Alrighty; well, I already knew that I preferred not to use the so-called High Res texture pack in favor of the far better 2k HD pack made by Nebula.

There's only one problem with it. It won't work.

I am at the end of my rope, I've edited the ini files, turned off other mods (using Mod Manager only, sorry Steam) manual installed, all sorts of things I've even tried a clean install, wiped everything Skyrim related from my hard-drive. Still nothin, and I keep getting mediocre or low res textures. I can still see the pixellation on alot of things.

I turn the texture packs on in NMM, and not a thing comes of it. Someone, PLEASE, help. I can't figure this out.

Is the modified texture that looks blurry, or the textures are still vanilla?

You should increase your texture detail in Skyrim's launcher and see if it works.

It's the fact that they still look vanilla. I could be wrong, the textures do look improved since I've started, but they don't look anything like what I remember, or anything like the pictures Nebula provides, and I could just be imagining things. I've currently got my settings at Ultra, added the official high res texture pack, which might have helped some, idk, and I've edited the .ini to allow the high res texture packs to be used as loose files ( I don't need to unpack them or open the .esa's right?)

I've also somehow gotten aMidian, the armor and weapon retextures to work (they look gorgeous by the way, which is why it saddens me to see the rest of the environment so noticeably bad by comparison) but that's about it.

This is the only mod I have not gotten to function properly.

(I'm also on a laptop, if that makes any difference, though I've managed to use the HD texture mod on it before; it worked in 1.4, I reverted to 1.4, and now it doesn't work.)

um, just to make sure, you do have all the textures in their correct folder, right?

Like in data\textures\

In so far as I know, NMM should be taking care of that. I even checked the mods and they had the proper directory (data\textures\individual folders)

I did try a manual install of the the things, just unpacking and dropping it in the Skyrim folder, then merging the texture and data folders, overwriting when it asked but that seemed to have no effect.

Anyone? Please? Help?

I currently have no mods installed, having deactivated all of them, and my load order is

Skyrim.esm

Dawnguard.esm

Update.esm

Dragonborn.esm

HighRes TexturePack01.esm

HighRes TexturePack02.esm

HighRes TexturePack03.esm

(yes, I know that to use other texture mods, the high res texture packs need to be deactivated, I tried that and sill nothing, so I turned them back on figuring that might help.)

I'm starting to think you have the textures working as intended, since you did mention the textures looking different and everything should be in correct location.

I don't think the mod covers everything in Skyrim, maybe you are just unlucky to notice the few that was not included.

Or try downloading a higher resolution version of the mod?