Can someone please tell how you disable creation Club mods?

[Sandalphon]

Can someone please tell me how to disable the creation Club mods for Skyrim? I just want the vanilla Skyrim experience without all of the creation Club content that came with the anniversary edition and for some reason it seems like I can't get rid of them. In the creation club there's just one button that says installed and when I click it it doesn't do anything. I've uninstalled The Anniversary Edition but the mods are still there, I uninstalled Skyrim and reinstalled it multiple times and they're still there. I have no idea how to get rid of them and now I wish I had not bought the anniversary edition in the first place.
any help would be appreciated, thanks.

[HazakTheMad]

Removing CC on an existing save will cause things like freezing and crashes, I have done it myself and caused exactly that.

[Vlad 254]

Of course you can remove Creation Club items (if done properly). But it's worth understanding how the USSEP and the Unofficial Creation Club Patcher work with this especially going forward once the USSEP updates which should be soon. Knowledge is power.

[Death Approaches]

No it's worth understanding that we should only teach people modding from the manual way, manual sort order, everything. Once they know the pain in the ass it is to maintain 25 much less 250, THEN we'll let them know there's things like mod managers. We're creating another generation of dummies.

And yes I did notice you were one of the posters, Vlad, but it still holds true about these kids today... and you are definitely too old and too Skyrim capable and know better :-)

Hazak, sure It's possible of course, but I doubt you are talking about specifically these four AE-release party freebies CC and are you just sharing. Please specify. I mean hopefully he'll do his own testing, but for others that show up here with search later... the integrated ones, like I wouldn't suggest moving dragonborn out mid-game that will not be fun, but the "tacked-on" types, it just jacks up your inventory with BAD EDITOR ID if you go into console and 'inv' but you won't see them, they don't show up in your regular inventory inside the game, you can always manually remove them with player.removeitem <refID> <count> if knowing they are there bothers, or just put the stuff you really want to keep temporarily into a chest, and do 'resetinventory' then get your stuff back...

Honestly if you plan for it, you can even disable the highly integrated ones with some success. It's more the user-supplied ones that expect things a certain way or use the script extender (which is most) to do commands that don't exist in bethesda papyrus, were the wonky can come in.

For the hell of it, I just tested for 15 minutes exactly what's described here, with a "plain EE" clean install, that is, Skyrim AE-ified EE, v1.6.353.0.8, with the 3 DLCs on, and the 4 CC AE freebies moved out. Went all over the place, teleported rode horse and dragon, walked, dungeon-crawled, all over Skyrim, Solstheim, and Apocrypha. Forged, farmed, enchanted, potioned, etc.

Not one glitch freeze pause or crash. It's as stable as any other install.

[HazakTheMad]

Just so we are clear, you did read the part where I said on existing save?
That has never been contentious that it is a bad idea to remove most mods and all dlc from an existing save.

[HazakTheMad]

And the CC I removed in the past was Nixhound pet.

[Know Won]

And apparently anyone that refuses to learn to use mods is a neanderthal.
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[Sandalphon]

Originally posted by Death Approaches:

IGNORE THESE suggestions, please... that's overkill and silly.
(Oh my dear Daedric prince of Knowledge, Hermaeus Mora, help us.)

dude just move the things... if they're not there, they can't load. that's it. End of.

I'd suggest you make a "holding" directory in your main Skyrim Special Edition directory, which is under your Steam library, usually steamapps\common\, and make it a dumb name, perhaps "00 - Hey hold my mods for me" (00 isn't eyeballs it's to literally put it at the top of the directory alpha sorted)

Then, inside the Data directory, you'll find ones that start with "cc"... the ones you want to move will be: ccBGSSSE001-Fish.bsa, ccBGSSSE001-Fish.esm, ccBGSSSE025-AdvDSGS.bsa, ccBGSSSE025-AdvDSGS.esm, ccBGSSSE037-Curios.bsa, ccBGSSSE037-Curios.esl, ccQDRSSE001-SurvivalMode.bsa, ccQDRSSE001-SurvivalMode.esl

Just cut & paste or drag & drop those into the holding directory, and fire up Skyrim. When you try to load an existing savegame, it'll tell you, hey the following mods used to be here but aren't now, are you sure you want to continue without them? You say yes. And off you go. This may or may not cause issues, but these kinds of mods rarely do, even if you were midway though one of the missions. But you'll have to test. If it's wonky? Make a new game, That is sometimes the cost of dis- / enabling mods mid-game.

This must come from the smartphhone generation that wants things done for them, they can't mod without using things like CC or Nexus Vortex... it's depressing really. They type it into google, google says it can't be done, and then they parrot it for you. Truly depressing.

Thanks, I was hoping it would be more simple than this. I do consider myself to be very knowledgeable on video games however I'm not exactly a computer wizard, but I'll give what you said a try.

PS. Please don't call me a neanderthal lol.

[Sandalphon]

Another thing I'm scared of is me trying to get rid of the files and then accidentally deleting something vital and ruining my entire game. But I suppose that won't happen if I'm careful.

[Sandalphon]

but I pretty much stopped playing Skyrim entirely a few months ago when the creation club mods completely ruined my experience so I'm kind of at the point where i'm open to about any suggestions on how to get rid of them.

