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12 hours ago, misterpipes said:

If the attached images are your screen dimensions, its probably something to do with screen ratio. SkyUI is a 16:9, the screenshots you provided are 21:9.  You may have some luck with Complete Widescreen Fix for Vanilla and SkyUI 2.2 and 5.2 SE. Apparently it works for 3440x1440. Don't forget the optional patchs for Better Message Boxs/Dialog Boxes, and any other mods you have. (Having seen those, I'm really tempted by a widescreen monitor now, but I just don't have the desk space, it'd have to share with two other monitors).

 

Welcome to the wonderful world of Depth of Field. Its an ENB thing that ENB authors love, for some reason(*), and can be turned off in ENB (along with the black letterbox(**) top and bottom of the screen).

 

* Yes, I know why they love it, it makes for great screenshots. Its just not very gameplay friendly.
** Its not cinematic, its a waste of screenspace.

Oh, thank you so much. That makes sense. I got an ultrawide screen as you say, and I love it. If you can fit it and afford it I certainly would recommend it :) And I have been able to get it to work with earlier installations with mods like the one you referred to.

 

I'll try that and and the ENB-settings you referred to this evening. 

And the game certanily looks amaxing, soo much better then earlier installations.

Posted
4 hours ago, Yrral said:

All NITHI female npc are not nude. Using predone bodyslides. How do I find mod that is overwriting nude body.

The easiest for you would probably be to start Bodyslide and rebuild the body. Chose someting like 3BBB Body amazing and build. Dont forget to check "Build morphs" if you want mods like "Fill her up" or "Fertility mode" to reshape the body.

Posted

Yes, that was next. I’ve always wonder it there was way to determine which mod. I’ve looked at all the mo conflicts but can’t find it.

Posted

OK, got the new video card installed (Thanks again to the sender). First time i got good FPS and only my TFT is limiting now.

But the drivers of NVidia are really oldfashioned... Thats almost as going back to an OS from 2000.

 

Yamete REDUX isn't working as i thought. I'll recheck the config but i'm not sure where the problem is.

 

The new version of Animated Ice Floes will hopefully work.

 

Shrubs of Snow - Seasons of Skyrim and Turn of the Seasons work, but they require a strong video card. An older card will have a heavy drop regarding the FPS.

Animated Forge Water is a nice little addition.

 

 

 

 

Posted

-Does anyone have a decent alternative to Reddit for Skyrim mods? Since the protest started, where have people gone to?

 

-Media Keys Fix SKSE has finally achieved the dream of being able to change the volume from within the game, while not having the issue when temporarily out of the game that keyboard input still affects the game. I hope I said that right!

 

-After many false alarms, it's possible that the updated ImprovedCameraSE may be close to Nexus release.

 

-It's good to have you back, Aylis. Now I gotta upgrade my hardware to keep up!

Posted (edited)

It looks like the new ImprovedCameraSE and MediaKeysFix have a conflict and need manual ini tweaking to get working together.

Media Keys is a great find though very nice.

 

I am having a small issue where the old inn at Ivarstead is over lapping the new temple. you cant enter the old Inn but it does cover a courtyard and look quite odd.

I have tried to do the Lux set reinstall and patches but something is still causing the issue. this is a minor one and I am ignoring it for now.

Edit: Found the issue with 'Brynjolf and the Riften Guild - Birthright' I am making a patch for this mod.

 

I am happy you are feeling better Aylis that sounds like you went through a lot there.

Funny enough I also had a bad fall and fractured my ass and I now cant sit at my comp for more then an hour without major pain.

 

Edited by nightred
Posted (edited)

Comparison: 'Happy little Trees' vs. 'Nature of the Wild Lands'

 

Spoiler

Happy little Trees

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Nature of the Wild Landsenb2023_6_15_02_57_47.jpg.1855a85b2999c6a1096f358fc09ab75f.jpg

 

As you can see is 'Happy little Trees' closer to vanilla Skyrim and only improves the visuals of already existing trees.

