Skyrim

Too quiet

from vizionblind: (SkyrimPrefs.ini)

under
[AudioMenu]
fAudioMasterVolume=1.0000

change that to

[AudioMenu]
fAudioMasterVolume=4.0000 

Alvin_the_Elf:

Enable Loudness Equalization from Control Panel. If it is enabled, disable it.

FOV

Paste what follows in skyrim.ini under the [Display] section: (C:\Documents and Settings\<user>\My Documents\My Games\Skyrim\Skyrim.ini)

fdefaultfov=90
fDefaultWorldFOV=90
fDefault1stPersonFOV=90 

The following works (in first person) well too for me:

[General]
fdefaultfov=75.

Mods

• Install Skyrim
• Get Vortex from NexusMods
• Install the Skyrim Script Extender (SKSE)

Skyrim Mods

Mod Name	Mod Description	Mod Link	Extra Information
50 Carrying Capacity per 10 Stamina	Changes the relation between Stamina and Carrying Weight from the original 5 to 50 (per 10 stamina) when you raise your Stamina.	https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/1339	Extra
99 percent Pickpocket	Raise the pickpocket success limit to 99% (The maximum percentage after training)	https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/692
A Quality World Map and Solstheim Map - With Roads	Greatly improves the quality of the World Map, including accurate hand-drawn roads. Choose between having All Roads, or just the Main Roads. Also includes the Solstheim map from the Dragonborn DLC.	https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/4929	Extra
moreHUD	Now you can target an object such as a weapon, piece of armor, or an ingredient and see information about the object	https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/51956
Apocalypse - Magic of Skyrim	Apocalypse is the most popular Skyrim spell pack, adding 155 new spells that are unique, balanced, lore friendly, use high quality custom visuals and blend seamlessly into the vanilla magic system. Also includes scrolls and staves for the new spells.	https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/16225
ecome a Skooma Dealer	Are you tired of the thieves guild's repetitive, low-paying jobs? Well, throw away your lockpicks and sneaky boots! Now you can pursue an alternate career in crime. You can make and sell three kinds of skooma, sleeping tree sap, and balmora blue.	https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/37404
Better Dialogue Controls	Ever pick the wrong item in a dialogue with a NPC? This mod aims to fix some annoyances with the way keyboard and mouse selection works in the dialogue interface.	https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/27371
Better MessageBox Controls	Navigate all message boxes with the Left/Right and Activate (E) keys. Also fixes the clickable area of buttons so they are easier to select with the mouse.	https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/28170
Book Covers Skyrim	Book Covers Skyrim is a retexture of all the readable books, journals, and notes in Skyrim. It gives each book and journal its own unique cover and adds many additional paper styles to the notes.	https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/35399
Improved Combat Sounds	Enhances all combat sounds - blows feel heavier, meatier and more satisfying. Bash and block sounds are also enhanced to improve the overall fighting experience!	https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/5289
Buildable Chests and Containers with Advanced Placement	Allows you to make your own not respawning chests and place them everywhere!	https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/32676	Everything with "camp" in name is a shared container. You get the water kegs for iNeed with this
Campfire - Complete Camping System	Campfire is the most feature-rich stand-alone camping mod for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, created from Frostfall's immersive and detailed camping system. Campfire is also a modder's framework, allowing anyone to create their own unique camping equipment.	https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/64798	Needed for FrostFall
Charcoal	This mod adds a single crafting recipe for charcoal sticks (00033760) using a smelter.	https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/11519
Climates Of Tamriel - Weather - Lighting - Audio	The #1 Weather & Lighting overhaul for Skyrim.	https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/17802
Cloaks of Skyrim	Adds almost 100 new styles of cloak to the world of Skyrim, via crafting, levelled-lists, and static loot. They are lore-friendly and enchantable, and more are being added with every update. The aim of this mod is to provide some variety and flavour to the world, as well as the chance to wear a stylish cloak and quite literally keep the cold out.	ModLink	Extra
ModName	ModDescription	https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/12092
Complete Alchemy and Cooking Overhaul	This mod is a complete overhaul of the alchemy and cooking systems. Its intention is to provide a balanced, consistent experience throughout all aspects of alchemy and cooking, from harvesting and collecting ingredients to high-level potion and food creation.	https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/69306	Do not activate the hunger module in the configuration. Use iNeed instead. This is often called CAOO.
Craftable Hearthfire Planters - Campfire addon	Adds craftable Hearthfire Planters players can use to decorate and expand their gardens or homes. Requires Chesko's Campfire	https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/73449
Realistic Crime Radius	This mod reduces the crime report radius. People can no longer yell assault across all of Skyrim.	https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/8078
Crime Bounty Decay	Provides for a reduction over time of your criminal bounty in a hold, as long as you stay away from the area where you're wanted.	https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/51247
Critical Hits Recalculated	This mod recalculates the way critical damage is quantified and applied in Skyrim so that it levels with your character and is appropriate to the weapon being used. In short, this fixes Skyrim's broken Critical Hit system. No scripts. Just math. Compatible with all weapons and safe for your save game.	https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/71335	Be careful (like: do perhaps not use this) if you use something like SPERG or Ordinator.
Customizable Weights	This mod allows you to change the weight of items ingame.	https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/24159
Dark Brotherhood for Good Guys	Ever wanted to be a "good guy" and still go through the Dark Brotherhood quest line? Or maybe you just feel like you'd like to know more about your targets and the motives behind the murders before you kill someone! Either way, this mod is designed to flesh out the Dark Brotherhood quest line and let you play as a not-so-evil person	https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/61123	Install two files.
Deer and Elk Detection	All this mod does is edit the base of deer and elk so they affect detection (Meaning if you are sneaking the eye will open if a deer or elk sees you)	https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/37127
