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The eyebrows in 3rd one work in-game, but when I do tfc 1 they started clipping for some reason. They also went off her body at one point. Doing tfc 1 on the 3rd one did other weird things too. It didn't do it for the other two, nor the same race with the fair skin. No idea what would cause that lol...probably race doesn't like the body meshes/textures or something. But, it only happened in TFC mode which is weird and only in a certain body/texture combination with the race. No idea lol. And sometimes they worked, but when I took a screenshot it wasn't the same thing I was looking at. Weird as heck lol.

  Does this work to also prevent hairs getting bugged when doing showracemenu? And also partly resetting my character appearance like makeup? Whenever I do showracemenu hairs get broken and go to a vanilla hair and then when I try the sliders...its the same exact vanilla hair and it goes up to 500k+ hairs even though I only have 200 something hairs. Probably more than that. And, probably too many hairs for the crappy showracemenu command   Sometimes the makeup gets reset too, but at least that is fixable as makeup still works. But doing showracemenu breaks my character's hair, on every race lol. But only on females, so probably has something to do with too many female hairs   (edit: It in fact does fix the hair bug. So its probably an engine thing with too many hairs and the mod "fixes" it)

I also merged 49 esps into a few merged patches earlier today. Stability and performance went WAY up. Objects load vastly faster, meaning I don't stutter at all in the world anymore. Lowered CTDs even more (already lowered them a lot from the above guide) and opening menus doesn't lag like hell anymore. Opening level up menu dropped FPS to 4-5 for some reason and was super slow to load. Merged a bunch of esps (that actually had nothing to do with level up menu or menus at all) and now level up menu is actually normal.   Even loading into the game goes faster and loading saves is a bit faster too.

I have a separate PC profile of Windows 7 for testing things out. One thing I use it for is Skyrim.   My main setup is of course heavily modded But my other profile just has Skyrim+SKSE (for the memory patch)+ENB (for looks and boost)   Now this post focuses on the Skyrim with NO mods ever installed except the two I listed. This OS has never seen any other mod except SKSE and ENB. All it is, is HD textures that bethesda made, DLCs I bought and Skyrim. Also DLCs cleaned with TES5edit   Except...if ENB is on...with all effects turned off except bloom (no matter what ENB I'm using)...FPS drops to 20-30. If I turn off HD textures I get 30-35 but the game looks too ugly and still drops to 20 when near towns/cities. I'd rather smash my PC and be forced to buy a new one and be without a PC, then take it off.   Of course, my heavily modded game only gets 30 average with severe drops to 15-20 when near cities and towns   The problem is, Skyrim crashes all the time on my unmodded Skyrim. It drops to 15 FPS and crash. Even with ENB off, I only get very little FPS whenever too many actors are around and if I get close to any city or town...it will randomly crash. If I look at the ground as I'm running to the city/town it does not crash.   I tried putting up a gofundme for a PC, but it hasn't worked out too well (though I got a couple donations which is great)   But as it is, my PC can't play Skyrim and if I wanted Skyrim to look ugly, I'd just buy a console cause what is the point in playing a game on PC that looks exactly like the console version? I can't afford a console anyway or I'd buy a new GPU with that money instead lol.   Now I get no crashes (on both my modded version, and my seperate OS unmodded version)...if all I do is look at the ground and nothing else. In fact, as a test on my heavily modded version...I ran around at super speed with high time scale for literally7 hours with not a single CTD (even around intensive areas like Riften and Windhelm and Solitude). Except, when I looked up and did it...FPS tanked and crashed lol. The same thing happened with my unmodded version.   So as it is, I get a crash if I want to actually play...within 15-90 minutes. FPS tanks, then crash. Get near a city, crash. Its not mod issues, because my unmodded Skyrim does it too and its pretty random when it crashes.   Is there anyway I can run ENB+HD textures without crashing? I can't afford to buy a new GPU or anything, and I'm not removing hd textures or enb as then game looks so ugly.   I've tried so many ini settings, turning off everything in ENB except bloom...but it isn't doing any good. And lowering resolution I tried but makes game look super ugly. HiAlgo also does not work at all for me and makes it worse actually.   I did do texture optimizer, but that didn't help much either. And my modded skyrim uses parallax textures and they are already optimized and I use the 1k version.   System: Windows 7 64bit 8 gig DDR3 ram i5 660 3.3 Ghz CPU GTX 660 2gb factory overclocked No SSD drive   Am I out of luck unless I upgrade? Is there anything I can do to get a stable Skyrim (or more stable anyway) so I can play? Cause Skyrim is my favorite game and even unmodded with just HD textures (even with ENB off) it still crashes and FPS gets so low with HD textures...is there anything I can do at all? Without spending money I don't have?

