Racemenu SE skee64.ini settings not working?

[warhead321]

I've spent days now trying to debug this issue.

I am trying to change iNumOverlays in SKSE/Plugins/skee64.ini but no matter what I do, it doesn't get applied to the game. I am stuck with 3 slots for body/feet/hand/face.

 

Things to note:

- I am using MO2

 

What I checked:

- Nothing is overwriting Racemenu.

- Disabling everything but Racemenu still didn't work.

- Set Racemenu to top priority.

- Created other ini files; SKSE/Plugins/nioverride.ini, SKSE/Plugins/NiOverride.ini, SKSE/skse.ini

- Checked all available logs, found the log "Net Immerse Override Enabled" in skse64.log but it seems to be unrelated.

- Searched Google endlessly for anyone who has come across this issue.

- I found one other guy who the same issue (locked to three slots for every part of the body) in Ostim Discord but I have no idea what the issue is.

- Used rg (rip grep) for any psc or config files that could be messing with Net Immerse.

 

Any ideas? Could there be a mod that's dynamically changing the value? 

[ebbluminous]

7 hours ago, warhead321 said:

I've spent days now trying to debug this issue.

I am trying to change iNumOverlays in SKSE/Plugins/skee64.ini but no matter what I do, it doesn't get applied to the game. I am stuck with 3 slots for body/feet/hand/face.

 

Things to note:

- I am using MO2

 

What I checked:

- Nothing is overwriting Racemenu.

- Disabling everything but Racemenu still didn't work.

- Set Racemenu to top priority.

- Created other ini files; SKSE/Plugins/nioverride.ini, SKSE/Plugins/NiOverride.ini, SKSE/skse.ini

- Checked all available logs, found the log "Net Immerse Override Enabled" in skse64.log but it seems to be unrelated.

- Searched Google endlessly for anyone who has come across this issue.

- I found one other guy who the same issue (locked to three slots for every part of the body) in Ostim Discord but I have no idea what the issue is.

- Used rg (rip grep) for any psc or config files that could be messing with Net Immerse.

 

Any ideas? Could there be a mod that's dynamically changing the value? 

I use vortex, but never have an issue. When I do a fresh install of Skyrim, I install all mods then find skee64.ini and manually paste over that with a modified version for the overlay slots. Works fine. All I can think it is a MO2 thing causing the overwriting it?

 

[warhead321]

28 minutes ago, ebbluminous said:

I use vortex, but never have an issue. When I do a fresh install of Skyrim, I install all mods then find skee64.ini and manually paste over that with a modified version for the overlay slots. Works fine. All I can think it is a MO2 thing causing the overwriting it?

 

I was hoping I didn't have to do that but alas... I'll let you know manual installation fixes the issue.

 

Nope. Manual install didn't work either.

 

EDIT: I should be finding more people having the same issue if it is indeed MO2... Not sure what I'm missing here.

Edited September 9, 2023 by warhead321

[warhead321]

I'm just sharing info just in case anyone else runs into this issue.

I forgot to mention that I am running Linux/proton, and that seemed to be the culprit. I reached out to the other guy who had the same issue. He fixed it by installing the mod below.

 

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/18860?tab=files

 

It worked! Despite what the mod description says, it works with Skyrim SE 1.6.640.

 

Apparently, there's some incompatibilities with proton, but the mod somehow bypasses that by using a newer (?) API to read ini files... Well, I don't really care how it works. It just worked.

[cocopopz]

On 9/9/2023 at 10:44 PM, warhead321 said:

I'm just sharing info just in case anyone else runs into this issue.

I forgot to mention that I am running Linux/proton, and that seemed to be the culprit. I reached out to the other guy who had the same issue. He fixed it by installing the mod below.

 

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/18860?tab=files

 

It worked! Despite what the mod description says, it works with Skyrim SE 1.6.640.

 

Apparently, there's some incompatibilities with proton, but the mod somehow bypasses that by using a newer (?) API to read ini files... Well, I don't really care how it works. It just worked.

Thank you! I had been trying to solve this problem for ages, and settled for being stuck on 3 slots for a time.  I'm also using Proton, and can confirm that this fixes the 3 slot problem too.

[supaltair]

Replying to this topic months later to thank you guys, you just saved my game lol. 

I had a similar issue with mod organizer, for some reason the changes to skee64.ini were not applied and, like the topic author says, I haven't found much documentation about the issue. Finding this specific topic saved the day! Thanks again.

[Monkblackmonk]

On 9/10/2023 at 1:44 AM, warhead321 said:

I'm just sharing info just in case anyone else runs into this issue.

I forgot to mention that I am running Linux/proton, and that seemed to be the culprit. I reached out to the other guy who had the same issue. He fixed it by installing the mod below.

 

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/18860?tab=files

 

It worked! Despite what the mod description says, it works with Skyrim SE 1.6.640.

 

Apparently, there's some incompatibilities with proton, but the mod somehow bypasses that by using a newer (?) API to read ini files... Well, I don't really care how it works. It just worked.

Thank You very much 

[santen_kesshun]

just case anyone else runs into this and does not want to install another mod to fix you just have to move the comments to the next line

 

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After

[melwynaria]

On 12/25/2025 at 5:54 PM, santen_kesshun said:

just case anyone else runs into this and does not want to install another mod to fix you just have to move the comments to the next line

 

Before

After

 

I also just spent hours re-installing mods and cleaning my install folders. Nothing worked until I moved those comments as described above. Thank you so much for the simple solution! It absolutely worked for me, too.

[06660]

On 12/25/2025 at 5:54 PM, santen_kesshun said:

just case anyone else runs into this and does not want to install another mod to fix you just have to move the comments to the next line

 

Before

After

 

I guess PrivateProfileRedirector sanitized it back then with 1.5.97. Current version doesn't seem to work the same way because reasons. I spent a LONG, LONG time monkeying with this and formerly had to resort to a crash course in IDAPro to 'fix' it. (Insert Screeching here). I would GUESS that somewhere along the way in the update circlejerk donkeyshow that The ToddHead forced upon everyone the formatting/comments in the SKEE ini got shuffled around, windows could deal with it and *Nix doesn't.

 

And yup, that fixes it 1000%. Christ.

Edited April 7 by 06660