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Hmm that could very well be the cause. I have everything added by SkyRe (although I've never had any problems before), the Medusa and Drakul armours, Dragonbone Ebonsteel armour, Sicarius armour, aMidianBorn's ebony armour variants and Immersive Armours. Could that be enough to cause it?

Whenever I enter any kind of crafting menu (smithing, enchanting etc.) I can hear this ticking every second. It's nothing game-breaking, but in the smithing menu it causes the game to stutter every second, meaning that sometimes I go to click on a category but it doesn't register because of the stuttering. Any help would be much appreciated as it's starting to get a bit annoying!

Ah ok, as I was familiar with WB from modding Oblivion I just thought I better stick to what I know haha. TES5Edit seems to have dropped the patch directly into the Data folder and it's showing up in WB, so I guess there's no need for that last step. Thanks for the clarification :)

Navigate to /overwrite and move the new file(s) to /mods/Acquisitive Soul Gems. I haven't been using Mod Organizer at all during the STEP installation as I thought it was optional. Is this step still required if I'm using Wrye Bash? If so, does that mean I'll need to install MO and do this step, then I can continue with WB as I was? Or have I missed the point entirely?