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did you try safe mode? (see post above)

I am not having this issue with FF, but I also rarely have more than a few tabs open at a time. Currently, I am using 5 tabs and FF process is consuming about 316 MB of memory. Have not noticed any trends either. My guess is that you may have a problem with a third-party tool/app (or other setting). Try loading FF in safe mode to see if it goes away.

Yes, classic Octo comment ... harmless unless you read too much into it. Tisk, tisk, Octo ...

I think he means that the name and the cat's appearance have that anime thing going. Not 'racist' but demonstrative of stereotyping and prejudice ... which we all have BTW ;) I just listened to an NPR segment on this a few days ago, so I am now an expert.

You are correct, it is possible to get those frames if you lower some key settings ... but, alas, not with all settings maxed. It is also arguably possible that you will still get some dips with SR:LE (or even STEP) ... try that location on the ridge outside of Solitude. I would much rather give up frame rate (30+ anyway) than give up shadows and certain other graphical tweaks, but for me, performance/quality trade-offs always favor quality. You must be more concerned with performance (wich may be quality to some extent if your brain can actually tell any major difference between 35-45 and 60 :P). To each his own ...

No telling, but I would assume that whatever you are doing will cause some conflicts. You may notice nothing ever, but after hours of play, you may notice a real problem. impossible for us to say or to support I'm afraid ... that's why we created the guide and tested our mod lineup. You are in your own territory with that setup ;)

In your case, the STEP patches do not apply. You will either need to ignore any Bashed Patching errors or patch things yourself with TESEdit. Our patches mostly are used to forward USP fixes or to reduce the number of needed plugins. Hard to say if it matters much with your setup.

Really? Complaining that 35-45 FPS is 'terrible' is a bit ridiculous, especially for Skyrim. Not even the best gaming computer on Earth can deliver 60 FPS in all areas with a highly-modded setup Anything regularly exceeding 30 FPS is perfectly playable. Averaging 50+ is ideal, so I'd say you are in the 'ideal' category already. As neo says, this is one of the most taxing areas of the game. the other one is looking out over the landscape near the Solitude gate (a bit down the path). Another is in/around Riften.

No, you follow the STEP Guide, explicitly. If you only install the Core mods (marked according to the legend), then you have installed STEP:Core, and you will only install the Core patch (as noted in N. Patches section). If you install all STEP mods, then you have installed STEP:Extended and will need the Extended patch (as noted in N. Patches section). All the instructions are in the guide if you read it and follow along. Once you are finished installing STEP, you can install whatever texture mods you want in whatever way you want to get the desired effect (not supported). If you install other plugin mods, then things are a bit more complicated, but it should work out fine in the end unless there are plugin conflicts with your additions beyond STEP (again, not supported). If only textures, then there is no effect on the STEP patches, as they only relate to the plugins. Patches get installed at the end, so I am pretty sure you are not following the guide explicitly but likely taking shortcuts if you are installing the patches after the DLC way up front.

You need to install STEP:Core/Extended first on a clean vanilla Skyrim. Then install whatever customizations you want ... if they are only textures, and if you installed all of the relevant STEP mods, then use the Extended patch.

We have it under Packs because it is possible to configure SR:LE over STEP:Core, and it is a good location for builds hosted here that are not actually 'STEP'

Yes, I thought the slideshow was the key, too, but after loading a theme, the slideshow is not pointing to the theme images folder content. Removing the undesired images forces the behavior I want, but there is no way to increase/decrease the frequency of the background change (which I do not want anyway). I assume (like hidden dark Continuum UI), that theme config has yet to be finalized under Win 10. For now, it supports Win 7 themes with limited config. This is one good example of how the PC is being treated more like a mobile device instead of a PC ... not ideal, and I see no way of fixing issues like this unless there is an optional toggle/module that configures system apps for PC distinct from those for mobile. ... now I need to figure out why my RDP is not working under Win 10 ...

Yes, I know, but you will find no way of selecting which of the background images in a theme to use or not use, nor will you find any way to set the duration for the background to change. These all used to be under the Theme selection area in Win 7, but now there is no theme settings area in Win 10. Win 7 (all aspects of the theme are accessible via the GUI): Win 10 (no theme settings accessible from here & others inaccessible from anywhere):

I have been using WSUS for years now. Much better than hours-long install of Win 7, given all the time it takes to download and install the updates in something like 10 iterations. On another note, I finally did embark on a clean install of Win 10 on my own system (after imaging my Win 7 config). I will say that driver installs were very clean and seem to be pretty much trouble free in Win 10. The only '?' in my Device manager was for my old CanoScan scanner. All other drivers seem miraculously correct. I am also a bit happier after removing all of the useless bloatware using PowerShell. The hidden 'dark' theme also makes the 'mobile' system app a bit more tolerable. Overall, it seems to be a bit better than my update experience or my experience with my father-in-law's computer. I will say that there are some things lacking though in Win 10 ... like, where the heck do you control theme backgrounds? (I did find the background config settings, but they are now limited). In Win 7, you could go to 'personalization', select/download a theme, and customize the frequency with which the background changed (30 min by default) or tick/untick only the backgrounds of the theme that interest you ... even the screen saver settings (loading a theme wipes your screen saver if the theme does not define one, since this is part of the theme). These are all aspects of the theme config, which are missing in Win 10. Example: I use the Halo Reach theme. In Win 7, I normally do Personalization > "Get more themes online" > Install ... then I go to Desktop Background and untick all but the first and set the background change/rotation to "never". In Win 10, all is same, but the config settings for the theme itself are gone. The only way I could get it to work as i want was to move out all of the images in my theme directory except the one. Removing control functionality like this is really annoying. In most cases, the settings have either moved or changed a bit, but in this case, there appears to be no system settings at all.

