How and where do I extract my mods? : V

» Mon Dec 12, 2011 11:26 pm

So any one knows, I've searched both of my HDD partitions and I can't find freaking Skyrim folder, this crap os annoying me [censored] steam >.< :flamethrower: :flamethrower: :flamethrower: :flamethrower:

» Mon Dec 12, 2011 10:10 pm

Help pls?

» Tue Dec 13, 2011 7:26 am

If you have a shortcut to the game somewhere on the desktop or your start menu, you can go into "Properties" and then click a button that says "Open File Location."

» Tue Dec 13, 2011 10:09 am

If you have a shortcut to the game somewhere on the desktop or your start menu, you can go into "Properties" and then click a button that says "Open File Location."

Which leads me no where but to icon location itself, I hate freaking steam so much... always dumb issues with that crap. Wannabe xfire. :brokencomputer:

» Tue Dec 13, 2011 2:53 am

Which leads me no where but to icon location itself, I hate freaking steam so much... always dumb issues with that crap. Wannabe xfire. :brokencomputer:

Since folderpath is connected to desktop, even if you go to control pannel you can't find skyrim instaled there, because everything is inside of steam.

» Tue Dec 13, 2011 4:51 am

There's probably something in the Steam option menu that will show you. Check there forums, too. I'm sure this has happened to someone before.

Otherwise I would suggest using good old fashioned Windows Search, but WIndows 7 has a terrible search function.

» Tue Dec 13, 2011 4:32 am

There's probably something in the Steam option menu that will show you. Check there forums, too. I'm sure this has happened to someone before.

Otherwise I would suggest using good old fashioned Windows Search, but WIndows 7 has a terrible search function.

Thanks for help tho, but found it inside of "steam,steamapps,common.skyrim,data etc..

» Tue Dec 13, 2011 10:03 am

Which leads me no where but to icon location itself, I hate freaking steam so much... always dumb issues with that crap. Wannabe xfire. :brokencomputer:

The default location would be C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\skyrim\Data

Or C:\Program Files\Steam\SteamApps\common\skyrim\Data

Unless you specified some other place during install. Most mods (that I've tried so far anyway) want to be placed in one of the /Data subdirectories,
like /Textures or /Interface but the game altering mods that will eventually come out will be .esm, .esp or maybe .bsa files placed directly in /Data

» Tue Dec 13, 2011 5:15 am

The default location would be C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\skyrim\Data

Or C:\Program Files\Steam\SteamApps\common\skyrim\Data

Unless you specified some other place during install. Most mods (that I've tried so far anyway) want to be placed in one of the /Data subdirectories,
like /Textures or /Interface but the game altering mods that will eventually come out will be .esm, .esp or maybe .bsa files placed directly in /Data

Some mods i had to rename to .esm, most of them are .dda or something...

» Tue Dec 13, 2011 5:22 am

Some mods i had to rename to .esm, most of them are .dda or something...

.dds files are textures. It's a compressed graphics format.

» Mon Dec 12, 2011 11:42 pm

.dds files are textures. It's a compressed graphics format.

Yeah, but can't seem to get them working unless i rename to .esm

» Tue Dec 13, 2011 9:56 am

Yeah, but can't seem to get them working unless i rename to .esm

then they should be in the /Textures sub-directory, not /Data and renaming them just to get them to show up and be clickable from the launcher is gonna screw something up

» Tue Dec 13, 2011 10:31 am

Yes, your inability to install mods is entirely Steam's fault.

It's in no way related to you not knowing what you're doing and apparently not being able to remember where you installed Steam to.