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Preparations to install the modlist.
Before you get started installing or playing Path of the Dovahkiin, it’s important to note a few things:
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The following are absolutely required to begin installation of Path of the Dovahkiin. These must all be installed and up to date before you begin.
More detailed instructions on installing and configuring these are in the following pages.
You are not required to have Nexus Premium to install Path of the Dovahkiin, however, it is highly recommended. Nexus Premium will cut your install time to a fraction of what it would be by automating both the mod download and mod install processes of installing the list.
As of version 1.0.0, Path of the Dovahkiin requires 158GB of hard drive space on top of the ~11GB Skyrim: Special Edition base files. (This number includes the download size). Installing to an SSD/NVMe is not required, but also highly recommended. The faster the drive you install the list onto, the faster the installation process will run and the faster the game will go through loading screens when playing.
Path of the Dovahkiin requires a good to excellent computer to run. Textures range from 512x512 to 4K and everything in between. The following system is ForgottenGlory’s personal computer and is able to run the list at a constant 60FPS including ENB at 1440p monitor resolution.
In general, it is recommended that you have a processor with a clock speed of at least 3GHz and a graphics card with at least 6GB of VRAM. 4GB graphics cards may be able to run the list if you do not use ENB, but it is not guaranteed.
As for RAM, 16GB is the recommended specification for running the list. 32GB is the ideal amount, and anything more than that is honestly overkill for this list.
Bigger Skyrim modlists need a lot of memory, and when there is not enough available it may fail allocating more. To fix this, you’ll want to have a bigger pagefile.
A pagefile is a file on your disk Windows will use when there is not enough RAM available.
Never disable the pagefile - this may lead to various issues on your system, including Skyrim crashes.
To set the pagefile up properly for this modlist, follow these steps:
sysdm.cpl ,3If you have more than one drive, try enabling it for at least one more drive as a backup (make sure it has a decent bit of free space, like 15GB). Set the size to ‘System managed size’.
The Visual C++ Redistributable is a DLL (Dynamic Link Library) file required by programs or games built using Microsoft’s Visual Studio software development environment. As Skyrim Special Edition is a 64-bit program, elements of it - along with other aspects of the modlist - require the 64-bit version of Visual C++ in order to run.
Click the link to download the latest Visual C++ x64 Redistributable, then double-click the downloaded file and follow the instructions:
This is another runtime library required by some programs. Not having these installed can result in issues running Path of the Dovahkiin.
click the link to open a page on the Microsoft Website to download the .NET runtime files. You may need both the Desktop and Console versions, so please install both:
🛑Before installing Path of the Dovahkiin, you should make sure Skyrim: Special Edition is up to date in Steam. If you have run a downgrade patcher or not updated yet, verifying the game files using Steam will fix any issues you may encounter during installation.
Before proceeding with installation, it’s important that your Steam and Skyrim Special Edition install are configured correctly.
First, make sure that your Steam library, and therefore the Skyrim Special Edition install folder, is not located within your Program Files, Program Files (x86), Desktop, Documents or Download folders. Having the Steam library or your copy of Skyrim Special Edition in either of these folders is known to cause issues. Instructions on how to move your Steam library can be found elsewhere on the internet.
Next, you’ll need a clean copy of Skyrim Special Edition. To get your copy to this state, follow these steps:
Afterwards, you need to disable automatic updates for Skyrim to avoid a game update breaking your copy of the game and therefore the modlist. You will also need to ensure the game is running in English, as that is the only language the modlist supports.
Once the above steps are completed, launch Skyrim SE through Steam to create any INI or registry entries the game needs. Immediately exit the launcher once it has successfully selected a graphics preset for your hardware. The INIs it just created will be overwritten by the ones included in the modlist, but this is a necessary step for Wabbajack to recognize that you have the game installed.
Last, but certainly not least, make sure you have installed the Skyrim Special Edition Creation Kit in Steam.
We’ll now setup the folders needed for the installation to proceed smoothly.
🛑Failure to set up these folders properly will result in the install failing. For example, [install drive]\Wabbajack\Path of the Dovahkiin is incorrect.