Is there a workaround for SoS compatibility patch?

[Niggabanana]

Well this might be a little odd to guess. Here's how it is, Sounds of Skyrim is a great sound mod that adds miscellanous background noise to specific cells in skyrim. From noisy people at the pub to the eerie noises in a crypt SoS truly is a must have for players.

The disadvantage of it is if you use any weather and lighting overhaul mod like CoT & ELFX/RLO, SoS requires you to have a compatibility patch so it cou'd work flawlessly with these mods that alter weather sounds and interior sounds / lighting. My question is if theirs a way to make the compatibility patches mergeable in a Batch Patch to make the Load order a little lighter. Since these patches takes a toll in your Load Order and kinda makes Skyrim's Load a little bit longer(System specification may vary the performance).

So i appreciate if their IS anyway on making it mergeable.

[SpyderArachnid]

Weather and Ambience Overhaul.

 

Seriously right up your alley. It is wicked awesome, and combines all those mods into one, making them all compatible with each other.

[Anatriax]

Weather and Ambience Overhaul.

 

Seriously right up your alley. It is wicked awesome, and combines all those mods into one, making them all compatible with each other.

 

I'm going to give this mod a try later tonight, and see if I like it. If I do, I'll swap it into my guide instead of Pure Weather. Thanks for this. You just made my constant trolling of the forums worth-while (other than providing the little help that I do sometimes) 

[Vykroft]

Same here, I wasn't aware of the existence of that patch, thank for the link. I'll have to give it a try this weekend.

[Niggabanana]

Weather and Ambience Overhaul.

 

Seriously right up your alley. It is wicked awesome, and combines all those mods into one, making them all compatible with each other.

 

Seriously i didn't know that this kind of mod exist!!! Thank you sir!!! not to make my load lighter @_@. Although the patch requires me to install several other mods, and that's a bummer since my system's GPU(Noob trap DDR3 Powercolor Radeon HD7750 2GB 128-bit) can't handle much of CoT and RLO's lighting and weather transformation, i can play at 29-41FPS outside(Min. 30.1) and 60+ inside(Vsync off) i dont know what option of the Patch i need!

[SpyderArachnid]

Ah, yeah the whole mashup is rather performance intensive. Meant to be used with a higher end rig, as it is also pretty script heavy.

 

If you want a more performance friendly weather thingy, check out Purity instead. It's not as heavy as CoT is and actually in my opinion, looks better overall. Lighting wise, I'd say get rid of RLO and go with Relighting Skyrim and Enhanced Lighting for ENB. Again more performance friendly and it looks tons better (best lighting mod out there).

 

Forgot to mention as well, you can merge SoS and all the patches just fine together. In fact, that Weather and Ambience Overhaul mod, I merged all those files together into one esp (except for the Climates of Tamriel.esm) and it all worked just fine together. Will definitely save room on your load order.

[Anatriax]

I <3 Relighting Skyrim

[Gameplayer]

Sounds awesome, I really liked the Sounds of Skyrim and stuck by it even when people were claiming save bloat which was just a load of croak really, cause all modded games get some bloat as is over time.  Thing is I should be playing the modded game I have right now D:

[Anatriax]

Weather and Ambience Overhaul.

 

Seriously right up your alley. It is wicked awesome, and combines all those mods into one, making them all compatible with each other.

 

This is amazing! I'll be incorporating it into my guide once I get everything ready for v1.1, along with iNeed, Wet and Cold, and Frostfall.

[Niggabanana]

Ah, yeah the whole mashup is rather performance intensive. Meant to be used with a higher end rig, as it is also pretty script heavy.

 

If you want a more performance friendly weather thingy, check out Purity instead. It's not as heavy as CoT is and actually in my opinion, looks better overall. Lighting wise, I'd say get rid of RLO and go with Relighting Skyrim and Enhanced Lighting for ENB. Again more performance friendly and it looks tons better (best lighting mod out there).

 

Forgot to mention as well, you can merge SoS and all the patches just fine together. In fact, that Weather and Ambience Overhaul mod, I merged all those files together into one esp (except for the Climates of Tamriel.esm) and it all worked just fine together. Will definitely save room on your load order.

