MO 1.2.x beta testing

[Tannin]

I just uploaded MO 1.2.2 which supports the feature TheBloke proposed. Right now it's only on sourceforge because I'd like to hear your opinions first:Installer: https://sourceforge.net/projects/modorganizer/files/ModOrganizer-1.2.2.exe/downloadArchive: https://sourceforge.net/projects/modorganizer/files/ModOrganizer_v1.2.2.7z/downloadPlease note that the tutorial is a bit broken currently, but you don't need that, right? ;)

[EssArrBee]

For me, it helped with ENB, but the other load times were the same.

[vidalia]

Just updated to MO 1.2.5 and now my desktop shortcut to the Skyrim SKSE loader does not work. Generating a new one and/or launching with admin privileges does not help either. Does anybody else have this issue or knows of a workaround?

[TheBloke]

Didn't someone say the recent betas improved the initial loading time (the time it takes before the game starts)? It actually increased for me by a few seconds.

 

Beta 1.2.1 was a massive improvement over the previous 1.1.2.  Not sure if you'd count 1.2.1 as a recent beta - it's been on the MO Nexus page for 6 weeks (since 5th May).

 

When I first installed 1.2.1 I still had my 50+ GB Skyrim + Mod installation on HDD rather than SSD.  With those slow disks, my startup time - specifically the time it took from when I hit Run in MO until I saw the SKSE window first appear, which is the part of the process where MO is building its virtual filesystem - went down from 60+ seconds, to around 15.  Huge improvement.  (Now on SSDs, and with 60GB total in active mods alone, my MO->SKSE time is perhaps 2 seconds, and I get to the Skyrim main menu in 15 seconds.)

 

This thread refers to the second round of betas, versions 1.2.2 -> 1.2.4 which then became final release 1.2.5.  They did not have any particular performance improvements that I can recall.  

 

So probably you were already using beta 1.2.1?

 

Just updated to MO 1.2.5 and now my desktop shortcut to the Skyrim SKSE loader does not work. Generating a new one and/or launching with admin privileges does not help either. Does anybody else have this issue or knows of a workaround?

 

Hm, I've noticed the same.  I never bothered making an out-of-MO shortcut until Beta 1.2.4.  Then I tried it for the first time, and it didn't work.  I forgot to report it, and in any case figured that maybe it was a local issue because others were talking about using them.

 

What symptoms do you see?   I just tested it again in 1.2.5, and see the same as I had in 1.2.4.  Specifically:

 

• I make a shortcut in MO to SKSE, to my Desktop or Start Menu
• I close MO
• I double click the shortcut
• I get the "Mod Organizer" loading screen graphic (the one with the lightning on it) appear middle of the screen.
• It then just stays there, and nothing further happens.
• When I check Task Manager, I see I have a single Mod Organizer process running idle.
• SKSE / TESV.exe never appears in Task Manager.
• It stays like that permanently until I End Process in Task Manager on the Mod Organizer.exe process.
• Note that exactly the same happens even if I use the external shortcut when I still have Mod Organizer open - this triggers a second Mod Organizer.exe process appearing in Task Manager, and nothing further.

 

Given it's clearly not just a local issue for me, I have raised this as a bug:  https://issue.tannin.eu/tbg/modorganizer/issues/684

 

If you have any different symptoms, you might want to go to that bug ticket and add a comment with your experiences.

Edited June 24, 2014 by TheBloke

[Octopuss]

Guess I mistook it for the previous update then. Yes, I was using 1.2.1.

Btw, 15 seconds? That's pretty fast. I'm not afraid to say I have hi-end computer with really fast SSD, and with 37GB worth of mods I am at 24-25s with 1.2.5 (was 22 with 1.2.1) from the click on SKSE shortcut to the moment menu items appear.

[EssArrBee]

Enb or no enb?

[DoubleYou]

That sounds about normal speed to me.

[TheBloke]

Guess I mistook it for the previous update then. Yes, I was using 1.2.1.

Btw, 15 seconds? That's pretty fast. I'm not afraid to say I have hi-end computer with really fast SSD, and with 37GB worth of mods I am at 24-25s with 1.2.5 (was 22 with 1.2.1) from the click on SKSE shortcut to the moment menu items appear.

 

Yeah OK turns out I was exaggerating :)  I did some timings before when I switched from extracting all BSAs to not extracting the biggest ones.  The 15 seconds i remembered was for the Skyrim window to first appear, not for menu.

 

In my test just now, it took a further 12 seconds for menu items to appear.  So 27 seconds total, click-to-usable-menu.

 

Though I was also under-exaggerating the MO-SKSE time, which was less than a second when I just tried it.

 

Enb or no enb?

 

With ENB (both graphical enhancements and ENBoost.)

Edited June 24, 2014 by TheBloke

[Octopuss]

Kinda with ENB for me as well, but I turned off everything I could, only keeping the parallax fix.