

When you finish with this section, you will have everything prepared to start adding mods to your game.ġ. Download and install LOOT to your Modding Tools folder. If you try to play it on a heavily modded game, you're likely to see bugs. The opening scene of Skyrim is the biggest script mess in the whole game. Dawnguard.esm will need to be cleaned twice You now have a clean game to start modding with. 5. When it finishes loading, right click Update.esm and select "Apply Filter for Cleaning." 6. Right click again and select "Remove 'Identical to Master' Records." (Yes, you're sure.) 7. Right click again and select "Undelete and Disable References." 8. Close TES5Edit and save. (No, I didn't mess up the order on that. The save dialog pops up when you hit the close button.) 9. Repeat steps 48 for Dawnguard.esm, Dragonborn.esm, and HearthFires.esm if you have them. ONE AT A TIME BECAUSE THEY SAY SO. Skyrim.esm will load with Update.esm; this is fine. Only clean Update.esm. 4. Run TES5Edit and ONLY check Update.esm. 3. Start Skyrim via Steam and exit after your graphics settings have been determined. 2. Download and install TES5Edit to your Modding Tools folder. I guess that's our job. This is known as "cleaning your masters."ġ. Now would be a good time to make a folder for your modding tools. I'm using C:/Games/Modding Tools/. You have now successfully moved your Steam installation.Īlthough Bethesda allow their games to be modded, they don't clean their files to do so. 7. Verify the integrity of game cache for all of your installed games.

6. Delete the originals and launch Steam.exe. You will need to verify your account again. 5. Copy the SteamApps folder and Steam.exe file to the new directory. 4. Create a new folder somewhere like C:/Games/Steam/ or D:/Games/Steam/. 3. Delete everything except the SteamApps folder and Steam.exe. (Yes, even if you run as administrator.) In order to fix this, we're going to take Steam, and move it somewhere else.ġ. Exit completely out of Steam by right clicking on it in the task bar and selecting "Exit Steam." 2. Go to C:/Program Files (x86)/Steam/. There's gonna be a whole bunch of permission issues if you leave it there and start modding.

14. Right click on Skyrim in Steam and select "Properties." 15. Under the "Local Files" tab, select "Verify Integrity of Game Cache." You now have a perfectly vanilla game. This will delete your saves. If you want to keep them, don't delete your Saves folder. Just know that modded saves are unstable when you remove mods from your mod list the way we just did. 11. Delete everything EXCEPT BGS_Logo.bik. 9. Delete everything EXCEPT: Skyrim_.DLSTRINGS Skyrim_.ILSTRINGS Skyrim_.STRINGS Update_.DLSTRINGS Update_.ILSTRINGS Update_.STRINGS 10. Open the Data/Video folder. 7. Delete everything EXCEPT Translate_.txt. Interface (folder) Strings (folder) Video (folder) Dawnguard.bsa Dawnguard.esm Dragonborn.bsa Dragonborn.esm HearthFires.bsa HearthFires.esm HighResTexturePack01.bsa HighResTexturePack01.esp HighResTexturePack02.bsa HighResTexturePack02.esp HighResTexturePack03.bsa HighResTexturePack03.esp Skyrim Animations.bsa Skyrim Interface.bsa Skyrim Meshes.bsa Skyrim Misc.bsa Skyrim Shaders.bsa Skyrim Sounds.bsa Skyrim Textures.bsa Skyrim Voices.bsa Skyrim VoicesExtra.bsa Skyrim.esm Update.bsa Update.esm 6. Open the Data/Interface folder. 5. Delete all of the files and folders EXCEPT: You may not have all of these. That is okay. Steam_api.dll TESV.exe VeryHigh.ini 4. Open the Skyrim/Data folder. 3. Delete all of the files and folders EXCEPT: Data (folder) DirectX10 (folder) DotNetFX (folder) Skyrim (folder) VCRedist (folder) atimgpud.dll binkw32.dll high.ini installscript.vdf low.ini medium.ini readme.txt Skyrim_default.ini SkyrimLauncher.exe Mixing Steam Workshop and Nexus mods is a bad idea.ġ. Unsubscribe from all of your Steam Workshop mods. Modding is very tempermental and you'll want to start off with a clean game. Info below is courtesy of Gopher, Boris Vorontsov, Sheson, and The STEP Project. Sorry that it's so long. I'm trying to make you an expert ;) It will give a basic understanding of the tools, mods, and settings needed to have a stable modded game. Modding Beginners Guide Welcome to Nexus! This guide will help setup your game for modding. Modding Beginner's Guide by tony971 Skyrim » Modders resources and tutorials Added: ‐ 12:52AM Updated: ‐ 10:23PM
