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Drythe posted:Today I learned FNIS background scans your computer for Mod Drop and refuses to work if you have it installed. lmao, it does. Latest SSE version at least will search for something, maybe registry keys, and throw an error. According to what I saw, it searches for something Moddrop leaves behind after an uninstall, so it's not just 'do you have mod drop' it's 'have you ever had it' Not disclosing that up front is pretty lovely, but at least it seems the author's not even pretending to hide it in the comments so  two wrongs don't make a right? CascadeBeta posted:Since I'm thinking about installing skyrim again ( First, a disclaimer: SE ENBs are inherently a lot more limited than LE ones because [long, boring explanation you don't care about]. So what you should prioritize are ones which make the sky and environment look good because they literally can't do all the ENB tricks to character models; they can do some of the stuff but not all of it. I can't give you detailed reccomendations since that's entirely a personal thing on what you prefer, but imo that's what you should prioritize when looking around. Psion fucked around with this message at 21:52 on Feb 21, 2018 |
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) what are the ENBs/Reshades/whatever of choice for special edition? I realize people will say "Use Imaginator" but I've never been able to get any sort of Imaginator setting looking good.
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FNIS is not doing a scan!! It is doing a check, m'kay?
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CascadeBeta posted:Since I'm thinking about installing skyrim again ( I just Nvidia's Digital Vibrance, and the Vibrance GUI app to set independent values for desktop (0%) and games (anywhere from an extra 1% to 15%) It crushes the blues at really high percentages though
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CascadeBeta posted:Since I'm thinking about installing skyrim again ( I've been using The Truth ENB myself, it's a remake of Phinix Natural ENB from Oldrim, by the same author. Doesn't murder my framerate, looks good IMO. I could never get Imaginator looking how I wanted either. After installing ENB, my load times have increased, though, but not terribly so. Worst is initial game load. Also, not that I use FNIS, but what what is Mod Drop and why do the makers of FNIS care?
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taiyoko posted:Also, not that I use FNIS, but what what is Mod Drop and why do the makers of FNIS care? The FNIS guy cares about this kinda thing and has since forever. Even old FNIS versions have done an 'antipiracy check' since forever so I'm sure to them this is just an extension of the same thing. they're just really unyielding about using their tools with pirated skyrim and I guess this is in their same mental category because mod drop basically scraped and rehosted mods, I think? someone else can explain that better I hope. It pissed off a lot of people, and not just the usual suspects.  Psion fucked around with this message at 23:48 on Feb 21, 2018 |
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axeil posted:Been playing with Zim's and it's great, highly recommend it. Silverwind has the goddamn best effect and is hilarious.
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Psion posted:The FNIS guy cares about this kinda thing and has since forever. Even old FNIS versions have done an 'antipiracy check' since forever so I'm sure to them this is just an extension of the same thing. they're just really unyielding about using their tools with pirated skyrim and I guess this is in their same mental category because mod drop basically scraped and rehosted mods, I think? someone else can explain that better I hope. It pissed off a lot of people, and not just the usual suspects. His anti-piracy check is "Is the game installed in the steam games directory?"
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Drythe posted:His anti-piracy check is "Is the game installed in the steam games directory?" 
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Drythe posted:His anti-piracy check is "Is the game installed in the steam games directory?" For gently caress's sake, how many modding advice guides tell people to move it out of there. Holy poo poo.
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I've got where I don't install any games in the default directory.
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Drythe posted:His anti-piracy check is "Is the game installed in the steam games directory?" In whatever the registered steam library directory is or does he literally check in C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\games\common\?
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The former
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Rolling your own homebrew starforce to zealously protect the intellectual property of a company you don't work for somehow seems even more spergy and pathetic than crashing the game because a competing titty armor mod or whatever is installed 
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Drythe posted:The former Installing into program files is something he calls out as bad, so yeah, it's checking whatever your Steam dir is. Consider this, though. I'd say 95% of his users are looking to install sex mods with custom animations so just imagine the kind of crap he has to put up with - possibly literally - trying to do user support. Coding that in there so he can ignore a chunk of them was probably a net positive on his time. How's that for a scary thought? Psion fucked around with this message at 05:16 on Feb 22, 2018 |
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quote:What looks weird? If you play 3rd person with the camera in the back goes up, the player bends down, and NOTHING looks weird. A users has send me "proof" by making a tfc screenshot from the side. So what? That's not how you play Skyrim.