Yeah i was thinking of permanently removing RLO in my Load order. RLO is a great mod but since it's not supported anymore / forgotten by the developers of the mod, most fans just created patches to fix the issues left-behind by RLO with sadly unfixed to this day. Most patch consist of Scripts so removing is quite a task and may leave some damage to saves that already has these patches installed. Anyways i would like to try merging all the SoS patches and SoS itself using TES5Edit. Purity is a good choice i guess when it comes to overall enhancement, i've used it in a test save and the performance impact is quite low compare to major Weather and Lighting overall mods, though having SMIM and other texture mods, the performance gain was eaten by them :/. I'm still trying to understand the merging method in which i deactivated all of my SoS mod and patches then created a Mergepatch in TES5Edit. Not sure it'll work fine.

 

Edit: Just tried merging it, seems that TES5Edit can't detect SoS and won't get it to the merge patch, dunno followed the video tutorial and did everything by the book.

 

Load Order:

• Skyrim.esm
  CRC: C665FD56

• Update.esm
  CRC: 75967E61
  C.Location, Delev, Invent, Relev

Unofficial Skyrim Patch.esp

CRC: 45A699F

Version: 2.0.8

C.Acoustic, C.Climate, C.Encounter, C.ImageSpace, C.Light, C.Location, C.LTemplate, C.Music, C.Name, C.Owner, C.Water, Delev, Graphics, Invent, Names, Relev, Sound, Stats

Dawnguard.esm

CRC: 58065992

C.Location, Delev, Graphics, Invent, Names, Sound

Unofficial Dawnguard Patch.esp

CRC: 978D216D

Version: 2.0.8

C.Climate, C.Encounter, C.Location, C.Name, Delev, Graphics, Invent, Names, Sound, Stats

HearthFires.esm

CRC: E06FDE6A

C.Location, Graphics, Invent

Unofficial Hearthfire Patch.esp

CRC: 6D0E4588

Version: 2.0.8

C.Climate, C.Location, C.Owner, Graphics, Invent, Names, Sound

Dragonborn.esm

CRC: 5CB90338

C.Location, Graphics, Invent, Names

Unofficial Dragonborn Patch.esp

CRC: 7BD54BF8

Version: 2.0.8

C.Climate, C.Encounter, C.Location, C.Music, C.Name, Delev, Graphics, Invent, Names, Sound, Stats

Skyrim Project Optimization - Full Version.esm

CRC: FE33A011

Falskaar.esm

CRC: 7889C5B8

Version: 1.1.4

SkyMoMod.esm

CRC: A9576551

Delev, Relev

ApachiiHair.esm

CRC: 783F7167

Version: 1.4

hdtHighHeel.esm

CRC: 95D50087

Lanterns Of Skyrim - All In One - Main.esm

CRC: AC4A653A

ClimatesOfTamriel.esm

CRC: 918881A7

Version: 3.1

• Warning: Due to conflicts between Sounds of Skyrim - Civilization and ClimatesOfTamriel.esm it is recommended you use the appropriate compatibility patch found here.

SGHairPackBase.esm

CRC: 50A31397

TERAArmors.esm

CRC: 21AC1D97

HighResTexturePack01.esp

CRC: D596F02A

HighResTexturePack02.esp

CRC: D596F02A

HighResTexturePack03.esp

CRC: D596F02A

Unofficial High Resolution Patch.esp

CRC: 7EBC542

Version: 1.1.9

Cutting Room Floor.esp

CRC: 42023146

Version: 1.1.2

C.Climate, C.Location, C.Owner, C.RecordFlags, Delev, Graphics, Invent, Names, Stats

Delphine Makeover.esp

CRC: ED0A5060

TreaclemanFalskaarPatch.esp

CRC: 60CAAE03

Convenient Horses.esp

CRC: A2C92D5C

Version: 14950

• Note: Do not clean. "Dirty" edits are intentional and required for the mod to function.

