Installation and Update Guide for Enderal: Forgotten Stories

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Introduction

Enderal will be available on Steam on February 14 2019! It allows for the following features:

• Simple and quick download, installation, and update procedure directly via Steam.
  You need to own Skyrim Classic or Skyrim Legendary Edition (32 bit) on Steam.
  
• Enderal now has its own game and savegame directories, meaning you can install and play Skyrim and Enderal simultaneously.
  
• Steam Cloud for saves optionally available (depends on your Steam settings).
  
• Steam Achievements
  
• Pre-installed stability fixes, e.g. ENBoost (see below).
  
• Improved launcher with more options and features.
  
• Steam Workshop for Enderal. No support when using additional mods. Further information can be found here.

Installation

• You need to own Skyrim Classic or Skyrim Legendary Edition (32 bit) on Steam. It is not needed to have Skyrim installed.
  
• Minimal requirements must be met – take a look at Enderal’s Steam Store page.
  
• The download is about 13 GB in size, the full game however requires 15 GB of free space on your hard drive.
  
• Please install Enderal into a new, empty directory, not onto an already existing Skyrim or Enderal installation. The default installation path will be C:\program files (x86)\steam\steamapps\common\enderal\.
  
• As soon as the download is finished, Enderal can be started.
  
• The “Enderal - Forgotten Stories.esm” is now activated by the Enderal Launcher which can’t be changed. Please ensure that it stays activated if you decide to use other mod managers.
  
• Upon launching Enderal, first white and then red text lines will appear in the left upper corner of the screen. You can safely ignore these notifications, they are not an error message. Further information in the “ENBoost” section.

Updates

Updates will be published as often as possible and can be downloaded directly via Steam. The size of individual updates will vary but will be small compared to the initial download on Steam. The patch notes will be posted here on Steam, in our wiki, and in our forums and will be shared on our social media accounts.

Are existing saves from previous installations compatible with the Steam installation?

Old saves from previous versions of Enderal are no longer compatible with the Steam installation of Enderal. This incompatibility shows itself in different ways: already fixed bugs will reappear, quests and skills won’t function properly, CTDs will occur frequently, etc. Should you disregard this warning and use your old saves, we will provide no support or help of any sort.
Saves from Skyrim are not compatible in any way.

ENBoost

ENBoost is an external program which comes pre-installed with Enderal: Forgotten Stories
and helps to improve its stability and performance. An “all-round build” that needs no further configuration is set up and will be launched alongside Enderal.
Upon launch, first white and then red text lines will appear in the left upper corner of the screen. You can safely ignore these notifications, they are not an error message.
ENBoost is not an ENB, please do not confuse the two.
ENBs are inherently not compatible with Enderal, unless they have been individually adjusted. We discourage the use of any ENBs due to technical differences between Enderal and Skyrim.We will provide no support for either individual edits to ENBoost or the installation of ENBs. ENBoost is used with the kind permission of Boris Vorontsow [enbdev.com].


Further Information can be found in the FAQ here on Steam.