Enderal SE – Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

It is a community-made conversion of Enderal, allowing to play the game on the Skyrim Special Edition engine. SureAI DOES NOT provide any support for this version, please, report your issues with Enderal SE only on our Discord. Issues, reported in other places, are not monitored or reviewed unless someone brings them over.

The conversion project has been started by me (Eddoursul), now it includes numerous contributions from other members of the Enderal community (notably, gavrant and OverDev), see our changelog. The game itself is still an intellectual property of SureAI (see credits.txt).

Everything related to development of Enderal SE happens on this Discord. The mod is 100% open source, you can find its git repository here. Our Discord has a specialized channel #git, where you can track updates in real time.

The Steam version is:

• a full copy of Skyrim SE,
• Enderal SE (this mod),
• SkyrimRedirector.dll for custom INI configuration (Enderal.ini, EnderalPrefs.ini),
• pre-installed requirements,
• Engine Fixes, Im Sure, SSE Display Tweaks (locked to 90 FPS in Data\SKSE\Plugins\SSEDisplayTweaks.ini),
• a custom launcher.

You must have Skyrim Special Edition added to your library in order to install Enderal Special Edition.

 

Frequently Asked Questions on Steam

As of 2.0.10, this ship has sailed. Start a new game.

You should not have used a savegame from Enderal LE. Start a new game.

Yes. See Enderal VR, maintained by sasa2727, and follow the #vr channel on our Discord server for instructions.

Enderal LE mods must be converted before using. The process is similar to porting mods from Skyrim LE to SE. Required reading:

• [Skyrim SE] Porting a mod from LE to SSE
• Porting models with Cathedral Assets Optimizer

 

Additionally, the following data must be forwarded from Enderal SE ESM files with xEdit:

• Worldspace (WRLD) records. The paper map will not work correctly without this step.
• Cell Editor IDs must not contain underscores, breaking save grouping in the main menu. Changed Editor IDs must be forwarded as well.

 

Using custom LOD, make sure it does not override the file meshes\terrain\Vyn\vyn.32.-5.9.btr, containing the map.

 

Enderal’s dialoguemenu.swf contains an important addition to the game – it prevents important dialogs from being interrupted with Tab or Esc. Using UI overhauls, check if they contain dialoguemenu.swf, compatible with Enderal.

If it looks like this, you are using an unconverted mod for Enderal LE:

 

See the previous question.

As of 2.0.12, Enderal SE tells you which mod breaks the map. If you don’t see the message, your Enderal is out of date.

 

If it got broken after you generated LOD, you might overwrite the file meshes\terrain\Vyn\vyn.32.-5.9.btr containing the paper map – always back it up before LOD generation. Revalidate your files in order to restore it.

Skyrim Special Edition introduced a new start menu, separating savegames for different characters. For this feature to work correctly, cells must not have underscores in their Editor IDs.

 

Enderal SE has all relevant records updated, but some old mods, made for LE, may revert these changes and break save grouping. Either remove the culprits (never do this mid-game), or fix Editor IDs in them. In the meantime, all saves should be visible through “Show All Saves”.

Short answer: Always assume a Skyrim mod is incompatible until proven otherwise.

 

Long answer: Enderal uses heavily modified Skyrim.esm, incompatible with Skyrim. This makes all mods, relying on removed entries, incompatible with Enderal. Even if the entries still were there, the mods would still be useless, because they do not affect Enderal content. Some SSE mods are compatible.

 

To determine if an ESP plugin is compatible with Enderal, run xEdit and check the ESP for errors (literally, right click on the plugin -> Check for errors). If it reports about missing entries, the mod is incompatible.

 

If the plugin has a Cell and/or Worldspace node, delete them and check for errors again. If there are none, go manually through all records in the plugin and see if they are shown properly in xEdit. If you suddenly see one or more of them only in Skyrim.esm and plugin’s column is completely empty, you got a FormID collision, do not even try to use this mod without fixing it.

 

While technically an ESP without any errors may be compatible, you must answer other questions, too. Was this mod converted properly to SE? Does it affect Enderal content? Does it fit? Does it interfere with Enderal mechanics?

