Yet another Sky-Mod request topic
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It already is a .exeJohnZ117 said:
You dont have to do anything to it.
Most files dont have their format type applied to the end of their name unless its a text doc or a picture.
It's never a bad idea to, before doing anything, take the time to install and get familiar with a mod manager. Not terribly exciting, but so worth it. And that manager should by all rights be the nexus mod manager available at skyrim nexus.
And while you're at it install SKSE and skyUI. Even if you have no idea what those are, you'll need them to run other mods sooner or later. Might as well get it over with immediatly.
After that you're all set to go nuts.
And while you're at it install SKSE and skyUI. Even if you have no idea what those are, you'll need them to run other mods sooner or later. Might as well get it over with immediatly.
After that you're all set to go nuts.
SkyUI is a must. Period, end statement. It gives the inventory system a much needed overhaul. Before, After.
Similarly, you'll definitely want to make sure that you have the four unofficial patches installed to get rid of a lot of bugs.
Moving on to less essential mods, Realistic Lighting gets a recommendation from me for significantly improving the atmosphere (and actually giving a point to night vision, torches, and magelight).
Skyrim Redone gets one for doing some heavy changes behind the scenes to make the game more challenging, perks more interesting and different playstyles worth trying. Using one handed weapons, for instance, there are perks that make you attack faster when you have a spell in your off-hand, a perk that lets you negate incoming attacks if you're dual wielding and time your own attacks correctly, and one that increases the damage of short sword power attacks if you have a shield equipped, among other things. Or for something a bit more innovative, there's an alchemy perk that lets you make explosives you can apply to your weapons like poisons...or reverse pickpocket onto a foe (which will 1HKO them if they didn't notice you).
If you plan on playing a Khajiit character, Khajiit Speak could be a nice addition, altering the Player Character's [unspoken] dialogue to be more in line with Khajiit speech patterns and attitudes. The mod page itself has a very good example of this for the start of the Thieves Guild questline when the player is first propositioned. Ordinarily, the player responds "I'm sorry, what?". With the mod installed, this line is changed to "Khajiit is not sure her[footnote]Or "his" in the case of a male character[/footnote] ears heard correctly". The change isn't always that noticeable ("The Whispering Lady? Is she one of the staff, perhaps?" would not be terribly out of place for any race, but is noticeably more Khajiit in its speech pattern than "Who is the Whispering Lady?")
Similarly, you'll definitely want to make sure that you have the four unofficial patches installed to get rid of a lot of bugs.
Moving on to less essential mods, Realistic Lighting gets a recommendation from me for significantly improving the atmosphere (and actually giving a point to night vision, torches, and magelight).
Skyrim Redone gets one for doing some heavy changes behind the scenes to make the game more challenging, perks more interesting and different playstyles worth trying. Using one handed weapons, for instance, there are perks that make you attack faster when you have a spell in your off-hand, a perk that lets you negate incoming attacks if you're dual wielding and time your own attacks correctly, and one that increases the damage of short sword power attacks if you have a shield equipped, among other things. Or for something a bit more innovative, there's an alchemy perk that lets you make explosives you can apply to your weapons like poisons...or reverse pickpocket onto a foe (which will 1HKO them if they didn't notice you).
If you plan on playing a Khajiit character, Khajiit Speak could be a nice addition, altering the Player Character's [unspoken] dialogue to be more in line with Khajiit speech patterns and attitudes. The mod page itself has a very good example of this for the start of the Thieves Guild questline when the player is first propositioned. Ordinarily, the player responds "I'm sorry, what?". With the mod installed, this line is changed to "Khajiit is not sure her[footnote]Or "his" in the case of a male character[/footnote] ears heard correctly". The change isn't always that noticeable ("The Whispering Lady? Is she one of the staff, perhaps?" would not be terribly out of place for any race, but is noticeably more Khajiit in its speech pattern than "Who is the Whispering Lady?")
Not sure about the first issue you're having without more info, but for NMM you have to set it up as a custom launcher.JohnZ117 said:
To do that go to the NMM settings, figure out the location of the launcher, go to the fourth tab "Skyrim" and in the box you should see "Custom Launch Command". Place the location of the skse_loader.exe there. In my case it looks like this:
C:\program files (x86)\steam\steamapps\common\Skyrim\skse_loader.exe
Then hit OK, hit the drop down button on the Launch Skyrim button (the black arrow on the right side), select Launch Custom Skyrim, and it will now be launching through SKSE.
I think Pure Weather & Pure Waters by Laast are currently the best environment mods. Make the atmosphere better without losing the original feel, and no performance impact.
Anything by Artharmoor and OpticShooter are good as well. The Unofficial Skyrim Patches are mandatory IMO.
Anything by Artharmoor and OpticShooter are good as well. The Unofficial Skyrim Patches are mandatory IMO.
I've had that happen before. It happened after uninstalling a mod another mod was set to play off of. What mods do you have activated and which have been deactivated? Load Order could well be another aspect. The Unofficial patches, for instance, are very insistent that the proper order they should load (as seen on NMM's plugins tab) is as follows:JohnZ117 said:
Skyrim.esm
Update.esm
Unofficial Skyrim Patch.esp
Dawnguard.esm
Unofficial Dawnguard Patch.esp
Hearthfires.esm
Unofficial Hearthfire Patch.esp
Dragonborn.esm
Unofficial Dragonborn Patch.esp
With other mods loading after that
Couldn't tell you, I've never used BOSS. Load order in NMM is pretty simple though. Simply go to the plugin tab and click the name of the mod. It should be highlighted and a pair of arrows to the side will turn green. Click the arrows to move the mod up or down the load order.JohnZ117 said: