How to do a clean installation?

[Malaman]

I want to reinstall SSE without any mods to do some testing and reapply my mods one by one so the question is:

Just removing the local content via Steam will suffice or do I have to remove anything manually also?

Will I have to reinstall Nexus afterwards?

[Don]

The way I normally do when I need a clean game is; uninstall the game. Delete whatever left-overs there are in the game folder. Delete the settings files (if tampered with). Install the game again.

Also, uninstall all mods via NMM before uninstalling the game itself. Don't need to uninstall NMM. Just uninstall the mods.

No idea if there's other ways, but this has always worked fine for me.
Hope it helps somewhat :)

[Darkrage_nl]

But why do you want to do a clean install? Is it because of crashes? Then it might be better to wait. https://beta-community.bethesda.net/post/20027

[Malaman]

I'm not having crashes, just a strange water reflection bug and it looks like no one else has this because I've been searching the internet all day and asking for help in forums but I had no luck so far.

So I want to start anew and see if one of my mods might have messed up with my ini files or something.

[Savick]

Skyrim is in more places than you think. To COMPLETLY uninstall and reinstall:

1. Delete all Saves ingame.
2. Delete local content in Steam (Left click on Skyrim SE, click properties, click local files tab, Click Delete Local Content)
4. Go to Docments/ my games and delete skyrim SE folder.
5. Go to C:\Program Files\Steam\Steam Apps\common\ and delet the Skrim SE folder.

Optional:
Empty recycle bin
Restart computer
Reinstall

[Malaman]

Alright, thank you guys.

[☭ Renagade_1 ☭]

Originally posted by BlazePhoenix:

Alright, thank you guys.

Im also looking for clean install. Add modds one by one this time with back up saves. Did you try the above suggestion and if so did it work??

[Malaman]

Originally posted by Renagade_1:

Originally posted by BlazePhoenix:

Alright, thank you guys.

Im also looking for clean install. Add modds one by one this time with back up saves. Did you try the above suggestion and if so did it work??

I found out that the problem I was having was not mod related before doing the clean install so I ended up not doing it.

[WhatTheDubbs]

I tried the above solution, and it worked.

I also made sure that I deleted all my backups created through steam as well, and I disabled steam cloud sync through the properties window.