Instead of doing what myu suggests. Which sounds a lot more time consuming and a pain in the ass to do. Is to just use TES5Edit and the merged plugin on Nexus (version 1.9)...and merge all the armor/clothing esps (that don't have a bsa attached).   You even end up with better performance and stability once you merge esps. Armor/clothing being the easiest. But, I merged a bunch of lighting mods and some small tiny mods, and patches (like hunterborn frostfall compatibility patch) and what not. Plus merged a few graphics mods that just do small changes. I avoided anything script heavy and anything with a .bsa.   And stability went WAY up. Lowered esp count by 49, and nearly all the random CTDs are gone. Stuttering and slowness of opening menus and loading objects in the world is completely gone too.   If that is too complicated for you, can just stick with the non-bsa clothing/armor/weapon mods that just have an esp attached. Merge them together and they still work.

Well, since I didn't really get any feedback (it is late though anyway I guess). I went with a few other friends and a couple of my family members that are gamers and aren't weirded out by nudity.   After their feedback, the third (for the majority) were their least favorite. They said it was too cliche of a look.   The second was liked really well. They liked the face a lot, but the textures were mix/mix.   I'll be choosing Ariel Auduin, since she is most unique. Pretty much all my friends and the family I went to really like her. And she is the one I've worked on a long time.  

So, going back to Ariel Auduin. I didn't really like how Isabella came out with the fair skin, not really my type. Body was good, just didn't like textures. And not really liking UNPB textures that well, I decided to try something else. I took the hikari follower body and head meshes+textures,put them in the custom bodychange folder...and she looks amazing now. And even closer to how I vision her. Granted, its pretty much hikari body as a base. But Ariel doesn't really look very much like hikari (at least head/face wise)   Much better And definitely NSFW      

How do you guys like Isabella Auduin, compared to my other character Ariel Auduin? Same exact preset. Except, I switched from UNPB to Dream Girl (which I'm keeping, looks vastly better than UNPB. So far, its my favorite body meshes and has TBBP support by default which is nice) and also trying out fair skin (which I'm not too sure on, so hence why I'm asking for opinions. Also I'm doing a different race with her, a custom one so the look is a lot different because of that too. Otherwise I just used my Ariel preset. I know everyone has different preference, but its nice to know what others think or their comments.   Also keep in mind, I didn't take any time really to get any good quality screenshots from Isabella...I just took a few quick ones as I don't know if I want to re-do the textures or not.   (all NSFW)     one thing I like about fair skin a lot. No neck seam at all. I was getting a neckseam in certain lighting (even outdoors, just the seam with slightly different colors from head to body) with UNPB textures even though body matched textures 100%. Probably the ENB, but I made the ENB local changes to "fix" it and it didn't lol.   But this one, 100% no neck seam with fair skin. So I like that a lot.

This is on a 100% vanilla game though. Not even TES5Edit or Unofficial patches, just pure console-like vanilla skyrim. I didn't use any mods at all, just DLC stuff...not even ENB. And this was on a brand new windows install so the game was 100% mod clean (I even had to install it again in steam). Not a hint of a mod file. I didn't even have SKSE installed, just pure skyrim.   And helgen was broken as hell for me. It is mostly broken on my friends xbox one too, he has a ton of problems at the helgen start. Once he passes it, its all good though.

