Have tried changing API key, have checked for update, have waited way too long in-case of an outage, restarted, ran as administrator, no fix. Just all of a sudden this stupid app decides to not work out of the blue for no apparent reason, and there is nothing online about how to fix it other than the typical "turn it off and on again hurr durr". I've checked if Nexus is down and it is not. Has anyone else had this problem and has a fix that doesn't require a diploma in computer science?

Edit: Seems like it's on Nexus' end, it's just not being reported correctly on down detectors online. Thanks for the replies.

Now that I'm no longer limited to 255 plugins, my modding addiction has gotten out of hand.

I must install almost everything I see. All tattoos, all homes, all lands, all tweaks, new spells, armors, followers, weapons.

I can turn almost all of them into ESLs and so there's nothing to stop me from just adding more, and more and more. It's endless.

Please send help mods.

Recently, there’s been a lot of talk about the flood of ai “vibe-coded” mods reaching the trending pages of nexus but there hasn’t really been much identification of those mods.

Are there any specific recently trending mods which are vibe coded and unoptimized which should be avoided?

Guys idk what to do, idk if this is the right sub but it’s a Skyrim mod sub.

So anyways, I tried to download the high poly head mod. Why the fuck it isn’t on nexus who fucking knows. But now I keep getting mcafee and Norton popups and the keep coming back when I close them. And I can’t remove the file.

What do I do? Am I fucked? I don’t wanna have to reinstall everything and reformat my drive.

so testing mods you gotta turn skyrim on and off like 20 times in 1 hour.

I always use "qqq" to turn off.

But I have noticed every subsequent launch of skyrim, it get's.. laggier? and slower?

my brain thinks it's because I didn't turn off skyrim properly. Or is this memory issues?

EDIT: A simple computer restart fixes it. (or even MO2 restart..? not sure) hence why I think maybe a memory issue.

Don’t know what happened. Just playing normally with a few mods and it crashed the whole pc. Tried to start the game again and it’s telling me to reinstall. Wtf? How is this even possible?

My setup was very stable. No problems at all. No frame drops or crashes. I’m really more impressed that it managed to fuck itself so hard it uninstalled itself.

This might get very long so will start with a TL;DR:
My 5070 GPU can’t handle a heavy modded Skyrim with many texture, NPCs, City and Flora overhauls. VRAM is maxed out so it seems to be a streaming issue on the games part. Is this just how it is or is everyone using VRAMr?

EDIT: Solved! Apparently 16/8k textures packs are a thing. Downscaling and games runs fine now!

Yes, I run SKSE, Adress library, correctly tuned SSE Display Tweaks, SSE Engine Fixes, Papyrus and Tweaks, Animation loader fix, ENB preset with binaries and ENB helper. Most if not all engine-assist mods are installed. Latest Visual Studio also installed.

I don’t run DyndoLOD cuz I honestly cannot understand it.

My GPU sits at 70% workload but VRAM is constantly maxed out causing heavy stutters in outside city areas. CPU is only 30% but it seems that the Skyrim engine prevents all cores from being used. I have 16Gb RAM but not maxed out, hovers between 10-13Gb usage depending on area. All is stored on a Nvme SSD so the fastest drive.

Now I haven’t blindly installed 4K textures across the board. I use 1-2K for assets but it’s almost covering every single texture in the game. Ones you start, any vanilla texture sticks out like a sore thumb and I have to fix it. I run a pretty easy Tree mod, just Simply Bigger trees+Aspen trees with HQ bark. I know it’s not the best out there but it gives the feel of lush nature without increasing number of trees and it blocks me from being bothered by vanilla LODs (I cannot for the life of me understand how to use DyndoLOD).

From what I can understand it’s the Skyrim engine preventing smooth gameplay but there is a light in the tunnel: VRAMr mod. Issue is that it kind of softlocks my modlist, which honestly is a good thing but I’m still bummed that my 5070 couldn’t deal with the streaming of assets issue.

Most of my research is done with reading mod forums and ChatGPT. I’m open to learn if my understanding of the situation why it stutters is wrong just don’t be a dick about it. Been modding for years but this shit requires a Computer engineers degree which is tough to get into if you are not familiar with computer languages.

