dunc001

Have you looked at World's Dawn yet Darth - looks to be complementary to a lot of the mods you already use (Ordinator, Disparity, Morrowloot, etc) - https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/73094/?

So if I follow the full setup how many plugins are actually used (ie how many of the 255 do I have left to play with)?

Not quite sure what you mean by this Darth?

OK, I get my PC back this afternoon with it's new graphics card, double the RAM, additional 256Gb SSD, more power, etc so I'm going to do a clean install of everything and start setting up SRLE & SRLEX. I am glad you're dropping Duel, I was going to leave it out anyway. One question, I need this to be completely SFW (wife and kids!) so am I right in thinking as long as I use the underwear version of Better Males, and the UNP versions of all the NPC mods rather than the CBBE that I will be completely NeverNude? Once I've got it running and stable I'm still planning on adding AGO/N2T and some other hunting stuff, plus PerMa. BTW, have to post this link here as it may also make it in to my build just for LOLs - https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/57875/? Oh, and I think one other thing that's missing from Skyrim given that you've included Immersive Patrols is this series of mods which add mounted patrols - https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/57727/? So I'll no doubt be posting MANY help requests over the next few nights...

What, you had the FPS drop just in Ebonvale or throughout your game?

Yep, that's why I asked! I was watching his upload today covering NLVA and noticed this in the watch next suggestions, looks like a pretty cool place to be! Oh, and BTW I found a mini smelter here - https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/29418/? - LOL, a full summonable crafting station :D

Someone made a mini smelter for the thieves guild for smelting down jewellery, so should be possible to make a small craftable one for Campfire I guess. BTW, does anyone know if anything in the mod list conflicts with Ebonvale?

OK, so just a quick thought before I spend the next week of my life trying to get this up and running - will my PC take it! I am running an i5-4440 @ 3.10GHz, 16 GB RAM, KFA2 GTX960 4Gb, 120Gb SSD OS (Windows 10) 250Gb SSD Games. Knowing that Win10 limits the DirextX9 video memory to 4Gb is SRLEE going to work on my setup or do need to consider dropping stuff out (ENB?) before I begin? BTW, for Long Lost Smelters - why not just avoid the clipping and add https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/21866/? instead for a completely portable crafting solution!

Can anyone tell me if there is any reason NOT to use Automatic Variants? And also would it cause much trouble to use WATER from Ruffled Feather rather than RW2? I almost couldn't choose between the two but the ocean waves in RW2 are crap IMHO...

So as I said yesterday being new to this I hope y'all don't mind the odd ****** noob question! Is my understanding correct that all these compatibility patches are is a new esp that resolves conflicts between two or more mods and basically just sets the values to be used for each conflict taking the value from one of other of the conflicting mods? There are no new resources in a compatibility patch? Could I therefore not create a super patch for PerMa to resolve conflicts for my entire setup rather than having to install a hundred separate patches? Or am I being naive... BTW, does anyone still have the RND 2.0 zip they could PM me? Or am I not allowed to ask that?

Darth, I think a couple of esp's are missing from the list required on the conflict resolution page - arissa and morrowloot. No biggie, just saying :) I was intending leaving out Molag Bal's Inferno, some of the additional followers, CBBE mods and armours. As none of the ones I was planning on omitting are in the CR does that mean I can just leave them out and not have to do anything else regarding them? I'm also going to have a go at adding in the archery stuff and PerMa instead of Ordinator as once I've got it stable I'm not intending changing anything (HAHAHA...). If I go that route I guess I'd build my own patch to cover just the archery stuff, and then run the PerMa patcher after absolutely everything else?

Hi guys, I'm new here so be gentle! Believe it or not I only actually gave in and bought Skyrim for the first time two months ago, initially for the XBox360 and then soon after realising the error of my ways for the PC. I've spent the last four weeks reading everything I can on Nexus, watching hundreds of hours on YouTube, and finally stumbled across STEP. Initially, like every other newby I figured I knew best and if be able to make my list of two hundred or so mods I liked the look of work fine on my own - HAHAHA :p I was following DirtyWeasel's 2016 modding guide series but it's not complete, so I turned to STEP. I have worked through STEP Extended without any issues but then found SRLE and then today SRLE Extended hence why I am here. It contains just about everything I had on my list with a few substitutions and a few extras I don't want (most of the followers and a lot of the female body/nudity stuff). I'm going to do a fresh install and follow everything to the letter (SRLE then Extended) but I have a few questions. BTW, I'm a 43 year old company director, married 18 years with two teenage kids and a life. However I have found time for a lot of android coding (and winmo before that) so I'm comfortable with modding and modding tools. I haven't done anything on that side of things for a couple of years so I'm relishing wasting weeks of my life in getting this set up! Who needs sleep anyway... So to my questions: Has anyone got SRLE Ex to work well with PerMa rather than Ordinator, and if not why not? Any reason why AGO/Nock to Tip/ABT are not included? Why EFF and not AFT (or iAFT)? Why I need and not RND (I'm guessing because of the stupid number of compatibility patches for RND)? I'm guessing it's advisable to steer clear of mods like ETaC, Holds, TPOS which whilst very attractive seem to rule out too many other mods? Hope much more difficult do Duel and the other combat mods make it? I was planning on just Vigor because I'm not that interested in hack n slash. Finally, any reason not to use Skyrim Unbound rather than Alternative Start? Sorry for so many questions (I'm sure there will be more...), but you ask seen to know what you're about and I figured no better place to ask!