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| System Name | I don't name my systems. |
|---|---|
| Processor | i5-12600KF 'stock power limit and clock/-115mV undervolt+contact frame' |
| Motherboard | Asus Prime B660-PLUS D4 |
| Cooling | ID-Cooling SE 224 XT ARGB V3 'CPU', 4x Be Quiet! Light Wings + 2x Arctic P12 black case fans. |
| Memory | 4x8GB G.SKILL Ripjaws V DDR4 3200MHz |
| Video Card(s) | Asus TuF V2 RTX 3060 Ti @1920 MHz Core/@950mV Undervolt |
| Storage | 4 TB WD Red, 1 TB Silicon Power A55 Sata, 1 TB Kingston A2000 NVMe, 256 GB Adata Spectrix s40g NVMe |
| Display(s) | Dahua 30" LM30-E330CA 2560x1080 21:9 R1500 Curve/VA/200Hz Adaptive Sync |
| Case | Be Quiet! Pure Base 500 FX Black |
| Audio Device(s) | Onboard + Hama uRage SoundZ 900+USB DAC |
| Power Supply | Seasonic CORE GM 500W 80+ Gold |
| Mouse | Canyon Puncher GM-11 |
| Keyboard | SPC Gear GK630K Tournament 'Kailh Brown' |
| Software | Windows 10 Pro |
OH man, that's rough. I lost my FO4 setup once. So many trials and tribulations to no avail. Tried to deploy a backup that should've had everything, but it was corrupted and ended up breaking my Win10 install. So I had to start from the absolute beginning with getting the machine set up before I could even think about the game. And then, when I mounted the backup image, all I really had that wasn't compromised was the file names and folder hierarchy... so the Nexus mod id numbers for every mod I had installed, at least... though not the rules and everything that takes all of the time to get right. I tried implanting the good bits over to my fresh install of everything, but either that just doesn't work great with Vortex or all of the files were actually corrupted... not sure!
I think that made it worse on me, tbh. It's just the most heart-wrenching feeling. But you know? After a short period just forgetting about it all, I went back and did it up so much better than before. I hadn't realized how many junk mods I had collected and bunk, redundant fixes and futzes had creeped in... or that I was hiding some of the best textures I had by accident. All in all, it took a couple of days from start to finish, and I never had better experiences playing the game. It was actually good for getting the stagnant air out and convincing me to change my ways. You get ingrained when you have a few hundred mods. A lot of things you might like to change are made more complicated by the fact that you've been building it up over countless hours. While when you're starting new, you can plan beforehand for anything you might want to do and not take up too much time or cause problems elsewhere. I ended up trying all sorts of new mods, while doing without other things and I can really say it was pretty worth it. Pretty rewarding, actually.
My condolences for your addiction. I truly do understand, hah. The effect it has on me is like being on Adderall. 11 years ago I had a prescription for that stuff and let me tell you, when you take it, you get this feeling about some endeavor and think to yourself "Man! I can just do THAT." And it strikes you like this big, life-altering epiphany... like whatever it is you're about to go and do is the answer to everything. I'll never forget it... it's a bizarre state of mind. What's in front of you becomes all you see and you can just keep going for hours, not noticing much else. Modding these games isn't quite on THAT level of crazy, but I can sense some of the same mechanisms turning. It really does play with your dopamine system hardcore. It's oddly similar to taking speed in how it pulls you in if you're not careful.
My balance is simple. I don't have the time and energy to miss a bunch of sleep or be consistently plopped down at home to go all the way down the rabbit hole. If I tried, I'd probably just crash instantly out in the real worldNow, if I DID have a bunch of time on my hands... the LAST thing I would want to do is pick up one of these games. It's 'goodbye world!' for me past that point.
Have you ever modded SE before? Bit of a different creature. It's evolved pretty far beyond the days of modding LE. Definitely worth checking out if you're into that kind of thing. I think you'll appreciate what it brought out. The only real step back was the loss of parallax texture occlusion... they lost that when they left DX9 behind. :/ But everything else is pretty significantly improved, in terms of what people have been able to pull out of it, especially when it comes to editing meshes and playing with how they call textures. It can essentially do everything that was possible with parallax, along with a bunch of other things that couldn't be done if you wanted a stable game.
Yeah I thought about it some time ago and yea probably I could make it even better than it was before,I just choose not to at least for now. 'maybe after that future GPU upgrade like I said eariler'
Nope I don't have Skyrim on my Pc in any form ever since that 'accident' so SE is all new to me.
I don't have a medical level 'addiction' luckily but what I meant is that games like Skyrim can totally lock me in their world and then no playing other games or anything else since time just flies when I play/mod it.
Thats one of the reasons why I avoid it since,cause I have a 'LOT' of games in my backlog thanks to another problematic game that 'took' ~7 years from me and I'm still catching up after that and the new games are starting to stack up too.
I do have a fair bit of time on my hands 'I aint a social person' but I'm trying to manage it nowadays and actually plan out my gaming time if its possible like following my list of games to play and whatnot.