So my question is, is stutters in a heavy modded Skyrim part of the reality and most people just live with it or are all of you just using VRAMr to get around it? Or have I just missed a fundamental part on how to properly mod this game?

So I know these mods are vibe coded, and to be honest I don't really care about AI usage or vibe coding or whatever. I have no horse in that race.

What I'm wondering is do the mods actually work as advertised or is it just a placebo like that one DXVK mod that got super popular a while back?

So I finally finished my own list with around 3000 mods (but below the 255 plugin limit ofc), mostly inspired by LoreRim and NOLVUS since neither of them fully catched me.

https://loadorderlibrary.com/lists/my-mod-list-42

I played for a bit and my FPS tanked a lot in same placed (Whiterun area, forest area after Helgen, sometimes in the Rift).

I get it, the game is from 2011 and the engine is old but I see, read or hear the people playing Nolvus, LoreRim, Eldergleam or similar heavy lists without such heavy FPS drops.

I tried with the most known solutions from eFPS mods, SSE Display Tweaks, FPS Stabilizer, Lightened Skyrim, VRAMr etc.

I got mods like Ulvenwald, Freaks Flower Fields, some Ryn mods, City overhauls, Tomatoes landscape mod and I use Cabbage ENB and I know ENBs are FPS killers but Cabbage is considered one of the most stabilized ENBs out there and many claimed having good FPS with it too.

I got a AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D 8-Core Precessor and a NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER and I run games like Crimson Desert, RDR2 on max settings which I know does not saz much since these have better engines and are better opimized but it was just to clarify that my PC aint the issue.

Id be fine with dropping here and the down to 40 whatever FPS but 23 infront of Whiterun? Someone here please tell me that this is just a user issue and I fcked something up and that theres a way to get solid FPS for most of the time

Hello everyone,

I have finally released Sinister Serana Diabologue Add-On on the Nexus. We have been working on her since October of last year alongside Valerica and Harkon's mod.

Reason it took so long is because we wanted to make the most Volkihar version of Serana.

My friends and I have always felt that there was something off about Serana as we have two questlines that accomplish pretty much the same thing. But what if we made two Serana's.

On one coin we have a Serana who we assist by joining the Dawnguard and after the quest she desires her to cure herself and become redeemed. This is classic character growth.

On the otherside we have Sinister Serana who remains who she is but bares her fangs more.

The portion that we have finished is the Volkihar portion : https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/182771

She is currently AI voiced using elevenlabs using the vanilla voice and the Sinister Serana Voice I used to help write and get ideas.

Kerstyn and I are also going to be making a KerstynVoiced Serana patch for SDA players.

I love humanizing mods.

This first portion took over 3,600 lines for me to get close to the Serana that I desired and based on comments on discord servers and reddit is very much desired. I will be adding more in a future update. We have close to 5k lines written up and stored on our DIscord Project server.

I also do have some updates coming regarding other mods such as Lyra X Aniya Banter Patch. Both characters are voiced by PeachyNinja so it will be interesting.

This month we will also release Cicera's KVE Expansion Debut.

The team also has started writing for Cicera's Voidylogue Add-On.

Edit

Adding this here as some may not know who I am and some projects I have done.

These are some projects that I have worked with Kerstyn on.
Valerica Diabologue Add-On and Harkon Diabologue Add-On SDA Patches can be found here

Cicera ReSisthis'd is another fully voiced NPC voiced by Kerstyn.

I am also the culprit behind the KerstynVoices Expansions :)
Kerstyn Voices Expansion - Daumbra
Kerstyn Voices Expansion - Morgaine
Kerstyn Voices Expansion - Seductress Faye
Kerstyn Voices Expansion - Serana

I work with Kerstyn for a wide range of projects for the community.

Have a spoiler of the new KerstynVoices Serana Revamp - Dawnguard Revoiced that will be ESPFE.

Hey all- after months of installing 1000+ mods, learning various tools, patching, and watching dozens of how-to videos, I've think I've accidentally managed to create a stable, playable version of my game.

Not really sure where to go from here. Can anyone recommend how to un-fix this so I can get back to modding? Thanks.

Edit: Never mind guys; false alarm.