The helgen start (unmodded game)   Happens on console too if the console has modded parts to it to make it better (I don't have one, my friend hi-jacked his cause he hated having a weak-cheap broken pc (xbox one) on his tv. He wanted his console to be a high end pc that was vastly more stable)...a lot less likely to happen on vanilla consoles cause they are capped at 30 FPS   But...   Too high FPS? HOLY SHIT THE WAGONS ARE FLYING EVERYWHERE! I JUST FLEW LIKE SANTA CLAUSE AND NOW RUBBERBANDING BACK AND FORTH Too low FPS? WTF THE SCRIPTS ARE SO SLOW...WTF NOW I'm SLOWLY FLYING EVERYWHERE VSYNC ON (PC)? JUST KIDDING! DAWNGUARD IS ACTIVE...WTF this DLC IS BROKEN! ITS MAKING THE CARTS FLY EVERYWHERE AND WHY IS EVERYONE STANDING THERE DOING NOTHING?   TURN DAWNGUARD OFF. Hey Helgen works...wait...WTF MY HEAD JUST GOT CHOPPED OFF. GAME OVER ROFL ROFL   Finally...every DLC off, download enb, cap it at 30 FPS (all dlc need to be  off too)...helgen works perfectly   The helgen start is the buggiest piece of shit quest of any game. If there was a game about game bugs and broken games, helgen would be more broken and buggier. And this is with no mods at all, on a fresh install with a 100% vanilla game up to downloading ENB. Happens to my friends console too. He has to leave all DLC off to get helgen to work. And he can't get unofficial patches or fix DLC with TES5Edit (and I should say before this point...I didn't edit any DLC with TES5Edit. No cleaning or anything. I wanted to attempt a 100% vanilla experience. Bethesda just made an absolutely broken main quest, at least at helgen rofl.   Finally everyone gives up on helgen (it is really really boring compared to the oblivion opening dungeon) and downloads alternate start mod and never has to do the shittiest quest of any game.

So, if this helps anyone   I narrowed it down to   Deadly Dragons (this is a popular mod, if everyone having this issue is having the same problem...I bet this is it and it is really script intensive) Wearable Lantern (another popular mod) Immersive Patrols II (any version)   And lesser known mods   Craftable Cloud Storage Extra Encounters Reborn Complete Crafting Overhaul Trader's Chest - Ultimate (portable edition)   I kept SkyTEST, and that had no issues at all I had Skyrim Immersive Creatures, but removing it didn't fix the problem   (edit: You will also need to start a NEW save after removing one or more of those mods. I tried it on a regular save, and save cleaners didn't even work. As a further test, on a working save I installed those mods...right away save broke after I saved it again in a new save. Removed those mods, and went back to the save before I installed them and game kept working just normally.   Also one or more of those mods increased save file size by 1-2 MB...which isn't much, but must have caused slight save bloat)    

One of the mods I removed must have been really intensive then. The biggest mod I removed was Epic Gameplay Overhaul. The rest were small-medium in size. I bet epic gameplay overhaul was causing severe issues. A lot of people do report problems with it in larger mod setups.   Whatever mod it was...I saw an immediate 10+ FPS increase and vastly improved stability than even before my game broke. And saves were loadable and save size was down

It might not help. But, it worked for me.   The issue in my setup, crashing on loading saves and even doing coc qasmoke crashed the save...was too many scripts and maybe the HDT files I was using in skse-plugins.   So I removed a bunch of script heavy mods. I noticed my script folder had over 1,800 scripts. My source folder inside script folder had the same amount.   I pretty much wacked off a bunch of mods, and went down to a little under 1200 scripts in the folder. Same amount in source.   I removed immersive creatures, skytest, epic gameplay overhaul (that had a ton of scripts) and better vampires by brehanin since I never used it. Plus some smaller ones.   I also replaced the HDT files inside skse-plugins and replaced them with my old ones I was using. At one point one mod replaced them, and I never put the old files back. Which might have been a cause as well (even if I mostly remember to run FNIS)   I think the issue though was way too many scripts running.