 

'Nature of the Wild Lands' on the other hand offers better visuals and adds quite a few trees. The forested areas are now much denser and offer a more realistic view. But with a lower video card it comes with quite a drop of FPS. My old Radeon 570 lost roughly 12 FPS (aka from ~34 FPS to unplayable ~22 FPS), with my new RTX 3080 TI there's no noticable drop in 1080p and stays at 59 FPS (i set that limit via the driver).

 

 

Next is retesting texture packs again...

Spoiler

 

 

Edited by Aylis
Posted

Hi guys, gotta ask a question. Im using Skyrim SE and i dont know if i should upgrade into AE. Should i upgrade for this guide? I will like to use Sexlab (never used open sex, so dont know if is better or not). I like the Sexlab Defeat system and seems like ODefeat doesnt work so... im pretty confused if i should or not upgrade for that.

Posted (edited)

I have been noticing that the Obody morphs are failing to apply after some extended play. Restarting the game does fix it most of the time. But if I ever select a new preset for an NPC it almost instantly breaks body morphs until I restart the game.
 

After poking around I found this is a known issue for Obody (listed in FAQ #9 of Obody's nexus page)

Knowing this I made the following changes to EngineFixes.toml settings:

MemoryManager = false
ScaleformAllocator = false 

 

This worked great and morphs applied almost instantly.

Side effect, after fast traveling I got stuck in an inf loading screen and had to hard kill the game.

I can just make a save before I fast travel or load as that is how I did back in the day. If there is some more details someone has on this I would love to hear it.

(Do not do this fix unless you are rabbit holing it is not a fix and does make you crash more often)

Final edit on this: I removed Fertility mode as the morphs not applying removes my reason to use it. I could dig more but I am fine with this result.

 

@MainZoe this pack is very nice, I do not like ODefeat so I do not use it and cant comment. I do like the the sisterhood of dibella and that needs sexlab so I have both installed. I think the Osex system is nicer as it is more interactive, but my spouse does not like it as they the scene to auto play.

Personally I think this is a less slutty version then the SE pack, and focuses on more visuals and all the Creation Club content.

Edited by nightred
Posted (edited)

Update 0.9.16

 

Fixing a few links (they got new pages) and updating the visuals.

 

Mods to REMOVE

Spoiler

Foundation

Blended Roads Redone - Bridges                                                                                      Not needed anymore

Skyland Landscapes Parallax                                                                                                               ''

Detailed Carriages                                                                                                              Update to 2.0

 

Armor and Weapons

Underwear                                                                                                                          Update borked the mod and old version has issues.

 

World Expansion

Detailed Carriages - Markarth Outskirts Patch                                                                  Not required anymore

 

Patches

Detailed Carriages - Ryn's Whiterun City Limits Patch                                                      Included in the update

 

Mods to ADD 

Spoiler

Foundation

Skyrim Parallax

Parallax Occlusion Mapping

Vivid Landscapes - Complex Parallax Occlusion Snow

Vivid Landscapes - Complex Parallax Snow - Blended Roads Patch

High End Tree setup

   Shrubs of Snow - Seasons of Skyrim 

   Seasonal Aspen Trees - Shrubs of Snow patch

   Turn of the Seasons

   Seasonal Aspen Trees - Turn of the Seasons patch

 

World Expansion

Dark Anchors Ruins and Dolmens                                                                                 Is available again

?I recommend to merge the hotfix with the main mod.

 

Physics and Animation

Animated Ice Floes

Animated Forge Water

 

Gameplay

Enhanced Soultrap

Passive Weapon Enchantment Recharging

Passive Weapon Enchantment Recharging - AE Patch

 

NPC

Capital Windhelm Expansion - Taluri/Gate Fix

 

Patches

Detailed Carriages                                                                                                              New version

 

Edited by Aylis
Posted (edited)
5 hours ago, Yrral said:

@nightred What mods do you think makes SE pack more slutty?

