Finished up to 2.D. in the wiki guide...getting CTD before the main menu

[navman]

Hi all,

 

I'm very new to modding Skyrim, but I have finished the game without mods several times. I've been following the STEP guide in the wiki and completed upto and including 2.D. Decided to try and benchmark only to find out that the game doesn't even start! It plays the Bethesda logo video, and then CTD. I'm not sure if I've even installed the mods correctly through MO, but here's a screenshot:

 

 

I'm quite unsure if I even installed the mods correctly, as the guide doesn't clarify that. The 7z/zip/rar packages downloaded from Nexus go into the Downloads folder of MO. MO will then detect them in the Downloads tab, and you double click each one to install from there. They then appear in the left pane unticked (I guess this means it hasn't been applied yet?). You then tick them, and that should turn them on?

 

Any and all help will be appreciated.

 

My specs are:

 

i5 3570k

8GB RAM

7970 and 280x in crossfire

3x1080p in Eyefinity mode. Would love to play across three screens but I don't know if that's possible.

[EssArrBee]

First in the plugins tab click Priority so that it sorts by what BOSS/LOOT sorts as your load order. Then those two little red exclamations in your load order are telling you that you are missing other plugins those plugins depend on. untick them and the game with load. We are moving the STEP Patch to the end of the install in the next guide update so it makes more sense, but you will not click that mod until installing everything.

 

The High res patch depends on the high res DLC plugins being in your load order. Do you have the HRDLC? They are free, but you have to download them separately on Steam I believe, been a long time since I've had to do that.

[navman]

First in the plugins tab click Priority so that it sorts by what BOSS/LOOT sorts as your load order. Then those two little red exclamations in your load order are telling you that you are missing other plugins those plugins depend on. untick them and the game with load. We are moving the STEP Patch to the end of the install in the next guide update so it makes more sense, but you will not click that mod until installing everything.

 

The High res patch depends on the high res DLC plugins being in your load order. Do you have the HRDLC? They are free, but you have to download them separately on Steam I believe, been a long time since I've had to do that.

Thanks for the reply. One thing I was confused about the difference between STEP core and STEP patch, since the link in the wiki for STEP patch takes me to the STEP core Nexus page! Also, I don't belive I have the official HD texture pack downloaded yet. I'll do that right away and report back, thanks!

[EssArrBee]

The STEP Guide is both Core and Extended until 2.3.0 comes out. We will split them into two different places then, but 2.2.9 isn't even out yet, so you don't have to worry about. Mods with the Green bar on the left are Core and without are Extended. You can install Core or Everything. We designed it to be installed as either Core or Both. There are two STEP Patches, either the Core verison for people only installing Core, or the Extended patch for people installing everything.

[navman]

Thanks EssArrBee. I totally forgot about the green bar when installing these mods and tried to install everything. I just want the Core mod for now, so I've removed all the unnecessary ones. Except that I think I may have optimized the vanilla textures already using Optimizer Textures. That won't affect anything hopefully right?

 

Also, the first time I managed to play the intro sequence, it was quite laggy. I went into the configurator and toned down the multisampling level to 2, and now I seem to get a consistent 50-60 fps. This is at 5760x1080 mind you. Is there any way to change the FOV? The image on the outer screens are quite stretched.

 

Thanks again!

[Aiyen]

Using tool A or tool B to alter the compression and mipmap levels of your textures does not really matter at all. Only difference is one tool offers more options for advanced use than the other. 

 

for FOV then in your skyrim.ini under DISPLAY add fDefaultWorldFOV=X, with X being the amount of degrees you want. You can test ingame using the console by typing "fov x" and it will change. Then you can fine tune until you are happy.