A lot of good mods listed here (I didn't get a Drained Blood Line or castlevania, which your link in blood line goes back to Dreadmyst btw)   If you get drained blood line, it includes some bugs judging by comments. Something about bard's college being broken, which for me makes mod too dangerous to use   Castlevania one, again judging by comments...it will just end and no way to get out. You'd have to reload an early save, or your screwed. It was never finished and its just a demo.   The one by ambria looks epic, and true death looks amazing too for realistic vampire hunting. I like the look of dreadmyst hollow too (even if it sounds a bit short).   (edit: Maybe there is a compatibility issue somewhere. But...   Be careful using True Death. It made my save (new save) go to 49 MB. It was also corrupting them (obviously at that high of a save file size). And when I spawned vampires, it hardlocked my PC for some reason one time and the other two tests just hardcrashed the game (had a hard time getting back to desktop). It was also causing Riverwood to lock up (but not sure if that is a compatibility issue with one of my other riverwood mods).   I removed true death, cleaned save, it went down to 28 mb. I load save, wait a bunch of days...save goes down to 9mb and its back to normal. I spawned vampires, and no crashes or anything and no crashes in riverwood. And only mod I removed was True Death)

That looks better than when I last looked at it lol.   But here is a link...   No screenshots, as I use that customized one and I don't want to mess things up by overwriting stuff. But, here is the older Monli...looks vastly better. There were probably other mods associated with her, and my download folder on my backup hard drive has a ton of files (mostly clothing though and most probably can't be found anymore). But, this should be enough to get the race working. It looks to contain everything, and that is all I used.     https://mega.co.nz/#!W1BHHQiJ!eJdOM7wxtnzHctbWAvIqoQCkLlzq9uqUJBG6t6fX6o8   (edit: Link fixed Also, it might not be the original file. It says its edited...so I might have ended up downloading a user tweaked one. In any case, still a very nice looking race and easy to make great looking characters)

This fixed my modded Skyrim. 99% stable like you said. Occasional random crash for no apparent reason, except maybe my video card or something.   Except...my unmodded 99% vanilla (only ENB with HD textures, and SKSE+memory patch) and even ENB off...still gets a lot of crashes lol. So my modded game gets vastly less crashes than my unmodded game. Probably cause I don't use hd textures bethesda made, and I use unofficial patches which might fix it. But I bet hd textures that come with the game cause a ton of CTDs for me.   In my unmodded game, I have high end textures and 1k parallax for terrain/buildings...just 1-2k textures really...and its vastly more stable. Funny lol.

If regular Hikari works with Hikari neko...you could have the story be Hikari neko is sort of a twin of Hikari. A sister that shares many looks and nearly identical, but for some reason (maybe you can come with it or whatever) she developed khajiit-like features.   Even if the follower doesn't have too much background, it make it less weird to use Hikari and Hikari neko together. Or maybe the user of the mod can come up with it himself I guess lol...its just nice to have background info is all (to me)

If you can find it (or I can upload it for you if you want), the Monli race is really cute.   If you aren't into lolis...start with Monli race and use bodychange and use the UNPB preset (I prefer this) that bodychange comes with, and it makes the character look a lot better and a bit older. Or, put textures/meshes of your own in bodychange (in both bodychange texture and mesh folder) and make a more custom Monli.   Or can leave Monli as default if that is what your aiming for. She is cute by her default race. My own preference is more of a character that looks older and of age though lol. But...   (contains nudity, and she is of age obviously )     That is what I got from changing Monli to an older looking character, using bodychange to change textures+meshes to UNPB.   No neck seam either...except some ENBs cause one for some reason in certain lighting. Outdoors its fine, indoors is mostly fine except if window/outdoor light hits her she gets a a slight seam, but torch or candles do not cause a seam. You know, the seam where the head is a slightly different color...but most lighting is fine, so dunno why its window light that only does it.   Looks NOTHING like the monli race actually lol. No one would even know if I didn't say anything.

