The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - 'It's Stable......For Now'

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Will try keep this updated with guides etc from AVF and elsewhere on getting a stunning Skyrim.


MrIdontKnow's guide.

If you are going to upload this guide to any other site or spread it around, may I ask that you link directly to this post instead of linking straight to the guide download.

This is version 0.1 of my guide, it's not finished and never will be as long as the modding community keeps going and my love for modding stays strong. This guide should take you no longer than 2 hours to complete, I've made it as user friendly as possible. If you have any questions or concerns about how to go about something in my guide or if you find something that yes doesn't ho har make sense please tell me and I will correct it will small errors.

Skyrim - A Graphical Novel
 
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haha....I think the tag line in the title may have just jinxed you, mod freak that you are :devil:
 
haha....I think the tag line in the title may have just jinxed you, mod freak that you are :devil:

I'm having to start again mate. Going to add eye candy and UI mods and see how she plays.

Gameplay stuff can wait and will come in slowly.

Wasted far too much time on this already. Its been almost a week and I dont have a stable gorgeous Skyrim. Why lord WHHHHYYYYYY!!!!!!
 
I have just added about 20 new mods myself but mainly survival and creature mods. Also I have added all the unofficial fixes for each of the dlc packs.
 
I added this last night... (you need to be signed into Nexus to see it)

Monster Mod at Skyrim Nexus - Skyrim mods and community

Looks great, although I've yet to encounter any of them as I've only been hanging around Riverwood and Whiterun to see if other mods are working. Feel like such a noob compared to my super badass 360 character, haha :)
 
I added this last night... (you need to be signed into Nexus to see it)

Monster Mod at Skyrim Nexus - Skyrim mods and community

Looks great, although I've yet to encounter any of them as I've only been hanging around Riverwood and Whiterun to see if other mods are working. Feel like such a noob compared to my super badass 360 character, haha :)

Good luck with the compatibility with any other mod haha.

The title of this thread made me laugh.
 
Good luck with the compatibility with any other mod haha.

The title of this thread made me laugh.

I installed it after about 40 other mods, inc Bellyaches Animals and Creatures pack. No issues so far but I'll go monster hunting later and see if I encounter any weird glitches. Got another 20 or so mods to test out go + some ENB tweaking then I might actually start playing it :p
 
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Had enough of chasing my tail with this modding so loaded up a load of texture and UI mods with some player mods and loaded up the game to start actually playing it.

Anyway a few more shots from me.

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Errr wow :eek:

Chalky, what mods are you running? And MrIDon'tKnow :eek: :eek: Christ, how well does that lot run? Looks beautiful...

I wish someone would come up with fix for eyefinity as I still can't play skyrim! Although that said, Bioshock Infinite is currently sucking me in.... :) Damn I'm so glad I returned to PC gaming...
 
Chalky and MDK, your textures look way more crisp than mine. I'm using using pretty much all the 4k and 2k stuff I can find, which I assume you guys are too. Any ideas how I can sharpen mine up?

In other news, can't wait to test it with my new 7950 tomorrow :D
 
Errr wow :eek:

Chalky, what mods are you running? And MrIDon'tKnow :eek: :eek: Christ, how well does that lot run? Looks beautiful...

I wish someone would come up with fix for eyefinity as I still can't play skyrim! Although that said, Bioshock Infinite is currently sucking me in.... :) Damn I'm so glad I returned to PC gaming...

It runs at 30fps plus mate :) I said I'd get a mod list up last night but I didn't get everything I wanted so hopefully it will come tonight.

Chalky and MDK, your textures look way more crisp than mine. I'm using using pretty much all the 4k and 2k stuff I can find, which I assume you guys are too. Any ideas how I can sharpen mine up?

In other news, can't wait to test it with my new 7950 tomorrow :D

I'm not using 4k textures because on a 1080p screen I won't benefit from them, have you edited your Skyrim.ini and SkyrimPrefs.ini in Documents/My Games/Skyrim? They hold back textures if you don't edit them. I'll give you mine but it is an Ultra Config made by SkyrimTuner but edited more for my preference.

If you're using MO you can edit a 'local' copy of your ini files in MO :) if not, BACK THEM UP.

