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I'm using this, it's great. Almost better than armor retex because most of the people you see are wearing normal clothes.
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Skyrim Modding Megathread
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I'm using this, it's great. Almost better than armor retex because most of the people you see are wearing normal clothes.
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I'm loving a lot of the new texture mods. Imagine the rave reviews if the game had been released with textures like these.
Loaded it up because I wanted to see how it looked, and now I crash to desktop every time I try to load a save. No error messages or anything, just a complete close. I'm not downloading any more mods until they are confirmed stable.
Edit: 4GB patch causes some kind of Error 51 on Steam so if that's the fix, I can't use this mod yet.
Edit: 4GB patch causes some kind of Error 51 on Steam so if that's the fix, I can't use this mod yet.
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Drheadbang
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Bethesda doesn't hand us a game, it hands us a sandbox for us to make our own game. Also the texture mod uses 1.48 gigs of my vram out of my 1.53. 1080P 8x AA.
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What other mods are you using? I was definitely hitting the limit at 1920x1080 4x AA. Had to turn it down to 2x to stop the stuttering.
Drheadbang
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Just that texture mod so far.
Shouldn't happen.
Make sure you've got the latest version: http://www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=1013
He just put out version 1.5 which surprises me since supposedly the official Bethesda version comes out this week. They ought to just go with him and give him the crown and royalty check since he saved a lot of people's gaming experience including mine.
Always back up your .ini files btw.
After that, fire up the game's launcher through Steam, let it initialize and read everything, make sure everything looks right, shut that down, and then fire up the game through the 4GB launcher and it should work just fine.
Those look off. The original ones look more like they're "in the game," it looks like a lighting issue. The color of the high-res textures make them just pop out too much (something that happens in a lot of these mods).
FXAA blurs the hell out of everything. There's no reason to add HD texture packs and then blur the hell out of them.
I endorse the ones I like. I'm not sure what it does beyond kudos, but I hope it helps.
Off-hand guess, maybe your cache isn't flushing properly? I can't really say because I don't experience that problem. I can tell you now that this game is insanely CPU bottlenecked, especially once you start loading extra cells (if you have tweaked your ini files). Even my 2500K @ 5.0GHz can only keep my 6950 fed at 9 cells. If I load 10, I notice GPU usage dropping again.
Can't say I'm surprised by the vRAM usage - take a world this size and crank the textures and bam! The 4GB launcher is a must, follow Q-BZ's instructions
I think I mentioned this in the other thread, but those stutters are likely caused by the cell buffers not flushing correctly, it is a known issue with the game engine since Oblivion. After you play for sometime, especially after fast traveling or zoning several times in a play session you will start to get a drop in performance.
If it is a purge issue using the console PCB command should fix it.
I noticed the issue when I was grinding out the DB contracts and the TG city quests, I was hopping all over the place and after a couple of hours was seeing a significant drop in performance, dumped the PCB command and it cleared the issue up. I set up a macro with my G510 and just hit it every hour or so. I had the same setup in Oblivion (w/ a G15)
PCB did nothing for this problem unfortunately for me even spamming it fairly frequently which surprised me.
Here's an experiment I wonder if people could help me with:
Fantastic map tweak that you put at the end of your .ini file.
I wouldn't be surprised if it added demand. If any of you haven't used that yet you're in for a pleasant shock when you see what the map looks like and how it operates.
I'd gone in thinking that map tweak was the source of my problem but I don't think it is.
If other people use it and really, they should, it'll be interesting to see what kind of feedback there is on it.
What I ended up doing is turning my AA from 8 down to 4 and that seems to have solved it. Everything else is ultra and maxed out at 1920x1200.
I'm a little surprised I had to do that since my rig really usually can run these games maxed out without batting an eyelash but if the game also has a memory leak then I guess it would make sense. Not the end of the world but slightly curious.
Those look off. The original ones look more like they're "in the game," it looks like a lighting issue. The color of the high-res textures make them just pop out too much (something that happens in a lot of these mods).
FXAA blurs the hell out of everything. There's no reason to add HD texture packs and then blur the hell out of them.
I endorse the ones I like. I'm not sure what it does beyond kudos, but I hope it helps.