Have a look at this OP ... as well as the link to the results from that.

I did NOT agree. We should be recommending Win 7 or greater

agree, that is significant. ... still vote we do not make Win 10 among the 'recommended' system requirements for STEP at this point though.

If we compare Win 10 indirectly to Win 7, then, Win 7 should still be a better pick for several important benchmarks (though not all) https://www.google.com/search?q=windows+8+versus+windows+7+performance&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

Regardless of Win 7 extended support, I am almost certain that Win 10 will evolve into something more accommodating to PC-only users or users that do not want all of the mobile apps installed for use with a non-touch screen. I am also betting that they will reign in some of their oversteps when it all comes out in the wash. That should all happen sometime before support for Win 7 expires (i.e., in 2020). "desktop mode" is still too much like "tablet mode" in Win 10 currently, IMO. I will defer my 'complementary' Win 10 ISO download until June, 2016, thank you very much. PS: And what's with the cartoon icons in Win 10 and general lack of shadows in the whole OS? No doubt, this has much to do with perceived performance increases ... certainly not engineering improvements! ... and DY, yes, no doubt driver issues with Win 10 and relatively inefficient Win 10 drivers currently.

I'd have to say that Win 10 "performance increases" are part placebo and part fresh OS. I upgraded and disabled all the things alt3rn1ty mentions and found it to be quite sluggish. A fresh install is much better, performance-wise, but I cannot abide all the crap that comes with Win 10 in terms of needless system apps/software and infringements on my personal and administrative rights (and ongoing maintenance to keep it all 'tame' as forced 'updates' flood in constantly). I don't think this one will be a market success until they "update" Win 10 to accommodate a special flavor just for PCs (i.e., Win 7 with the relatively few improvement aspects that came with Wins 8-10). Another use case: My father-in-law asked me to downgrade his system back to Win 7 after he used Win 10 for a few days.

Google "camel case" What example? I have placed comments like this just after many settings in my INIs without issue: iPresentInterval=0 ; this controls blah, blah... affects only string settings? Like the archive setting? Maybe that is why I never noticed?

You You can follow the instructions posted earlier in this topic: The culprits ... after uninstalling those updates and hiding them in Windows Update, you will not see the annoying icon or waste any background resources supporting it. I uninstalled/hid them on all of our home computers.

... and if we laid out every single step and/or created a video doing the same, it would need to be modified and updated several times a week. It would be monstrous to maintain and even more confusing to all users ... not just those new to the project. The fact is that we provide a guide that really does provide detailed instructions on doing just about everything (or links to external refs). We rely on users' understanding the general principles and tactics though in order to follow along without issue. This requires time out for learning. Nevertheless, if even a complete n00b were to follow the guide from start to finish, it is not that hard to get STEP installed. Just read the guide ... completely from start to finish. If in doing so, any user is confused about an instruction or a method, then be specific about what is confusing. Give us specific feedback on what the specific instruction(s) is telling you and how you are interpreting that instruction(s). From there, we can rephrase or augment in some way to account for anything that may be unclear or misleading or even outdated. Just saying that N. Patches is too convoluted/difficult to follow tells us nothing. We just assume that the user is not reading carefully enough or inserting their own assumptions or just not following the instructions. I still await specifics to address on this thread with regard to instructions and how they are flawed or confusing.

Comments are valid in any INI and any position as long as you begin the comment with a semicolon. It can be on the same line as an INI setting itself without issue. INIs are case INsensitive, yes, but suggest using camel case for readability and consistency.

I agree completely. Why should I opt to disable all that system-level bloatware using a manual process? One should be able to tick a global setting to disable 'Continuum' (the revamped version of Metro it seems) ... bye, bye to the totally useless 'Settings' system app as well as all of those tablet-specific apps that expose settings to maps/location prefs, advertizing prefs and all those other useless mobile apps that have absolutely no place on a desktop OS. I have to type in search just to get at my damn screen saver settings! It's an offensive 'joke'. Once a script is written to disable and expunge all of the tablet-related crap as well as the invasive spyware, I may give it another try. There is a whole layer of system apps and services that are not needed and should be completely wiped for this OS to be useful for desktop systems. Win 10 = Win 8 with an altered Metro and some additional junk. EDIT: I found this useful and instructive.