Looking nice, Xev

Xev wrote: Okay, so I'm running the latest version with every INI tweak I could find and the following mods: Official HD Texture Pack Detailed Faces v2 Enhanced Distant Terrain Enhanced Blood Textures Enhanced Night Skyrim HD Furniture and Barrels HD Textures DLC Fix High Quality Eyes Landscape Texture Pack 2048 No more Blocky Faces Realistic Water Textures & Terrain Skyrim Flora Overhaul Skyrim HD - 2k Textures Skyrim Sunglare V3 SkyUI SKSE FXAA Post Process Injector Screenshots: http://i.imgur.com/EHTN5.jpg http://i.imgur.com/2WbSg.jpg http://i.imgur.com/rzoHa.jpg http://i.imgur.com/UpoA4.jpg Anything good I've missed? I tried realistic lighting, but the game was impossible to navigate at night, even with a torch. Furthermore, are there INI tweaks I've missed to enhance distant tree rendering and increase foliage density? Cheers

I pretty much had all those and removed them...the HD DLC is actually really good. Some people prefer the exaggerated textures from mods though i guess.

Real lighting just makes night times more interesting, and the dungeons more spooky.

I kept lighting mods, foliage mods, distant trees, and enhanced clouds...as well as this new .ini mod:

KatuMod

Just found a whole bunch more. Oh joy, my graphics card won't be pleased

Edit: GOOD LORD.

Just came across this mod. It improves all the (or it will since it's a WIP) meshes of the game but upping the poly count and getting rid of those ugly seams that some models have.

There's also 'Sounds of Skyrim' which adds some amazing immersion.

So I'm still having fun with Skyrim thought I'd post with the mods I'm currently using. I'm amazed at how pretty the game can be with a bit of fiddling

I'm currently running these mods

Official HD Texture Pack
Detailed Faces v2 - Detailed_Faces-2_00
Dovahkiin Hideout - DovahkiinsHideout0_8
Enhanced Blood Textures
High Quality Eyes - High_Quality_Eyes-1_20
Lush Grass - Lush Grass 1-3
Lush Trees - Lush Trees 1-3
No More Blocky Faces - No_More_Blocky_Faces-1_50
Realistic Water Textures and Terrain
Skyrim HD - 2K Textures - Skyrim HD v1_5 FULL - Dungeons
Skyrim HD - 2K Textures - Skyrim HD v1_5 FULL - Landscape
Skyrim HD - 2K Textures - Skyrim HD v1_5 FULL - Misc
Skyrim HD - 2K Textures - Skyrim HD v1_5 FULL - Towns
SkyUI
Realistic Colors and Real NIghts 2.1 HDR Edition (RCRN)

And here is how my game looks apologies for the image rape but smaller res and less pictures don't really convey things as well

Mek7 wrote: Detailed Faces v2 - Detailed_Faces-2_00 High Quality Eyes - High_Quality_Eyes-1_20 No More Blocky Faces - No_More_Blocky_Faces-1_50

These three were folded into a greater compilation mod by their author, XCE.
http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=2356

Mek7 wrote: So I'm still having fun with Skyrim thought I'd post with the mods I'm currently using. I'm amazed at how pretty the game can be with a bit of fiddling

aaaaaaaaaaaand now I want to do another play-through of Skyrim.

The best skyrim mod has been found!

SirGrim wrote: The best skyrim mod has been found!

LOL holy shit. Downloading.

Edit: Wtf not released. Ffuu

It is not finished I think.

BOSS v2.0.0 was released today. I'm happy to report that it works once again, v1.9.1 stopped re-ordering my plugins (ESPs) a few weeks ago.