Skyrim.ini
Code:
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uGridsToLoad=7
sIntroSequence=
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fFlickeringLightDistance=8192.0
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fLightLODMaxStartFade=5000.0
iShadowMapResolutionPrimary=4096
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bShadowsOnGrass=1
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bDrawShaderGrass=1
iMinGrassSize=20

[GeneralWarnings]
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[Archive]
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bVATSForceRanged=1


SkyrimPrefs.ini
Code:
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bUseThreadedBlood=1
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bUseThreadedAI=1
bUseHardDriveCache=0
[Imagespace]
bDoDepthOfField=1
iRadialBlurLevel=0
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[Display]
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fInteriorShadowDistance=3000.0000
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bUse Shaders=1
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iTexMipMap=2048
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iUseTexHiRes=1
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iTexNormalMapMinimum=2048
iTexMipMapResolution=4096
iTexMipMapQuality=4096
iMipMapResolution=4096
iMipMapSize=4096
bFaceMipMaps=1
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bHighQualityTexMipMaps=1
bDynamicWindowReflections=1
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fGamma=1.2400
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[MAIN]
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You serial modders and tweakers will no doubt enjoy playing with the Unigine Valley benchmark demo (if you haven't already). Of course not a game but you can watch the cinematic flyby, go into free look or walk around the environment and tweak various settings including the weather, time of day etc. Very nice to have a little play with and some lovely vista's on display too.

Unigine Valley
 
You serial modders and tweakers will no doubt enjoy playing with the Unigine Valley benchmark demo (if you haven't already). Of course not a game but you can watch the cinematic flyby, go into free look or walk around the environment and tweak various settings including the weather, time of day etc. Very nice to have a little play with and some lovely vista's on display too.

Unigine Valley

Downloading now, looks stunning. Imagine a Skyrim world like that!!!! :eek::eek: (thats actually playable)
 
Downloading now, looks stunning. Imagine a Skyrim world like that!!!! :eek::eek: (thats actually playable)

After watching the cinematic flyby, switch the camera to either 'free' or 'walk', you can then adjust various environment settings. Must have spent an hour or so just playing with that. :)
 
After watching the cinematic flyby, switch the camera to either 'free' or 'walk', you can then adjust various environment settings. Must have spent an hour or so just playing with that. :)


and theres no screenshots!!!! Get back to it!!!
 
How easy is it to mod skyrim? I am not sure how many mods I can run and which ones are worth having. Is it easy to install and remove? I have not started the game yet but when I do I would like it looking as well as it can do on my system.
 
After watching the cinematic flyby, switch the camera to either 'free' or 'walk', you can then adjust various environment settings. Must have spent an hour or so just playing with that. :)

Just had a mess there and it is really nice. My GTX 670 handled it ok too on the highest settings. Thought it might have struggled worse than it did.

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How easy is it to mod skyrim? I am not sure how many mods I can run and which ones are worth having. Is it easy to install and remove? I have not started the game yet but when I do I would like it looking as well as it can do on my system.

Very easy.

Do it via the Steam Workshop. Its so simple even a Mackem could do it. See a mod you like. Hit subscribe and thats it.
 
Love Valley :) Been testing my new 7950 with it this morning.

Thank a lot for the inis MDK. I was using the ones from Real Vision which appear to have the same texture memory optimisations but I'll give yours a try too :smashin:

Gonna start again actually, as I ran into that annoying flashing at night bug again. Must be RLO, or something else modding the same files. Its like sheet lightening localised to a few cells.
 
Love Valley :) Been testing my new 7950 with it this morning.

Thank a lot for the inis MDK. I was using the ones from Real Vision which appear to have the same texture memory optimisations but I'll give yours a try too :smashin:

Gonna start again actually, as I ran into that annoying flashing at night bug again. Must be RLO, or something else modding the same files. Its like sheet lightening localised to a few cells.

Just make sure it's not lightening mate, I had something similar but realised it was thunder :D
 
Just had a mess there and it is really nice. My GTX 670 handled it ok too on the highest settings. Thought it might have struggled worse than it did.

Nice one mate, got to love the 670.

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Well the screenshots posted here (and playing with that Valley demo) have got me interested in modding Skyrim, so may have to dust off that and have a play. Probably won't go to the extremes you guys have mind you, but the depth of field and hi-res texture packs look great. I think I had a few packs installed but will have to check the workshop and see what's new.
 
Did a win 8 reinstall and going through the texture combiner and installing all my mods. Fun times.
 
Well the screenshots posted here (and playing with that Valley demo) have got me interested in modding Skyrim, so may have to dust off that and have a play. Probably won't go to the extremes you guys have mind you, but the depth of field and hi-res texture packs look great. I think I had a few packs installed but will have to check the workshop and see what's new.

I've given up on the guide. It just isn't at all stable and with over 300 mods it would take forever to sort so I'm down to 100 or so mods and I'm happy with that. Mainly textures and models but a few UI ones too. Very happy with it and going to actually concentrate on playing it now.
 

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