Good new everyone!

So I've just had TO much shit in my Skyrim install. My game has been running like ASS and started a near infinite C++ and or CTD problem. I've installed and uninstalled so many things I knew it was my own damn fault, SO MANY LOOSE SCRIPTS. Plus, my computer is not all that great, something I've never told you guys and if you watch my Let's Play you would be AMAZED when I told you what I was actually running my Skyrim on lol ( hardware wise ).

So Anyway, I made a backup of EVERYTHING I had, and then proceeded to delete the SHIT out of EVERYTHING in my Skyrim Folder. I didn't just get it down to Vanilla, I broke it and deleted even more then I was suppose to ( had to let Steam fix it ). I even deleted all the stuff in AppData AND in the My games ( Yup CLEAN install ). I then, over the last FOUR DAYS ( yup it has taken me 4 days ), began to reinstall ONLY the mods I REALLY wanted and or I made myself, with only the most up to date versions of those mods if there was newer versions then I was already using.

Ok, so where am I at now? Well I packaged up Celestials v8 AND ReBorn into shitty ass BSA's ( if you know about packing BSA's you know the main one that the CK uses is ASS, it leaves out a lot and has shit for compression ( read : NONE ). After that you can use the archive tool to repack everything, add in what you need, AND compress it better. I didn't do that yet . I threw them in first of course, and tested, and everything worked PHUCKING GREAT! It worked better then I would have hoped, sans some minor head issues I had with OLDER saves and characters, but that was also me missing a METRIC FUCK TON of other things. Overall, it couldn't have gone better.

Now when I fixed my NEW install with Steam, I had forgotten that since I told steam I wanted it once long ago, that steam thought I bought it or something, and it downloaded the Official High Res Texture Packs for me. So my my first start up, was just official stuff and Celestials / reborn. That was it. I was a little taken back by what the game looked like, but thought to myself " don't worry, I can fix it ". So fix it I did, but NOT in a way you might think! See, I've known for a while now that all these high res textures on everything, some of them 4K, are what was stopping me from loading the game say inside a massive dungeon or in whiterun, I would always have to load a game from some small building like a shop or a house basement before THEN loading up that save outside in WhiteRun, but with JUST these options that didn't happen. I decided I LIKED that and was tired of the bullshit I put myself through, so when I was all done I started with some of my more baser options for the ENB I have been using, and reworked the WHOLE THING to make the OFFICIAL stuff look good! Not only that, I dropped the dependency on SweetFX AND I made 3 different version of it for low / med / high end systems! It came out GREAT and even making it look almost the exact same, hell BETTER then it did before with 4k textures, I even UPPED my FPS by 8 - 12. I couldn't be happier with it and it WILL be ready for release soon because dammit, IT LOOKS SO GOOD

So after Celestials/Reborn and my enb all got installed, I move on to MY other works. Namely the one you guys all see in my videos and ask about, the SweetSkyrim overhaul. While getting this one all set up and working right didn't go EXACTLY great, I DID manage to see just what I needed to do to get it working from one folder to another, and that is now enough for me to think about getting it ready to share! It WILL STILL BE A LITTLE WHILE, but ya, it's actually a LOT closer to being ready to share then I thought it was.

After all that it was simply me loading my first chance to save INSIDE Helgen, checking that everything worked, shutting down, installing ONE SINGLE MOD I wanted ( say SkyUI ), loading the game, checking it worked, configuring it, saving, shutting down, and moving to the next. Even if I wanted the mod, this time around I stayed away from mods I KNOW are VERY script heavy. Things like UnRead Books Glow, it's a GREAT mod, and I have loved using it, but guess what? That mod is script heavy. Not that the scripting is bad, or it is to big a script, it's not that, it is what the script DOES that makes it SO intense ( checks every book everywhere inside the cell you are in ALL the time. It works overtime is what I am saying ) that I won't be using it anymore.

What does all this mean? It means my game is now looking great, running great, and working great. I cut my mod list IN HALF ( from 150+ to 70+ ), cleaned up so much crap ( about 20 GIGS worth of crap ), and it was worth it in the end.

HOWEVER, for those of you that read this far, and maybe ALSO watch my videos on YouTube, I have some bad news. Because I did all this, MOST of ALL my old saves just won't load anymore, and I can understand why. Sadly this effected my Let's Play Series of videos to. So ya, I have to start them AGAIN, for the THIRD time! The good news is I plan on shooting them this time around with EDITING, not just me playing straight for say and hour and you watching an hour. I now plan to edit them down, so 2 hours of playtime may only be 30 minutes of view time! Not only that, but for those of you who have already watched me up to my last point in the Let's Play, I plan on shooting the new series up to that point BEFORE I release any of them, and having a link to follow in the first of the new videos directing you to that same point in my play time, when I release them ALL at the same time. So basically you will miss out on all the new things / changes / etc I have done since my last video, but in terms of what was going on and where I was when we left off, we will be in the same spot.

Before I go I should mention that my wife won't be in my new videos as much as she was. She was in every one before, but now, she will only be in the ones she CAN be in. I don't know what to say, I don't think anyone actually watched them JUST for her, I doubt it, but she was nice to have with me when I did them for someone to talk to. You might want to expect longer silence periods unless I can adapt to talking to someone who is not there ( YOU ).

Hope you guys enjoyed this, and expext new videos FOR REAL next week, as well as new updates to my mods, and some new releases soon. I will be posting new pics of my NEW ENB with settings here in this blog when I get the chance and getting ideas and feedback before I release it.