Off-hand guess, maybe your cache isn't flushing properly? I can't really say because I don't experience that problem. I can tell you now that this game is insanely CPU bottlenecked, especially once you start loading extra cells (if you have tweaked your ini files). Even my 2500K @ 5.0GHz can only keep my 6950 fed at 9 cells. If I load 10, I notice GPU usage dropping again.
Can't say I'm surprised by the vRAM usage - take a world this size and crank the textures and bam! The 4GB launcher is a must, follow Q-BZ's instructions
Ugrids load is a setting that I just don't bother with because all it means is more instability so I'm running default 5. I don't know how anyone gets away with increasing this and not having more instability.
I've basically done no ini tweaks past ultra on anything. FOV, vsync off, and this fairly useful sun shadow tweak that's in that tweak guides are about it for me.
I ran Evga precision and my VRAM pretty much tops out a lot of the time or even slightly goes past it. Even turning AA from 8 down to 4.
If your CPU bottlenecks than obviously my qx9650 probably would and is at some point.
I'm running a few of the popular mods like the enhanced night, blood, water, Xenius's character stuff and that's about it. No big time texture mods yet.
I thought FXAA was a positive that brought out more detail. http://www./Optimize/Guides/the-elder-scrolls-v-skyrim-tweak-guide
Look through his images and comparisons, for example.
Another great tweak I did from that guide:
That guide was worth it alone for the map tweak and this. And setting the timescale down from an absurd default of 20 to 5 where it should have always been to begin with.
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Do I spy a nip-slip on the Karita sample screenshot?? Niiiice
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I think it's the rendererinfo.txt file that might be borked, happened to me twice.
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oooh i forgot that those optimiazation guides were up!
I can't wait to try out that sun one.
By the way, has anyone noticed anything messed up with changing the time scale?
I can't wait to try out that sun one.
By the way, has anyone noticed anything messed up with changing the time scale?
The quest for the house in Windhelm, doesn't seem to want to start. There are plenty of reports about the buggyness of that quest, on both PC and console, so not sure if it's related to my modified timescale or not. Timescale = 5 is so nice, I'd hate to go back to 20, feels like timelapse video at that point
The quest for the house in Windhelm, doesn't seem to want to start. There are plenty of reports about the buggyness of that quest, on both PC and console, so not sure if it's related to my modified timescale or not. Timescale = 5 is so nice, I'd hate to go back to 20, feels like timelapse video at that point
Timescale 5 is the safest, lowest value to use and shouldn't bug anything.
Don't go any lower tahn 5 and it should be fine. 5 is awesome. It's the way the game should have been set all along.
I guess because it makes traders and quest NPCs open/available longer, and weather events go on longer.
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And if you're a vampire or thief or assassin ... it's nice to be able to walk into a cave or do a quest at night and still finish at night. And if you're doing a lot of alchemy in someone's shop you might not wanting them to close up shop on you, especially if they are supposed to buy your stuff.
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The quest for the house in Windhelm, doesn't seem to want to start. There are plenty of reports about the buggyness of that quest, on both PC and console, so not sure if it's related to my modified timescale or not. Timescale = 5 is so nice, I'd hate to go back to 20, feels like timelapse video at that point
How is that quest supposed to get started? Because I was told to buy a house there, but when I inquired about it he said "Can't sell it to you yet, been having some 'trouble' there lately"...but then no quest. Do I have to just find it myself?
Oh, and I use that map tweak...looks great but makes my map lag like hell.
Me, too, except that lag was carrying over into the game itself for me after a point.
I think it MIGHT have been the source of my previously mentioned performance issues. I'm not sure why it would be THAT demanding but as cool as it looked, I got rid of it because it just isn't worth the performance hit I was taking at all.
Console.
You can type in show timescale any time you want and the game will show it to you. The game's default is 20.
set timescale to 5 <-lowest safe value. You can put whatever you want but you probably shouldn't go outside the 5-20 range no matter what.
Because it looks and feels stupid to go in a dungeon and let's say it's 9am and you blow through it at a fairly decent clip and you come out and it's practically dark outside to say nothing about if you travel at any appreciable distance.
