Manual or Mod Manager: Optimized Textures.

[Marlen]

Hello, I've got all S.T.E.P. textures installed manually and they are working. Now I want to optimize them for 1gb vram and I got question, can i just put Optimized Vanilla Textures to /textures/ or i must use Mod Managers and 7 Archived BSA Textures and if i must use them what should i do?

I mean there is no way to put optimized textures without using mod managers?

Because i've got some problems with them and i'd like to do all with my own hands manual.

[Marlen]

Forgot to mention: also when i use 2nd method with mod manager its just overwrites all textures.

[phryxolydian]

Have you tried setting the priority of the optimized textures as low as possible? Make them the first 7 slots so that everything else overwrites them.

[Marlen]

That's the problem all my mods were installed manually, not with mod managers and when i use mod managers, they just overwrite all my step textures. So that's why i am asking that there is way to install my optimized textures without overwriting S.T.E.P. ones.

Actually i will optimize S.T.E.P. textures later but now i must solve this problem with overwriting.

[phryxolydian]

Ah, I see. Then probably not unless you copy only the textures which are not covered on any of the STEP mods. But even then you'd have to first check which HRDLC textures override the Vanilla Textures, etc. A thankless task, if you ask me. I strongly recommend you look into how the Mod Organizer works and install them through MO, it is a safe very clean and organized way of installing mods as it installs every mod into each own folder and then works some magic creating a virtual data directory, all you need to do afterwards is prioritizing your mods. Hope it helps.

[Marlen]

Thanks for your answers. I'll try both ways. :)

[Marlen]

Did manual in the end, all works good. :D