WetandCold.esp

CRC: BEAB0A2F

Version: 1.422

Character Creation Overhaul.esp

CRC: A15636A6

AGTweaks - Extra Effects.esp

CRC: D18AAA8C

Resistance Restrictions Removed.esp

CRC: 3AD7109B

Purewaters.esp

CRC: B60AD0B3

Version: 5.0

Falskaar Wildlife.esp

CRC: A03CDC29

Wintermyst - Enchantments of Skyrim.esp

CRC: BA7A1F9

CCO - Dynamic Skill Progression.esp

CRC: 11A2B7FD

Chesko_WearableLantern.esp

CRC: 1537EE33

blessarmors.esp

CRC: 9B0A6A85

Auto Unequip Ammo.esp

CRC: 4B399546

CoT-WeatherPatch.esp

CRC: F7D0C971

Realistic Lighting Overhaul - Dawnguard Weathers.esp

CRC: 6933C020

Version: 4.0.8.02

CharacterMakingExtender.esp

CRC: 91716407

ClimatesOfTamriel Falskaar.esp

CRC: 4BCCD60C

CCO - Oblivion Carry Weights.esp

CRC: 3914E81E

DYNAVISION Dynamic Depth of Field.esp

CRC: 6747C29A

• Note: Make sure you have not switched DoF off in your ini file. If you don't see any effect, open you Skyrimprefs.ini and look for "bDoDepthOfField". Make sure it is set to 1.

When Vampires Attack.esp

CRC: FDE4336

Version: 2.0.1

ClimatesOfTamriel-Dragonborn-Patch.esp

CRC: 9FFF2A85

Version: 3.1

ClimatesOfTamriel-Dawnguard-Patch.esp

CRC: 6DEDE258

Version: 3.1

CCO - Diverse Races And Genders.esp

CRC: 95609FCF

Better Dynamic Snow.esp

CRC: F3204EF1

dD - Enhanced Blood Main.esp

CRC: 4AAE4CD8

EnhancedBlood-ImprovedCombatSounds.esp

CRC: 38CB3EFE

dD-DG-DB-MonsterMod EBT Patch.esp

CRC: 60B480B

dD-Larger Splatter Size.esp

CRC: 6C2D97C4

ClimatesOfTamriel-Nights-Level-2.esp

CRC: EEF1ED74

Version: 3.1

CoT-WeatherPatch_NL2.esp

CRC: C8367E65

AMatterOfTime.esp

CRC: 512CD10C

Version: 2.00

dD - Realistic Ragdoll Force - Realistic.esp

CRC: 910FBBF3

• Note: Ragdolls will conflict with other mods that change the skeleton.nif. Check Custom Skeleton Replacers for compatibly with other skeleton.nif.

RealisticHumanoidMovementSpeed.esp

CRC: 5B4AE07

EpisodeParallax.esp

CRC: A5B27576

HDT System Tera BOOTS.esp

CRC: B566F039

FireAndIceOverhaul.esp

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Grass On Steroids.esp

CRC: 5CDAC522

Dead Body Collision.esp

CRC: 8853B30B

Headtracking.esp

CRC: 2856EB9F

CoT-WeatherPatch_DB.esp

CRC: 856DA318

Purewaters-Falskaar.esp

CRC: 6642343F

SGHairPackAIO.esp

CRC: B5571BE8

Bounty Gold.esp

CRC: ADA1EFAE

Version: 1.0

iHUD.esp

CRC: 6098B756

Lanterns Of Skyrim - All In One - RLO.esp

CRC: 8BC509D7

• Note: Use only one Lanterns Of Skyrim - All In One esp.

SkyCompleteLegendary.esp

CRC: CFAB1B9F

Duel - Combat Realism.esp

CRC: 8EE518DC

CalienteVanillaArmorTweaks.esp

CRC: C70F65

SkyFalls + SkyMills + DG + DB.esp

CRC: 3A2624E4

Version: 3.0.esp

Realistic Lighting Overhaul - Major City Exteriors.esp

CRC: F1CD324B

RichMerchants.esp

CRC: E9C519B5

Relev

SkyFalls DB + FS Small Waterfalls.esp

CRC: B6AACC7F

SkyFalls + SkyMills Falskaar.esp

CRC: BBA604B9

SkyUI.esp

CRC: 9330CAF7

Version: 4.1

Dual Sheath Redux.esp

CRC: 49778E0B

• Note: Requires: Java Runtime Environment 7 update 17+

UnlimitedBookshelves.esp

CRC: A870DB27

AmazingFollowerTweaks.esp

CRC: D6C72A3C

Hothtrooper44_Armor_Ecksstra.esp

CRC: 9229A0B4

Realistic Lighting Overhaul - Major City Interiors.esp

CRC: BDBD40DB

SoS - Civilization.esp

CRC: 5EF1D362

Version: 1.02

• Note: Do not use the Crash Fix ESP for this mod. It is flagged as a master and is only meant as a last resort for fixing crashes.