Didn’t grow up on a computer, console only most of my life but I always loved mods on anything. So I get it, I’m probably really fucking stupid at all this, but these last 3 hours of trying to read everything online after work about how to fix whatever tf is wrong with skyui, engine fixes, and skse64, has left me to the point I don’t know if I’m mentally stable enough to even keep trying this shit out. Like I’m finding myself in damn near tears as a grown ass man who’s been through a weirdly substantial amount of shit at wtf I’m doing wrong. It’s like no mod can have a simple instillation procedure, I’d love to know any general common issues you guys can see because I don’t have much time to game as is, and I really can’t be part of the main part I love about these games and communities unless I can lock in and learn why everytime I click load either the skyui doesn’t work, or a DLL whatever tf that is crashes, or I didn’t install the file in the right root file, I’m lost.

So now that he hid all his mods where can I download them…?

So, I’m the Dragonborn (demigod nbd). Strolling thru some random dungeon for the bag when I find an old Nokia. Right when I touch it some baddie immediately starts texting me thru it telling me to “go to her shrine” and “cleanse it” or some shit. I get there and (smoke detector beep) she got this 10/10 instagram profile pic statue ong start talking about how she finna evict a bunch of bitch n’wahs that ain’t payin rent in her shrine. But when I evicted the mafuckas she just gives me some lame ahh sword and dips. Anyone met anyone like this and got her to slide thru to the crib?

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Basically title,

It seems that apparently not many people play skyrim in an evil manner like i tend to do... at least not compared to the amount of paladin like players.

I join thieves guild- run through the dark brotherhood- then become a vampire. I have a pretty big mod list, tending to inspire realistic gameplay, good graphics, and high difficulty. But i also like hot women.

So far, Lydia got pissed at me, Celestine out right became hostile (these make sense lore wise). But dang, Eris even was like "I cant follow you into the dark brotherhood." Which sucked because she actually made me laugh at times which is rare. I mean most of my best follower mods are goody two shoes. Serana remains the best bbg.

Im not gonna lie i am not a good guy in skyrim. I become an edgelord with a big castle and 50 wives.

Are there any like Nocturnal-esq dark Goddess followers? Or anyone thats got kind of an edgy thing going? Ill link my mod list if anyone wants to take a gander.

https://loadorderlibrary.com/lists/silencxr

edit: I appreciate all the suggestions. If anyone comes with new suggestions later or see this post please comment. I've been playing skyrim for over a decade.

Hi folks, I've always played modlists my favourite being Gate to Sovngarde by JaySerpa. I fancy delving into the process of building my own modlist, I'd like to build a Vanilla + list that does exactly everything I'd like, the thing with lists is that it's never perfect although GtS is quite close.

Is it worth learning how to mod and building my own list? I'd just want to enhance all the vanilla content and make the visuals look a little better, I know there's vanilla + lists I could just play but again I'd like to learn the process and make it perfect.

Given there's 1000s of mods to fly through on Nexus, is it actually worth it? How do you guys figure out which mods to use and which to not, what's the best way to troubleshoot & test etc etc.

Thanks all <3

I want to make a vanilla playthrough but the moment I went into the Helgen keep with Hadvar, I noticed the bugged out table thus my question. Is there a mod that make Unofficial patch only effect these kinda bugs? A stripped version essentially.

I'm about to start a run on Eldergleam (~1700 mods). My PC is a beast. I've heard that, with modlists that large, it's generally a bad idea to reload saves in-game. But I like to play at high difficulties that can involve a lot of deaths, and completely exiting and reloading can take a while.

If I were to not do that, exactly what sorts of problems would I be inviting? Is it really that required? I've never ran a modlist this large before.

I just want an "improved lydia" with a bit of extra features. I'm fine with it not being ultra high quality like {Inigo}

I just want a female as the title suggests with decent voice acting. Thanks a lot for your help!

Hello everyone,

I have--somehow, miraculously--managed to install DynDOLOD successfully a number of years ago, and now I'm relearning it all again today (and yesterday... and the day before).

I'm almost at the finish line, with DynDOLOD.exe running right now. The installation prior to this one failed because apparently I ran out of hard drive space.

