Skyrim 100% vanilla :: Guides and links

Before Starting

NUKE ALL traces of skyrim, this includes where it is installed, do not just uninstall in steam and think it is gone, there will still be a folder left
go delete your ini files for skyrim too in your documents/my games/skyrim
we want a 100% fresh install on latest version with anniversary content, if you do not own anniversary GL

Run the game, don’t bother changing any settings, just launch the game and get your anniversary content downloaded and then exit
Do NOT forget to disable auto update just in case of bethesda, right click skyrim SE in steam, properties, updates, change automatic updates to wait until i launch the game

Do the initial vortex setup and then create a new profile, tick it has its own saves, then enable the profile you just made

Extract SSEdit, Bethini pie, Dyndolod, ACMOS Road Generator & XLODGen & PGpatcher all to their own folders; ex; D:\ssedit D:\Bethini D:\Dyndolod etc

Run SSEEditQuickAutoClean.exe do NOT run just SSEEdit.exe
tick update.esm then press ok, wait for it to fully finish, press the X up to right corner
Run SSEEditQuickAutoClean.exe again this time tick dawnguard.esm, wait for it to fully finish, press the X up to right corner
Rinse and repeat for Hearthfire & dragonborn & ccvsvsse004-beafarmer.esl
if you skip this part of cleaning master files dyndolod will fall flat on its face

Install the pack LINK
Whilst it is installing, extract part 2 of engine fixes that you downloaded earlier to your skyrim directory
After the pack has finished installing, download and install and enable this you want “SSE Terrain Tamriel Extend”
In the dashboard for vortex, run nemesis, click through the warnings, click update engine, wait for it to finish and close it, purge your mods and deploy them again, run nemesis again, tick skyrim paraglider in the list, press update engine, press launch nemesis engine once it finishes, once that finishes close nemesis and purge and deploy mods again accepting the new files on this purge
Then load bodyslide, under preset choose “CBBE Curvy (Outfit)”
Click the first magnifying glass next to Outfit/body, Choose groups and tick “CT77 Remodeled - Transparent” then press ok
Tick “Build Morphs” next to batch build, then click batch build and then build, exit bodyslide when it is finished
go back to the mods tab and purge mods, overwrite whatever it asks too/if it does, then deploy again

Go into your folder where you extracted xlodgen too, right click and open terminal and run this command .\xLODGenx64.exe -sse -o:“D:\xLODGen\output” change the path to where ever your xlodgen is for me it’s D:\xLODGen and then put output on the end; ex; if you extracted to P:\modding\xlodgen you would run .\xLODGenx64.exe -sse -o:“P:\modding\xlodgen\output”
Right click an empty area in the select world spaces column and select all
Make sure Objects LOD, Trees LOD & Occlusion are all UNTICKED
Make sure your settings look like the pictures below for each LOD

Then click generate, you can fuck off for 10 - 20 minutes depending on system
When it is finished, close xlodgen and backup the output folder for a few minutes just in case
Go into the folder where you extracted ACMOS Road Generator earlier and run it
Under Path to LOD point it to where your output folder is for xlodgen, physically enter into the folder do NOT just point it at xlodgens directory, you might get warnings about being the output path just ignore it
I keep it on paths only but you can pick Roads if you want and press generate, this might be where you get the warning about output path, just ignore it
When it finishes, tell it to zip the contents up
When the zip finishes, close ACMOS and navigate to your output folder, rename the zip to xlodgen_output.zip
Drag it into vortex and install it/enable it
Delete SSE Terrain Tamriel Extend, it is no longer required
Purge your mods & Deploy

You might have to manually add the exe in vortex as it needs to be launched through vortex to work properlly if this is the case
go to dashboard, under tools press the +, press new, called it parallax, in target put in whereever you extracted it so for me it’s d:\PGPatcher\PGPatcher.exe, tick run in shell and run detached and then press save
Run pgpatcher
tick show advanced options
make sure your skyrim location is correct and skyrim SE is selected, make sure conflict resolution mod manager is set to vortex
under mesh block list, double click an empty space under the rest and type in *mineore* add it to the dynamic cubemap blocklist too
tick fix mesh lighting, tick upgrade parallax to complex material, tick add hair flow map, tick fix effect lighting and then save config if it lets you
then click start patching
once it says it’s finished press enter inside the terminal to close it
go to d:\PGPatcher\parallaxgen_output in explorer and drag the zip into vortex mod page and import it, then install and enable it, press enable all and wait for it to finish before trying to deal with conflicts or vortex breaks
click on more for unresolved conflicts, then click show, scroll down til you find pgpatcher_output.zip and tell it to load after all, press save then purge and deploy, you can ignore the message about mods are redundant

Go into where you extracted Dyndolod
Run TexGenX64.exe, select SSE and then start texgen
You want your settings to look like this, obviously your output path will be different

TexGen

Go into where you extracted Dyndolod
Run dyndolodX64.exe, select SSE and then start dyndolod
When it finishes initialising just press Advanced »>
In the top left box if they are not already all select, right click select all
Under “Low Medium High” there is 2 tick boxes called “Candles” and “FXGlow” make sure they ARE ticked and then click high
After that make sure all your options down the bottom of dyndolod match mine

DynDolod

Download this you DO need the one with full addon support
Download my presets here or find your own
Extract my presets to your skyrim directory where you previously extracted part 2 of engine fixes to
run the reshade installer, tell it where the skyrim directory is, leave it on the directx version that is selected
when it comes to installing shader files, browse to the brdi.ini you extracted and it will only install the ones my preset uses
run the game, change hotkeys or whatever, doesn’t matter if you don’t, my preset will already be activated