Looking for advice on mods : V

» Sun Aug 03, 2014 12:30 pm

So here is a list of mods I am running--they all seem to be playing together well--

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Unofficial Skyrim Patch-19-2-0-4a
skse scripts Unassigned
A Quality World Map User 8.0 8.0
SkyUI 4.1
Immersive HUD 3.0b3
Unofficial High Resolution Patch 1.1.7
Falskaar 1.1.4
Static Mesh Improvement Mod Visuals and graphics 1.72
Skyrim HD - 2K Textures - SHD LITE - Dungeons 1.5
Skyrim HD - 2K Textures - SHD LITE - Landscape 1.5
Skyrim HD - 2K Textures - SHD LITE - Misc 1.5
Skyrim HD - 2K Textures - SHD LITE - Riften 1.6
Skyrim HD - 2K Textures - SHD LITE - Towns 1.5
Realistic Water Two 1.11
Guard Dialogue Overhaul 1.4
Falskaar - Climates of Tamriel patch 1.1
Cloaks of Skyrim 1.2
Winter Is Coming 2.3
Wet and Cold 1.422
Wet and Cold - Holidays 1.07
Footprints 0.99
Splash of Rain 1.051
Splash of Rain - More Opaque Splashes 1.051
Project Reality - Climates Of Tamriel v3.1
Climates Of Tamriel - Weather - Lighting - Audio - Climates Of Tamriel - Sounds Overhauls v3.1
Realistic Lighting Overhaul 4.0.8.01

I am wanting mostly to make the game look better and be more immersive. I am looking for a clouds mod and nightime sky mod. I am looking to make the waterfalls look better at a distance and perhaps terrain look better at a distance (BTW what is "LOD"?)

I am looking for more, lusher foliage (grass and trees) and for better town and villages.

I have been looking at Automatic Variants and bareback's (?) creature pack.

Also intending to DL Wymstooth and Dragonborn. As well as some additional quests.

Also looking at the mod that lets you go to High Hrothghar and trade Dragon Shouts for perks, etc.

Some of these probably bring to mind immediate choices--such as Lush Trees and Grass, and I don't mind--but I don't want to bog down my game anymore than necessary and I don't want conflicts or clipping or strange artifacts. I've had some problems with some of the more popular mods (as I indicated in another thread) . Installing, testing and uninstalling gets old and doesn't leave much time for actually playing the game.

So...given what I do have I would appreciate some advice as to which mods I could install without major problems to enhance my game. All thoughts and opinions would be welcome --I have read descriptions till I am blue in the face--now I need to narrow it down a bit.

» Sun Aug 03, 2014 12:36 pm

Using mods that adds/enhances graphics will cost performance, so it will be a question of balancing eyecandy and performance. Anyway, here are some of my tips:

and http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/39799/?. CoT deals with weathers and comes with new clouds etc. The weather patch basically enhances and balances lots of the weathers. For vanilla clouds I've been using Dramatic Clouds but have switched to http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/56279/? recently.

http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/85/? and http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/54349/? for the night sky.

http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/141/? and http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/42370/? for trees and flora.

http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/40564/?, http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/39394/?, http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/4834/? and http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/19446/? for better looking distant landscape.

Also, you'll want to use the memory patches in ENBoost and those that come with the latest SKSE if you're going down the eyecandy road.