Detect Life Enchantment	Adds a Detect Life enchantment, and a (disenchantable) ring with the effect at the start of The Ratway.	https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/81106
Detect Life detects more	A simple change to make Detect life find those pesky undead\'s, demons and mechanical things.	https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/22462
Display Equipped Magic	When you equip a spell, power, or shout, a notification will appear displaying it's name.	https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/50588
Display Enemy Level	This MOD displays enemy level and enemy health numbers on the HUDMenu.	https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/90041
Dont Steal My Crops	Crops are owned - taking crops is stealing.	https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/28452	Use this, do not use the implementation from iNeed.
Dragon Blood	This mod adds a new reason to go dragon hunting; their blood. A dark, viscous liquid with the power to enchance the body and mind of the Dovakiin.	https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/36812
Dynamic Things - Woodpiles and Barrels and More Oh My	Turn useless "statics" in Skyrim into something useful! Turn woodpiles, barrels, crates and hay bales into containers with appropriate contents. Drink or bottle mead, water, skooma or blood from mead barrels with spigots. Gain experience from training dummies and archery targets. And much more . . .	https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/32448	Use this to make sure a container is safe for use.
Even Better Quest Objectives - EBQO	Enhances the quest descriptions in the vanilla game. An officially endorsed update to whickus's Better Quest Objectives.	https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/32695
Extensible Follower Framework	EFF is a mod that extends the follower system to allow for flexibility and functionality by adding many new features to followers and allowing user made plugins to be extended.	https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/12933
Businesses of Skyrim-Felhammer forge	Add a forge business for the player to own.	https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/86066
Floating Damage	Displays damage text on actors.	https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/87895
Forges of Skyrim	This mod completes every smithting forge of Skyrim, so that every forge has a smithing forge, a smelter, a workbench, a grinding wheel and a tanning rack.	https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/21046
Forgotten Magic Redone	Forgotten Magic Redone brings you some of the most comprehensive and intriguing spells for Skyrim to date! All new set of spells gain experience through use, and allow you to upgrade them in unique and exciting ways.	https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/35339
Frostfall - Hypothermia Camping Survival	Frostfall is a survival-style mod that adds cold weather survival gameplay elements to Skyrim.	https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/11163
Glowing Ore Veins 300	This mod serves to make the game\'s ore veins much more visible, especially in darker environments. It accomplishes this by replacing the cubemap textures used by ore veins. This gives them a glow that appears brighter as the ambient lighting becomes darker. Without the mod, ore veins are very difficult to see and really don\'t stand out m	https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/193
Harvestable Mammoth Skulls	Allows you to harvest mammoth tusks from any mammoth skull	https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/65454
Hearthfire multiple adoptions - Now with custom home support for kids and spouse	Allows adoption of up to 6 kids, instead of just 2 Move your family into suitable custom homes Gives children a last name	https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/29249
Heljarchen Farm	Rebuild a farm, hire workers, grow crops, and earn gold!	https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/50992	Do not sleep at 8'o clock a.m. or you will not get the money.
Honeystrand Meadery	Become a master brewer in Skyrim! Construct, furnish, and run your own meadery in the world of Tamriel. Utilize an enhanced crafting system to create dozens of new consumables. Save them for yourself, or sell them in cities where market trends change over time!	https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/38185
Immersive Armors	Immersive Armors seeks to drastically enhance the variety of armors in the world of Skyrim in a lore friendly way. The goal of every set is to blend into the lore, balance, and feel of the game for the most immersive experience possible.	https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/19733
Immersive Citizens - AI Overhaul	Immersive Citizens - AI Overhaul is a plugin for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.Its main objective is to increase player in-game immersion by greatly improving Artificial Intelligence (AI) of friendly NPCs (citizens) in order to make them act and react like true humans in relation to their environment or to an aggressor.	https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/65013	Instead of mods that make people flee vampires and dragons.
Immersive HUD - iHUD	Get the best of both worlds. The usefulness of having a HUD with the immersion of having none.	https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/3222
Immersive Patrols	Immersive Patrols adds a reasonable amount of Stormcloak, Thalmor, Imperial and Dawnguard patrols to Skyrim and Skaal, Reaver and Riekling patrols to Solstheim. These patrols often cross paths with each other or the player creating new encounters or unexpected aid. It also includes small Civil War battles and some non-Khajiit Caravans.	https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/12977
Immersive Weapons	Immersive Weapons seeks to drastically enhance the variety of weapons in the world of Skyrim in a lore friendly way. The goal of every addition is to blend into the lore, balance and feel of the game for the most immersive experience possible.	https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/27644
Inconsequential NPCs	Adds NPCs and dialogue scenes to Skyrim to enhance the social ambiance of the game, all voiced. Aims to be unintrusive in implementation to maximize compatibility with large load orders.	https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/36334
Indefinite Woodcutting	Character will chop wood until he is interrupted. Feel free to go eat or sleep while you leave him/her cutting wood. Value of the wood has not been changed.	https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/8849
iNeed - Food Water and Sleep	A streamlined approach to needs.	https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/51473
Informative Skyrim	The Informative Series is a set of mods that explain how Skyrim works in greater depth than Bethesda provided in the 'Help Menu' or 'Interactive Objects'.	https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/57713
Interesting NPCs	Over 250+ fully voiced NPCs, 25+ followers, 15+ marriage NPCs, and 50+ quests.	https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/8429
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Long Range archery fix