[Vlad 254]

Originally posted by Mealstorm2:

Another thing I'm scared of is me trying to get rid of the files and then accidentally deleting something vital and ruining my entire game. But I suppose that won't happen if I'm careful.

This is good to be cautious and asking questions. Because say for example there are certain mods you can remove and certain mods you cannot remove mid game.

So first back to your original question regarding removing Creation Club Content.
Of course you can remove Creation Club items (if done properly). But it's worth understanding how the USSEP and the Unofficial Creation Club Patcher work with this especially going forward once the USSEP updates which should be soon. Knowledge is power and it's important to know what you can and can not remove and how to remove any content properly. Here's some info that will be useful.

From the Pinned Topics of this Forum
Caution: Removing Creation Club Content
https://steamcommunity.com/app/489830/discussions/0/3191364450209003295/

Do not listen to anyone that tells you not to listen to sound advice, more importantly common knowledge. News flash to those trying to tell you otherwise: knowledge of what you are doing when modding is always important.

The second thing you should be aware of is that the Creation Club content is fine however like anything else it's not something everyone wants and that's why Bethesda packaged it up into one big DLC for their 10 Anniversary. But there are thousands of people running the full $20.00 upgrade package with and without mods, I'm someone that is running the full package with mods and it's fine.

But you can of course also run the game with the Free Update as you know which consists of the 4 Creation Club items. But of course you've purchased the Upgrade.

So again read the link I provided up above.

Finally, here's a guide that works for both the updated version or the upgraded version that will give you an idea of what's available for modding.
Also From the Pinned Topics of this Forum
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2636368499

Questions are good. Let us know.

[Sandalphon]

Originally posted by Vlad 254:

Originally posted by Mealstorm2:

Another thing I'm scared of is me trying to get rid of the files and then accidentally deleting something vital and ruining my entire game. But I suppose that won't happen if I'm careful.

This is good to be cautious and asking questions. Because say for example there are certain mods you can remove and certain mods you cannot remove mid game.

So first back to your original question regarding removing Creation Club Content.
Of course you can remove Creation Club items (if done properly). But it's worth understanding how the USSEP and the Unofficial Creation Club Patcher work with this especially going forward once the USSEP updates which should be soon. Knowledge is power and it's important to know what you can and can not remove and how to remove any content properly. Here's some info that will be useful.

From the Pinned Topics of this Forum
Caution: Removing Creation Club Content
https://steamcommunity.com/app/489830/discussions/0/3191364450209003295/

Do not listen to anyone that tells you not to listen to sound advice, more importantly common knowledge. News flash to those trying to tell you otherwise: knowledge of what you are doing when modding is always important.

The second thing you should be aware of is that the Creation Club content is fine however like anything else it's not something everyone wants and that's why Bethesda packaged it up into one big DLC for their 10 Anniversary. But there are thousands of people running the full $20.00 upgrade package with and without mods, I'm someone that is running the full package with mods and it's fine.

But you can of course also run the game with the Free Update as you know which consists of the 4 Creation Club items. But of course you've purchased the Upgrade.

So again read the link I provided up above.

Finally, here's a guide that works for both the updated version or the upgraded version that will give you an idea of what's available for modding.
Also From the Pinned Topics of this Forum
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2636368499

Questions are good. Let us know.

Awesome, thank you. I really do appreciate the help.

[Vlad 254]

Originally posted by Mealstorm2:

Awesome, thank you. I really do appreciate the help.

Pleasure

Let us know how it goes

[Sandalphon]

Originally posted by Vlad 254:

Originally posted by Mealstorm2:

Awesome, thank you. I really do appreciate the help.

Pleasure

Let us know how it goes

Yeah i'll probably try it next time i'm in a Skyrim mood.

[Zakor]

Originally posted by th:

1) Uninstall the game.
2) Uncheck this tick before installing the game again:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2748915819
3) Install the game.
4) Now you have AE with just 4 free creations installed. Other 70 creations are not installed.
5) You can turn off the survival in the game menu.
6) Now you have just 3 creations installed. Using normal ways you can not remove those 3 creations I am afraid.
7) If you'd like to install some creations one by one - go to the ingame interface and install them one by one. You'll need to create bethesda account for that.

I was thinking about buying the anniversary upgrade but Wasn't sure how it worked, does it really affects the store like you bought all creations. even with the DLC turned off??

[Sandalphon]

Originally posted by Zakor:

Originally posted by th:

1) Uninstall the game.
2) Uncheck this tick before installing the game again:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2748915819
3) Install the game.
4) Now you have AE with just 4 free creations installed. Other 70 creations are not installed.
5) You can turn off the survival in the game menu.
6) Now you have just 3 creations installed. Using normal ways you can not remove those 3 creations I am afraid.
7) If you'd like to install some creations one by one - go to the ingame interface and install them one by one. You'll need to create bethesda account for that.

I was thinking about buying the anniversary upgrade but Wasn't sure how it worked, does it really affects the store like you bought all creations. even with the DLC turned off??

Yes, it screws up your game pretty much. I would highly recommend not purchasing the anniversary edition. As you can see I'm having a ton of issues with it and you probably will too. There's only a few things in the creation club that are actually decent like survival mode and a few other things. the rest of it is basically (in my opinion) just useless crap. So being forced to play all of it sucks.