Sakiri

Water's fixed! And my wold map LODs look better too. The water in that was all blocky looking. Thanks, TechAngel and crew! ❤️

Ok I'm in the process of doing it a second time. First attempt was an update, and it gave me a "could not read data from DynDOLOD_Tamriel error so I made a new save inside, unticked, reloaded, resaved, reticked and reloaded as mentioned in another thread dated back a few years(hey, worth a shot). No fix. Tried a new save. Everything from character creation to picking a start worked, but as soon as I slept in a bed to actually start, I CTD on the load screen. Result, redoing my LODs again from scratch. If it doesn't work, I'll take this to the DynDOLOD forum for advice. If it does work, and the water's fixed, I'll update here. I'm *this* close to ripping it all out and rebuilding with 1.0.0 but I don't have internet so I can't.

Should I rerun the LOD generation or the textures or both?

Will do that in the morning(9 pm). I'll look over the guide again, too, to make sure I'm doing it right. What do you mean by temp files unchecked? And I'm not sure how to check if something is conflicting. I don't think I have anything else that modifies those meshes. I'll rerun and see what happens.

The white water might be a lighting issue but half the time the mesh is just missing. The flagon, it's a tossup between black and missing water. This only happens with standing water. If there's any movement in it, it's fine. Most affected areas are ponds in the rift, and the flagon. In fact, those seem to be the only spots. I'll come back with some console information. Ok I'm back. It took two saves worth of attempts because the first time I went in there, the water was just outright missing. And the console screenshot(ignore god mode, had to get past the npcs somehow on a low level character lol😞

No ideas? I updated RWT and it's still doing it. The spot where the water is supposed to be in the Ragged Flagon is completely black and there's no sounds, so it's like the water is just completely missing. I really don't want to do something drastic like run a file integrity check as I'm afraid it'll wreck my load order. I put a post up on reddit asking about this as well, and it got 0 replies. I can't find anything on Google either. Here's the Flagon: I suppose one thing I could try is updating the lighting mods to the 1.0.0 set up and updating my L&W patch? I haven't updated to the latest version because I'm unsure how to do it without messing up everything(so many things I need to update if I update SKSE for example). Ideas?

So update the utilities, replace changelog mods, delete/download and install new version of the patches, etc and gtg? I want to update SKSE and all that for max compatibility? Good to know I don't have to fully reinstall. That'd be a mess haha. I just want to be certain about what I'm doing. Was going to update the game. Update SKSE. Update SKSE plugins. Remove mods dropped from the guide. Replace with mods added to the guide. Take all non STEP mods that rely on SKSE and update those(they'll break otherwise I'd imagine.... I don't have many anyway). Anything I'm missing?

How do I go about doing it? Or should I scrap the entire install and start from scratch? I could disable/remove the mods from the changelog and install the replacements, update all my utilities and whatnit(SKSE and plugins) but wouldn't I have to update Skyrim as well? I'm leaning towards having to reinstall from scratch...

Is there any complication to still using LoS II? Like, is it integrated into any patches?

I'm not using an ENB either, I've heard those can do this but I haven't used one. I'm using lighting mods that were in the guide. I've had this issue since installing now that I think of it. But that's why I'm confused. It's all the time, not limited to weather. Also does it indoors. I suppose I could rebuild the install all over again, but there's a week I'll never get back(haha, I kid, I love modding). Any suggestions on remedies? Could try reinstalling the water or lighting mods perhaps?

I'm running an added to, full STEP build dated from last June approximately(unsure of the version number now that I think of it, I'll include a modlst) and I'm having a few issues with standing water textures. The water appears either solid black, solid white, or missing entirely. Like this: I think it might be a conflict with lighting and water, but I can't be sure, and since I haven't added or removed anything from the guide that affects either, there shouldn't be a problem... or I'd assume. I've added to it, but it was things like armors, followers, perks and houses. This doesn't seem to affect running water, but only standing water in the world. Blacksmith troughs are unaffected, for example.

So I'm having a (recurring, oddly enough ) old bug where as soon as I enter the game, I have a level up waiting. This has happened to me a number of times in the past, and the only way I've been able to fix it, is to verify the integrity of game files. https://imgur.com/wGhQsTx As you can see, I'm in the abandoned prison right after character creation, and I have a level up waiting. I sometimes will open the menu to see if this bug's happened or not, it's that frequent in my games. My question is, since I've never had to do this with a STEP install(in fact, it's never happened to me in LE), I don't know what will happen to my install if I have to run the verifying operation. I really don't want to screw it up and have to do this all over again. On top of it, I think SSE has updated again so I *really* don't know what to do. Unless anyone else has a fix for this bug, by all means, let me know. If I leave it be, my leveling is *greatly* accelerated. I'll level every couple weapon swings or spell casts. It's absurd. Help?

