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Please skip to the most recent comment to quickly see what is more or less current. Thank you. Introduction So hi I guess. Please forgive any mannerisms or cluelessness as my people skills are not great and I do have some personal issues to say the least. Also sorry if this is in the wrong area. I'm also very new to modding, like the only things I recall doing was maybe 3 or 4 things for minecraft a long time ago. Besides that, all I've done recently is just use the .ini trick for Skyrim because that arrow range was annoying. EDIT: However, now I am finally starting the process of installing the needed tools and then any mods I desire. This thread discussion will serve as my HQ for this adventure and will likely be edited to better serve numerous areas. Hopefully things will go okay but I will need help, please could anyone assist me to anything I'm currently facing which will be a new comment. Some things I will leave intact from this Main comment and as such would appreciate any response to that as well if needed. What do I have to work with? I think I'll write something here just to give an idea what I have. I will be using Steam and I have the standard edition of Skyrim Installed with DLC which is confirmed to be the Legendary Edition from the Anthalogy. I moved my documents from my C: drive onto my D: drive within the last year I think simply because my C: drive was filling up. I also have most if not all of my game related stuff on the D: drive, I did use a game save manager at one point to help locate files but that was a long time ago. I would like to keep everything on my D: Drive if possible as I have more understanding and freedom of it's contents then what I do with C: drive, I'm no where near as tech savvy as I thought I was / use to be. At the time of writing I have 105GB free on there but that is and will change at some point depending on what else I play, want to play or complete. In terms of system and specs I am using Windows 10 with the following hardware below: 8GB ramAMD FX 6300 six core processor with 3.50GhzSystem type is 64 bit operating systemNvidia Geforce GTX 1060 3GBThat's all the relative information needed right? I also believe that I'm running things on ultra or at least high if that helps. I'm assuming that some things would need some leeway outside of Skyrims default suggested systems in relation to whats running it; like changes to the way the game looks or how well things would perform. I think that's the gist of things but if you would need to know more please just ask as I want to try and help you to help me as much as possible because I REALLY do feel lost. What is currently installed? (Updated 11/08/17) Nexus Mod Manager 0.63.14Loot 0.11.0SKSE 1.7.3Unofficial Patches (Legendary Edition and Hi res)TES5EDIT 3.2 with Cleaned Master files from BethesdaSkyui 5.1A Quality World Map 8.4 Classic but using 9.0 No Clouds Add On (As advised on page).Skyrim HD 2k Textures Full 1.7.SMIM 2.04 Custom Options (Only a few different and the extreme options not chosen such as 4k x 4k and some of the more optionals that had huge polygon counts).Realistic Waters Two Main File 1.11 Downloaded into NMM but not activated because I noticed the Realistic Needs And Diseases stuff which has revealed an ever growing chain of things I'm going to need and some that I want.Installed The Creation Kit from Steam but not opened yet.Installed the latest SUM (Skyproc unified manager 1.3.2)Downloaded software for CPU Parking and Timer Resolution.What are my next steps? EDIT 11/08/17: After browsing potential Mods I discovered that there were essential or deemed needed Tools / Utilities in order for things to fully function and get their benefits. It's proving to be quite the task to say the least but it is NEEDED. I've written my most up to date plan of action in the most recent comment I made from today.Refresh self with some of the mods used in Gopher's tutorials because there was some that I personally liked.Install Mods one at a time as advised and to then test if it's working in game. I will be sure to maintain load order as I go along using LOOT and the info on the Mods page. Closing questions - Might be common sense or self explained but maybe not for me How safe is modding your system and desired game? (My paranoia is still a little shaky) If something goes wrong, how easy is it to resolve? How long does it take to fully feel comfortable doing this sort of thing? Everything should work okay with steam and vice versa? If this takes off and I end up getting comfortable with mods, what would happen if I get a new computer or this one breaks? Conclusion Currently working on modding my Skyrim after watching Gopher's videos and collecting information. Working in conjunction with the sources that have been gathered and any input from readers. And seriously, thank you for reading all that if you did. Cheers, Ahrimanian