 

Here is a some (SexLab Shrines, Dripping when Aroused, SL Drunk Redux, Sexlab Defeat Baka Edition, Slave Tats)

But since it is Sexlab focused you have more options for general slutty mods like Slap that ass, Babo, Devious Devices, and more.

Yes you could do that in the AE pack but since it is Osex focused you would have two competing sex focused systems making things more complicated and inconsistent. I find that the Osex system is more romantic in several ways.

 

@Aylis For the detail carriages update did you mean the Markarth patch? I see that in the FOMOD but I do not see the whiterun patch. 
I am guessing that 'Detailed Carriages - Markarth Outskirts Patch' should also be removed.
I also had to reinstall 'Markarth Outskirts' as it had a patch installed.

Edited by nightred
Posted

Quick PSA:

 

Wrye Bash recently got an update, and I tried it out.  Apparently the current version of DynDOLOD doesn't like the new bash however.  While it could be the Wrye Bash settings I use (default), or my load order (non-standard), using the new Wrye Bash (v311) resulted in consistently rejected DynDOLOD runs - USSEP tree reference failures - fails before LOD gen actually starts. 

 

Removing the bash, everything runs.  Rebuilding the bash with the previous v310, everything runs again no problem.

 

So, recommend avoiding the new v311 Wrye Bash until DynDOLOD updates.  If you've already updated, you can get the older v310 from the Wrye Bash Github.

Posted (edited)

First testrun with Skyrim Parallax (downscaled Pfuscher) is looking good. The floors look a lot better now. But there are also a lot of conflicts (rarely seen so many) and it will be interesting to see if 'Seasons' and the mountain textures get along with each other.

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And of course the included meshes for animals cause issues. Got to see if hiding them solves the problem or if the textures cause issues as well...

 

Might have to remove 'Underwear'. It is, with the update, causing issues again... Flagged in the guide

Edited by Aylis
Posted

Ok, so I have done some testing after installing this modlist for the first time.
First of, Skyrim looks absolutely amazing, much better than my earlier installions. On top of this the game strangely enough runs better with better FPS and better loading times.

Great work. Thank you.

 

I have some issues however.

 

* Alternate perspective won't work with this modlist.

  - First of "Go to bed" stops the intro from starting. It seems it does'nt start a sleep event but a wait event. After talking to the inkeeper to start the intro, going to bed doesnt do         anything. After removing "Go to bed" it works fine and sleaping gives the blurry effect and the intro starts upon leaving the in.
  -Secondly, the intro stops as soon as the prisons get of the wagons. nothing more happens. This seem to be due to a clash with "Reverb Interior Sounds Expension". After removing RISE (and starting a new game, doesn't work on existing save) the intro plays out.
 

* For some reason body morphs dosn't work properly. (And yes, I have re-built the bodies with morphs activated in Body slide) "Soulgem oven" doesn't grow breasts or belly eaven when gems are fully leveled. I tried installing "Egg factory" and "Estrus Chaurus". They give a slight belly inflation but not very much eaven on max values. Breasts doesnt change at all. I havn't had any problems with this in many years.

Any ideas for sollutions to these issues?

Oh, and i tried using "Open animation replacer" instead of DAR as someone suggested in this thread a few days ago. It seems to be working great.

Posted (edited)
7 hours ago, Leodriz said:

For some reason body morphs dosn't work properly.

I posted about this issue, you have to disable engine fixes memory manager, the side effect of this is that the game will crash constantly and get stuck in infinite loading screens. This is a known issue with to many things applying morphs and SILF does not fix this (for me) I removed Fertility mode+ because without the morphs it was not worth the time. ( See this post link to post )

 

Has anyone made it to Parthurnax? his texture is all messed up, the mod says that it is a parallax issue and recommends turning off all parallax. I do not agree with this action so Parthurnax is just a freak. (the only dragon i have seen that has this issue.)

