WillieSea

Ok, so I did the 'Rate Performance' on my new computer, and it has scores from 1.0 to 7.9 (Right-click Computer and do the performance scan.) Processor: 7.8 Memory: 7.8 Graphics: 7.9 Gaming graphics: 7.9 Primary Hard disk: 5.9 I Guess I need an SSD for my primary to get that score up...

I have not really seen too big a difference in Skyrim, of course, I was playing on just one setting below ultra before.

GetSelf, wouldn't that give you the object being equipped? Just place your GetActionRef inside your gamemode block. You also don't want to 'continually' make faction changes, like your doing in your gamemode block.

I just played some State of Decay on Ultra settings. Even with that, the 'usual' lag points are totally gone! Yeah, sweet machine so far. I will be trying Skyrim later, for a good comparison.

Its probably not working because GetActionRef does have issues outside of 'onactivate' or 'ontrigger' events. http://cs.elderscrolls.com/index.php?title=GetActionRef So your GetActionRef probably is NULL when you attempt to use it. There are probably ways around it, setting a variable, then in an update event, check if the variable is set, then do the commands. That would get you to the next frame.

Success! Arion pointed me to Acronis, which is a Western Digital software package for true image utilities for hard drives. I did not see anything really, in it that looked like it would do what I wanted. But, by the miracle of simply 'installing' Acronis, my drive partition that was 'unallocated' suddenly showed up and now I have access to it once again! Hallelujah! I have not lost all my backup data!!!

As I noted, disk manager options are greyed out for the unallocated space. 2TB is the largest (2048GB), and that's why there is 765GB or so left over. Unallocated. This 'unallocated' space is not empty space. Before I had to rebuild my W7 machine, I had found a way to allocate the space, so there is data on this partition that I want to keep. Just looking for the tool that will allow me to make it allocated space.

Its all up and running. Unfortunately, I could not use my CPU fan because the bracket will not work on the motherboard. So I had to use the one that came with the CPU. Any suggestions for a good cooler? Or will the water one I have listed in post #1 work real good? The 'bracket' now is a 'push in' type holder, from the front only. And I have to figure out how to 'allocate' the second partition on my Western Digital 3TB hard drive. Disk Management shows the first drive as 2048GB and active. But the remaining 746GB are unallocated and all options to activate it are greyed out. Seems before I used a software tool to get windows to activate the drive, but I can't seem to find it now.

Tracking says its OUT FOR DELIVRY so we will see if it shows up today.

Get a second hard drive and install steam and all your games on the new hard drive. I never had a program or game go 'missing'. You also avoid the UAC issues of Vista and W7.

Fast travel tends to mess with NPCs. It was one of the causes of 'double face' in Oblivion. You may be able to detect fast travel and reapply the effect. Not sure, its been a while.

Are you sure its running? Your using a clean save game? I wonder about the AAQuest.GetStageDone command. Does it recognize all those stages as done for the same quest or will it only work for one quest stage per quest? Anyway, you might need to do something different there if its never possible to be true.

Yeah, I should be set for the next 7 years. And I can still upgrade the memory (to 3000) and video card to the PCI 3.0 video architecture. It will hopefully provide many years of ULTRA resolution game play.

the first post is updated with the current stuff.

I was able to order everything but the keyboard, apparently Newegg only has 'resellers' and they wanted almost $100 for the keyboard. I will be getting it for $50 through Amazon prime.

Well, I am on my backup laptop. The Frankenbeast is dead. He lived a long and prosperous life giving much enjoyment to those around him, he will be fondly remembered in all the screenie's he took and games he played. Its truely a sad day. Oh, and new parts are being ordered today.

Its because your telling it to set the stage, no matter what quest stage has been completed yet. You need to put the setStage code inside your IF condition. Then you need to unregister it for updates since it did its thing. Event OnUpdate() if AAQuest.GetStageDone(31) && AAQuest.GetStageDone(32) && AAQuest.GetStageDone(33) && AAQuest.GetStageDone(34) && AAQuest.GetStageDone(35) AAQuest.SetStage(40) UnregisterForUpdate() endIf EndEvent

OnInit only runs once, when the object the script is attached to is initialized. Depending on how you have the quest setup, you might look into OnUpdate instead. Such as: Event OnInit() registerForUpdate(1) EndEvent Event OnUpdate() 'do your code EndEvent

From what I understand, that is what you get. And that is why nobody has made a chest merchant yet.

The event 'OnActivate' implies the player is interacting with something. So your script will never run since a spell or quest will never kick off the OnActivate block. I don't script for quests, but I would guess you would add the script to dialog or something else.

Its not a script that your looking for. As Obi-Wan would say as he moved his hand in front of his face, 'These are not the scripts your looking for." What you want to look into is NPC AI packages. http://www.creationkit.com/Bethesda_Tutorial_Packages

There is a heat sink in the middle of the motherboard, not sure what its for, but it has no fan. It is super hot, burning to the touch when the computer shuts down and I start checking things to see how hot they are. So I jury rigged a fan to blow air on it, will see if it helps. The book says its an Intel P45. I guess its the 'chipset'. My motherboard is an Asus P5Q SE.

My current computer worked quite well with Skyrim, playing on high settings with little problem. Intel Dual core 2.13GHz. But, something in it is causing it to shut down now. Motherboard? Power supply? The new video card? Not sure, but I do know its probably time to upgrade as this system is 7+ years old now. (sans video card)