please try to set the Skyrim executable (TESV.exe) to run as administrator. (Right click TESV.exe > Properties > Compatibility > Check “Run this program as administrator.”)

Turn off any on-screen display programs and monitoring tools such as ATI Tray Tools, GPU-Z, XFire etc. (No issues reported with Fraps, so you can use it without any problem. If you are using MSI Afterburner you need to configure it in the way listed in this guide.)

Not all the DirectX 9 files are automatically installed with Win8, in order to make RCRN work properly you need to follow the following steps:

1) Download this DirectX runtime component from the official microsoft website: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=8109
2) Save the file.
3) Right Click, run as Administrator
4) unpack to somewhere you can get to easily (suggest c:\DX, since if you unpack it to the desktop it will dump like 200 files onto your desktop – voice of experience)
5) Open the location you unpacked the files to and right click DXSTEUP.EXE and run as Administrator. This will install all of the 64bit and SYSWOW64 files for DX 9 and DX 10.
6) Run RCRN, now everything should work properly!

Fraps when used in Win8 prevents RCRN from working properly. This happens only under Win8. Simply remove Fraps in order to make RCRN load properly again.

This usually happens only when WindowsXP is used, because it’s an old OS and doesn’t include all the required .net libraries, in order to fix the problem please download and install the latest .net libraries from the Microsoft website: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=17113

Since v3.0 you can enable/disable FXAA via the provided RCRN Customizer, a link to it will be placed on your desktop just after installation.

Since v3.5 the RCRN Customizer is available and installed by default also for Steam Workshop users, a link to it will be placed on your desktop just after installation, you can enable/disable FXAA simply by toggling on/off the FXAA button.

Since v3.5 you can enable/disable Sharpening via the provided RCRN Customizer, a link to it will be placed on your desktop just after installation.

Since v3.5 the RCRN Customizer is available and installed by default also for Steam Workshop users, a link to it will be placed on your desktop just after installation, you can enable/disable Sharpening simply by toggling on/off the Sharpening button.

This happens when you run the uninstaller too quickly after exiting from Skyrim, this results that some files may be still in use and the uninstaller is unable to remove them because of that reason.

In order to solve the problem you need to manually remove the files that the uninstaller failed to remove, in order to do so please check out the “manual uninstallation” guide located HERE!

Yes, it is a false positive, all the RCRN files are certified by SkyrimNexus and nothing harmulf lay in them, usually this kind of “false positive” occur when the combo of UAC + Avast is enabled, and happens because the Autoinstaller program lack of the Windows Certification (we obviously cant afford the Microsoft Certification because of the cost). Anyway we already reported the issue to Avast, so we hope for a fast solution.

If you don’t trust the Autoinstaller you can always use the manual installation of RCRN and do all the steps by your self!

This is NOT RELATED TO RCRN, it’s a Skyrim engine bug, usually you can avoid it by setting fFlickeringLightDistance=4096 or fFlickeringLightDistance=8192 into your Skyrim.ini under the [General] section.

This is NOT RELATED TO RCRN, it’s a Skyrim engine bug, there are several emitters without any light source attached to them, this happens because there is an engine limit to the displayable light sources.

None! RCRN is developed to working with the standard values, so please do not mess with the in-game sliders!

To discover more about this topic please read the “tweak-guide” section!

Only RCRN merged with Realistic Water! (no strange textures, no random stuff!)