Ignore me, I'm an idiot and was assuming the FOMOD was updated at the same time the update files were, based on the front page's "updated on" date. Off to finish the install.

So which version of Lanterns of Skyrim do I want to use? To work with the existing patch, until it's updated? I'm in the middle of the guide(second install, different computer lol) now and got hung up on this one. I don't want to screw something up.

Love the guide, just finished installing it today... but I'm having an intermittent issue with mouse control. Sometimes the scrolling is instantaneous, where I'll zoom out and go from first to full distance third person in one frame, instead of gradually zooming out... but this is also causing the same issues with the dialog and system menus. Scrolling or clicking on the arrows to go down the list immediately moves the selection to the bottom of the list, making it hard to click on anything else. Speaking of, I'm also having issues clicking on options. I mouse over something and it highlights, for example, Display in the settings menu, and it doesn't highlight unless I find a perfect, miniscule spot nowhere near the actual word "Display". Any ideas? It happens sometimes, but not other times. I have tried both the mouse and the trackpad on my laptop(don't ask, troubleshooting) and the results were the same each time, until I relaunch the game. Then it works properly for a little bit, then screws up again. I'm wondering if it has to do with a setting somewhere. There's got to be a reason for it. Thanks in advance. <3

Thanks!

So I'm installing the guide(On the section for LODs now.. been four days lol) and I notice after I'd installed SKSE, the executable is missing from the drop down box... like MO2 isn't recognizing I installed it. Any ideas on what I missed? Ive installed SKSE 50 times before without issues but I'm a little stumped here. I'm probably missing something simple. Ideas?

The only one I really wanted to skip is CACO so I might try this. If I cant get it to work I'll just live with the changes. I just dislike the recipe changes, mostly. Appreciate it. :)

I notice they're incorporated into the patches, but I don't like either of the crafting overhauls. They mess with my perk overhauls and just in general make crafting unfun for me. Is there a way to just not use them? Edit the patches somehow? I haven't installed a STEP build in a fairly long time(Think 2015) and I don't remember there being crafting overhauls in it before. I'm particularly concerned with the cooking and alchemy one. I use iNeed for needs, and rather not make cooking complicated. I don't generally use Alchemy, but the changes to the perk trees is going to mess with Vokrii. Suggestions? TIA!

So now that I'm not using the ENB I'm back up to 55-60 fps but there's still minor popping. I think I'll have to deal with that. But now, despite multiple reinstalls, I can't get enhanced landscape grass to come on. Tore it and DynDOLOD out, reinstalled both. Waiting for mesh gen now. I'm under the impression I'm supposed to have a DynDOLOD .esp in addition to the resources, LOD and texgen but I'm not seeing it. And getting irritated.

Bandicam leaves watermarks if it's not a paid version. I think I'll pull the ENB out, revert ENBoost settings and see what I get with Imaginator. I'd kill to be able to put the grass back in. <3 Will give it a go in the morning.

Someone on my DiD forum suggested Imaginator and this https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/60971/? Preset.

Yes. I have OBS Studio as well but it's more demanding on my system. Afterburner is running anyway; it's regulating my system and GPU fans.

Stock cooler, and this CPU either can'tbe or is bad for oc. I'm not comfortable with it either. It's in my dig, i5-4960 I think? Not at my desk. Not a K model either. Theoretically i can just transfer the videos over to my laptop but these .Avis are huge. I still need to figure out what I can do about this ENB, or if I can get a similar effect with less performance hit. It's the color effects I like. The depth of field is quite annoying personally.

I have Blender installed but I haven't set out to play with it yet(installed it and Unity a while back >.>). I have another program I downloaded to futz with. If I had an actual budget I'd just buy Vegas or something. I do gameplay videos and wanted to start machinima projects but I can't do any of the above without Skryim running at a decent pace. I just know uploading raw .avi is.. horrible. Sizes are way too big. I guess I could also move them to my win7 laptop which still has movie maker...I mostly used it for format conversion and annotations. As an aside, in my previous STEP install, the grass wasn't a huge problem. I have plenty of screenshots and stuff from that, I ran with it perfectly for quite some time. I really think the big kill here is that ENB but I can't think of any other way to change the colors that way that'll show up on video. I had to stop using RCRN, for example, because it didn't show on video properly. You've been great btw. I'm just mod stupid I think. :/ My normal solution is "throw a bigger GPU at it" but I can't afford that either(just finished a transcontinental move and I have a transatlantic one coming up).