from http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2242169&highlight=arrow

skyrim.ini

[Combat]
fMagnetismStrafeHeadingMult=0.0
fMagnetismLookingMult=0.0
f1PArrowTiltUpAngle=0.0
f3PArrowTiltUpAngle=0.0

[Actor]
fVisibleNavmeshMoveDist=40000.0000

Requiem

Did you ever get annoyed about the automatic leveling of your enemies? How they scale to your levels? If you get better as a smith or as an alchemist, the enemies get stronger. If you are a mage but get some skills in archery, the enemies get stronger. If you are able to fight with a one-handed weapons against an enemy, as soon as you get skills in blocking, the enemy get better and stronger and you don't have an advantage. This sucks.

Requiem removes the scaling. The world is leveled as they say. Certain areas have preferred enemies of a certain level. So if you get better in alchemy, the enemy stays the same. If you get more weapons skill, the enemy is the same, you get an advantage.

This is the nexus link: http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/19281/?

Mods I like together with Requiem:

• Conjure Bound Pickaxe, at least as mage I really want this, I am a MAGE!
• Dynamic Things, just move things into a container, it is yours now
• Even Better Quest Objectives, if you followed the Requiem instructions, you removed the compass and the quest markers and already installed this
• Glowing Ore Veins 300
• NobleD's Riverwood Smelter