everyone's time, and keep up the good work!