 

UPDATE: As of 2.0.12, Enderal automatically detects some types of incompatible mods and shows warnings on game start.

You are using incompatible mesh replacers. Currently known mods causing this:

• Static Mesh Improvement Mod – SMIM
• Particle Patch for ENB

 

As of 2.0.12, Enderal SE automatically detects and warns about mods, causing this issue.

There are three known sources of issues with music in Enderal SE.

• If music worked fine at first, but disappeared at some point mid-game, you have encountered an engine Skyrim issue with non-firing OnTriggerLeave. It is fixable, just very hard to pinpoint and report. As a workaround, download this file, copy it to the root directory of your game, where SkyrimSE.exe is, and run in console bat silence. Music overrides are save-baked per region, so you may need to re-run it after moving to affected locations.
• If music is missing from the beginning, even in the main menu, it happens due to an obscure vanilla Skyrim bug, appearing when installed on a non-system drive. Supposedly, it is linked to presence of the Master Boot Record on game’s drive (see this gist). The easiest solution is to move Enderal SE installation (or Skyrim SE for the mod version) to the system drive.
• Sometimes, the issue is caused by a drive with a sector size other than 512. Ian Patterson posted a fix here Sound Fix for Large Sector Drives.

No, LOOT does not work with Enderal SE like you expect it to. Its masterlist is almost empty, and LOOT doesn’t know any magic to properly sort plugins it knows nothing about. This applies to built-in sorting in Vortex as well, since it’s based on LOOT.

Make sure you downloaded the Behaviors Pack from the file section and reordered your mods accordingly.

There is a known issue with Nemesis, custom paired animations stop working, while FNIS works as intended. If you know a solution to this, do let us know.

As of 2.0.10, we have resolved all confirmed crashes in Enderal SE.

This does not mean it never crashes, but it does mean that your issue is most likely not caused by Enderal.

 

• Verify your files, both Steam and torrents have this feature.
• Check if your hardware is not overheating.
• Check if you mods are compatible with Enderal.
• Check if your mods are not outdated.
• Remember to never remove mods mid-game.
• Some crashes may be caused by moved persistent references, install Save Unbaker.

 

If you find a crash to be consistent in an unmodded setup, join our Discord and post the following:

• a savegame, made very close to the event,
• a crash log, generated by .NET Script Framework and located by default in Data\NetScriptFramework\Crash,
• actions, preceding the crash.

You are probably used to downloading small files from shared links on Google Drive, Mega, etc., and you think the same can be done with any file, like a 9 Gb Enderal SE archive. Unfortunately, it’s not. Outgoing traffic is expensive, only the largest storage providers can afford to offer storage with shared links. And even they impose certain limits to avoid excessive unpaid traffic:
– Mega – daily 5 Gb quota for free downloading users at slow speed, you won’t be able to download a 9 Gb file for free at all (or maybe you want to come back for the second part tomorrow?),
– Dropbox – 20 Gb total per day for free and 400 Gb per day on paid plans (still not enough),
– OneDrive – 20 Gb total per day,
– Google Drive – limits are not disclosed, even much smaller shared files periodically get locked for 24 hours,
– pCloud – my Premium plan offers 500 Gb total per month, slow downloads,
– Mail.ru – limits download speed for users abroad,
– Nexus Mods – registration, slow download speed for free users, unacceptable retention policy.

 

Traffic uses electricity, electricity costs money. Either you pay, or someone pays for you. There are no magical cloud or hosting providers with free unlimited traffic.

 

BitTorrent allows a private person (me) to distribute a large file worldwide, practically for free, at high speed, without registration or ads, across unlimited number of users. And keep it online forever as long as people are downloading it. Take it or leave it.

 

Why it’s an unpacked folder? Torrents rely on seeders staying online at least for some time. If I offer it as a packed archive, there will be no reason to keep it seeding once you installed it. The unpacked distribution allows to simultaneously use and seed the same copy of the game, keeping the swarm alive. As a neat side effect, you can verify your game files, like you would do with Steam.