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Love how this one meshes with both the gold and black version of silence. A++.

Here I was, just complaining about them being too dark and doing all the work to merge them with SRO and he does this! lol.... glad to see it though, makes the install a little easier.

There is also an MCM menu configuration as well you could try to see if it achieves the same effect.

To be fair to AV, in my searching I haven't really found that many competing texture mods for creatures. The ones linked from his site that have AV packages are about the only ones competing and you can still use individual mods for creatures not touched by the AV program(Dragons, Frost Atronach, etc.) while still maintaining variety with the others (bears, mammoths, etc.) I'm going to play around with this some more and maybe even figure out how to make AV packages out of the various other mods if required. Will take a bit of time but I think in the end it will be worth it.

Not sure, Skyrim HD seems to be more non-vanilla in style. We shall see though!

It can indeed.

It'll work, just with unforseen results. :)

I used to play in surround with the fix but I kept getting really bad shadow flicker (bad bad...) so I decided to simply run 1920x1080 on the center display for this game. Other than the flicker it looks amazing in surround though. I think the flicker started ~ patch 1.4ish so thinking it's a Bethesda optimization that screwed it.

v1.81 - Now supports Skyrim Flora Overhaul v1.7. - Added a couple of missing meshes from Ruins Clutter Improvement v2.4. Thanks cestral for the update.

I believe if you have AO Usage = Disabled then games cannot use/enable AO though their engine. I have not played with it to find out however, so I could be totally off base on that.

AO Setting = Off + AO Usage = Enabled means you are NOT getting any Nvidia driver based AO. Any AO you might be recieving will be from ENB or you have none at all.

How does it compare to "Cinematic Fire Effects" thats currently in STEP? That is the real question.

Any updates on the "good/essential" packs or new things for Automatic Variants? I know there has been several revisions since this was written and I'm looking to put it in my next guide update.

They mention BSA reg issues it sounds like, which is a simple INI edit. The criticism is harsh and unwarranted without real evidence, and MO is definitely not a "piece of junk". There is a substantial MO following that would argue the contrary. Myself included. Mod Organizer has been a godsend imo. Love it and haven't experienced many issues at all. The new preview version tannin put out looks amazing too once he works the bugs out. That being said, I always use loose files to help find conflicts as much as possible. His criticism appears directed at MO 0.12.0 which is still in preview/not ready for prime time as it contains major bugs. MO 0.11.15 works great.

I know I will have a section in my new guide for SRO for those that have it (because I still use it myself). As for STEP itself, they have been removing anything that is no longer available as I imagine it would be hell to test going forward or have public testing at all.

That would be ConSkrybe by shademe.

Also hope for the love of god fix the ones on the castle walls that pop in with better mips! :)

The base mod (Categorized Favorites Menu) has finally been updated to the latest Skyrim version.

Probably a missing texture for SMIM somehow.

Yellow, definitely.

Fortunately (or unfortunately) I have all the SRO files archived on my machine, including Dawnguard. That being said, I have been and am in the middle of a re-write of my mod guide and SRO was going to be the central player. I do NOT want to give that up so it will be hard for me to be objective and make my guide WITHOUT those files. I'm hoping that eventually they will be restored on another site by starac otherwise I may have to leave it in and put a *No Longer Available On Nexus* tag on it for those people who have them downloaded already. Unfortunately the closest "replacement" is the high res DLC from Bethesda as SRO kept close to Vanilla.

Let us all calm down and stop beating up on the guy. He has his opinion and we have ours. Let us agree to disagree and call it a day. As far as STEP is concerned, since SRO is no longer available due to both starac's actions and his nexus ban we basically have no choice but to remove it as a recommended mod despite the quality of his work it is simply not available any longer.

Nice, will give that a go.

SRO is now reported as "Under Moderation" and Starac has been banned for requiring money. Link