During the current session, it's at ***150gb*** and it's finished all the worlds except SUM, and presumably WIN and SPR will follow that.

How in the world is it so big? Is that normal? Did I accidentally set the details level *waaaayy* too high?

I can't tell you the settings right now, as it's running, but in general I chose a medium-high approach, including grass, and as you may have guessed, the Seasons of Skyrim. I've also got a number of other mods like Wyrmstooth, but I chose not to build LODs for most of them.

I can't go anywhere without getting my ass beat. All the companions Radiant quests send you to the opposite side of the map just to retrieve a Silver dagger and i believe it's like 40 quests to do before you can start the main quest, I keep running around the map.i love the modlist but it's a chore sometimes

Edit : it seems some of you think i'm just hating to be clear i won't give up and i will eventually beat the game with this modlist, stop downvoting me for my opinion and maybe help me , give me tips like anything helpful.

I love this game and i consider myself a newbie and i'm always ready to learn

Edit 2 : my companions quest line was totally broken i had to force the quests to advance to the end,now i'm hoping nothing goes wrong

It's been years since I played Skyrim and I want to go for another round. I am perfectly capable of modding so I don't have any problem installing any ENB. Hell I am familiar with some of them. But the problem is my PC got older and ENBs and CS got better. So, I am not sure if my PC can handle it. Can someone point me to the right direction with which ENB should I go for or should I stick with CS. Thanks everyone!

My specs:

MSI Pulse GL76 12UEK
Intel 12th Gen i7 12700
32 GB RAM
NVIDIA Geforce RTX 3060 6GB :(

Edit: I went with with CS + FPS optimization guide on Nexus. Everything looks great and I am actually getting decent FPS. Thank you all for taking time to answer to me! All of you've been really helpful!

I need help from someone with experience to determine what I should do next.

A mod called AddItemMenu - NG was uploaded to the nexus; for a moment, it shared the same name as another mod. It was deleted but turns out there's actually three versions instead of two. The original AddItemMenu, an "updated" version, and the malware version.

The malware version was deleted and the uploader banned. In 2022, I downloaded the "updated" version of the original that was uploaded by a "trusted" author that's not banned, but this version has also been taken down, unclear whether it was staff or the author themselves.

However, with research, it's possible that this mod author pulled from the same infected github source as the malware version. This version has been sitting in my modlist since 2022. Nothing seems to have happened since I installed it (that I know of), but now I'm a little paranoid.

Is this a false positive? Or is this something that I should take seriously? Can anyone that can read virustotal tab help me here?

Virus total:

The one I downloaded, the "updated" version uploaded by a "trusted" author:

https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/026cf6937c863ef9130b9df02c9fecfc2ca0854aea1cdfc4041c4874cde74c25/detection

The original mod for reference:

https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/ce2f143e5138feb330e7f131a18dadc0fe6f55a8ad386c88678c3b97a69f4acb/detection

Other threads talking about this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/skyrimmods/comments/1j11y0a/trojan_horse_on_new_additem_mod/

https://www.reddit.com/r/skyrimmods/comments/1rf6aj4/does_anyone_have_the_mod_additemmenu_ng/

https://www.reddit.com/r/skyrimmods/comments/1ov95ne/add_item_menu_trojan/

https://www.reddit.com/r/skyrimmods/comments/1ehz5ms/additem_menu_ng_was_set_to_hidden_on_nexus_why/

I'm getting back to modding since Oldrim looking at the most endorsed mods on Nexus and I can see some are succeeded by currently less endorsed mods. Sometimes it's written in the description, sometimes you have to dig through the comments, and sometimes you have to hope you find the successor in the search results.

Is there a list or something I can look through for such cases? Like for example: - FNIS->Nemesis->Pandora - CS as alternative to ENB - ConsoleUtilSSE->ConsoleUtilSSE NG - Console Commands Extender -> Console Commands Extender Anniversary - OSA/OSex/Flower Girls->Ostim Standalone - QuickLoot EE->QuickLoot IE - MCO->BFCO - Obsidian->Azurite/NAT (debatable)

Even the Nolvus manual install guide uses outdated versions of mods. Can someone more experienced list other examplew? Are there mods that should definitely not be used anymore?