Output Generation Guide

Four tools have to run on your machine before Ever‑Soul is playable. Their output is built from every texture and mesh in the list, so it can't be shipped with the modlist — and generating locally is better anyway, because the result gets tuned to your GPU instead of mine. Budget two to four hours. Most of it is unattended.

Run in this order

• 1TexGen
• 2DynDOLOD
• 3PGPatcher
• 4VRAMr

VRAMr runs last because it optimizes what the other three produce. Run it early and you'll only run it again.

Before you start

• Install every mod in the list first. Adding mods later means regenerating.
• Launch the game once and reach the main menu, then quit. Confirm the base install works before spending hours on outputs.
• Free at least 60 GB of disk space.
• Close everything else. These tools are CPU and GPU heavy.

Launch every tool through MO2, from the executables dropdown. Launched from the desktop, they won't see your mods.

Final load order

  …
  TexGen_Output
  DynDOLOD_Output
  PGPatcher_Output
  [mods that overwrite PGPatcher — see separator]
  VRAMr Output

On the right pane: DynDOLOD.esm up with the other masters, and DynDOLOD.esp, PGPatcher.esp, and Occlusion.esp near the bottom.

When to run these again

If something goes wrong

TexGen or DynDOLOD won't start

You launched it outside MO2. Use the executables dropdown.

Missing masters after installing DynDOLOD_Output

DynDOLOD.esm isn't enabled, or the esp is loading above its masters.

LOD looks wrong, floating, or missing

DynDOLOD ran against a different mod set than you're playing. Regenerate.

Purple or black textures after VRAMr

A texture failed conversion. Find it in VRAMr's log and exclude that mod next run.

Crash entering an exterior cell

DynDOLOD output doesn't match your current load order. Regenerate.

Crash when an NPC loads in

See the PGPatcher note above.

Still stuck? Post your crash log in the Ever‑Soul Discord with your GPU and which of the four tools you've run.