It just feels better to me at 5.
20 is absurd IMO. Everything's just too fast at 20. It's distracting and almost harms the immersion for me.
Try it and see what you think.
By setting that timescale to 5 and doing this:
http://www./Optimize/Guides/the-elder-scrolls-v-skyrim-tweak-guide
That bizarre shadow shimmering effect is mostly gone because everything isn't moving along so damned fast and I can talk to some people in town and not watch several hours just blaze by in a ridiculous fashion as it was before.
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That's one of the known bugs--you might be able to reactivate things using the console.
Read this thoroughly:
http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Hjerim
Even if you get the house, there are a lot of bugs with plaques and mannequins. I fucked it up badly enough that I moved into the Archmage's quarters (no "clean the house" option for me
).The quest has specific start requirements. As the townfolk mention, there is a serial killer/butcher murdering women in windhelm.
The quest for the house can't start until the "next" murder happens
the murder
Unfortunately it seems that trigger isn't set up right, and there are some unknown conditions that will prevent it from triggering. So if you are unlucky such as myself, no matter how many times you come back to Windhelm, it won't trigger. I can load a MUCH earlier save, and then it will happen (didn't know about it then), so something(s) has happened since then that prevents it from starting.
Sadly no console commands can fix the issue, the best you can do is manually take control of the house, but even then it remains partly it's original state, which has both cosmetic and functional problems to use as a working player house.
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Because the time goes by so fast on the default setting it feels like you get 15 minutes of daylight. Plus the shadows in game are fucked.
20 is absurd IMO. Everything's just too fast at 20. It's distracting and almost harms the immersion for me.
Try it and see what you think.
Alright mate, I'll give it a whirl. I've avoided all the mods thus far because none of them are at the point where the benefit is worth the risk and/or performance hits. But this sounds like there is no risk, as long as I stay above 5. Will probably try 10 to start. Thanks
Alright mate, I'll give it a whirl. I've avoided all the mods thus far because none of them are at the point where the benefit is worth the risk and/or performance hits. But this sounds like there is no risk, as long as I stay above 5. Will probably try 10 to start. Thanks
Yup, zero risk and easily adjusted.
By slowing the timescale to 5 and doing that fSun tweak in my previous post that effect is mostly eliminated.
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Yup, zero risk and easily adjusted.
By slowing the timescale to 5 and doing that fSun tweak in my previous post that effect is mostly eliminated.
Stoked to hear this.
edit: i've read that it is impossible to remove the stupid brightness changing "pupil" effect which causes the game to get extra bright or extra dark when you go from looking at something dark to something light...
has anyone found a way? It's soo annoying, I pretty much stop playing after a half-hour because it hurts my eyes lol
Is there a console command to add gold to a merchant's inventory? Investing in speech just to get that is really not fun or strategic. As much as I like fast travelling to each city just to sell shit, it might be more fun to just dump it all on one person.
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i don't know about a console command, but there is a mod at skyrim nexus that adds 2,000 or 10,000 gold to vendors.
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By slowing the timescale to 5 and doing that fSun tweak in my previous post that effect is mostly eliminated.
Yea, this is one of the only tweaks I've run during my first playthrough. Feels much better.
I'll find that then.
I've run it on 9 for the last 50 or so hours without a single crash. You just have to make sure the rest of the parameters are set right. From my Skyrim.ini:
[General]
sLanguage=ENGLISH
uGridsToLoad=9
uExterior Cell Buffer=100
iPreloadSizeLimit=262144000
Note that uExterior Cell Buffer = (uGridsToLoad + 1)^2
You're missing a good bit of IQ without the ini mods. Check out [H]'s article to start, but the uGrids increase is by far the best.
I think you might have been comparing the wrong images, for instance
Koroush Ghazi said:
And I agree, MSAA + Transparency AA still gives the highest IQ (albeit at a big performance penalty).Koroush Ghazi said:
There's a way to get traders to have a ton of gold legitimately through the game: complete the Thieve's Guild Arc, and most fences wiill have 4,000 gold
Also, I just installed this texture pack too, really improves indoor environments - http://skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=238#content
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Supposedly traders have more money if you do quests for the people in the given town too