i started reading about ILS and found out about ENBoost, ini memory tweaks, and the STEP guide. seems like i have alot more tweaking to do besides dyndo. gonna re-install skyrim and make backups of everything vanilla so i can start fresh. couple questions before i begin. 1) the STEP guide looks good but it has not been updated since may 2015. this worries me a bit cause my intention is to start over and i don't want to be doing things that are outdated. example, i found posts saying [NotPlacebo] GiveFirstBornToSheson=1 is a must but when i kept following links to newer posts i see people saying that is no longer necessary and there is a new way. should i be following the STEP guide or can you suggest another guide that would be better for people who are starting from scratch? 2) should i be using NMM or mod organizer? i've been using NMM but i noticed alot of people talking about mod organizer. i found posts from you dating back to 2013 so i know you have been around and i'm basically gonna use what you suggest. if you do recommend mod organizer i would appreciate knowing why you recommend it. i have google searched NMM vs MO and the only thing i hear was different is MO does not over write files it does everything virtually. this sounds nice but the post was really old and i hear NMM has had alot of improvements. just want to make sure i'm using the right tools. 3) speaking of tools, i have SKSE 1.07.03, TES5edit 3.2, LOOT 0.8.1, ENB v0279, ENBoost, 5.0, Vram size test. what other tools should i be using? 4) i noticed the order in which you do things has a drastic effect on your game. the first time i installed realvision ENB and the recommend mods i installed everything in no particular order. my last install i noticed the realvision ENB page says install mods in this order. when i did that my game went from looking better to looking amazing. with this in mind i'm wondering in which order should i be doing things. was thinking mods > enb > dyndo > LOOT > TES5edit cleans > ini tweaks. 5) last question for now. what esp's should i be selecting when i start TES5edit and begin the dyndo output dump? like i previously mentioned, the first time i selected all esp, the next time i only selected these esp's. skyrim, update, DLC, unofficial patch, dyndo. after i got ISL again i wondered if i should only select the dyndo esp. after i thought of that i started thinking about the SFO and SMIM esp cause gamer poet talks about them in his dyndo video. with so many esp's to select it would be very helpful to know if i should be selecting them all, only certain ones, or only the dyndo. thank you for the help. i really do appreciate it. i've been at this for 3 days. i thought i had everything in order cause my game runs fine fully modded. but when i started reading about the ILS caused by dyndo i realized there were so many steps people suggested that i did not do. since i am going to start all over i just want to make sure i am doing things right.