Gremlin

The STEP instructions indicate you should also install the "optional HD textures" file, but the HD textures file registers as v1.0.0, whereas the default file is v1.0.2. Can anyone confirm if 1.0.2 includes the HD textures? I suspect the instructions are out-of-date, or at the very least unclear as to install order when it comes to file overwrites.

I use this mod and I find it improves the game immensely. It doesn't make a lick of sense for the Stormcloaks to be called Stormcloaks if Ulfric is the only guy in all Skyrim who's ever heard of a cloak... ;)

Ugh... Well, I'm glad to hear I'm not alone in this. To purge the havoc DSR, XPMS, and FNIS wreaked on my build, I uninstalled everything and am starting over from scratch to make sure there will be no lingering problems. Alduin is truly a fearsome enemy - his fire breath kicks me out of Tamriel completely!

This is not technically caused by DSR, you probably missed the Skeleton Rig files when you installed XPMS. I had the same issue until I figured out what was missing.Wait what? Please explain. If this can help me put DSR back in, I'd be thrilled.

Hey STEPpers, I don't know how much of this problem is caused by my own ignorance, but Dual Sheath Redux causes Skyrim to crash at a very specific point - the same one described in this ancient post. The second time Alduin breathes fire, BAM! CTD. I determined after heavy trial and error that none of the fire or spell effect mods had anything to do with the crash. DSR was properly patched and was last in the load order as prescribed by the STEP guide, BOSS was run, Wrye suggested no other problems were responsible. To solve this I just got rid of DSR. I'm sure that there are more elegant methods available to those wiser than myself, but at my level of non-skill, I'd rather have the rest of the game without fancy sheathes than endless CTD. ;)