February 2025 Update: Dear SMIM friends, it's been ages since my last post here. I've just uploaded a tiny patch for the 'Farming Creation Club' content since a user asked me, and I felt that itch to SMIM again after literally years. Although, doing this simple three-mesh patch reminded me of how much time it takes to mod. These days, I continue to be blessed by my family life, getting to love my two awesome young boys and my wife, cozy at home many days. It's like I purchased Hearthfire DLC for my real-life. ;)
A Thank You, Again: Despite my modding retirement in 2018, thanks again to everyone who continues to love SMIM. I am also grateful to other modders for taking up the mantle and continuing to improve Skyrim with SMIM patches or mods of their own. Overall, I am thrilled with how many people continue to experience Skyrim and use mods like SMIM. The small stipend I receive from Nexus Mods each month (plus kind donations here and there from individuals) helps me fund computer repairs and such. I even have saved up enough over the last few years for a new graphics card. Anyway, thanks, and may Skyrim and modding always continue.
Instead of complaining like a child learn how to properly sort your load order, solve conflicts within SSEdit, and provide a decent understanding of your issue in a comment. The majority of issues with mods lies in the ignorance of the one downloading it.
Immersive College of Winterhold currently has 106 bug reports and hasn't ben updated in half a decade. These mods are made by individual people and may not be compatible with each other due to conflicting file names. Especially when you download mods that incorporate the same file types, like meshes. You chose to download a mod that had a ton of bugs. You already have one formal warning/ban issued against you. Don't make it another. If you want help with mods ask nicely instead of being arrogant about it.
Hello, is there a patch for USSEP? I get a mesh problem in Dragonsreach, there is a gap in the middle of 2 pillars which is caused by this mod (here is the screenshot : https://imgur.com/a/hOLCx1f) I also confirmed that this problem wasn't caused by the mod USSEP, it's 100% caused by this mod, if there is any fix please let me know, i haven't been able to fix it for 7-8 months, Thanks. (also wondering if this mod is ever going to get an update in the future) EDIT : Didn't think i would find a fix so fast lol, here : https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/32117
I went there fairly recently in a playthrough of mine and I had no problems. I've had SMIM installed from the beginning. Maybe it is a different mod of yours that is making your game crash? All I can say is that I do not believe I have ever had major problems there.
No, it's definitely SMIM. Some user even managed to figure out what mesh causes CTD (I think it's all here in the comments somewhere), but it was never fixed.
I have never been able to replicate any CTD near Northwatch Keep. I just tested it again myself on a fresh Skyrim Anniversary Edition running full SMIM and a few other mods. No crashes for me when running around the exterior area of Northwatch Keep.
I searched the comments and found two prior reports. One dated 08 April 2024; the other dated 11 January 2023. The 08 April 2024 user was running an extremely modded game according to their log. It is likely another one of their mods was actually causing their CTD (maybe overloading the game engine). It gets very complicated but CTDs can appear to be caused by SMIM because a SMIM mesh or .esp edit is a trigger to the CTD but only because the other mod is actually doing something the game can't handle. But modding is complex. If anyone could ever pin-point the specific SMIM mesh that is the problem, I could fix it. I'm guessing a SMIM mesh edits some animation or material property in such a way that is totally fine for the regular game engine, but then another mod comes along and adds much more complex rendering or features to the base game engine and my SMIM meshes aren't made to handle it. That is merely a guess. I'm sorry I can't help more!
Edit: some have said that the Dwemer lifts can interact badly (maybe crash) with some other mods, FYI. Those are in the '21 Dwemer Animated Lifts SE' SMIM install folder. The meshes are:
If a user who gets a CTD by Northwatch could test by removing those mesh files located in those folders and tell me if the CTD goes away, then we could maybe figure out the issue. Or the issue could be entirely unrelated to these meshes.
Northwtch keep is weird, apparently. I went there to pick up a follower that should spawn there but found a CTD instead. On 2nd try, the follower was there and nothing weird happened. No CTD's ever since.
I installed a texture mod (name not relevant) and with it came this mod. I decided I did not want the texture mod anymore and removed it complete. After removing the texture mod, I noticed that a lot of the structures (walls, foundations, ect) were "flashing". They appeared to be two textures overlapping each other but not perfectly aligned. I then noticed this mod SMIM was loading when I started the game (Skyrim AE). I went and deleated the SMIM mod and the textures were fine again. This happened at the Whiterun Stables. It may have happened elsewhere but I did not check. Just a heads up in case anyone has that kind of problem. Oh and the game is 100% vanilla, I do not normally use any mods.
It looks like the mod organizer download is downloading as a .7zip file which the mod organizer doesn't recognize as a mod. Does someone have a solution to this so that I don't have to manually install this mod?
What I do to get around it is just to download it manually and drag the zip file into the mod organizer and let the program handle it as it would usually.
Two things that are preventing me from getting this mod: the lanterns are too decorative-looking and impractical (that design would be terribly fragile) and the blood on things like the tankard actually look marginally worse than vanilla.
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A Thank You, Again: Despite my modding retirement in 2018, thanks again to everyone who continues to love SMIM. I am also grateful to other modders for taking up the mantle and continuing to improve Skyrim with SMIM patches or mods of their own. Overall, I am thrilled with how many people continue to experience Skyrim and use mods like SMIM. The small stipend I receive from Nexus Mods each month (plus kind donations here and there from individuals) helps me fund computer repairs and such. I even have saved up enough over the last few years for a new graphics card. Anyway, thanks, and may Skyrim and modding always continue.
The majority of issues with mods lies in the ignorance of the one downloading it.
EDIT : Didn't think i would find a fix so fast lol, here : https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/32117
Can anyone tell me if the bug that caused CTD near Northwatch Keep is fixed now?
I searched the comments and found two prior reports. One dated 08 April 2024; the other dated 11 January 2023. The 08 April 2024 user was running an extremely modded game according to their log. It is likely another one of their mods was actually causing their CTD (maybe overloading the game engine). It gets very complicated but CTDs can appear to be caused by SMIM because a SMIM mesh or .esp edit is a trigger to the CTD but only because the other mod is actually doing something the game can't handle. But modding is complex. If anyone could ever pin-point the specific SMIM mesh that is the problem, I could fix it. I'm guessing a SMIM mesh edits some animation or material property in such a way that is totally fine for the regular game engine, but then another mod comes along and adds much more complex rendering or features to the base game engine and my SMIM meshes aren't made to handle it. That is merely a guess. I'm sorry I can't help more!
Edit: some have said that the Dwemer lifts can interact badly (maybe crash) with some other mods, FYI. Those are in the '21 Dwemer Animated Lifts SE' SMIM install folder. The meshes are:
\meshes\dungeons\dwemer\facades\dwefacadeliftleverloaddown01.nif
\meshes\dungeons\dwemer\facades\dwefacadeliftleverloadup01.nif
\meshes\dlc02\dungeons\dwemer\door\dlc2dwefacadeliftleverloaddown01.nif
\meshes\dlc02\dungeons\dwemer\door\dlc2dwefacadeliftleverloaddown02.nif
\meshes\dlc02\dungeons\dwemer\door\dlc2dwefacadeliftleverloadup01.nif
\meshes\dlc02\dungeons\dwemer\door\dlc2dwefacadeliftleverloadup02.nif
If a user who gets a CTD by Northwatch could test by removing those mesh files located in those folders and tell me if the CTD goes away, then we could maybe figure out the issue. Or the issue could be entirely unrelated to these meshes.
(says that they contain the same files, thus one must be loaded before)