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The Songs of Jodene Sparks, Vol I
A journey from STEP to custom play-build.
What follows below is a journal of my choices, mistakes, successes and other notes as I put together a build of Skyrim I've come to enjoy playing*.
Part of this may appear the unintelligible ramblings of a madman, others parts more finely polished.
At times I'll throw an update or note here for myself, then come back later and edit/revise the ramblings into something more understandable.
* Your mileage may vary.
- Installed vanilla Skyrim with all DLCs
- DDSopt'd textures using High Quality constraints (H1, H2, H3) using guide <<here>>.
- Installed modding pre-reqs (SKSE, MO, BOSS, Wyre Bash, etc..)
- Benchmarked results for vanilla, then each section of STEP:Core using STEP recommendations.
- Verified a complete and stable STEP Core build.
Notes - 2.F. Conflicting Graphics - Bethesda Hi-Res DLC Optimized was NOT installed. As suggested in the guide, having 2GB of VRAM means I could have used the stock HRDLC. Since I've already DDSopt'd the stock textures, I'll use them instead, at the top of my MO priority order. - 2.J. Animations & Effects Skyrim Sunglare is no longer available and was NOT installed.