Quote: BOSS A "one-click" program for users that quickly optimises and avoids detrimental conflicts in their TES IV: Oblivion, Nehrim - At Fate's Edge, TES V: Skyrim, Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas mod load orders. BOSS will re-order your mods to their correct positions, putting any mods it doesn't recognise after them, in the same order as they were before BOSS was run. BOSS is designed to assist in the usage of mods, helping mod users avoid serious conflicts. It is not a complete solution to load ordering issues, as there are far more mods out there than BOSS knows about. To properly place mods BOSS doesn't know about, a good working knowledge of mod load ordering for Skyrim is still necessary, for which some research and documentation reading will go a long way.

I have no idea why NMM doesn't BOSS' plugin one-click re-ordering feature, it already uses the BOSS masterlist but it doesn't seem to do anything with it.

With the official hi-res update and all the other hi-res overhauls, are the trees and grass still 2d? cause I get no noticeable change with the hi-res or with 'Vurts Skyrim Flora Overhaul'.

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This mod is brilliant, a perfect compliment to SkyUI.

Finally got Skyrim. What would you consider "essential" (using the term loosely) mods for a new player?

I've got SkyUI so far.

Craftable Invisible Helmets

As the the title says. I use it for both my companion and PC (the latter because of the 3rd person killcams). Fully compatible with the Matching Set perks from the armour skill trees.

Eagle32 wrote: Finally got Skyrim. What would you consider "essential" (using the term loosely) mods for a new player? I've got SkyUI so far.

the HD pack is good & it keeps the look true to vanilla.

not long ago the "Unofficial Skyrim Patch" came out & its really the first thing you should get.

Realistic Lighting with Customization is well reccommended by those that use it. its great at giving you a game with some real brightness & darkness.

W.A.T.E.R also updates the entire look nicely

ive always used :

No More Blocky Faces
Weapons and Armour Fixes
Complete Crafting Overhaul
Smithing Perks Overhaul
Better Sorting
Static Mesh Improvement Mod
Smelters for Riften and Solitude
World Map - Skyrim Hold Borders

Breezehome Enchanting Table. is also handy, but im not a fan of those house mods that completely kit out everything.

Peaceful Mudcrabs & MZ Peaceful Slaughterfish. i dont like having to deal with every single crab, or the slaughterfish.

SKREEE - Less Frequent Dragons. i also dont like dealing to Dragons as frequently as the vanilla puts them out.

Perks Unbound. also opens up the game a little for the person just doing one play-thru.

So yeah, been out of gaming for months now. Want to get back into Skyrim with a fresh install, or at least removing all mods, and starting with a clean ini.

Any advice on how best to achieve this? And, what are the must have mods at present?

Haisley wrote: So yeah, been out of gaming for months now. Want to get back into Skyrim with a fresh install, or at least removing all mods, and starting with a clean ini. Any advice on how best to achieve this? And, what are the must have mods at present?

Go to STEP - Skyrim Total Enhancement Project by TheCompiler
http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/11
The project has a PDF guide to the recommended mods

They even have a website for newer mods.
However, STEP doesnt give you a list of non-lore mods - those mods that add new items to the game: characters ; quests armo(u)r; hairstyles; body mods.....

soberkay wrote: Go to STEP - Skyrim Total Enhancement Project by TheCompiler http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/11 The project has a PDF guide to the recommended mods They even have a website for newer mods. However, STEP doesnt give you a list of non-lore mods - those mods that add new items to the game: characters ; quests armo(u)r; hairstyles; body mods.....

Fark me! There are a sheet load of mods to download for STEP. I spent about 3 hours the other day downloading and installing the first section of graphical mods. Will have another crack at the next section on the weekend.

Personally I love STEP - it takes much of the work out of finding good mods. I go through the list and add the ones I feel will suit my style and then I add a few extras at the end to expand the game a bit further, time consuming, but relatively easy.

Cheers for the STEP link, spent a couple of hours setting it all up for a second play through that will lead onto Dawnguard

This looks real good:http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/23029/

Best mod ever

dem sexy gravens

Sweet lordy at the package of mods that this guy runs... look at these screenshots

The game is in any case unplayable like this, he runs a GTX670 and gets 4-8 FPS with these graphics.
















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