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Help us foster an environment that leverages your enthusiasm within a culture of good humor ... and rigorous analysis!
What STEP is about:
What STEP isn't about:
This creates a stable STEP foundation. Multiple optional "STEP packs" designed with specific themes, for example a "Hardcore pack" can easily be added to this base. A pack will be a set of mods selected to work together and with STEP to achieve a specific goal (in some cases possibly following less strict guidelines than those listed above).
STEP will remain a template, a base for a more complex modded Skyrim, or a safe and complete experience itself.
Welcome to the STEP-Community Support Website! As of this moment, we have many relevant forums and are in the process of building out a wiki that will articulate and integrate to some degree with these. Within the site, you will find many helpful resources voluntarily provided. Many of the questions that you may have will likely have already been answered by others.
We humans are composed of personalities that fall along a continuum of positive to negative, and fortunately, the majority tend to associate with the more positive pole of this continuum. Unfortunately, there is a minority that aligns with the more negative --not necessarily pessimistic, but more truly negative. While these individuals are not necessarily "bad" people, they can nonetheless be a damper to the rest, and like a wild yeast, can have a tendency to sour an otherwise perfectly good batch of home-brewed mead. This monologue and the guidelines that follow are intended for all, but necessitated by these less "enlightened" of us.
TheCompiler and the other STEP-Community site administrators ask that you, as a registered member of this site, participate and/or contribute in a manner of good spirit and common courtesy. Adherence to this simple ethos will head off any unpleasantness before they are manifest. Let the guidelines outlined herein serve as a reference for our members, so that the community may evolve to its maximum potential.
These guides are useful to every Skyrim user and form a firm foundation of knowledge. We are endeavoring to remove the unnecessary duplication and conflicting advice from these guides. Please post any helpful comments on these guides by clicking the Guide forum thread linked near the top of each page. The guides are best read in the order listed, although they are not dependent on each other, each requires an increasing amount of general knowledge to get the most out of it.
Skyrim Installation
Wrye Bash
Troubleshooting
Additional guides useful for smaller subsets of users or for those that are ready to move on to more advanced topics after having mastered the core series.
Mod Organizer
ATI Catalyst Control Center (CCC)
DDSopt & Texture Overhauls
Hardware