Overwrite noob stupidness

[derp32]

Yesterday, completed my first STEP Core installation. A lot to learn. I think it borked it up. I had a poor understanding of how to handle the Overwrite files when using MO to install mods. I made my bashed patches correctly I think, but other than that I wasn't checking Overwrite after each mod installation.  Hence, when I happened to look at some point and find files in there, I wasn't sure what to do with them and I just DELETED them. Ya.

 

Is there a way to recover from this?  Is there a list of mods that populate files into Overwrite, and could I just reinstall those maybe?  Is there something else I should do?

 

The game looks fabulous and runs around 55-60 FPS, but the load times even when going through a door are perhaps 30-60 seconds or more and every once in a while the game freezes for 5-10 seconds.  Last time it happened I was outside on the meadow running back to Whiterun from the Western Watchtower after killing my first dragon.

 

My rig should be fine I think, vanilla Skryim ran amazing:

Win7x64; i7-920 quad core; 12GB Ram  DDR3; Radeon R9 280x 3GB PCI Express 3.0; motherboard is PCI Express 2.0 x16, but that should still be fine; OS and Skyrim Modding is all installed on 500GB SSD.

 

Any thoughts or advice greatly appreciated.

Edited November 15, 2014 by derp32

[ogorman]

Some stuff from Overwrite folder you can remove, however from some stuff there you must make new mods (FNIS, ASIS (this one you don't have as STEP and i would suggest you that you do), Dual Sheath Redux, Skyproc) and during tes5edit cleaning, you must copy back files to data folder.

 

What i would suggest you is that you follow Neovalen Skyrim Revisited more then STEP.

 

Neovalen tutorial gives you more straight forward info about what's going on while STEP is more in depth. I use Skyrim STEP and Skyrim Revisited at same time, searching same mods on both sides, read about them, go on nexus site , read even more. This is the only way.

 

Then you can reinstall the mods and see what's going on by yourself

[GrantSP]

The 'Overwrite' folder is a temporary folder that will contain any file(s) that aren't already found in the existing VFS of MO. If you use a mod or tool that creates new files as part of it's process these new files need to moved into their correct location. The 'proc' style patchers in particular need to have the 'Overwrite' clean before they are run and then the contents made into a mod.

 

In general the installation of mods doesn't place files in this folder.

Likewise with tools like Wrye Bash or Tes5Edit. The files are either just backups and can be deleted or new files that need to moved. You need to decide based on what you were doing with that tool.