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Maybe this is a very stupid question but why is installing things in Program Files bad? This is something that's been drilled into my head for years now but I have no idea what the difference actually is.
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UAC throws a poo poo fit too often.
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cargohills posted:Maybe this is a very stupid question but why is installing things in Program Files bad? This is something that's been drilled into my head for years now but I have no idea what the difference actually is. Unless you have Windows User Account Control turned off it throws messages every time you try to mod something and occasionally prevents some mods from working altogether.
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And even if you do turn off UAC and run as admin, windows can still silently gently caress poo poo up.
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I agree, don't turn of UAC. What I don't understand, honestly, is the resistance some people show towards the "Don't loving install in Program Files."
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C:\Games\Steam for life. Never had an issue.
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I keep forgetting and installing stuff in program files and it's never really been an issue. Probably shouldn't be like me, though.Langosta Whiteman posted:tl;dr: Resto +Alt + Ench spell sword. Dumping stats into Magicka if you're a badass like me. Non-Destruction damage spell sword. this is great, going with something similar to this
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Drythe posted:Please don't turn off UAC I found the Cyberdemon's parachute account.
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Randaconda posted:lol if you didn't name your Argonian "Alligator Slim" I have a guy who dual wields onehanded swords called Leonardo.
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Vasudus posted:C:\Games\Steam for life. Never had an issue. Look at this guy without multiple drives for things
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Drythe posted:Look at this guy without multiple drives for things Look at this weirdo still using multiple drives.
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Another fun thing with Ordinator and Apocalypse is again with Alteration. 1) Power of Knowledge lets you cast the spell in your offhand as a power for free once per day. 2) Power Surge can activate that power for free on hit. 3) The spell counts as a one handed spell! Which means it activates your spell blade perks from the Alteration tree! 4) Vancian Magic can boost those spells as well, if you use the damage metamagic. All this adds a bit of spell power to two-handed (which has the Voice of Rage and Ruin perk, adding a small chance to fire off your equipped power,) dual wielding, and even bow spell "blades" (archery has Lion's Arrow, which is the bow equivalent of Spellscribe.). You'd have to be closer than normal for bows to make the best use of those Alteration perks, but it might be incentive to break away from stealth archery, were you feeling brave (maybe Heavy Armor + Archery + buff auras from Illusion. Dropping flags, damage auras, Alteration debuffs, chilling with friends on the front line, coldly executing people with a crossbow.)
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Oh poo poo I haven't thought of that. Time to respec when I get home.
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Speaking of which, I was having issues with face presets lately so I reinstalled ECE thinking that would fix it (it did not) but for some reason the reinstall completely hosed the stats of a character I was working on. Talents are mis-spent and my attribute distribution evened out. What's the best way to respec? I could create a new character and import his face and manually advance my skills again but that's tedious.
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Yeah there's a lot of really fun tools in Ord that combine well with Summermyst, especially with Power Surge and the shout enchants. I was just messing around with a "puddle" build, picking up the Elemental Oil perks from alchemy, combining it with burning ground effect enchantments, a spellscribed spell like fireball or some other AoE to set off the oil, and you end up with a character that uses ground hazards to deal with many enemies at once. Just lots of things to try.
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Internet Kraken posted:SPERG along with Apocalypse spells has made this game so much more fun. I'm actually really enjoying the combat now as I have a lot of options to work with. Pickpocket is basically the unarmed combat skill now so I can do real damage with my bare fists and see those sweet killcams. I tried Apocalypse once and all I remember is the utterly ridiculous number of spells, without much indication of which ones were actually fun or useful.
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Entropic posted:I tried Apocalypse once and all I remember is the utterly ridiculous number of spells, without much indication of which ones were actually fun or useful. Most of the spells are at least situationally useful, and many of them are really good.
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