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TechAngel85 & Greg thank you again, I will look at some third party software causing the problem, this is a dedicated machine now mostly for Skyrim or encoding. It uses too much power to be my daily use machine (i7 3930k @ 4.6). One of my drives has a old unused EXT partition on it and my server uses UFS so so maybe a permission flag that ntfs does use got set by accident. Unless you have any other ideas I'll wipe all the drives a do again, maybe go back to Win 7.

Hi Greg, This test works, the changes made through MO ini editor are persistent and can be verified by looking at the resultant file in notepad. I doubt this is a file permissions issue but TecAngel85 mentioned it so I figured he knew that I was unaware of about MO.

TechAngel85 To follow up on your speculation that I could be having a file permissions problem, since I’m not using the Local Savegames option at the moment my game saves are saving on my C:\ drive at; C:\Users\MYUSERNAME\Documents\My Games\Skyrim\Saves\Save 4397 - Priscilla Falskaar Hold 214.01.34.ess The skyrimprefs.ini is stored at; F:\Games\Steam\steamapps\common\Skyrim\Mod Organizer\profiles\STEP Try Again\skyrimprefs.ini Both of these locations appear to have the appropriate permissions set in the advanced permissions tab for each of the principals. What principal group does MO need to use? The parent folder for MO appears to have two different sets of permissions set for the USER group, I’m guessing because one set of credentials is inherited. Depending on when MO writes .ini changes that where made in game to disk it could potential lead to problems if it needs execute certain operations on the save game file from that location in order to finalize the stored .ini files. I would need to know more about how MO handles file and paths. I have read as much documentation on MO as could find to resolve (at least in my mind) some other file handling issues that I see going on in MO, i.e. sometimes showing wrong file name in Data tab of right pane. I can see where the mod author made a change concerning files path/name from case retention to case insensitive, and I can see where that decision to solve a particular issue caused a different issue but hopefully that was not a global change and will not cause the problems I am having with my skyrimprefs.ini or a whole lot of other people would be having the same problem. I am getting feeble minded, I seem to remember seeing the 800 and 250 settings in MCM in a MOD but I can’t remember which one, but that was STEP v2.2.9.1 and I removed that mod then and have since reloaded everything including OS. Thank you for your help so far. EDIT: left out a word

Thank you Greg, I understand your question. I have hidden the various shortcuts to launch Skyrim in a folder on my desktop because I did do that once from desktop and once in MO when I first started using MO. The text is small for me in MO at 2560 x 1440 and I grabbed, by accident, the skyrim launcher after running Loot. I now launch being careful to choose SKSE using the orange arrow RUN button in MO only. I really don't want to make that mistake again.

Thank you for your reply TechAngel85 F:\Games\Steam\steamapps\common\Skyrim\Mod Organizer (Samsung 840pro 512) OS is on C:\ (Crucial M4 256) All other files are on a 600 Gb Velociraptor or my NAS. The settings do get written to file and can stay set through several restarts. A while ago I thought it might be related to the game crashing as I was testing some strange mod combos for a friend's 15 Year old daughter. But that has not been the case recently as I seldom experience a crash that I didn't cause on purpose (I think I must be running pretty close to the edge with GpuZ reporting over 3000Mb dedicted vram in use on a 3Gb AMD HD 7970 on Win 10).

First, thank the gods for S.T.E.P. and all the dedicated people here that offer their time freely to make it available to an undeserving soul like me. Over the past year I’ve installed Skyrim using the S.T.E.P guide 12 times on 3 different machines and 4 different versions of Windows. My problem is some settings in skyrimprefs.ini are changing, seemingly at random, specifically; iMaxDecalsPerFrame=250 iMaxSkinDecalsPerFrame=100 change to 800 and 250 respectively. First thought is user error and the first couple times I edited in notepad but the last several times I’ve edited only through Mod Organizer. Maybe a senior moment since I am at that age but it has happened too many time now. Knee jerk reaction is Steam is overwriting the settings but this does not seem likely with Mod Organizer storing the profiles as it does and on a dedicated game SSD, plus I mostly play in offline mode. If Mod Organizer is changing the settings I can’t figure out where its getting those numbers. I’ve searched all of my connected drives files and compressed files for the text “iMaxDecalsPerFrameâ€. All the instances discovered were iMaxDecalsPerFrame=250 or much lower (default settings). Next I thought it might be some MOD changing the settings through SkyUI/MCM so I started new characters with some mods that I suspected not loaded, but I still have the problem. I hope somebody else has experienced this problem and can point me in the right direction. This has happened on S.T.E.P. Core and a slightly pruned Extended on a few different profiles. To add to this a few days ago I changed; fSplitDistanceMult=1.5000 to =2.0000, but when I opened my skyrimprefs.ini file today to change it back I found it was already at =1.5000. I thought I must be getting senile but then I saw the other two settings were at 800 and 250 again. I’ve never changed this setting before so it might be coincidence, but I doubt it.

If you are only using ENB for ENB boost then it looks like its configured wrong.

First post. If I'm doing something wrong please let me know! For many AMD card users the gaming profiles in Crimson for dx9 games do not initialize when the game starts. Specifically for myself and two of my clients the AMD "The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim" gaming profile never loads. The only work around I know of is to set everything in the Global profile. All three of us are using HD7970/R290 variants and this maybe specific to that family of GPUs, but I've seen enough complaints on the AMD forums and elsewhere that I doubt it. This is the case whether the game is launched from Steam, through MO or using SKSE.