Book Covers Skyrim - Lost Library REDUX 4K-2K

A new standalone version of Danielcoffey's Book Covers Skyrim - Lost Library with cleaned and upscaled textures.

Original textures were BC1 and BC3 compression and 512 x 1024 resolution. Now they're BC7 compression and 2048 x 4096 resolution, with full mipmaps.

Also included is an ESL-flagged plugin, which will not work with previously-made patches.

- Books included : 295 titles from Daggerfall, Morrowind, Oblivion and Developer Texts

- Textures : Original or Desaturated

- Merchant Lists : General Merchants, Caravans, Fences, Jarl's Wizards, Orc Wisewomen, Urag, Brand Shei

- Loot Lists : Cheap, Common, Valuable, Religious, Rare and Clutter

- NPC Lists : Silver Hand, Vigilants of Stendarr, Bandit Wizards, Forsworn Wizards, Thalmor Wizards

- Skill Books : One book for each skill has been hand-placed in the world

- Book Hunt : First Editions. "A chance overheard conversation informs you that Dravin Llanith is seeking the identity of a mystery Breton that he had to bury near Merryfair Farm in the Rift. He is too busy with work to answer questions himself but please read the Note he left at the burial site."

I recommend using this with Book Covers Skyrim 4K

If you use Legacy of the Dragonborn, you will need the LotD patch, which is an empty plugin that overwrite the main plugin. It has LotD flagged as a master to make sure that it loads afterwards. And you should of course use my upscaled textures for LotD.

Performance Options for Potato PCs

Mipmaps and BC7 compression reduce VRAM usage, especially when the files are cleaned of compression artifacts.

For Potato PCs, I've uploaded downscaled versions where the diffuse texture files are larger than normal and environment map files, which are less visible in game. This reduces VRAM usage considerably while maintaining higher visual quality, using the Octagon config files posted on this mod, which I recommend using if you have a Potato PC.

Both are full versions with FOMOD installer, not requiring the main file.

Choose either:

2k/1k for Baked Potatoes

or

1k/512 for Mashed Potatoes

If you want full 2k or full 1k, etc, then use Cathedral Assets Optimizer

Installation Instructions

I have prepared this as compressed BSAs, primarily because every file not in a BSA slows down loading times, so mods with a massive number of files like this one (700 texture files alone) can have a noticeable impact on loading times.

The extra plugins (with numeric digits) are esl-flagged esp files that are necessary for the BSAs to load.

If you want to use loose files instead, delete all plugins except 'Book Covers Skyrim Lost Library.esp' and extract the BSAs

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