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This. I've found it a bit dissapointing. These guys are good at what they do, but it needs to mature a fair bit.

You're right - if it were pure ethanol applied directly to the virus. Unfortunately it doesn't work the same way in the body when imbibed. Viruses aren't alive in themselves, they hijack your cells. You'd be dead from the booze long before the virus was affected, if at all.

ELFX The Wilds 3.0 ENB - dark interiors and dark nights (but with the bloom.fx file from The Goddess ENB, and some tweaking of brightness in the ENB gui) Further Dark Dungeons for ENB I'm still tweaking, but I'm really enjoying what I have with just those. Certainly boosts vibrancy and provides atmospheric interiors. I find the bloom at an acceptable level, and a greatly improved image quality.

This is a very good point. Manufacturers love setting exaggerated defaults to make their screens pop on the shop floor. Good calibration would be a very good inclusion for the wiki.

I've been using ELnF since I returned to Skyrim, and I rate it highly. It adds dramatic atmosphere. I've dabbled with the others, but haven't been tempted away. I may not be the best person to contribute to this discussion though, since I loathe the vanilla lighting and its horrible ambient glows. Nothing that sticks close to vanilla is likely to gladden my heart.

Feed a virus and starve a bacterium. So, for a flu virus, EssArrBee's slap up meal and Rootsrat's milky potion may be the right idea.

It has found a new host! :ohmy: I've just got rid of it - in fact, it's the reason I had time on my hands to think about Skyrim and STEP again. The virions move in mysterious ways. Get well soon.

Just to make it more complicated, it is cautioned that enabling logging can also cause occasional problems. Oh, Bethesda :facepalm:

I have bit of experience in that regard, and I really hope you're wrong about that. I'm very sensitive to people being treated unfairly, but I must admit I perceived this situation in completely the opposite way - considerate people like techangel bending over backwards being jerked around by someone with an aggressive and unfair attitude. Which is why I instigated a note of levity to put the boot on the other foot, and offer a humorous means of moral support. On the Nexus, I've found that a good way to keep modders spirits up and make them feel supported against a tide of ingratitude and rudeness. If I've misread the situation, and the individual, I would eat my words in a second, and make amends.Â

@thelastone I really wouldn't worry - there's nothing wrong with your rig at all. Your CPU may be overkill for what you end up doing, but depending on the software, could also prove useful. Certainly if you end up using the sort of pro tools i mentioned, it will be a benefit. 16GB of ram is perfectly reasonable for a workstation too. The Nvidia 670 4GB is a fine card, and although not the price/performance winner, it does have certain advantages for the Skyrim and ENB enthusiast, which I assume you are, being here! It is also my choice for that reason. You can add an SSD any time you like. That rig certainly won't let you down - it's not like you've bought a lemon!

Well, he said he's doing a professional course in 3d art and animation at an industry level school. I'm no expert, but I imagine that means things like Keyshot and Messiah Studio, which to my knowledge use CPU processing exclusively (tens of them at a time if available) for Pixar style animation. I think hardcore rendering is a fair description. It doesn't strike me a great calamity that he's chosen the rig he has for tasks like that.

Not a bad rig by any means. I'd love to have it! If you're going to be doing some hardcore rendering, then that CPU will certainly do the job. 16gb RAM or more can be very handy if you're a "power user". I'm always running VMs for various reasons, and you can never have enough. But if it were just for gaming, or future proofing, I would scale it down, include an SSD, and stuff the money saved under my mattress to buy complete upgrades the CPU and GPUs in a couple of years.

I think PCG4m3r's Notepad ++ procedure should be added to the wiki, somewhere. It applies to ini files, ENB configs, scripts - all the stuff we deal with.

Yes - add to your Skyrim.ini: [Papyrus] bEnableLogging=1 bEnableTrace=1 bLoadDebugInformation=1 It should then generate a Log folder in the same directory as the inis.

SRO is very unlikely the problem - it's nothing but textures, and I use it too. I don't use Neovalens setup, and since it uses mods outside of base STEP, our experiences don't compare. It's still unfinished and in testing, so it is conceivable that there's issues.

Hi toshaka. Clearly you are right in your case, but I don't think we can assume we are hunting for one general problem here; there are many things that could cause freezes, and what's causing yours may not apply to Darkenneko. That said, I'm afraid hardware can't be ruled out. Adding STEP to Skyrim pushes the system harder - a bit like running a stress test to see if an overclock is stable. What I can say, is that I'm running STEP with the highest possible textures and a tough ENB, and I've never seen a freeze. I don't have a killer PC, so there must be some factor besides STEP itself.

Sadly not. I've only just started using ENBs, and their ways are still a mystery. Which is frustrating, because each of my favorites has just a few little things I'd like to tweak.

So, he's saying that if you have a total system ram of 3gb, then set it to about half that - 1.8gb, or 1800000000 bytes. This is roughly consistent with the RCRN recommendation - if you have 8gb, set it to 4gb. I have 8gb, and without specifying that setting Skyrim tends to use around 2.6gb. It may be that by setting it to 1800000000 bytes you have artificially constrained Skyrim from using what it needs, which certainly seems like a plausible cause of a crash. It would be a bit of luck, because it's so easy to fix!

This sort of thing is tough - so many possibilities. Only a couple of things I can suggest. First, I find that Skyrim is far more stable when run from an SSD. On my old rig, I went so far as to mirror my whole system partition (with skyrim installed), onto my SSD and onto a regular hard disk. When running from hard disk Skyrim + STEP would usually crash within minutes when traveling outside. On SSD it was solid. I tried it on two separate hard disks to eliminate disk faults - same result. So - SSD recommended in my experience. Second it seems that the RCRN team are recommending that on rigs with >8GB ram, you should set iMaxAllocatedMemoryBytes=4000000000 in your Skyrim.ini file, under the [Papyrus] section. I've read conflicting reports about this tweak, which is supposed to make full use of the 4GB the Skyrim executable can access, but they are very keen on it, and it's worth a try. EDIT: Oh, I forget to mention a major point. When you reinstall, are you restarting with a new game, or using existing saves? Corrupted saves are a very common cause of trouble.

Much as I've enjoyed the silliness of this thread, I think we need a better home for our lovely STEP galleries. Please join me there.

@JudgementJay - Very nice. And to be fair, I'm fairly sure we're not the ones doing the taunting. Oh, and here is one more image I forgot to post.

Good eyes. Yep, that's just The Wilds 3.0 (Dark Interiors with vignette) with Further Dark Dungeons for ENB. No other lighting mods, as I find the Wilds doesn't play nicely with others, and looks awesome on its own. Then I just forced the weather to sunny in the console to get the most striking effect. Unfortunately, The Wilds doesn't seem to be available any more. It's all part of the grand STEP conspiracy, naturally.Â

I just snapped a few more shots while I was running around testing things. STEP plus a good ENB looks OK to me. EDIT: Ignore the OP - I didn't put these here for his benefit. I just thought people reading this thread, especially newcomers, might like to see what is easily achievable.

Behold the Crap!Â