PC Gaming Screenshot Thread V.3.5: CGI-Quality Revamp!

[lestatdark]

CGI-Quality said:

lestatdark said:

CGI-Quality said:

lestatdark said:

These are some of my favourites from the hundreds I've taken since I'm running this newest setup .

What's this set-up? Details please! 

It's easier if I just show you a print screen of my Nexus Mod Manager setup, since there are quite a lot of mods there: 

http://i864.photobucket.com/albums/ab205/Lestatdark/skyrimmods1.png and http://i864.photobucket.com/albums/ab205/Lestatdark/skyrimmods2.png.

As you can see, there are a lot of mods that I've not checked on those lists, mostly because they're either not of my taste or because they cause some minor conflicts. 

I use the NMM for Oblivion, and had some conflicts myself. Weather and texture mods being the biggest culprits (even though they are some of the best ones)!

Those are always the biggest conflict-makers in any Bethesda game, since they overwrite a large amount of files that the original .BSA game files contain. I'm currently running Realistic Lightning and W.A.T.E.R to get the best Climate and Water based mods possible, which have the least amount of conflicts possible.

There's a better climate mode; Project Climates of Tamriel, but it conflicts with almost all ENB setups and has some weird lightning in a couple of places, plus it drops your FPS significantly. 

As for texture mods, the only one you'll ever need for Skyrim is Skyrim 2K HD. It's the best, by far, texture enhancement mod, miles above any of the competition, including the official HD DLC pack released by Bethesda. I'm using the Lite version (1024x1024 textures) to avoid some FPS hiccups in large areas like Solitude or Markarth, but if you have a 2 GB VRAM GPU, you can easily use the Full version (2048x2048 textures). 

Even the Lite version is good enough as it is, since it's already 4x the original texture resolution (256x256) and 2x the HD DLC pack resolution (512x512).