My First time Modding Skyrim! On my brand new PC! Good to join the PCMR at last.

Full disclosure... I know the video isn't great. I'm getting around 10-15fps with video recording. 25-40 without it.

Some stills

Anyways thoughts are appreciated. Don't know what's up with the reflections on the water just went back there and checked. Looks good. Just my luck I guess.

Mod List:

Realvision http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/30936/?

Follow that mod's directions in the description to get like 95% of the way there. All optionals and the Realistic lighting overhaul option is what I went with. That's like ~40 mods there.

When doing the Realvision install I installed ENB and SKSE FIRST! That detail was missing from their instructions.

In addition to this I put.

  • A matter of time
  • A Quality World Map
  • Aemer's refuge
  • Alternate Start (disabled my first playthrough my next will use it)
  • amidian farmhouse and stones (this is in addition to realvision's amidian mods.
  • AOF Believable Hair
  • Apophysis Dragon Priest Masks
  • Better Beast Races
  • Better Snow
  • Book Covers - Better book covers
  • caranthir tower
  • Cloaks of Skyrim
  • Convenient Horses
  • Deadly Dragons
  • Designs of the nords - Banners (this is an oversight on Realvision... killer banners! Also be sure to install this BEFORE detailed rugs... the Banners replaces rugs and their rugs aren't as good... banners rule though!)
  • Detailed Bodies, Faces, Lips, Eyes (all separate and essential, install BEFORE any UNP mods!)
  • Dimonized UNP bodies
  • Enhanced Blood Textures (I went with bright...)
  • ExtendedUI
  • Falskaar
  • Frostfall
  • Guard Dialogue overhaul (much much less annoying NPCs)
  • Immersive animations
  • Immersive armors
  • Immersive college of winterhold (and improved college of winterhold make sure you get all the compatibility patches! Worth it)
  • Immersive weapons
  • No More Blocky Faces (Install after all other character mods!)
  • Opulant Outfits (so cool)
  • Perkus Maximus (For those having issues with the .bats I had to change the value of 2048 in the 64bit one to 1024, found that on a forum works and I don't know why!) *Perkus maximus defluffed descriptions (hated the descriptions in PerMa, but this fixes it thank god)
  • Realshelter
  • Realistic Ragdolls and Forces
  • Run For Your Lives
  • Rustic Windows
  • Safety Load (cut waaaaay down on crashing, unplayable without this)
  • Shooting Stars
  • Silly Level of detail Potions + Poisons (ceramic)
  • Skyrim Community Uncapper
  • Skyrim Immersive Creatures
  • SkyUI
  • Sounds of Skyrim
  • Spell Crafting for Skyrim
  • Supreme and Volumetric Fog
  • A Dance of Death
  • Ultimate Follower Overhaul
  • Unofficial Patches
  • Vivid Landscapes All in One (I went with this instead of the piecemeal installation Realvision had you do, and the order I did it in was on the last instruction for vivid landscapes in Realvision).
  • WEARABLE LANTERNS (for your ingame pipboy!) *Wearable Lanterns SMIM patch (search for it)
  • Weathered Warpaint and Improved Dirt
  • Wet and Cold
  • Winterhold Rebuild
  • Wymstooth

Whew long list. Hope that helps! I've been through a bunch of installs, at this point I've got a fresh install backup, a backup with realvision enabled and working, and I take incremental backups as I add/remove mods and get stuff working. Hope this helps!

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