Realistic Lighting Overhaul - Dungeons.esp

CRC: 420E3ABA

Version: 4.0.8.02

Realistic Lighting Overhaul - Dawnguard Interiors.esp

CRC: A188A269

Version: 4.0.8.02

• Note: The order of 'Major City Interiors.esp' and 'Dawnguard Interiors.esp' is interchangeable. Here is a note from RLO author, Daemonui, about the differences you will see.

RLO_Torches_Flicker.esp

CRC: 98B0A258

torches for RL (happy medium).esp

CRC: 9FDDC2E6

RealShelter.esp

CRC: A053C735

SoS - Civilization-PatchCoT.esp

CRC: A82D649E

• Note: Use only one Sounds of Skyrim - Civilization and CoT patch.

SoS - The Dungeons.esp

CRC: 79377267

Version: 1.23

• Note: Do not use the Crash Fix ESP for this mod. It is flagged as a master and is only meant as a last resort for fixing crashes.

DynamicMerchants.esp

CRC: 1431BE7D

ArchmageTolfdir.esp

CRC: B1D82D4B

BF.esp

CRC: B0C1D34A

Immersive Weapons.esp

CRC: E41D31D

Delev, Relev

SBF All In One + DLC.esp

CRC: 83724FAF

RLO - Major City Exteriors - No Guard Torches.esp

CRC: 3B83F5EA

Version: 4.0.8.02

TES5EditMerged.esp

CRC: 7867BE01

Height Adjusted Races with True Giants.esp

CRC: F9184B91

Version: 6

• Note: Use only one Height Adjusted Races*.esp.

Height Adjusted Races - Dragonborn.esp

CRC: D04A1C6D

Version: 6

• Note: Use only one Height Adjusted Races*.esp.

EnhancedCharacterEdit.esp

CRC: A1C64FA5

Height Adjusted Races - Dawnguard.esp

CRC: ED813AB7

Version: 6

• Note: Use only one Height Adjusted Races*.esp.

Hothtrooper44_ArmorCompilation.esp

CRC: 2A9F7DED

Version: 7.1

Delev, Relev

Civil War Repairs.esp

CRC: 28840D9

SoS - Civilization-PatchRLOMajorCityInteriors.esp

CRC: D43E530C

BulwarkRugFix.esp

CRC: F1CC54CF

Run For Your Lives.esp

CRC: B7BAFE68

Version: 2.0.3

FNISspells.esp

CRC: 4F3339DE

SMIM-Merged-All.esp

CRC: 46D0D2C0

Realistic Lighting Overhaul - Minor Cities and Town Interiors.esp

CRC: 984EE262

Version: 4.0.7a

Skyrim Shadow Striping Fix.esp

CRC: 8669F9B1

Version: 2.1

SMIM-DungeonsCliffsIceSkirts.esp

CRC: 4CD19713

Skyrim Better Roads - All In One - Merged.esp

CRC: 8DA6BC8F

Immersive Patrols II.esp

CRC: 9A64E3F9

GCE Follower All In One.esp

CRC: 89182473

SMIM-DragonbornTernFix.esp

CRC: FBFBE09C

SMIM-FarmhouseFlickeringFix.esp

CRC: 92593BC1

SoS - Civilization-PatchRLOMinorCities.esp

CRC: 9B0165EC

SMIM-FurnitureChestSnowFix.esp

CRC: FA28D596

SMIM-ShackRoofFixes.esp

CRC: 7938E7F0

DragonCombatOverhaulDragonborn.esp

CRC: 143CDB7

Lanterns Of Skyrim - AIO - Dawnguard.esp

CRC: C10FA967

BlackSacramentArmor.esp

CRC: D43D432B

WintermystPatcher.esp

CRC: F057B870

Imaginator BETA.esp

CRC: FB3A2B27

SMIM-ShackRoofFixesDragonborn.esp

CRC: 36966A9C

SoS - The Dungeons-PatchRLODungeons.esp

CRC: 5202996

SoS - The Dungeons-PatchRLOMajorCityInteriors.esp

CRC: D3902EBD

SoS - The Dungeons-PatchRLODungeonLighting.esp

CRC: B49C660D

TERA Weapons.esp

CRC: 2B1892C5

The Dance of Death - Ultimate Edition.esp

CRC: 3F40CC78

Version: 1.8

TheEyesOfBeauty.esp

CRC: FC447339

Version: 9

Thieves Guild Requirements.esp

CRC: 8617DA3B

UltimateDragons.esp

CRC: 515F5591

WetandCold - Ashes.esp

CRC: 1510365E

Version: 1.09

Alternate Start - Live Another Life.esp

CRC: EA95B2C5

Version: 3.0.1

C.Location

Bashed Patch, 0.esp

CRC: 218BC9BD

Version: 107

Dual Sheath Redux Patch.esp

CRC: 365DCE32

 

