SSE 1.6.1170 or MO2 Now Making Skyrim.INI Folder?

[mooit]

Hi,

I just upgraded to SSE 1.6.1170, and I also installed the latest MO2 2.5.0. Since making these upgrades, I now noticed in \Documents\My Game path a Skyrim.INI folder being created, and I never had this before with SSE 1.6.640.0 and MO2 2.4.4, so I'm not sure where this is coming from.

I've attached a few screen shots showing this Skyrim.INI folder, if anyone knows what's happening? Because all the files use to go under this path; \Documents\My Games\Skyrim Special Edition\SKSE

Some file are still using \Documents\My Games\Skyrim Special Edition\SKSE but I'm still not sure why there is now this Skyrim.INI folder.

THANKS

[mooit]

I came back to 1.6.1170 today, hoping it's been out long enough, and hopefully enough mods have been updated for it.

It brought me back to thinking about this...

So that is correct what was mentioned on GitHub, outdated mods needing to be updated, which are creating this?

THANKS

Edited January 26 by mooit

[z929669]

I reached out to the SKSE team about this. Per Ian Patterson (aka 'ianpatt', SKSE team):

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Despite the name of the function, this is actually a bug in a CommonLib
function caused by the Address Library. The CommonLib function calls a
game function identified by an Address Library ID to get the log path.
Unfortunately, since the Address Library is impossible to check by hand
for accuracy, the ID started to refer to the wrong function after one
update. I assume at least one of the CommonLib forks out there has been
updated to fix this, but plugins will need to be recompiled against a
newer version of CommonLib to receive the fix.

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... so I hope this puts all further questions to rest. The SKSE and CommonLib dev teams are aware, so it is what it is until it's not.

Until then, you can point mod authors of your favorite runtime plugins to this post so that they are aware.

[mooit]

  On 1/27/2025 at 12:07 AM, z929669 said:

I reached out to the SKSE team about this. Per Ian Patterson (aka 'ianpatt', SKSE team):

... so I hope this puts all further questions to rest. The SKSE and CommonLib dev teams are aware, so it is what it is until it's not.

Until then, you can point mod authors of your favorite runtime plugins to this post so that they are aware.

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Ok thanks z929669

[z929669]

  On 3/16/2025 at 9:45 PM, sysdmp said:

I've created a MO2 plugin to band-aid this issue.

Thanks for information provided here.

 

Plugin just redirects anything that goes to Documents/Skyrim.INI back to Documents/Skyrim Special Edition via MO2 VFS, it's not a real fix but enough to satisfy my OCD for now.

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/144932

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Very nice. I'll install this and see how it goes.

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Works like a charm.

The benefit: now all SKSE-related log files are consolidated into Documents\My Games\Skyrim Special Edition where they belong. This disambiguates the folder location of mod SKSE logs and simplifies troubleshooting a bit.

Thank you!

[Mercury71]

Any feeling how far away a solution is (in CommonLib/SKSE)? Should we add this to Step Guide you think?

[z929669]

  On 3/17/2025 at 5:10 AM, Mercury71 said:

Any feeling how far away a solution is (in CommonLib/SKSE)? Should we add this to Step Guide you think?

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I'm not sure if we should add this or not. I recommend it and created the mod page if you want to chime in over there.