Steamless VS hdtSMP64

I'm not gonna put the actual instructions for cracking here since that's already on the sites of the tools you'll be using. I will only link the tools here and the rest will be up to you. The main tools for cracking are going to be Steamless, and Goldberg emulator. These tools can be a bit tedious on their own but someone has graciously made an auto cracker that requires you to download the first 2 tools and then automates the process for you.

FWIW people don't need to install visual studio and build Steamless from source, they can just download the release of Steamless from https://github.com/atom0s/Steamless/releases/latest

Steamless - for unpacking DOA6.exe.

If you wanna play those games you brought in steam you get yourself a steam emulator like goldberg's heres the link if you want to https://mr_goldberg.gitlab.io/goldberg_emulator/ (Note:It only works if you have a game protected with steam's DRM and if it dosent work go get steamless by Atm0s https://github.com/atom0s/Steamless/releases/tag/v3.1.0.3)

TH13 (Ten Desires) and onwards are all available on DLSite for digital purchase as well. Everything else before that up until PoFV are all on Steam. Everything before PoFV (excluding PC-98) are available for physical purchase through AKIBA-HOBBY. All aforementioned methods can be found on the wiki’s Purchasing Guide. You can also use Steamless (GitHub) to play any game on Steam you’ve purchased without DRM.

Well if u having trouble with the new ck and steam seems to be the culprit get Steamless, which cut ties with steam and makes ck standalone

A Steamless version of Skyrim is DRM-free, can roll back updates, and can be totally offline.

You can, if you strip the steam DRM off the game with steamless

Anything with an external launcher like Ubisoft Play or EA Origin have DRM checks. Steam has them as well to combat people selling accounts or piracy and requires that you be online every 2 weeks or so to play the game. Games that have no need for online and do not have an external launcher can be fixed by using Steamless to make a DRM free exe that can be run in offline mode. Having someone play on your pc and also play on your deck at same time without being kicked off of one of the games while BOTH being online works this way as well. This will not work with all games but if it only uses steam DRM and has no online features it will.

Link to github repository

https://github.com/Karonar1/hdtSMP64 Is a fork from aers with directions on how to compile and it has some fixes

I've been keeping an eye on HDT-SMP, Faster HDT-SMP and Karonar1's hdtSMP64. For now, it really looks like SE 1.5.97 is the place to be for SMP physics.

I went ahead and took karonar's faster hdt-smp and added another tweak for VR (here). This only uses physics for npcs in front of you in addition to the range check karonar added. This should be more performant then what aers posted on Nexus since that version is actually quite old and doesn't do any range or viewpoint checking.

Here is a link to the fork by Karonar1

This replacement DLL for HDT-SMP allows configuration of a max distance from the PC for physics to be applied. Might help a bit in crowded areas. You'll need to edit the config.xml that comes with HDT-SMP to provide a distance in Skyrim Units:

There is also a fork of that plugin which has been updated more recently here which you may find more stable (you will still need to install the other HDT-SMP mod and let this one override it).

I thought I would shout out something I found the other day: Karonar's SMP fork. The main things this fork does that I haven't found anywhere else is the setting of distance for Havok objects. For instance, you can set a distance of 300, and smp objects will only activate when they're very close to you. This is important, because default smp quickly decimates my CPU when a lot is active at once.

Funfact: Someone called Karonar has a HDT fork that's been updated in the last 6 months. It's here. Gonna check it out.