[Niggabanana]

Sounds awesome, I really liked the Sounds of Skyrim and stuck by it even when people were claiming save bloat which was just a load of croak really, cause all modded games get some bloat as is over time.  Thing is I should be playing the modded game I have right now D:

I think why they say the mod causes savegame bloat is the fact that it has script, and you know how script runs right? piling into another script for it to run in an organized manner and yes eventually all savegames will have bloat but that is dependent to the user of his/her save.

 

Those that complain about the mod being "Savegame bloat cause" are those who are new to modding or installed a ton of scripted mod to a weak machine therefore eventually ruining their savegame with slow response since script needs time to run and that depends on your system, a weak GPU is one issue for them, another is their FPS, lower FPS on a heavy scripted save specially those who previously removed a scripted mod and cleaned it to prevent any problems of corrupting their save will run in with this issue called "Script Lag" i even have it with my 300 hour playthrough though a solution for this is a high FPS count for the script to run smoothly and that is the issue for me, for them it might be their ignorance in maintaining their Savegame health / lack of discipline when it comes to modding Skyrim.

 

This mod doesn't do much to cause Bloat though it is one of those mod that pile up script to your Papyrus in order to run it's sounds accordingly with your environment so a perfect solution for some folks that complains about it's bloat cause is a hardware upgrade or trimming down your script mods installed. I tried a new playthrough since my old one has the case of Script lag and has slow script response. In a new game the scripts runs fine even under low FPS count, as you can see overtime savegames are slowly responding to your hotkey presses due to "Bloat" and script lagging. But other users that have higher rigs doesn't have this problems, only mid-low rigs.

[Gameplayer]

Dang, I always suspected the FPS and script system were closely linked.  Also figured that the quality of the parts in machine such as the RAM and Harddisk were just as important for moving information quickly ( not talking cpu or gpu I mean the other parts ).

[Niggabanana]

Dang, I always suspected the FPS and script system were closely linked.  Also figured that the quality of the parts in machine such as the RAM and Harddisk were just as important for moving information quickly ( not talking cpu or gpu I mean the other parts ).

There is some factors that can make your game run smooth or problematic. RAM isn't a major factor but an essential part to be mentioned since Skyrim eats only 2GB on it's Vanilla setup a minimum 4GB RAM is enough i guess, Running it with Memory patch and mods may require you to acquire 8GB or higher, my Skyrim eats at least 3.5GB since i patched it's memory allocation via SMM though the changes are not noticeable through gameplay since i'm using an old save but some noticeable changes are the amount of actors that can pop-up in your view without crashing your game.

 

Another thing is your Hard drive. There are some tweaks and methods available for those who can't afford a SSD or simply has their Skyrim installed in an HDD instead of an SSD. Some methods are freeing space, defragmenting, RAMdisk is quite popular for MSI users since it's a partitioning method by MSI that makes THAT partitioned drive to run faster and response more quickly than it's regular partition. This days RAM is now on it's DDR4 model that can acquire a monstrous 32GB - 64GB with high MHz and more gaming option and overclocking tweaks that can be done. Same goes for SSD since it's racking up more GB than before, 128GB was the most space you can see on an SSD during 2009-2011 i guess then 256GB -500GB are starting to pop-up. It'll be soon for a 1TB SSD to come out of the market.

[Niggabanana]

Ah, yeah the whole mashup is rather performance intensive. Meant to be used with a higher end rig, as it is also pretty script heavy.

 

If you want a more performance friendly weather thingy, check out Purity instead. It's not as heavy as CoT is and actually in my opinion, looks better overall. Lighting wise, I'd say get rid of RLO and go with Relighting Skyrim and Enhanced Lighting for ENB. Again more performance friendly and it looks tons better (best lighting mod out there).

 

Forgot to mention as well, you can merge SoS and all the patches just fine together. In fact, that Weather and Ambience Overhaul mod, I merged all those files together into one esp (except for the Climates of Tamriel.esm) and it all worked just fine together. Will definitely save room on your load order.

Still scratching my head on making a working SoS merged patch. So far TES5Edit refuse to automatically patch SoS when i follow the steps in the video in TES5Edit's modpage.