Well here are some of my screenshots. Admittedly, I took them before I dropped the texture detail down to medium, as it was a bit to laggy at high. Though medium barely looks any worse.
PRE-POST EDIT: Well, on second thought the screenshots look oddly effed up. Can changing your FOV from the default cause that?
And I seem to have fixed all but one bug. I had a few random CTDs, but I guess throwing Skyrim in Windows 7 Compatibility mode makes sense, as I'm on the Windows 8.1 Preview. But I seem to be running into infinite load screens. My frantic googling suggested a workaround of changing the ini to allow 360 degree rotation of the map, and then to zoom in around your location before exiting to the main world, and rotate the map 360 degrees. And surprisingly it does work. But I think I'm going to try cut out some mods with high levels of detail, because apparently they are a prime cause for it, other than the other mods that sometimes cause it which I tried to cutting out with no results.
*sigh* I really need to build a desktop. But that won't happen at least until I manage to get an internship over the summer...
I have my FOV set to 85 and no bugs minus the occasional clipping through walls if moving camera to right angle.
And FOR THOSE WITH INFINITE LOAD SCREENS...I FOUND A FIX ...and that was caps of excitement not rage or screaming
http://forums.nexusmods.com/index.php?/topic/945533-skyrim-infinite-loading-screen/
Look at post 3. That fixed it for me. That even fixed my random ctds I had in the world. That in fact fixed 90% of my ctds. Not just load screens but fixed the entire game lol.
Just make sure to save in interiors. Doesn't help if you save in exteriors and get infinite load screens when trying to load the save
Yep, that's what I've been doing, and it's amazing it works.
I never got automatic variants working myself.
I still have to reach a point on a character where I run into animals to test it, which won't come until tomorrow because I need sleep. But the game didn't crash on startup, which is promising. Hopefully it will work and not crash, unlike my disastrous attempts to get ASIS working.
yeah i got it to 'not crash' but the animals never showed variants.
Did you have any other SkyProc based patchers that you needed to run, in addition to the Automatic Variants (such as the SkyRe ReProccer, or the Dual Wields Redux Patcher). Apparently having multiple can lead to problems unless you use
SUM. Apparently multiple can lead to circular patching, and never being able to quite make things work.
Or, you might have made the same mistake I did with the SkyRe ReProccer, and didn't read directions. It wasn't until I was installing all the STEP stuff that I realized, "Wait, there's a JAR file I need to run so that all these other mods will be balanced against the vanilla SkyRe weapons and armor! No wonder none of the Immersive Weapons or Armors were ever worth using!"
Yeah, I can sometimes overlook the blindingly obvious. And apparently Chrome doesn't think "immersive" is a word.
EDIT: ^ Like the blindingly obvious fact that the reason the screenshot looked off was because it was large enough I needed to scroll it. *facepalm*
So here are my screenshots. Guess which one was taken with medium textures!