Gwardinen

That sidebar is exactly what makes me think I want the vanilla stuff back in BSAs. If I extract them into loose files I'm going to need to go through every mod I've installed again (which is the majority of the STEP mods, ie. a lot) and extract them all in order again to make sure the right stuff is taking precedence. If I put them back into BSAs then the installation and load order I've already configured is preserved. My only problem is that the second High Res texture folder is not currently going back into BSA, with that "cannot read BSA file" error at the very end that I mentioned before. Does anyone know of a way to fix that? Here is the list of things I did to HighResTexturePack02.bsa if it helps or if anyone could recreate it: Extracted into a folder, using DDSopt.Deleted placeholder.txt files.Ran batch fixes from the DDSopt guide.Processed with DDSopt, using the values in the guide and max texture resolution 2048x2048.Processed just the *_n.dds files (normal maps) again using max texture resolution 1024x1024.Attempted to re-integrate into BSA using DDSopt - failed due to "cannot read BSA file" error.I did all of this before with the first high res texture pack file, with no problems.

I have been trying to put the vanilla resources back into BSA format because I have a bunch of mods that use BSA files, and I believe they won't actually be used in favour of the original resources if the original resources are loose files? Just as a brief example, a number of STEP mods use BSA files; Acquisitive Soul Gems, Convenient Horses, Enhanced Blood, the Paarthurnax Dilemma, the unofficial patches, etc. However, I've run into a problem in that while the Skyrim - Textures.bsa file went back fine, as did the first HRDLC file, the HighResTexturePack02.bsa resource folder is giving me a "cannot read BSA file!" error at the end when I try to process it back into a BSA file. Does anyone know of anything I could try to make this work, or whether there's a way to have them as loose files without interfering with my mods?