Salvaging STEP post win 10 upgrade...

[Sakiri]

Long story short, I think I'm hosed.

 

I upgraded to windows 10 at the behest of a really good friend of mine. One with 12 flawless upgrades under his belt. One that said "oh it's painless."

 

I proceed to have every issue under the sun, and now have had to refresh my install.

 

Now just about everything was saved to D:\, with a few exceptions. Loot's over there, as is WB and everything else...

 

But Skyrim and Steam were installed on C:\, which is my SSD.

 

I installed MO over there so as to have all the mods for Skyrim on the same drive(load issues otherwise, we fixed this all before), but after the refresh I have had to reinstall some programs that windows can't find, or has removed. 

 

For example, LOOT can't find my Skyrim install, and therefore won't work right,  and when I installed Steam, and directed it to where the game is(where I told it to install in the first place), the normal launcher won't even start. I haven't tried to run WB, FNIS, or TESVEdit yet.

 

I'm looking at 12 GB of Skyrim reinstall and 13GB of STEP install. I just dropped 40+ GB of bandwidth this WEEK trying to get all this crap sorted out and everything reinstalled(this has been a six day affair now). I really don't want to reinstall. Again. I'm on a limited connection. Living with a streamer. We're probably close to our cap already. 

 

Help?

 

Really want to just kick the guy for suggesting I do this in the first place. Windows 7 was working fine outside the whole "windows update just wasn't working" issue this was supposed to fix.

 

[GrantSP]

Tools like Wrye Bash, LOOT & xEdit need to see a registry setting for Skyrim, or whichever game you are modding, so as to work properly. More than likely those tools still have the old entries in their settings and you should be able to rectify that by just starting the game from it's desktop launcher and having it create new entries. This also happens from time to time after Steam updates.

 

Your mods, downloads and MO profiles are fine where ever they are so long as you correctly set the paths in MO's settings dialogue.

 

DirectX 9 will have to installed for Skyrim to function so you will need to grab a copy from MS's website.

[Sakiri]

If I can just keep the mods, the settings, all that crap and just paste it into a fresh install, I'll do that even. Trying to run SKSE is telling me I'm missing d3dx9 dlls and it looks like I'm going to have to reinstall Skyrim anyways.

[Sakiri]

Dude, I love you.

 

I've been having a nightmare with this crap for most of the past week and really should have thought of that my brain's just not here.

 

I don't remember why I didn't have DX9. You'd think 12 would be backwards compatible. o.o

[Shadriss]

What Grant said. As long as MO and all your mods, tools and so forth are on the separate drive (which it sounded like) all you should  have to do is reinstall and run Skyrim, then go back to the other programs, which should pick up on the updated registry locations.

[Sakiri]

Aye, I keep a backup of MO over on my D:\ drive and just moved it back to C.

 

<3 from a brain frazzled person ><