I didn't have a problem for years over there, until I started commenting lol and getting noticed. All my screenshots were fine for a long time...and then...I showed myself too much   That and then I noticed some dude took my ENB he was helping me with. But because he was helping me with it, he declared it his lol. I thought that was funny really, but Nexus took his side.   Now on my new account...pretty much like I said, I don't really do much except download stuff. Except putting one mod up and endorsing/voting mods...don't really do anything else.

  Yeah. I dunno what actually did it...but at least for Elite Gameplay mod. I opened up with a bunch of compliments and that the mod worked well. And listed a few things that seemed like they were bugged and the errors in TES5Edit. Thats it lol.   And the screenshots, well I did put screenshots of Monli before the Fairytale armor, and they already warned me about Monli and gave me a 1 day ban (no nudity either, I never put nudity on Nexus as that is kind of obvious not to do). But didn't know fairytale armor was a banned armor on Nexus lol. Like I'm supposed to research every single thing in a screenshot to know if its okay or not xD No thanks.   I know elite gameplay guy is a son or family member of one of the mods on Nexus...so he gets special treatment lol. Probably told his family member to ban me because I didn't make it like his mod was perfect. And the screenshots probably didn't help.

Well, to be honest...I don't comment at all on Nexus. I like mods if they are good. If its really good, I'll vote for file of the month. And, I do have one little mod up on my Nexus page.   Last time I commented on an old account, I reported a few bugs to Elite Gameplay Overhaul mod guy on his comments. And it was actually the mod, as TES5Edit even reported the errors. Guy reported me, and then I was perma banned rofl. Plus part of the ban was because a few of my screenshots contained fairytale armor and that isn't allowed on nexus. So I had double strikes I guess.   So I see no point in posting or commenting or doing much of anything over there except take their bandwidth and cost them money

Ariel and Hikari And NSFW (nudity)      

Thank you! I never saw that guide and looks really informative.   I'll be following that guide, and spending tonight to see how well it works

He probably wants to actually find vampires out in the world. Without doing Dawnguard quests.   And he actually has a point...there isn't really much in the way of vampires out in the world except if a mod adds them by a random chance. An occasional cave, but that is it.

Well my modded game uses 1x parralax. I think I have some 2k textures on my modded game, but I never got 3k or 4k textures.   But according to the program I was using to detect CPU+GPU usage, my GPU went up to 2gb and then everything I guess went into ram (I think that is what it does?).   But my unmodded game does it too (even with ENB off, but I leave hd textures on). Forgot what my CPU was actually now, but it only went to 43% (that was with my modded game, it was lower in my unmodded game) I think.. that was peak...so really low really definitely not using much and that was also with firefox running in the background (I like to go back and forth between games and internet browsing and chatting on steam/facebook or forums).   Sadly, I can't buy an SSD drive (which would make things go faster yeah) because first I need a better GPU as mine can't play games...but I can't even afford an SSD drive and definitely can't afford a better GPU   I did this same test in DayZ and while I don't see crashes, FPS drops to 5 on medium preset settings, and drops to 23 on lowest preset settings and video ram goes way past 2gb of usage.   Is there magical ini settings for Skyrim, that might at least, lower chance of crashes happening and increase FPS so I'm not stuck with 20-30 FPS even with an unmodded game? Like I said, I already have ENB Boost, I have SKSE memory patch...those helped a lot, but still crashing a lot unmodded and modded because video ram is reaching its limit