 

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Edited by nightred
Posted

Capital Windhelm Expansion Eastern gate blackscreen bug fix was posted on Nexus today and fixes a problem many have had.  It fixes a Infinite Loading Screen issue at the North Gate.  It's not the mod that has the issue, but an NPC (Taluri Moren).  This patch fixes the NPC.  See mod description for what exactly happened.

 

According to the instructions it must be loaded below any high poly replacers to work.

 

If you experience the issue, which is timed with the NPC exiting her home, this might be a good solution.

Posted (edited)

Hotfix (Added to the last update)

 

Underwear is totally borked. I moved it around but it still makes the armor/clothing of some NPC invisible. Floating heads and hands with underwear is not what i had in mind...

 

The added parallax textures look great and, as it offers different resolutions, is working for older cards too.

 

Mods to REMOVE

Spoiler

Foundation

Blended Roads Redone - Bridges                                                                                      Not needed anymore

Skyland Landscapes Parallax                                                                                                               ''

 

Armor and Weapons

Underwear

 

Mods to ADD

 

Edited by Aylis
Posted
46 minutes ago, Aylis said:

Hotfix (Added to the last update)

 

Underwear is totally borked. I moved it around but it still makes the armor/clothing of some NPC invisible. Floating heads and hands with underwear is not what i had in mind...

 

The added parallax textures look great and, as it offers different resolutions, is working for older cards too.

 

Mods to REMOVE

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Foundation

Blended Roads Redone - Bridges                                                                                      Not needed anymore

Skyland Landscapes Parallax                                                                                                               ''

 

Armor and Weapons

Underwear

 

Mods to ADD

 

 

Hi @Aylis  -  Just wanted to confirm if you had the correct link added for the replacement for Skyland Landscapes Parallax.  You've added the downscaled 202X link - did you mean https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/54860 which is the landscape with parallax specifically?

Posted (edited)

This is a great update, I needed the gate fix.

 

I hate the ask but can you put the options for the FOMOD settings for Skyrim Parallax. I am confused about what rock to pick and if I should be picking the Windhelm meshes.

I think that I should select the following

Main Options - parallax for capital windhelm + jk skyrim/whiterun

Optional, Whiterun Street, Snow - my choice?

Mountain Textures - Version 1 

 

@Bigglsby The link to 202X was posted earlier in the thread so I believe that is the correct mod.

 

I am seeing some odd terrain spikes around Windhelm and have my done my own test have not found the fix. I tried installing the landscape with parallax mod above 202X with no luck.

It is minor and only in a few small locations.

 

 


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Found the fix to this.

I had to make a change to my endseries.ini settings `EnableComplexTerrainParallax=false`

(I am using the up to date version of PI-CHO ENB, Build 4)

 

Edited by nightred
Posted

Thanks for the updates. Im starting to install it now and seems like everything is working fine atm (just checking with coc whiterun and doing some travels).

 

But when i see the Unsupported message over the sexlab and sexlab + ostim, i dont know if its because it doesnt work on the latest Skyrim AE patch or is more about is not beign updated.

 

I would like to use the Ostim framework because seems to work very nice, but the lack of content like creatures, or defeat system... i dont know if i cant get it with the sexlab + ostim, using Yamete Kudasai as defeat system or Yamete REDUX... pretty lost with it.

 

What would you recommend me to install? Should the sexlab + ostim works fine?

 

Thanks in advance for your answers and sorry if i misspell something, im not very good writing in english :P

Posted (edited)

@MainZoe

That part is sort of fluid atm. They all work (except the newest update for OStim).

 

With all the infighting in OStim/OpenSex/etc i might end up switching back to full SexLab. With all the constant (sometimes incompatible) updates it starts to cause more issues and headache than i had with SexLab before. Instead of having less issues it starts to become even more problematic...

 

 

@nightred

Nope, no spikes. Did you manually install POM?

Edited by Aylis

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